3. Wife’s Ministry Role: Response
Ministry of Helping
Ministry of Respecting
Ministry of Submitting
Ministry of Adorning

4. Wife’s Ministry Role: Response
Ministry of Helping
Ministry of Respecting
Ministry of Submitting
Ministry of Adorning

5. Respect is both a verb and a noun, and an action and an attitude.
Wife’s Ministry Role: Response
Ministry of Helping
Ministry of Respecting
Ministry of Submitting
Ministry of Adorning
Respect is both a verb and a noun, and an action and an attitude.

6. Eph 5:33  Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

7. Eph 5:33  Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
Respect is an unearned gift.

8. Eph 5:33  Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
Respect is an unearned gift.
A worship gift to God and a ministry gift to your husband.

9. 1Pe 3:2  as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.

10. 1Pe 3:6  just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

11. Deu 17:18-19  "Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.  19  "It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,

12. Ecc 12:13  The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

13. 1Pe 2:17  Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

14. Col 3:22-24  Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.  23  Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,  24  knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.  

15. Psa 86:11  Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.

16. 1Pe 3:5-6  For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;  6  just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

17. 1Pe 3:5-6  For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;  6  just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.
Your performance in your “role of response” can be evaluated in these three ways:

18. 1Pe 3:5-6  For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;  6  just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.
Your performance in your “role of response” can be evaluated in these three ways:
Hope in God
Attention to your self
Response to your husband

19. Hope in God
Psa 112:1  Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who greatly delights in His commandments.

20. Hope in God
Psa 33:8  Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

21. Hope in God
Psa 147:11  The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

22. Attention to yourself
Pro 12:4  An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.
Pro 27:15  A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;

23. Attention to yourself
Pro 21:9  It is better to live in a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Pro 9:13  The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive and knows nothing.

24. Attention to yourself
Pro 21:9  It is better to live in a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Pro 9:13  The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive and knows nothing.
Your words can and will shape your husband.

25. Response to your husband
Mat 9:8  But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

26. Response to your husband
Mat 9:8  But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
Honor the man you want him to be.

27. 1Co 7:33  but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

28. 1Co 7:33  but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
Respect expresses trust and evokes a sense of responsibility in your husband. It also fans the flame of “the desire to please” in his heart.

29. An ungodly response to your husband’s lack of provision for an expressed desire reveals a demand that was disguised as a request.

30. An ungodly response to your husband’s lack of provision for an expressed desire reveals a demand that was disguised as a request.
With regard to your husbands provision; Pray for what is lacking, rejoice and be contented in what is present.

31. Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild
Mary put this letter in her book; listen to what she says…
—Mary Kassian—

32. Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild
Mary put this letter in her book; listen to what she says…
—Mary Kassian—
“The world may not believe it, but a gentle, quiet submissive spirit doesn’t demean women! This attitude is precious to God. If it would have been precious to me, I probably would have celebrated my thirty-second anniversary last week. Instead, I was mocked by an empty house and a heavy heart full of regret.”