8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife: "Be a Man of God"

by David Chadwick

A toolbox packed full of different tools gives someone the confidence to step into a variety of situations and bring a solution. If you only have a “hammer” and you find a situation that needs a “screwdriver,” you will not get very far.

Over the next two weeks, we are exploring 8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife. I want to give you, husbands, tools to strengthen your marriage. My prayer is that God strengthens your marriage as you put these “8 Greats” into practice in your home.

Today’s tool: be a man of God!

This is an absolute must for all husbands. You are to be an earthly example of Jesus to your bride.

True biblical manhood is a blend of tough and tender. In the Bible, David is referred to as a man after God’s own heart. A humble worshiper and a valiant warrior. A beloved shepherd and a giant slayer.

As you strengthen your relationship with Jesus, growing in your biblical manhood, your wife will trust you more and more. Your daily pursuit of God will bring honor to her. She will want to honor you as you honor Jesus. In turn, your marriage will bring honor to the Lord.

When a husband’s faith is lived out in the home as a humble worshiper, a forgiven forgiver, and a strong leader with bridled power (Galatians 5:25), the wife will experience the blessing of his pursuit of Jesus.

A wife can easily appreciate and honor a husband who lives under the control of the Holy Spirit, who crucifies the lusts of the flesh, who is self-controlled, and who lives a disciplined life.

This is also so important in seeing a man and a woman become one.

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This series is adapted from the book, 8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife by David Chadwick. To download your free PDF copy of this book, please visit our website by clicking here!

8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife: “Trust Her Gut”

by David Chadwick

I want to teach you principles for developing biblical love and honor within a marriage.

I love pithy statements that help to easily remember things. Marilynn and I have found the term “8 Great” to be a very easy way to remember Godly principles for different areas of life.

Over the next two weeks, I want to share 8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife. Each day, I am going to give you, husbands, a new tool that you can put in your tool belt. Different situations require different tools and my prayer is that you will become more equipped to lead and love your wife with HONOR.

Here is the first tool: trust her gut!

It’s almost as if wives have been given an early warning radar system by God. They can sense danger for their husbands from a mile away. Genesis 2:24 says, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” As two become one, a wife’s heart increasingly feels for her husband’s heart.

And wants his heart to be completely protected.

I have so many examples of times I can look back on and see that Marilynn was exactly correct in her intuitions about certain situations and people. If I had listened to her more carefully, I could have avoided some pain.

My Marilynn’s prayer walk is deep and rich. I can trust she is hearing God’s voice (John 10:27). And like God, I know she is FOR me (Romans 8:31).

Husbands, listen to your wife. Honor her warnings.

It will greatly aid in you both becoming one.

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This series is adapted from the book, 8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife by David Chadwick. To download your free PDF copy of this book, please visit our website by clicking here!

8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife: “What is Honor?”

by David Chadwick

Honor. Such a powerful word. To honor is defined as this: “to regard with great respect, to prize, to admire, to give special recognition, to demonstrate high respect or great esteem for someone.”

In historical biblical culture, the word “honor” carried tremendous weight. Even today, there are cultures around the world that place a high value on honor.

In God’s original intent, honor is a tool to bestow on one another, to bless, to prefer someone else over ourselves.

Unfortunately, in the modern American Christian culture, people seem to gravitate to one of two extremes regarding honor. It’s either overused or missing in action, not used at all. Neither extreme is biblical.

Biblical honor does not demand artificial respect to cover up someone’s deeper insecurities or evil agendas. Biblical honor does, however, create an atmosphere of respect, rooted in the Word of God, where leadership is revered and everyone can flourish.

From the call to honor parents in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:12) to Paul’s desire that all Christians honor one another (Romans 12:10) to husbands commanded by Peter to honor their wives (1 Peter 3:7), honor is interwoven throughout all of Scripture.

For the next two weeks, we are going to look specifically at how husbands can and should honor their wives. If you are single, take notes and begin to train your mind and your heart, even now, with things that could bless a future marriage.

If you are married, start to put these principles into practice in your daily lives. The goal is for two to become one (Genesis 2:24).

And honor is a great tool God has put in the hands of husbands to help this take place.

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This series is adapted from the book, 8 Great Ways to Honor Your Wife by David Chadwick. To download your free PDF copy of this book, please visit our website by clicking here!