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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-25-24

Ephesians 5:25 (NKJV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her…

As a husband, I want to know that I am pleasing God with the way I behave toward my wife, and the way I treat her.

It is important that, as men, we learn to be Christlike in our attitudes and our behavior toward our wives.

God created us as men. We are to be masculine. We are to be their protector. We are to be strong as we lead the home.

But we are not to be overbearing, controlling, or manipulative to make everything happen the way we want it to happen.

Jesus gave Himself for us, His bride. He literally laid down His life, surrendering to the will of the Father, that you and I might have life in Him.

This is our example when it comes to how we treat our wives.

We lead with strength. But that strength can often be demonstrated in meekness; being willing to give preference where preference is due. And being willing to admit when we are wrong when we know that we are.

Admitting we are wrong does not make us weak. Every person, whether man or woman, is wrong from time to time. Admitting our faults shows strength. Denying it shows weakness.

And, men, let us not fall into the trap of being domineering over our wives.

This, also, is a sure sign of weakness on our part as we mask our insecurities behind booming voices and military-like commands. And it will only cause resentment over time.

Let us love them genuinely, treating them with the respect they deserve.

Let us lead as Christ leads His body, with decisiveness, but meekness.

Let us lead in a way that assures them we would lay down our lives for them, even though that situation may never arise.

Husbands, love your wives.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-2-20

Psalm 14:2 (NKJV) 2 The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.

We hope that God is speaking to you through this mini-series on marriage and family!

Let’s move ahead and wrap this up, as we conclude with discussing the duties and obligations of husbands and fathers to God and to their family.

I need to be honest and forthright as we get ready to wrap this up. This is a very serious topic in a very serious season. So, I will speak plainly and sincerely, out of love for you and your family.

Our family needs us to be the man; the head of the home.

This means being the leader and protector in everything, both spiritual and natural. We protect them from physical harm, as well as from emotional and spiritual harm.

We love them, teach them, correct where needed, and reinforce everything with God’s love and nurturing.

It means loving them in the way that God has called us to do, even if we may not always know quite how to do that. God’s word is our treasure chest of counsel and advice. So, we need to make sure we are digging into it daily, gleaning His wisdom for our daily duties as husband and father.

It’s easier to brush off than to actually do it, putting it off until later.

But later rolls around much sooner than we might think. And then we look back and admonish ourselves for not doing what we knew we should have done.

There’s no denying that it’s a very hard task in the times that we live in. So it’s critical that we (as men, husbands and fathers) make sure that our walk with God is not faltering or failing.

God gives us what we need to accomplish the things He has set before us. This doesn’t mean, though, that it will always be easy.

We need to set our face like a flint and stand, even when standing in the face of difficult situations isn’t easy to do.

Sometimes we will take hits from the very ones that we are standing up for. But we must still choose to stand if we want to be who God made us to be.

We need to stay focused and keep our eyes fixed on Him, not on all of the chaos and confusion around us. He will be faithful to guide our steps, one at a time.

We just need to remain steadfast in everything, putting Him first and doing our very best, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, to be the husband and father that He has created us to be.

So, as we wrap this up, to you I say this:

Build your house upon the rock. Do this and though you may occasionally falter, you will never fail.

Matthew 7:24-25 (NKJV) 24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

We love you.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-1-20

Mark 10:7-8 (NKJV) 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

I want to make sure that everyone reading this knows that these words are being written in love and with genuine concern for the wellbeing of men, women and children. This is not being written in anger toward anyone.

Yes, there is a certain level of frustration on my end due to the constant onslaught of lies being propagated by the enemy that I see day after day. But I know that this is a spiritual battle, not a battle against people.

As we pick up where we left off yesterday, let me state very emphatically that there is no “alternative version” of marriage. There is no other scriptural definition for marriage.

A man shall marry a woman. And the two shall become one flesh. We see this definition repeated several times throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.

It is not an old-fashioned concept that went out of style because God changed His mind or changed His way of thinking, or simply because Jesus arrived on the scene and told us to be kind to one another.

Jesus Himself spoke these very words, reinforcing the definition of marriage, thus also confirming the definition of sexual relations as designed and intended by God. One man, one woman, committed to one another in marriage.

