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A Marital Exercise - Practical Ways To Show Love To Your Husband (Part 1)

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Here is a marriage exercise taken from a workbook titled "Building Marriages God's Way" designed by Faith Lafayette Church in Indiana.

The Exercise:
Evaluate the way you you express love to your husband. Circle the ways you are neglecting. Ask your husband to go over the list and put a check mark in front of the ways he would like you to express love. Ask him to add other things to the list.

1. Accept your husband as your leader and praise the leadership qualities he has.
2. Show interest and belief in his goals, ideals and achievements.
3. When your husband is talking, show attentiveness and belief by looking at him.
4. If you have excess weight -build hope for your husband by disciplining yourself. Set little goals and achieve them. Rom. 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 10:13.
5. Let your husband know that you need his protection in every area of your life: physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and volitionally. Ask him to help you learn to say "No" and "Yes" when he sees that you need to.
6. Learn to be content with basic provisions that he can provide for you. 1 Timothy 6:6.
7. Show loyalty to him as your spiritual leader.
8. Let him make the final decision and give him the right to fail without saying "I told you so."
9. Fix his favorite breakfast.
10. Support him in devotions by having the Bible and children ready.

Wives, accept your husbands authority as a reflection of the respect you are called to have for him according to Ephesians 5:33. When you resist his authority, it may cause him to abdicate his role as a leader. It may encourage you to assume his responsibility and end in bitterness for him.

Prayerfully consider this list and look for the next ten next week.  May God strengthen your marriage through this exercise.

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