in regards...

Okay, in regards to my last blog, a very good friend mentioned what she couldn't stop thinking about when she read it. What about those husbands who don't believe? Well, that is mentioned in the book as well. Unfortunatley alot of our husbands aren't as religious as we might like for them to be, some not at all. As women we often think that we can change our men but that is just not how it works. We can't change them, only God can do that. It is our job to pray for them and set the best example that we can. Let God's love work through us. Now that raises another question, this one stems from my own experience. What if we aren't setting a good example? I mean I try but I have a very short temper and even shorter patience. How am I supposed to show my husband the glory of God if I can't even feel it myself? My husband is a good man, he goes to church if I ask him but he isn't the most spiritual man. I would like for both of us to grow in the Lord and I feel that it is up to me to get the wheels in motion. This isn't so easy when I'm getting mad at every little thing and being so emotional. So what do we do in this situation? All I know to do is to keep praying and studying God's word and working on myself. No one said this life is easy, if they did they must have been doing something wrong. I believe God gives us trials so that we may come out a better person. And the enemy gives us trials to try to break us down. Either way it isn't easy. We just have to trust in the Lord and follow his word to whatever avail. I still have a  lot of work to do on myself. So whether it's your husband or yourself just keep praying.

caution faint of faith

I'm reading 'The Power of a Praying Wife' by Stormie Omartian and I love it. Caution to the faint of faith, this book may be to shocking to you. You see, the woman God designed us to be and the woman the world tells us to be are two entirely different women. Unfortunatley women today are so caught up in being independent, strong, equal to men (just to name a few), that words like "submit" tend to immediately evoke negative reactions. We think that to submit makes us weak, so we throw out the idea of submitting to our husbands and all that go along with it. We throw out God's words and make up our own. This is tragic. When we throw out God's words because we feel they are outdated or unrealistic in today's world we are letting the enemy supply our words to live by, and the enemy leads to death. God is life. When we start living by the enemy's words, making them our own, we move away from God. We choose death over life. Why? Why do we do this? Are we as women so afraid of saying "God made me to be my husband's helper, to pray for him, support him, forgive him, love him unconditionally, respect him as the head of the household while we are the heart" to live by God's word? What are we afraid of? That society will regard us as weak? The Lord makes me strong. He is my stronghold. Why would I want to live any other way than by His words? That's why I love this book. It shows us the power of praying for our husbands. It encourages us to take God's word into our hearts and our prayers to help us be the women God designed us to be. The world is constantly changing and evolving but God remains the same. He is invincible to ever changing fads and trends. Don't let the enemy trick you into thinking something is okay because society says it's okay. Stand strong in your faith. It literally means life or death.  -end rant.