Topic: Honouring your Spouse with your Words [Monday April 27, 2015]
“…Let the wife see that she respects her husband.”-Ephesians 5:33
Respect is not all about kneeling to greet, putting words like sir or ma or speaking so highly about someone when with that individual. It is truly exhibited in the way you treat or talk about someone, in their absence. In fact, being good and gracious to someone in their presence but the exact opposite in their absence is called eye service; and that is a high level of disrespect.
So many people are guilty of speaking ill about their spouse, especially when they are in the midst of family and friends. At times, it is a way of gaining sympathy from them, which unknown to them sells their family out. At that instance, you might gain the sympathy you crave for, but the outcome is that your spouse loses respect in the face of these people. This also easily makes you a target and object of mockery, and you may then also lose personal respect amongst these people.
Your best option is therefore to communicate with your spouse, commit him or her in prayers, constantly seek their good, and at all times, speak words of edification. It is better for others to see your spouse as the best and envy you, than for you to be used as a case of pity. If he or she is honoured, you would be honoured also.
So, it is time to honour your spouse in your conduct and conversation, to and about him. If you are with a friend of yours, having a conversation in the corner and laughing, can your husband be certain you aren’t laughing at him? If you can’t make him feel secure in you and your relationship, how successful do you think you two can be? Honouring him is honouring God and when God’s honoured, He blesses.
Remain Blessed!
Pastor Faith Abiola Oyedepo is the wife of Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, and Senior Pastor of Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria.
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