DWM-01 &Â WFF-34 &Â WFP-29
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And now becoming very specific, I want to suggest some ways in which a wife may help her husband. She may help her husband both in word and in deed–at home and at heart.
THE WIFE’S MANDATE
1. A PRIORITY OF THE IRRESISTIBLE HOME. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be making her home a safe place-a place of encouragement, comfort, understanding, and refuge. Your home can be that shining beacon on the hill that beckons your husband to come. It should be the place he would rather be when he is at work and at play. It is his place of refreshment, renewal, and refocus. You are the guardian of that place. When activities and the urgent overrun this priority all must be stopped and the home reset to be the place of refuge your husband needs. Proverbs 31:11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain.
2. A PRIORITY OF REVERENCE. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will not joke about her husband or make cutting remarks to him. She won’t constantly remind him of his faults, mistakes, and failures. Rather she will correct him only if it is absolutely necessary. She will avoid the danger of allowing the home to be in shambles and full of disorder and confusion. But also avoid the danger of making the house a showplace where everything must always be neat and immaculate. Husbands want homes to live in, not show places to visit. This is all bound up in her being trustworthy and dependable Proverbs 31:12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life. Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.