“Her husband is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.”
-Proverbs 31:23
Over the last few
months I’ve been meditating and being intentional about ways to lift my husband
up. God has been speaking to my heart that my husband can accomplish many
things…he can be a leader and great man with a strong character without me…but
how much more he can accomplish, lead, and impact, with me at his side cheering
him on and lifting him up as his helpmate and biggest cheerleader. So here are
a few things, we as wives, can help our husbands become the verse above. #1:
Pray for him. For his heart, his dreams, his passions, wisdom, discernment,
God’s will for his life, etc. Ephesians
1:16-19 says, “I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my
prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious
Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know
him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order
that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his
glorious in heritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us
who believe.” #2: Lift him up with your words – by speaking them to him and
to others. “The tongue has the power of
life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Proverbs 18:21.
Bring LIFE to your husband. #3: To be faithful and respectful to him. To be the
woman he is honored to have at his side. “A
wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her
husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him
good, not harm, all the days of her life.” Proverbs 31:10-12. #4: Be
diligent and intentional with loving him. Look for ways to give of yourself
selflessly in order to serve him. “Anyone,
then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4:17. #5:
Instead of highlighting his weaknesses, come alongside him and use a strength
of yours to compensate for it. Use the gifts that you have been given to help
him become a better man. “May the God of
peace, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us
what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and
ever. Amen.” Hebrews 13:21
Heavenly Father, thank you for my husband.
Grant me the power in every area of my life to lift my husband up by words and
actions. May I draw closer to you, so that I am so full it overflows into my
marriage. Help me to see the ways that I can be a better helpmate to my husband
and give me the initiative to make it happen. In your name, Amen.
