You can be a crown to your husband!

A Crown to Your Husband Proverbs 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 31:11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. What do these Scriptures portray a Godly wife to be? A "crown" to her husband? Did you realize that you have the opportunity to be a crown for your husband? Either a crown of honor or a crown of thorns!! With our lips, our actions and our attitudes we can be a crown that honors him and builds him up, sparkling with the radiance of many precious jewels or we can be a crown that is painful, sharp, tears him down and offers only shame. Many women complain that their husbands refuse to be the spiritual leaders in the home. This may be true, but I would have to wonder if these dear ladies are truly and honestly willing to humbly submit, removing the "crown" from their own prideful head and sacrificially becoming a crown of honor for their husband's. It's difficult to become a crown for my husband if I'm too busy polishing the large and heavy crown of pride on my own selfish head! Psalm 141:3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Have you ever had a visit with a couple where the husband was trying to tell a story and the wife rolled her eyes and corrected her husband every few minutes? "No, it was 4:00 NOT 6:00." "No, THAT is NOT how it happened!" "They don't want to hear you ramble on and on about THAT, get to the point!" "Why do you always say that, that's not true!" Don't you just wince? If it brings you pain just witnessing the scene, imagine the pain and damage it brings to the husband and his ability to properly lead that family! Those were extreme examples, but I have seen it happen many, many times and sadly I have been guilty of it, to some degree myself! "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her...." Oh what a joy for a wife to know that her husband safely trusts in her. How about you? Does your husband know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that when you have a friend over for coffee, all the words of your mouth will be edifying and honoring towards him? Does he know that when he invites others to his home, that you will honor and respect him while visiting with other families? Does he *trust* you to be graceful when he makes a mistake or stumbles over his words or is he nervous and in constant fear of your public ridicule if he accidentally ends his sentence in a preposition! Sisters, we are designed to be a helper to our husbands. If you had an important project to complete, would you appreciate a helper that "delayed" your work, one that continually tried to be the boss, or that undermined your leadership with sarcasm or suspicion? You would most likely rather do the job ALONE! Could this be why many marriages have difficulties with "oneness?" Wouldn't it bring much glory and honor to the Lord if we could repent of any selfish pride that we've allowed into our lives? I pray that we may purpose in our hearts right now, to obey God and to submit respectfully to our husbands, to honor him and allow God to transform us into a beautiful crown that fits perfectly on our own husbands' head! Author Unknown

Forgive!

Are you holding something against someone—anyone—today? Let it go! And forgive that person. Maybe you haven’t even talked to that individual in a very long time—there is no better time than right now. The other party may not repent, but you MUST extend the offer of forgiveness, just as my precious Saviour did upon the cross of Calvary when he died in my place. If you do not, you will experience the same thing as the man in Matthew 18:34, for God will deliver you to the tormentors. If you are a true believer you will not lose your salvation, but God will not permit you the assurance of that. If you are holding an unforgiving spirit you have no right to call yourself a child of God, for “if a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” (1 Jn 4:20) Bitterness is the result of an unforgiving spirit, and it will destroy you. This is a solemn warning to all of us, and we MUST follow its admonition. “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” (Heb 12:15) -A.N. ScharfAndrew Scharf  at 10:16 PM

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We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19


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"Be of good cheer."

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?" 

(Psalm 42:11)

David acted with much wisdom; for, since the devil, in seeking to discourage us, appeals to our feelings rather than to our reason, a little commonsense and practical logic will often times lift the gloom and dispel the mists.

The only real occasion for despondency in a Christian is sin; everything else may be brought to the Lord in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.  And if you have the priceless possession of an uncondemning heart, you may take it for certain that the attempt to dishearten you, is the enemy's endeavour to paralyze your energies and to thwart the purposes of God in your life.

A depressed Christian is a prisoner of war, under the power of the enemy, unable efficiently to serve his rightful King.  Satan knows this all too well; for this is his very purpose in all the attacks of depression that come upon us.  He knows that temptations from without no longer have the effect upon us that they once had, and that the worker in the vineyard will not likely be tempted away from his appointed task by the attractions or the opinions of the world.  And so he concentrates on the attempt to get us discouraged, dejected, depressed.  (Heaven's Cure for Earth's Care)

N.J. Hiebert - 4753 

Because He chose to...

The Touch of the Master's Hand

Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while to waste much time on the old violin, but held it up with a smile; "What am I bidden, good folks," he cried, "Who'll start the bidding for me?" "A dollar, a dollar"; then two!" "Only two? Two dollars, and who'll make it three? Three dollars, once; three dollars twice; going for three.." But no, from the room, far back, a gray-haired man came forward and picked up the bow; Then, wiping the dust from the old violin, and tightening the loose strings, he played a melody pure and sweet as caroling angel sings. The music ceased, and the auctioneer, with a voice that was quiet and low, said; "What am I bid for the old violin?" And he held it up with the bow. A thousand dollars, and who'll make it two? Two thousand! And who'll make it three? Three thousand, once, three thousand, twice, and going and gone," said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried, "We do not quite understnad what changed its worth." Swift came the reply: "The touch of a master's hand." And many a man with life out of tune, and battered and scarred with sin, Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd, much like the old violin, A "mess of pottage," a glass of wine; a game - and he travels on. "He is going" once, and "going twice, He's going and almost gone." But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd never can quite understand the worth of a soul and the change that's wrought by the touch of the Master's hand. Myra 'Brooks' Welch

So what is the word,"contentious" refering to in 1 Cor.11?

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"Be of good cheer."

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again."

(John 3:7)

No more certain it is that it is something outside the thermometer 

that produces a change in the thermometer, 

than it is something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him.  

That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to it, goes without saying; 

But that neither his aptitude not his will can produce it, is equally certain. 

Growth is not voluntary, it takes place, it happens, it is wrought upon matter, 

So here, "Ye must be born again" - we cannot born ourselves.  

"Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed."  

We are subjects to a transforming influence, 

We do not transform ourselves.  

(A Thought for Every Day - Henry Drummond)

N.J. Hiebert - 4743

All may come, (Rev.22: 17)
But none will; (John 3: 23)
Some shall come,
on account of the
sovereign power of God
acting to draw them.(Jn.6: 24)

All may come,
None will,
Some shall.