Now, let me speak directly to the men who are reading this.

As men, we have a responsibility as the heads of the family. God has placed a mantle upon us; a directive to lead, guide, nurture and protect

Part of protecting, leading and guiding involves making sure that truth takes precedence over falsehoods. We need to play an active role in making sure that our children know and understand truth.

The fact of the matter is that if we don’t do this, someone else will give them their version of truth.

So, we need to protect their minds as well as their physical beings. For the mind is the battleground upon which the enemy will prey when our children are in their formative years. And the damage that can be wrought, if left unchecked, is unfathomable.

I hope you are starting to see where this is leading, and that we are letting it penetrate our hearts.

This is critical, and it needs to be heard and digested with the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

We will conclude tomorrow.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-30-20

Ephesians 5:25 (NKJV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her…

I’m writing this message with an urgency, for all believers who read this, to hear it and take it to heart.

I am a husband, father and grandfather. I am a man of God who has been married for almost 38 years, which I believe qualifies me to speak on this topic from a Biblical point of view with at least some semblance of knowledge and authority on it.

My beautiful bride and I write almost daily on varying topics of importance to the body of Christ.

As we have written recently, the traditional (Biblical) definition of a family is (and has been for some time now) under a brutal attack by very dark, very evil forces.

Men, women and children have been having unholy (unscriptural) definitions and concepts of family, marriage and sexual relations pushed on us from just about every angle for a few decades now, with ever-increasing frequency and intensity during the last 15 years.

While some have stood adamantly and very vocally against this, others have been more timid and shy when it comes to speaking out and resisting what our children are being taught in most public schools and by society as a whole.

Some of this timidity has been due to not wanting to cause waves or stir up dissension. Others have held back because they weren’t sure how Christ-like it might be to speak out. Political correctness, which has also been forced on us, has caused people to become afraid to take a stand.

Still others have held back because they don’t like conflict.

I am here today, in this moment, to boldly proclaim that there is little time left for indecision. The time to stand up and speak out is now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today. Right now.

It’s time for believers to stand for what God says is right, holy and pure.

As a man, I am urging other men of faith to stand up and be the head of the household that God has placed you over.

We have an obligation, a duty that has been assigned by God Himself.

I will continue this message tomorrow, so please be sure to read it.

In the meantime, I urge you to seek God and press in to Him. Ask Him to prepare your heart for what He is asking you to undertake.

More on this tomorrow.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-3-18

Ephesians 5:25 (NKJV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her…

I’ve been a husband for over 35 years. And I have loved every moment of it.

During those 35+ years I have learned a few things about the responsibilities of being a good husband and what God wants husbands to do. I didn’t learn these things by my own intelligence or wisdom. God has taught them to me.

First, anyone can be a husband. All they need to do is find a woman and marry them. That’s it. They are now a husband.

But, being a good husband is a whole other story. So, let’s talk about that.

God has told us that to be a good husband, we need to love our wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her. That’s a pretty tall order.

Loving our wife the way Christ loved the church means that we put her first, before ourselves. It means that we treat her with respect and honor. It means that we don’t treat them as a piece of property.

It also means that we don’t look at them as a prized possession or a trophy to be paraded before our friends and family. We treat them as a blessing from God, not as a showcase piece.

If our wife is beautiful, then we thank God for her beauty. We don’t flaunt it before others in inappropriate photos. We don’t parade them in front of other men as a status symbol. We don’t smile as other men ogle them, knowing that they can look but not touch.

We protect the sanctity of their love for us by acting as their covering. It’s hard to do this if we’re more concerned with impressing our friends than we are with the welfare of our wife.

In these days of social media, it’s important that we be careful with what we post when it comes to our wife. We may be awestruck with their beauty, but parading it before the world only makes them look like objects of our pride on display.

This might seem like a bit of an odd message to some, but it’s extremely relevant and timely for the day and age that we live in.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church. Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-4-18

Ephesians 5:28-29 (NKJV) 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. This is a powerful statement that, if we could just get it, would transform our marriages.

