Good morning, my Father...I come this morning in awe of Your greatness and mercy to me. Thank You for loving an old sinner like me...and continually rescuing me and forgiving me for my shortcomings. Awesome indeed.
Today, I life up my prayers for the couple we have served with Your message about homes and families. But most of all I pray for those in need of what You have taught us to do in marriage with encouragement for them to have the courage to reach out. Give us the right words and actions to heal relationships...one family at a time. Please, and Amen.
Verse for Today: "being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as [a service] to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ is head of the church, Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives should be subject to their husbands in everything [respecting both their position as protector and their responsibility to God as head of the house].
Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God], so that [in turn] He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy [set apart for God] and blameless. Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own body, but [instead] he nourishes and protects and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members (parts) of His body. FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED [and be faithfully devoted] TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." (Ephesians 5:20-32)
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