How is a wife to love her husband? By learning three things, says Tony Evans: how to submit, seduce, and surrender to her husband. Out of these three principles a godly marriage will grow.
In For Married Women Only, pastor and author Tony Evans explores these three principles in a straight-forward yet encouraging manner. He unpacks the touchy topic of submission and lays out the rewards inherent in this biblical model. On seduction, Evans looks at the quality of attractiveness and how embodying it can be pleasing to your spouse and to God. And with surrender, readers will examine why a wife is the perfect help mate for her husband and how to combat attitudes opposed to God’s design.
Originally published in 2002 as Tony Evans Speaks Out on a Woman’s Role in the Home, this booklet has sold nearly 38,000 copies. Use it alone or with the companion volume, For Married Men Only.
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Summary
For Married Women Only by Tony Evans. I listened to For Women Only as a book on tape. Below are a few of the notes I took.
Men are responsible of the relationship. Women should respect their husbands whether they earn that respect or not. Ephesians in the Bible talks about the marriage roles.
Three tips for honoring your husband. These are three things he covers: Submitting, Seducing and Surrendering
He shares a great example of using a yield sign and you have the choice whether you yield or not and if you don't yield and a car hits you, it is still your fault whether you thought you could make it or not. The very same for Ephesians where God tells women to submit to their husbands and if they choose to do that or not it still was in the Bible.
Respecting your husband is not optional.
Some women are not having their prayers answered because they are not submitting to their husbands. If a woman refuses to submit to her husband she is welcoming the devil into her household.
Chapter 2 is about seducing your husband. Which means being attractive to him. You may think this is mostly going to be about your physical appearance but it's actually about your inner spirit and character. He does think that you should be physically attractive to your husband. But it's more important to be a good character on the inside and not try to fake the outside.
He shared the thoughts that there are many women who would say her husband is not even noticing how hard she is trying to be righteous and have Gods glory work through me. In 1Peter 5 or 6 it says she is doing this to be precious in His sight. It’s referring to God’s sight not her husbands. Her husband is the beneficiary of her actions but she's doing it for God.
The last one was Surrender. When you feel like you can't trust your husband, trust God that everything is going to work out and continue to surrender and respect him. He gave a couple Biblical examples of women who did the right thing. It's a short book, well worth the read. A good reminder of how our behavior can change the attitude in the marriage.