The title itself caused me to be in awe. When the families get it right then the church's will be right. The families make up the church. Now I know I am about to make some of you mad, but I am going to preach it the way God has given it to me anyhow.
Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
* I am speaking to the married women, wives we are suppose to yield (slow down)our will unto our husbands, and there's no going around it, if we would slow down more, we would be blessed more.
For the husbands is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
* No matter how much we try and debate, get an attitude, dispute, correct: the word is the word, God made man to be the head of the wife, and when we start accepting it, and start honoring what God has given we will see our marriages grow.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives me to their own husbands in everything.
* Not when you feel like it, but in everything....everything from the money to the children.
We as "Christian women" have it all wrong, because we were not taught right. If you ever want to grow in God or have your family be blessed, women please listen. God made man for a reason, and since the beginning of time, women have always tried to do everything man does; some were able to do it and then some, but in doing it we lost why God made a woman to begin with. Now that you are saved you can not keep using well, that's how I was raised, or that's just how I am as a crutch anymore; your old man is suppose to be gone, yet you allow him to show up in your marriage. My great grandmother had many, many children between 12-14 in all. I was told she was a wise woman, and I think about how she had so many children and was still able to be a helpmate to my great grandfather and tend to her home, and stretch a dollar, and yet we women nowadays can't take care of 1 child let alone 12. Because we are so self fish, we want it all, we want to be married, yet we don't want to submit. We want to have children yet we don't raise them the way we should. We complain about there's no money, forgetting that we had to have those boots, we feel like there should be more, but we chose to get married and have children. See, we think it's boring to be at home, with our children and sad to say this is why so many marriages in the church are failing. How much time do you give into going to church, and how much time do you use for work, now how much time is left for family? I am not saying don't go to church, I am saying you have to have balance. We have to get our priorities right, God said our husband and children are our ministry, yet we desire to have ministry outside of the home, instead of inside of the home. How do we make it to service, 3 and 4 times a week, work 30 hours or more, and what ever is left over we give to our family. I had so many women tell me it's easy for me to speak this way because I am retired. Well let's really look at that, how many people do you know are retired at 30? I have not done anything that any of you can not do, I prayed and seeked God's face, and would not get up until He blessed me, I stood in the gap for my family and asked God to change me, I fasted and prayed without ceasing. I thanked Him for the storms as well as the blessings. I asked God to show me how to be a good steward's over our money, I sacrificed who I wanted to be, so that God would get the glory for who I am going to be. I asked God to give me what I needed for this family, instead of what I wanted. We often go and get what we feel we want, instead of asking God what it is we need. How are we submitted to the Pastors, and yet we can not submit to our own husbands and God says he's our head, not the Pastor, and yet we will give more praise and reverence to the man of God, instead of the man that God has given us. Some of us think we got it down, but God said we don't. The bills that we created is just that, we created them, and so we try and work to pay off those bills, and create more, and all a while our children are growing before our eyes, and our husbands have grown distance. I am not saying you can't work, I am saying that anything that's getting more from you than God and your family is to much. We have a responsibility to our home, and this is what the Virtuous Woman (Proverbs 31) was showing us, the question is how many of us are really ready to be the wife that God has called us to be?
P.S. I did not go into how a man is suppose to be with his wife, because that's what's wrong with us now, we want them to change then we'll think about changing, if we will just say fix me Lord we will see God change our men.
