Love Dare Day 36

I am committing to read my Bible every day. I do stay pretty faithful to this already. It is so important. Get in the Word!!

We will be heading out of town tomorrow and will not have cell service so I will have to finish my journaling on paper.

Finish strong ladies.

It has been a pleasure to share in my strengths and weaknesses with you. You will all remain in my prayer these next few days!!!!

Love Dare Day 35

Wise counsel has been a huge part of my life since I started serving the Lord with my whole heart. Because I had such poor counsel for so long I am very careful who I seek counsel from and I’m always checking what people say against the Word of God. This is so crucial in our faith and in our marriage.
We have couples we love and respect in the Lord whom we seek counsel from when we are looking for counsel. We also have great couples who love Christ and hold us accountable to who we are supposed to be in Christ and individuals and as husbands and wives. It is difficult at times to be transparent with people, but it is so necessary if we are to have true accountability amongst other believers.
Lord please help us to surround ourselves with wise counsel. Give us the strength to guard our marriages from negative influences. Thank you Father for giving us Your Word with all its wisdom and knowledge. Let us always seek first after you and your counsel and then from the wise ones around us. Give us discernment and wisdom Lord. Amen.

Love Dare Day 34

This morning my husband came home after being gone for 3 days. We had a great 15 minutes or so and then he made a couple of comments that really got under my skin. I quickly went into a very crabby mood. When I was getting ready in the bathroom (in just my bra and undies) Amos came in and was rubbing my belly and being very affectionate and sweet. I pushed his hands off. I’m so disappointed in myself all over again as I share this with you. My husband responded with love. He very sweetly said a couple calming things and then said we were going to pray. As we stood there praying ( I didn’t shake my mood as quickly as I wish I could tell you I did) I thought to myself “thank you Jesus for a man who chooses to serve you”. We ate breakfast and I thanked my husband for exampling such great Christian character. As I’m sure you well know, it is often very difficult to do or say something nice when someone is being ugly to you. But my husband chose to love me and seek God in the midst of my ugliness. I was humbled.
Thank you Jesus for every little action our husbands do to show their good Christian character. For those of our husbands who are not Christians Lord I pray we would recognize good choices they are making too. Let us be encouragers of our husbands. Let us be the kind of helpers you use to gently guide our men into becoming the men you desire them to be. Let us never discourage our husbands in their faith. May we always rejoice in their efforts and triumphs to be men of God!!!

Love Dare Day 33

Men and women really are so different it’s almost difficult to comprehend sometimes how we manage to live together at all. God had purpose and design in our differences and we don’t appreciate what those purposes are often enough. We live in a culture that had emasculated men to a point they don’t even feel like leading is acceptable. It is time we celebrate the differences between men and women, not just in theory, but in real life in our marriages.

I really do desire the opinion of my husband, though I don't always act like it. Many of us have unfortunately shot our husbands opinions down so many times they are hesitant to even share their thoughts with us. This is an important area needing resolution in marriages today, especially our own.
Since my husband is STILL at work (day 3) I’m going to send him an email this morning telling him how much I appreciate his opinion. He needs to know I appreciate him as a counterpart and don’t expect him to be just like me.

Love Dare Day 32

I can’t believe my husband is working on the sex day of the love dare. This is such a bummer.
Intimacy in a marriage is so important. It breaks my heart when I hear about women who withhold sex from their husbands not understanding how destructive the consequences can be. What this means that I think women don’t understand sometimes is “have sex with your husband when he wants you to”. Sometimes you will have sex when you don’t want to. I know this is a shocking concept, but we are told our bodies belong to our husbands. Yes we are also told theirs belongs to us, but like all other biblical concepts we are to focus on how to serve.
I happen to be a person who feels most love when there is physical affection involved. I can honestly say that when my husband and I have gone a few day s without being intimate it really affects me negatively. This may not be the way you are in your marriage, but it might give you insight to the way your husband feels. Remember ladies men a generally very visual and they often have sexual desires women do not. It is your responsibility to meet those needs for your husband, in the biblical confines of keeping your marriage bed pure of course.
The other amazing thing to me about God, marriage and sex is He truly does bless you in this area when you seek Him on it. You can pray about sex, your insecurities and even your drive or lack of if it doesn’t correlate with your husbands. God desires this part of your marriage to be lovely too!!!

So go get some sex from your husband’s today!!! Focus on what a blessing it is to meet the needs of your spouse!!!