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YellowStone:
Paula,

You are truly onto something here. Your Scriptures are so clear and are so needful, for without understanding their full message we can never fully let go.

I know that I quote this next Scripture quite a lot, and I do so again, because I think it aligns perfectly with your message :)

A Psalm of David

Psa 23:1 The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psa 23:2  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Psa 23:3  He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Psa 23:4  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Psa 23:5  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psa 23:6  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

This was one of the very first scriptures I ever learned, and it has always stuck with me. :)

Love,
Darren

psalmsinger:
I have learned that my Lord Jesus Christ will take care of my children and make the vessels of dishonour into vessels of honour.  Maybe not in this lifetime, but eventually.  He knows. And I can rest in the Lord knowing that. God is GOOD, even when I think everything is bad.

Barbara

rk12201960:
First let me say it took me a couple of days to think how to respond.
I'm just awed at the wisdom I'm seeing.
Thank all of you so much for your views on Gods direction in your life.
Your brother in Christ.
Randy
                         ;D 8) ;D

LittleBear:
Dear Arcturus,

What you said here really speaks to me:

It is very simple but very difficult for us many times because our husbands are not Christ but we are being trained against the rough and imperfect in our husbands that polishes us up to become the soft and  pure faith of Christ. God knows what He is doing and we have to yield to His ways and come out of the worlds ways, laws and rewards, temptations and carnal agreements.

We are in the world and it says one thing, but we are not of the world and God says something completely different than the "wisdom" of the world. You are right, we are being trained by the imperfections in our husbands. God is demonstrating this in my life right now, but it can be difficult to remember that it is God who is in control even in my husband's choices. We have gone through a rough year. My husband was having a hard time at work; he wasn't doing what he was supposed to do, and then went on stress leave, and then resigned his job. He is a good guy and I love him dearly. It is difficult to watch him not be able to cope, and there is nothing I can really do for him.

 But I pray and pray, but I can't pray for anything specific right now because I want what God wants and I don't know what God wants to accomplish through all this, and there may be more to come which may be hard on the flesh, but will yield something worthwhile in us. God has boxed me in a place where I have no choice. That is what I have learned, that God is sovereign and He will do what He will do, but it's always for our ultimate good. It just doesn't feel good. My point is that God is using my husband to polish my spiritual roughness and show me to rely on God even though I don't know where all this is going.

And you're right, God knows what He is doing, and we will come out of the world's ways.

Ursula

Deborah-Leigh:
Ursula

That is so touching what you share. Thank you!

Here are my thoughts...........that hopefully will encourage you spiritually........ :)

We women naturally want to have pride in our men and that is carnal. How much pride can you have in a man that is socially outcast, considered a curse and rejected and accused and unanimously with the approval of the majority, put to death between two sinners. Sound familiar? ....Our Lord.

As women we have so much power Ursula. This has not changed since the garden when Eve gave Adam the fruit and he perfectly knew what it meant to eat of it and unite go against Gods will to follow after his wife into the death that God had warned him he would unleash if he ate the forbidden fruit. Unlike Eve we have to keep submissive to Adam. We have to defer to our husbands and in all circumstances approve and love them. Hey if they followed us women into our death sentence, the minimum we can do is love them through theirs!....and neither leave nor forsake them!....I believe the Bride of Christ is the woman that is turned around and is no longer EVE but is the woman that is made for Christ not Adam and for that we have to look and see that Christ died for us and he was in the Will of God for us. We have to stay low, humbled, loving, supportive and guard against becoming like jezebel who took matters and leadership into her own hands for her own carnal desires.....like Eve....taking the fruit into her own hands for her own carnal desires....lust of the eyes, flesh and pride of life.....

there is much we as women can do. We can show our love. We can offer our peace to our husbands and love them beyond anything that the world can do or say to make us believe they are useless. they have done much in the history of the scriptures for us and it is about time we woke up to that fact. We should be kissing their feet with our tears and honouring them with our love.

Working against our sense of pride to honour our husbands results in enourmous peace and love entering the home. Worldly women do not have a clue about this. They want to be the leaders and they want to be equal. Men in the world are also blind. They want to relinquish their leadership as did Ahab incited by his wife.

1 Kings 21 :25 For there was no one who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord as did Ahab, INCITED BY HIS WIFE.

Adam made the same mistake. Gen 3 : 17 And to Adam He (God) said, Because you have listened and GIVEN HEED to the voice of your wife....

Men have to listen but they are not to follow....listen...consider...yes...but not do as we do or think as we think.  Women have to not lead or incite the man through emotional manipulations, tantrums, dissatisfaction or emotional or physical blackmail or any other means. To do so is to not only follow in the footsteps of Eve and Jezebel, but to do worse because we know better! you just read this! So now you know! :D

Rev 2 : 20 But I have this against you: that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls hereself a prophetess, claiming to be inspired and who is teaching and leading astray my servants and bejuiling them into practicing sexual vice and eating food sacrificed to idols.

We know from Ray that the scriptures are not literal but spiritual. We know too that Jesus did not have a wife........He was under the authority of God and He was influenced by no one.

The best we as woman can do to inspire leadership in our husbands is to not lead. that is the role of a Queen in the correct office beside her King. Many men abdicate their leadership role as head of the family and the women and few women submit to eating the dust of humility and refusing to follow in Eve's footsteps or Jezebels pride.

The message...love and honour and be adoring towards your husband through every disguise in circumstances!

Eph 6 : 12 For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood, contending only with physical opponents, but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly supernatural sphere.

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

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