I feel compelled to ask…. Is it your husband?
Is it your husband…
Who will work cleaning up an ocean soiled by an oil spill or prosecute the car bomber from Times Square or most recently the Boston marathon or a school shooting?
Is it your husband
Running for election to public office or starting a business?
Is your husband seeking a job promotion, working overtime or looking for a work?
Will he treat patients in the Emergency Room or fight a local fire?
Is it your husband
Who will take family medical leave from work to care for aging parents, a wife with cancer, or mentally disabled children?
Is it your husband
Who is hurting or feeling disrespected by is wife?
Did he wake up this morning wanting to leave home and never return?
Is he the one struggling to hold on to his faith, family, and marriage?
Is it your husband looking to his wife to be a suitable helper. He is counting on you for support, compassion, and loyalty?
Someone’s husband is experiencing each one of these things even as you read this post. I feel compelled to ask...
Is it your husband?
Today, I challenge you to:
Pray for your husband.
Pray for yourself and
pray for your marriage.
Don't be afraid to ask God...
Is it my husband....
If the answer is yes, don't wait until you face a crisis to take action.
Become a Wife On Purpose and Learn how to be a suitable helper.
Healthy wives live in healthy marriages!
Lisa
copyright 2010 Lisa Ellis Williams (originally posted on my first blog)
8/19/13
8/12/13
Following Your Heart...
In times of marriage hardship, wives often suffer from broken hearts. Let’s face it many tears, lots of frustration, deep sadness and growing bitterness may result from hurt feelings that lead to broken hearts.
Every day trials and conflict can also make living with husbands painful to say the least. Making plans to live without him (thinking of separation and divorce) can breed anxiety and unleash uncertainty often at simultaneously. What a crazy way to live married. Why do we do this?
Could it be that we are following our hearts?
In the depths of marriage despair, I challenge wives to consider the words in Jeremiah 17: 9-10. Let's look at each verse.
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? Now I ask you, "Would you follow a friend or teacher that was deceitful and desperately wicked?"
I the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind. Could it be that your current troubles are a result of God searching your heart and testing your mind? Maybe you have overlooked God’s involvement in your life and marriage altogether. Have you given His glory to the heartache that is attacking you? Some times will test your mind and see how well you know His word.
The words of your marriage vow said the deal was for better and for worse.
Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings. This is HUGE! What if you are being given life circumstances according to your ways? Stop and ponder. What has been your way? Have you been a wife according to your own way, the worlds way, or God’s way?
What is the fruit of your doings? I might ask, what have been the consequences of your actions?
Have your spent time seeking God for his response to these feelings of heartache?
Even in the midst of our greatest problems with our husbands I have good news! We can Stop following our hearts and begin to follow our faith. Here are thee simple ways to begin.
It takes work but you can stop following you heart.
Instead, lead your heart to God's word and let biblical truth bring you through times of "for worse".
Lisa
copyright 2010 Lisa Ellis Williams (originally posted on my first blog)
Every day trials and conflict can also make living with husbands painful to say the least. Making plans to live without him (thinking of separation and divorce) can breed anxiety and unleash uncertainty often at simultaneously. What a crazy way to live married. Why do we do this?
Could it be that we are following our hearts?
In the depths of marriage despair, I challenge wives to consider the words in Jeremiah 17: 9-10. Let's look at each verse.
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? Now I ask you, "Would you follow a friend or teacher that was deceitful and desperately wicked?"
I the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind. Could it be that your current troubles are a result of God searching your heart and testing your mind? Maybe you have overlooked God’s involvement in your life and marriage altogether. Have you given His glory to the heartache that is attacking you? Some times will test your mind and see how well you know His word.
The words of your marriage vow said the deal was for better and for worse.
Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings. This is HUGE! What if you are being given life circumstances according to your ways? Stop and ponder. What has been your way? Have you been a wife according to your own way, the worlds way, or God’s way?
What is the fruit of your doings? I might ask, what have been the consequences of your actions?
Have your spent time seeking God for his response to these feelings of heartache?
Even in the midst of our greatest problems with our husbands I have good news! We can Stop following our hearts and begin to follow our faith. Here are thee simple ways to begin.
- Our faith chooses to believe God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16). He is for our marriage success.
- Our faith reminds us that we are the wife by covenant (Malachi 2:14b).
- Our faith honors our commitment to our husbands and over powers our emotions with scripture.
It takes work but you can stop following you heart.
Instead, lead your heart to God's word and let biblical truth bring you through times of "for worse".
Lisa
copyright 2010 Lisa Ellis Williams (originally posted on my first blog)
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