Communion Moment:
Scripture: Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and He is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. —Romans 8:34 NLT
Prompt: Pay close attention to any fear or anxiety you may be feeling. Take a moment to ask God to show you how He has been protecting you.
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. —Ephesians 5:21 NLT
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interest but each of you to the interests of others. —Philippians 2:3-4 NIV
For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of His body, the church. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up His life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to Himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. And we are members of His body. As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. —Ephesians 5:22-33 NLT
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. —Ephesians 5:23a NLT
leadership
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. —Ephesians 5:25a NLT
Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly. —Colossians 3:19 NLT
…the wife must respect her husband. —Ephesians 5:33b NLT
for the second half.
I WILL start a conversation with my spouse about how I can love or respect them more.
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