What it means to be His Rib....

The sun is shining into your room, as you wake up and stare at your gorgeous wedding gown that is hanging on your door.  Your make-up is flawless. You look like a princess in your gown. Your ring sparkles in the light. The reception is just right.  It’s your day and it was perfect. But what about the next day…when the thrill of the wedding day is over, when all eyes are no longer on you, and the word I becomes us? 

Ephesians 5:31

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

Proverbs 12:4

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

When I first got married, I was only thinking about the romance. I didn’t even think I needed to pray over the marriage. Yet as I got older, I realized not only do I have to pray, but also marriage can be a representation of God’s love.  Here are some of the things I find doing as a wife:

·         Unconditional love:   We all make mistakes from time to time. So I am to love my mate when he is looking hot as well as loving him when he is making me want to ask why I get married.  This can also include forgiveness.

 

·         Service:  Yes, we are to be his help mate.  Even on the days when you had a good day at work and feeling silly.  Yet he comes home upset. You can’t be selfish. You have to cater to his needs.  Knowing when he needs that back rub or encouragement or prudence. We have to serve our husbands. This includes wisdom.

 

 

·         Prayer warriors:  Yes, we have to stay prayed up, keeping our husbands before the Lord constantly. We are to defend the home and the marriage.  We even have to bind up demonic spirits over our marriage. Some things we can talk out but other things we must be pray out!  Here is a  reference for demonic spirit to bind over your marriage: 

http://www.demonbuster.com/marriage.html

·         Compromising:  Yes, there will be days when it’s not all about you!  The spirit of selfishness will doom your marriage straight to divorce court!

 

·         Not taking the marriage for granted:  The devil sure does seem to use this one as the years go by to attack the marriages.  The “oh where is he going” syndrome.  Yet the truth is he can go somewhere or be tempted. So listen when he says he doesn’t like something, take heed, not an attitude. In the long run, you’ll be glad you did.  This includes sound communication.

For a good reference, click to this website:

http://www.moodymanual.demonbuster.com/awauw.html

So remember women, there are a lot of behind the scenes work to being someone’s rib.  Take advantage of your single phase and use it as a time of preparation if your heart desires to be married. Stay encouraged!

 

Hems Down, Boobs Covered

Summer is coming and us women love getting our cuteness on, but be aware....

Hosea 2:13
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
She put on her earrings and jewelry and went to look for her lovers. This shows that we as women have the power to seduce by what we put on! As women professing godliness, We are to be aware of how we are dressing!


1 Timothy2:9
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.
The key word is modest! I looked up the word modest on an online dictionary website and it stated things like humble in appearance or dressing decent.

Let’s think: Does a guy think God when he sees you with a tongue ring? Does a guy think church girl when you are wearing your clothes so tight, he can see the details of your underwear? When you are showing some serious cleavage, do you really think he has his mind on the Lord while looking at you?


1Corninthians 6:15
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot? God forbid.  Do we want to represent Christ in our dressing or show we represent members of a harlot?

Now, I’m all for dressing sexy for your mate when it’s husband and wife time. Nothing is wrong with that!
Yet Galatians 2:20 states I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
We are representing Christ outside the privacy of our home and church!!! One of the best compliments I got from a guy that wasn’t my husband was at 7-Eleven. He said he saw God all around me. I did not know this person at all. I was just going to get my Pepsi on but what he said just made my day. Yet, if I was dressed to seduce, it would've attracted a guy to say hey baby, yo shorty…see the difference.
So as women of God, especially as the warm weather approaches, let’s still get our cute on but in a godly manner! He will beautify the meek in salvation.  Let's represent!