17 PRACTICAL WAYS TO BE SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR HUSBAND
Bisi Adewale
Some women know that God asks them to submit to their husbands but they do not know how or what it means to submit. Here, we are going to discuss practical ways of submission to your husband.
Below are the practical ways of submission.
- Obey. Learnto obey your husband in everything as much as possible.
- Honour. Reverence, respect and honour your husband. Give him due respect and never talk to him anyhow. Respect is the number one need of your husband. (Eph. 5:33)
- Allow him to lead you. Allow him to lead and you follow. Let him take decisions on your behalf based on agreement.
- Leave vital decisions for him and respect his decisions.
- Relate to him with love
- Talk to him with reverence when you are angry.
- Be humble. Do not be too proud to say “I am sorry”.
- See him as your hero and mentor.
- Allow him to teach you.
- Avoid unnecessary argument with him.
- Follow his vision to the letter.
- See him as the king, governor, president and ruler at home.
- See him as the prophet to discern and represent God’s voice in the home.
- See him as the priest to guide and represent the home before God.
- Never talk to him the way you will talk to your son.
- Respect his opinions and decisions.
- Never overturn or challenge his decisions instead pray. God will honour your obedience and intervene.
ELEMENTS OF SUBMISSION: You must have the following if you are submissive:
- Humility
- Love
- Meekness
- Longsuffering
- Honour/ reverence/ respect
- Silence.
NOTE THAT: IF YOU CAN NOT SUBMIT TO HIM, YOU CANNOT EXIST WITH HIM
© Bisi Adewale 2020
