TOPIC: HUSBAND, YOUR WIFE IS NOT YOUR SLAVE : WIFE, YOUR HUSBAND IS NOT YOUR HOUSEBOY. RESPECT, LOVE AND HONOUR EACH OTHER.
Ephesians 5 vs 22 to 33.
Wives submit yourselves to your own husband as unto the Lord.
Why?
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church.
Did you notice that God told wives to only submit to their own husbands and not to every man? That means, a wife should not submit to every man but to her own husband.
Here, God is telling the wives not to fight their husbands but to be under the authority of the men who married them.
How?
By recognizing and accepting his place as the head of the home not forcefully but by willing submission.
When this is not adhered to, the result is disagreement and fight which destroys families and homes as we see today.
The men were not left out as the Lord in the same Ephesians 5 vs 25 admonishes the men to love their own wives and not every woman thus saying;
Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ loves the church and gave himself for it. Ephesians 5 vs 25.
As Christ loved the church and died for the church so should a man love and lay down his life for his wife and family?
Yes!
You just read it and many are doing it already.
God never asked the man to love all the women.
In the above chapter and verses that we read, God never told the women to submit to their own boss, pastor, father, mother or any friend but submit to their own husband.
In the same way, He never told the men to love their colleagues in the office, an old friend, father or mother but love their own wives not any stranger.
IS IT NOT HARD FOR THE WOMAN TO SUBMIT TO A HUSBAND WHO DOES NOT CARE OR LOVE HER?
IS IT NOT DIFFICULTY FOR A MAN TO LOVE AND CARE FOR A DISOBEDIENT AND INSULTIVE WIFE?
To submit is to honour, adore, acknowledge, yield to, agree and accept the man you married as your king, lord and everything.
For the man, to love and give yourself is to protect, care, give, provide overlook, tolerate, cherish and accept the wife that you have married.
Some say that the greatest challenge to a woman is to submit and for a man is to love but God never says LOVE AND SUBMIT.
How can God tell us to do what is difficult?
In Ephesians 5 vs 25, God told husbands to love their own wives and He lets them know how and to which extent which is as Christ loves the church.
Love is an activity and not a fantasy.
It is an action and not a dream. You can't say you love until you act it.
The proof of your love is the attention you have given.
The evidence that you care is the love you have shown and this is what God has commanded us especially the men to do.
Love is an attention shown not a care wished.
For this reason God declares,
Husband love your own wife even as Christ loves the church and gave himself for the church.
In other words, A husband should live to care, provide and sacrifice for his own wife and not for the family members or friends.
Ephesians 5 vs 28, tells us that the man that loves and care for his wife loves and cares for himself because it is not just for her but for his own children.
In today's world even in the church, many women have problem with submission and most men find it difficult to love their own wife and this is the reason many homes and hearts break.
Matthew 24 vs 12 tells us the reason.
In the last day, because iniquity will abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Paul talking to Timothy, he said, in the last day, men shall be lovers of themselves.
2Timothy 3 vs 2.
It is sad to know that most women submit to an outsider than their own husbands while most men love strangers and not their families and the result is the crisis we see in our world today.
The word of God tells women to submit to their own husbands and not to an outsider. The same way, men should love and care for their own wives and not to brothers, friends or sisters.
Why must you, a woman honour and reverence your boss in the office or a friend more than the man you call your husband?
Why should a man prefer to spend, provide and care for a stranger who came to destroy than the one you married. This is the spirit of lawlessness in the world but this day, sanity is restored in Jesus' name.
I declare today, that this witchcraft must stop in our homes in Jesus' name.
God talking to the fathers in
1Timothy 5 vs 8, He says;
If any man cares or provides not for his own family, he has denied his faith in Christ and such man is worst than an unbeliever. That means no man should have any reason not to provide for his wife and home.
It is this serious that the man who does not love and care for his wife and home is scripturally considered as one who is lost and has no life in him . Say not me!
For families to flourish, godly and happy homes to emerge, God admonishes,
Let every man in particular so love his own wife as himself and the wife, sees to it that she honours her own husband in all things.
Where this doesn't exist, trouble abounds and such can destroy the family and the destiny of the next generation.
Prayer:
May you take your place in your life and marriage.
Today, may you listen to God and not your flesh, to care, love, submit and to protect your family and not strangers that destroys. Amen.
CONFESSION :
Father thank you for your word of grace and truth. I will never fail to do your word, to love, care and protect my family.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
From today, peace, love and unity is restored to my home in Jesus name.
Amen.
Author...Pst Chris & Chibuzo Isaac Onyekwere.
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