Loving Your Family - Week Twelve

Essential Six

(THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT: READ CHAPTER ELEVEN IN YOUR BOOK, STUDY IT, & SHARE YOUR GLEANINGS!)

"That they may teach the young women... to love their children." Titus 2:4

"A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart,
soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently,
and unrelenting teaches her child to do the same."

Hello dear Friends! Forgive me for this week late post. Life has a way of "flying" by much too quickly for me to get everything done! I hope your study of chapter ten was blessed and you have been working on applying the practical advice in there to your daily life. :)

I was at a Bible conference during that week of study and most of the topics were on loving your husband and children. (Goes right along with what we're learning...) One of the speakers made this point "Marriage is a spiritual battlefield not a romantic balcony."

Here's the 13 practical ways to love our husbands:

1. Make the choice to love your husband
2. Make the choice to love your husband before your children
3. Submit to being taught to love your husband
4. Set up a prayer book for your husband
5. Write a letter to God
6. Cultivate willful love
7. Listen to God's Word, not the world
8. Read daily on marriage
9. Do the works of love heartily
10. Do all to the glory of God
11. Confess any bitterness of heart
12. Learn to ask your husband
13. Put your husband first, even ahead of yourself

These are such great pointers, not only to apply to marriage but to every area of our lives. Whatever we do in life we should do it all to the glory of God. When we put Him first and foremost we will be filled with His love, which in turn we can pour out into the lives of those around us. It is only through His Love & Grace that we can truly love those He brings into our lives. :)

Praying for you dear friend as you seek more of Him in your life!

Love,
Nicole
 

Loving Your Husband - Week Eleven

Essential Five

(THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT: READ CHAPTER TEN IN YOUR BOOK,

STUDY IT, & SHARE YOUR GLEANINGS!)

"That they may teach the young women... to love their husbands." Titus 2:3

"The greatest gift you can give your husband is the gift of lifting his name and his needs before the throne of God. Prayer for your husband releases the energies of God, for prayer is asking God to do what you cannot do."

 

Hello dear Friends! I hope your week of studying this new essential to godly living was blessed! I really enjoyed copying down all those great scriptures. What wonderful ones to memorize and hide in our hearts. (Anyone up for a challenge and want to join me?!)

These are the 4 important points I walked away with:

1. A wife is to HELP her husband
2. A wife is to FOLLOW her husband
3. A wife is to RESPECT her husband
4. A wife in to LOVE her husband

I thought her definition of "respect" was quite mind blowing - "actively demonstrating & showing high regard for him in ways all can see." It reminds me of the verse in Proverbs 31:23 where it says, "Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land." It is so important to build up our husbands, encouraging them & speaking well of him to others.

Prayer is such an important part of any relationship. What better thing can you do for someone than to uphold them in prayer! Perhaps you might want to start a prayer journal just for your husband. Even if you are not yet married you can still start praying for your future husband today. 

Enjoy your study this week as we look at practical ways we can apply this lesson to our lives and hearts. :)
Love & Prayers, Nicole