Tag: wives
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Hearts Revealing God’s Love
The heart of Jesus revealed God’s love for you and me. Are our hearts revealing God’s love for our husbands? Our Father is blessed when we ask Him to cause our hearts to reveal His love for our husbands. How is your heart revealing God’s love for your husband? What steps will you take today?
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Radiant Respect Flows From Loving Submission
As wives see their husbands from God’s perspective, reflecting God’s love in their marriages becomes a priority. Radiant respect develops, and they find that radiant respect flows from their loving submission.
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Reflecting God’s Love in Marriage … Belief Ablaze
Have you been reflecting God’s love in your marriage? It starts with belief in God and allowing Him to set your belief ablaze … a burning desire for all that God has to offer. That belief and trust in God will cause us to reflect God’s love and bless others. That belief and trust will…
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5 “Whys” of My Unmet Expectations of Marriage
A fairy-tale wedding, an enchanted honeymoon, and a blissful marriage filled with joy, children, and deep love. That’s what I dreamed of. How about you? Soon, I found my expectations of marriage would go unmet. Fifty-two years later, I can look back and see the five “whys” of my unmet expectations of marriage.
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From Confession to Forgiveness to Restoration in Marriage
Confession is good for our souls and our relationship with God. It renews our right standing before God. If marriage is a picture of our relationship with God, could confession be an important characteristic of marriage? Confession leads to forgiveness and restoration in marriage.
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A Wife’s 8 Steps to Focused Prayer
Our close relationship with God transforms how we pray for our husbands. Often, our prayers for our husbands are prayers for ourselves. “Lord, please change him. Make him more loving.” As we grow in our relationship with God, we will see our husbands as God’s sons, and we will become empowered to see them as…
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Wives, Are You Presently Perplexed?
What if we looked at our marriages as a picture of the saving work of Jesus? What if we shifted our focus from our expectations onto God’s expectations?
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Let’s Be Lovestruck Together
A beautiful gift awaits you. Swarovski crystals punctuate the ribbon. You gently release the bow and carefully fold the ribbon. Loosen the brightly-colored wrapping paper and set it aside to use another time. An even more beautiful piece of wrapping paper appears … another, golden … another, silver … one more bejeweled. You pick up…
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In the Haze of Our Days, We Can Praise Our Husbands
In the haze of your days, take time to praise your husband.
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Kissed by the Name
Fifty-two years ago this month, my husband, Keith, stole a kiss by the elevator in the university’s dorm. Public Display of Affection! We’d just been lectured about that from our floor monitor. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! Song of Solomon 1:2