4 Ways to Impact Your Husband’s Spiritual Goals

4 ways to impact your husband’s spiritual goals form the acronym ‘PRAY.’ Pray. Respect. Accept. Yield. The keys that empower Godly marriage.

You love your husband.

Long ago you fell for his curly blond hair and sparkling blue eyes, and you’ve been in love ever since.

After you were married for awhile and truly got to know him, you began to appreciate his love for God and his strong desire to lead his family in the Biblical way.

In fact, you were so convinced of your blended goals to live and lead your family spiritually, that you wanted to help him in those

teeny, tiny little ways

where he wasn’t totally successful in his Godly application.

What do you do?

4 Ways to Impact Your Husband’s Spiritual Goals

Pray For Guidance

Prayer should be the first go-to for help to impact spiritual growth, in yourself and your husband. Chances are if you give yourself in prayer about needs in your home, you will find the answer in yourself and your reaction to the issue.

But when your prayers lead you to something in your husband’s life, be careful.

The relationship between a spiritual husband and wife is unlike any other relationship in the world. It’s a relationship with the strongest bond of any compact that can be made between people. In a study by Focus on the Family, James Dobson found that couples could have strong physical, emotional and intellectual bonds, but if they didn’t have a spiritual bond, the ultimate glue to keep them together was missing.

When a husband and wife are deeply committed to Jesus Christ, they enjoy enormous advantages over a family with no spiritual dimension. Everything rests on that foundation. Only through a spiritual connection to Him can we experience genuine love and begin to fulfill all the potential of the relationship we call marriage.

James Dobson

If you don’t have a spiritual bond, it will be much more difficult to impact his spiritual goals.

Prayer is the single most effective hidden weapon you have. Your husband doesn’t have a clue that you’ve got God working behind the scenes in his behalf, and it’s only God who can give him the desire for a successful change. You could nag and remind and paste up motivational sayings all over the house without one dust mote of success.

But with God behind the scenes, speak that prayer, and then sit back and watch.

Respect His Journey

I have to confess that I can’t even begin to write on this part without drawing from the knowledge of all the wise women in my life.

So with me together, let’s study how to respect our husbands so that we can impact their divine goals in proper ways.

Maintain a “zero-tolerance policy” against critical or demeaning thoughts of your husband in your own mind and spirit.

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Does this mean what I think it does?

Keep every thought about him in strict control. No whining. No complaints to God.

God created him, as He created you, a person. Just the way God wanted him to be, with the ability to do great and awesome things.

Respect him as a person with Godly power, and never harbor any thoughts that would prove in your mind that he isn’t living up to his highest. Your should believe in him and never question that he won’t measure up.

Yes, that’s what it means to respect.

Accept His Faith

Respect will lead to acceptance.

Accept your husband the way God made him, all the warts and flaws. (You’ve got them too, oh perfect woman!)

When he knows you accept him, and will always accept him no matter what, he can gain the power to believe in himself. And that can lead to belief in the power God has for him.

Isn’t that an amazing thought?

And when he believes in his own spiritual potential, he will begin to do great things. Things he never dreamed he could do!

Yield To The Divine

Yield your life to God.

Be a woman of purity, reverence, and gentleness.

Maintain a quiet spirit.

You will become a magnet your husband won’t be able to resist.

And together, you will rise!

So you see that it all comes full circle, back to prayer and yielding to God’s will!

Here’s a story of a wife with Godly impact…

BBRRingggg!

Husband: “Hello.”

“Hey. I was wondering, did you find some help on your farm yet?”

“Yeah… ye-e-sss, I’ve got help.”

“Okay that’s great. Good bye.”

BBRRinggg!

“Hello.”

“Yeah, I thought I’d check to see if you still needed help.”

Puzzled. “No, I don’t need help.”

SUNDAY AT CHURCH

Friend: “Oh, I saw your ad. Did you find help yet?”

Him: Confused look. “Ad?  Help?”

AFTER CHURCH HE CHECKS NEWSPAPER

Finds a help wanted ad, asking to hire someone to assist in harvest. On his farm.

He never placed that. Hmm.

Goes to kitchen.

“Umm, sweetheart.”

“Yes?”

“Do you, uh, know something about an ad in the paper?”

“What ad?”

“Asking for help on our farm.”

“I might.”

“Did you put it in there?”

“I did.”

“Why?”

She looks deep into his eyes. Tired eyes. Tired eyes in a weary body that is pushing himself to provide for his family, besides his duties as a pastor.

“You’re never home. We miss you.” Calmly.

He called someone who replied to the ad and hired help that day.

He knew her desires were for the strength of their marriage and the success of their home. She didn’t nag. She acted, in ways fitting to them both. And their strong spiritual bond led him to the goal he needed to reach.

May the love between you and your spouse be filled with mutual esteem.
And don’t forget “PRAY.”