What is a wife?

Happy Friday Family... What is a wife? She is a helper or help meet. She helps her husband and her children reach their full potentiel. She is also known in the community as a hard worker and an intelligent business woman. Wives are the necessary ingredient for a family to function. She loves God, her husband, and her children. She seeks to please her husband. What are some ways she can do that?

1. Respect and honor him every day.
2. Speak positive affirmations into His life daily.
3. Pray for him.
4. Make your home an atmosphere of comfort and style.
5. Be beautiful, look your best everyday.
6. Allow him space from time to time to think.
7. Never nag.
8. Never compare him to other men.
9. Serve him.

**1 Peter 3** The Message (MSG)
Cultivate Inner Beauty

3 1-4 The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs. There are husbands who, indifferent as they are to any words about God, will be captivated by your life of holy beauty. What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition.
4-6 Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands. Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as “my dear husband.” You’ll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated.
7 The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God’s grace, you’re equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don’t run aground.


Blessings,

*Dr. Jeffrey V. Odom*