Sunday Rewind 7.12.09

Today, we arrived at the 2nd week of our series titled "Growing to the Chapel" by looking at three specific ways that God has called and equipped men to lead in the marriage relationship.

• Lead-her to emotional security. 1 Corinthians 13 gives a beautiful description of love. Men, is your wife secure and full of hope and trust and peace? Or is she nervous, wondering if she can trust you. How have you lead her? Are you leading her to emotional security?
• Lead-her in purity. 2 Corinthians 11:3 provides a warning we need to hear again today. Men, we have to fight away the temptation to fill our minds with lustful thoughts. They will cause us to see women as objects rather than as people, and make us completely incapable of loving our wives the way she deserves to be loved.
• Lead-her closer to Christ. Ephesians 5:25-27 describes the Church being a bride being presented holy and blameless. If we're going to love our wives the way Christ loved the Church, then we have to be the spiritual leaders in our homes. Men, we’ve got to quit making excuses. If you golf game isn’t working; you figure it out, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re not an expert. Just start.

Someone has said that you can tell the quality and depth of a man by looking into his wife’s eyes. When’s the last time you looking into your wife’s eyes? What did you see? Did you see someone who is secure, pure, close to the love of God?

Gentlemen, your wife is becoming what you lead her to become. God created you to be a great lead her. Satan will tell you that you can’t. Tell him to shut up and get behind you. Tap into the power of God inside of you and lead-her.