In marriage, we need to make sure we are meeting the needs of our spouse. It’s important that we don’t put them after everything else. Doing so is a recipe for a failed marriage.

We nourish our own bodies with food. We take care of them with exercise and other means of doing our best to stay healthy. This is done because we care about our own bodies. We care about ourselves.

So it should be with our wives. We need to nurture them, cherish them, love them and put them first, above other things. They need to come before our hobbies, our sports and our work.

It’s easy to take them for granted and push them to second or third place. We sometimes make the mistake of thinking that because they will always be there that we can put them off “until later”.

But it’s important that we don’t fall into that trap. Because doing so can break down the relationship and cause them to feel neglected, possibly even causing them to look elsewhere for the attention and affection that we fail to give them.

Love your wife. Put her first. Treat her as God intends us to. And watch the love between you grow and flourish!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-3-18

Ephesians 5:22-27 (NKJV) 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

As the body is under Christ, so is the wife under the husband. So it’s important that wives submit to their husbands out of respect and love, recognizing them as the protector and leader of the home.

Likewise, husbands love your wives selflessly, as Christ loved the church. Love them in a way that emulates Christ, being willing to lay your life down for her.

The loving example and strong leadership of the husband demonstrates the love that God has for us. And as the husband lives out and shares the word of God in the home, he creates an environment whereby his wife will also be washed by the water of God’s word, giving her the opportunity to be made clean and sanctified.

These verses show how marriage is truly symbolic of Christ and us, His bride.

More to come…

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-27-17

Ephesians 5:31 (NKJV) 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

This verse expresses the importance of a man leaving his father and mother and joining together with his wife. And the TWO shall become one.

It doesn’t say anything about having the father and mother be a part of the marriage. It doesn’t say anything about the father and mother having a say regarding the marriage if the two who are getting married are adults. It doesn’t say it’s OK for parents to say how the couple should do things, etc. They should not be able to come between the husband and the wife at all.

Some men have never truly left their father and mother. They may have moved out of their home, but they are still attached. And what their parents say has more meaning to them than what their own wife says.

As a matter of fact, their wives really don’t have a say at all when it comes to certain discussions. And that is very sad.

This is not the way it should be, and that marriage will suffer and struggle because of it.

If your marriage is falling apart, and this is one of the reasons, it’s time to cut the apron strings, so to speak, and listen to your spouse, and hope that it is not too late to repair the damage that has been done.

God wants husbands and wives to be together as one. There is no room for anyone to come between them. Not parents, not children, not friends, not anyone.

It is OK for Father and Mother to be able to give good advice when asked. But, it is not good for parents to force it on the marriage or try and come between them in any way.

Husband, join together with your wife in everything. Become one with her. Love her. Give her the affection she needs. And wives, you do the same too, for your husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3 (NKJV) 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

May God bless your marriage today!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-2-17

Ephesians 5:25 (NKJV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

Have we done something nice for our wives lately? Have we planned a special night out, or maybe done some extra things around the house that may help her out in one way or another? How about a nice card? Or a massage without her having to ask for it?

Sometimes all it takes is taking a little bit of our time to do something they weren’t expecting, that will let them know they are loved, respected, appreciated and thought of.

Take some time today and plan something special for her. Love is often felt in the simplest ways.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-12-16

Ephesians 5:25 (NKJV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her…

Husbands love your wives.

I’d like to take a moment to speak to the married men out there today. If you are a man who is engaged to be married, please read this carefully also.

Our wives are precious. They are a blessing and a gift from God, placed in our lives to share our time with here on earth.

She is not an object or a servant, to be bossed around or constantly told what to do or how to do it.

She is not our personal waitress, designed to be at our beck and call whenever we want something.

Women were created from Adam’s rib and are to be a part of us, to be a helper, standing by our side, but not a slave who walks behind us.

They are not to be belittled or treated as less than we are. We should encourage our wives and lift them up, so they know how much they mean to us.

As a husband and wife develop their relationship, they become one in many different ways.

Genesis 2:24 (NKJV) 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Our wife is our partner for life, in everything we do. She deserves to be treated as such.

She deserves our respect, our honor, our love and our affection.

Husbands, love your wives.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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