Tag: embrace God's purpose
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Helping your husband hold fast to you…
The “leaving” found in Genesis 2:24 is a verb that carries profound implications beyond just physical separation. Likewise, the “holding” implies more than just physical intimacy. In reality, there are three internal changes that must happen within your husband resulting in him leaving his father and his mother. I believe that by understanding these changes,…
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Delight in the LORD and I will get what my heart desires? Meditations on Psalm 37:4
In my youth as a young believer, Psalm 37:4 was a life verse of mine. At the time, the application of this verse seemed pretty simple. “All the desires of my heart were promised to me if I would just delight in the LORD.” I mean, who wouldn’t love this verse? My prayer is that…
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Why The Suffering? Meditations on the Steadfast Faith of Job
Suffering is a universal theme. Suffering knows no boundaries of peoples, times, or cultures. The sufferings in this world has always been and will always be the same from the beginning of time under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). But for the Christian, there is hope against all hope in the midst of suffering (Romans 4:18).…
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Sex and Spiritual Warfare in Marriage: Reflections on 1 Corinthians 7:5
One area of life constantly under attack by Satan is the Christian’s sex life. Whether someone is a single Christian or a married Christian, Satan will bring temptations in order to destroy the Christian testimony with sexual sins. Sexual sins are lured by uncontrolled sexual desires (James 1:14-15) and come from the heart (Matthew 15:19).…
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It Takes A Strong Woman of Faith To Submit To Her Husband
Growing up in a very patriarchal culture, my mind was scarred with the culture’s negative connotations of submission as a sign of weakness and mindless subservience. Conveniently enough, the American feminist culture empowered my own fight to some how free myself from all male superiority, cultural restrictions on women, and second-class gender roles. This was…
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Is it Biblical for the wife to work outside the home?
It may not seem like a big deal for a lot of 21st century wives to be working outside the home. But, as a Christian wife who is employed full-time outside my home, I was stopped in my tracks years ago coming across the verse above in Titus 2 where it says that a woman…
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5 Ways To Help Your Husband Grow Spiritually
You are the first one to taste the fruit of your husband’s spiritual life (Galatians 5:22-23). Everything from how he handles stress to how he spends his money to how he treats you are evidences of how he relates to God. Although you are not your husband’s savior nor are you responsible for his actions,…
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The Secret of the Proverbs 31 Woman’s Heart
This Proverbs 31 woman was so perfect, and I fell so short of this Biblical standard. But, as I meditated on and prayed this passage, there was one phrase that gave me much clarity and lifted that burden right off my shoulders.
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The Excellent Wife: Her To-Do List
God’s Word is a treasure chest for all practical things on this topic, but my favorite passage is Proverbs 31:10-31. In context, we have a loving mother teaching her son (Proverbs 31:1) the distinguishing traits of an excellent wife (Proverbs 31:10). God is so gracious to us wives as to give us Proverbs 31:10-31 in…
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