If you’re a wife, Peter tells you how not to win over your husband (with words). And he tells you how to win over your husband (with godly conduct): Wives submit to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, you may win over your husband without a word by your actions, when […]
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Four Reasons Wives Should Be Encouraged Being Called “Helper”
In Genesis 2:18 God said, “It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” The Hebrew word for “helper” is ezer. It means “help” or “one who helps.” The word occurs twenty-one times in the Old Testament, including twice in Genesis 2, first in verse 18 […]
The Holy Spirit Will Help You in Marriage
Unfortunately, when it comes to marriage we often feel alone. God’s standard for husbands and wives is so high that we ask, “Who is going to help me obey these commands? What about the marriage problems we face?” The answer is the Holy Spirit will help you! Two words that summarize what it is like […]
What Does (and Doesn’t) It Mean to “Be Filled with the Spirit”?
This is a controversial question. Ask one hundred people what it means to “be filled with the Spirit” and you’ll probably receive almost as many different answers. Unfortunately, for some people church background determines their answer more than Scripture. I include myself in this category, because for a period of time I believed being filled with the Spirit looked more like what […]
Five Ways to Determine Your Spiritual Gifts
Recently someone asked me how to determine their spiritual gifts. This is a great question and one that every Christian who wants to serve the Lord faithfully should ask. The question is so common people have developed surveys to help determine spiritual gifts. Here are four suggestions to help us determine the gifts the Holy Spirit’s given us… […]
God Sees What We Can Become
The Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Sam 16:7). Man sees physically, but God sees spiritually. In […]