Diamonds for Godly Wives
A Practical Guide for Young Brides' New Journey
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I pray that as you browse through these pages, the Holy Spirit will enlighten you and help you find excellence in this wonderful journey as a wife. As you begin this journey, keep in mind that the road may not always be smooth, but as you begin to use the tools God has given us in His word, though rough the road will be enjoyable. You will be able to triumph over any difficulty in your endeavor to fulfill God’s will for you and your mate as you place your lives in the hands of God.
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My goal is to encourage every young bride who reads this book to be the wife God wants them to be. I pray you will be able to use these tools early in your marriage as you begin you journey to become “Happily Ever After”.
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The more God allows you to go through, the more He wants you to learn. So take every problem, every storm, and every disagreement with your spouse as an opportunity to learn and grow. Release it to God and trust Him. He will take care of it. Believe that His promises are true, if He says it is going to happen, believe that it will happen. God is a sovereign God and He has a purpose for everything He allows you to go through.
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Marriage is a triangle with God at the top of it, and husband and wife on the bottom corners. The closer you both get to God the closer you get to each other. But if one is closer to God, trying to live a life pleasing to Him and the other one is not, the marriage becomes lopsided as you become apart from each other.
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If we learn to submit ourselves to the will and direction of our heavenly father it will become easier to fall under the submission to our husbands. Submission is not a bad word for a woman if she understands the effects and rewards of her obedience to God.
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On this journey we call marriage you will find yourself many times not thinking the same way your mate thinks. In other words you have different points of view and that is called disagreeing. This is not a negative point in your relationship. It is human to be and think different than that person you love so much. It is perfectly all right to disagree, what is not all right is when you take the disagreement to another level. I call that level selfishness. Everything is about you: “I am right, you are wrong.” “It’s your fault, not mine.” Your husband is going to need someone who, in spite of your differences or different points of view, he feels respected by his wife no matter what.
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There are three things I advise you to do when you feel your husband has hurt you in any way, Release, Reflect and Reunite:
Release it to God in prayer – Reflect on what happened – Reunite with your husband
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About the Book
This book is totally based on the personal experience of the author who was married to her late husband for 46 years and after 25 years of marriage, were divorced for 3 years. Together with her husband, a minister of the gospel, they initiated and maintained a marriage ministry in their church for 10 years. Through counseling, they helped many broken marriages learn new skills to re-build their relationship and held pre-marital counseling sessions for new couples.
About the Author
Every bride to be has questions and the fear of not being able to accomplish her role as a wife. This world we are living in is full of negative and sinful pictures of what a wife should be. It is very difficult to gain understanding of what marriage should be without the help and knowledge of other women who have experienced failures and victories in their journey as a married woman. My goal is that this book will encourage and at the same time provoke the young and inexperienced reader to become the wife her husband would want.