Hope for Healing, Faith for Living Podcast

The Bible says we are to continually look through the Word to see who we are and what we’re to do. And, if we don’t do the Word, it's like looking into a mirror and forgetting who we are.

James 1
19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; (Desire to listen to, hear and understand your spouse. That’s your first goal, not to correct or help them. Sometimes your spouse just wants to share. We must learn to be quick or eager to listen. Then if you do speak, speak in a way that honors your spouse if you are a wife and if you are the husband, speak in a way that your wife accepts as loving.)

20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (change your mindset)

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Look and continue to look to the Word of God to see what a godly husband, what a godly wife does, how they act towards the other, how they treat towards the other.  This is how you transform yourself into a godly spouse and have a godly marriage.

It’s not just knowing what God whats you to do and act, it’s a matter of desiring to please the Father and honoring him. It’s also trustint God for the grace to live it out.

Let’s look at another verse. This is one married people should continue to look at if not daily, at least weekly.

Now before I share, I want you to know I’m sharing from the Amplified version. What’s mean for the husband is a lot shorter that what’s meant for the wife, but in reality, a man can share something in a lot fewer words than a woman can share.

Ephesians 5:33
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
33 However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [[a]that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and [b]that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly].

No matter how bad your marriage has been, God is a good of mercy and grace. By following His Word, yielding to it and acting on it, your marriage can become something beautiful.

Blessings in Christ,
Tim Dumas
Hope for Healing, Faith for Living