Friday, July 29, 2011

Love & Respect Ephesian 5:22-33

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.


25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.[a] 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.




A wife has one driving need: to feel loved and when this need is met ,she is happy. A husband has one driving need: to be respected, if this need is met, he is happy.

Couple: how to spell love to your wife:
Closeness: she want you to be close
Openness: she want you to open up to her
Understanding: don't try to fix her, just listen
Peacemaking: she want you to say i am sorry
Loyality : she need to know you are commited
Esteem: she want you to honour and cherish her

How to spell Respect to your husband
Conquest: appericate his desire work and acheive
Hierachy: appericate his desire to protect and provide
Authority: appericate his desire to lead and serve
Insight: appericate his desire to analyze and counsel
Relationship: appericate his desire for shoulder to shoulder friendship
Sexuality: appericate his desire for sexual intimacy

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