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require divine intervention, and if it occurs, God wants you to rely on him to help you through it. What if God told you I set this up in your life so you could see me? What should your response be moving forward? I authored this book due to a God-engineered circumstance, so I’m literally living out heartbreak while encouraging you and receiving strength from God. God created another stream of income duringa pandemic, and he is breathing on your tragedy right now. Open your eyes and see the victory.

God is Spirit, and they that worship must worship in Spirit and in truth. John 4:24

Day Four God Honors Her

Message From God:

When I am invited within the heart I dwell in the home, and I have a personal relationship with both husband and wife. I honor them both as individuals and then as one body in

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marriage. No matter how you feel, or what he has done, honor me by honoring him. Even if he rejects you due to a stubborn heart of frustration. I know how to reward my people for their obedience. Remember, kingdom respect brings forth supernatural results on your behalf.

Life Application:

Serve him with all your heart. He needs to see your faith. It’s okay to cry but don’t wallow in grief. God exchanged your wardrobe from mourning to praising. Now honor your husband as though you were entering God’s courts with praise.

Devotional

Honor is defined as high respect and great esteem. Remember, God, honors you and lavishes his blessings upon you because you honor his covenant. Honoring your husband may not always be easy, but I’ve learned that marriage is for the mature. Marriage is not a place for revenge and if you spend time trying to find ways to get back at your spouse, please grow up. Why remain at a lower level when you could ascend and have your heart’s desire? The Holy Spirit within

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you and your marriage will help you to mature in the principles of Christ. Warrior Wives are mature in marriage. We understand Ephesians 5:22, (Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.) We know we serve a higher power, and our actions aren't just toward our husbands. Everything we release, say, and do is an offering unto God. This is what I love about God. He holds us responsible for our actions because our actions reveal the motives of our

hearts. Never leave your heavenly posture in Christ to handle an earthly matter with your husband. You can be here on earth and respond with the mind of Christ. This is what it means to give honor.

At this moment are you thinking negatively about your spouse? Are you doing evil deeds because they have hurt you? Are you neglecting your responsibility because he neglects his? Are you harboring unforgiveness and resentment all while pretending like everything is, okay? Guess what? Your thoughts and deeds are already in the courts of Heaven before God. He knows how you really feel. He sees when there is respect, partial, or none at all. Before you can think it or do it, he has already seen it. Wife, The mystery within the scripture is to see and treat your husband according to God's heart for him, not according to

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his mistakes that have wounded you. Remember, weanswer to someone higher. Ask God to create in you a clean heart and renew you right now. Seek counseling if needed, but an unbelieving toxic mindset will not yield supernatural results. Complaining taints our views and corrupts the heart. Negativity spews from the heart that has hidden motives.

THE WIDOW

(Even in his death, she still reverenced her husband from God's eyes and perspective, not hers.) He made mistakes. Honestly, we can see he made mistakes, and we see he left her in extreme debt, at risk of losing even their kids.

We see selfishness. We know he wasn't perfect, but she didn't judge him on that. When she went for help, she never bashed her husband. She left her concerns about him in

prayer and allowed God to deal with him as she remained true to God's calling on her life. God blessed her entire

household because of her. A certain woman of the wives of the

sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.” II Kings 4:1 NKJV

THE SHUNAMMITE

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