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  1. Isn’t it so hard when God uses our husbands to speak to us! That is why iron sharpens iron, we need all the body of Christ to walk in this sanctification journey!

  2. So good Angela! My husband and I are super close, and he accepts so much of what I dish. I’m so grateful that God continues to lead us through our marriage – open flaws and all.

  3. My marriage could use more humility. Most times when a conversation becomes heated we don’t stop and pick it back up once we are calm. We continue to speak, and we have shut the other out – no longer open and truly listening to what the other has to say. Thank you for this powerful reminder.

  4. Tiffany – I came across your post from a blogging group “Blogging with Heart”. I first passed over this post – but for some reason, it was my last choice. It spoke to me. Thank You. I have many areas to have God put “in tune”. I leave that for Him. I have home-schooled in the past – made my mistakes. Now I wonder what the future holds since some of my circumstances have been tragic – but the Lord knows how to use them. I await His Wisdom.

  5. What a powerful post! This is so true. It happens with all of us. In every relationship we look at others with our own filtered glasses. If we look at them with green glasses it will be all green, if we use blue glasses it will be all blue. So it’s our own perspective and judgment that brings differences in relationships. We have to be careful with what color glasses we are using!
    Thanks for sharing your touching story with us!

  6. Wow! Wise words this morning. Challenged by all of it, especially: running to lose our lives for the sake of the Gospel and our marriage. Thanks for the encouragement this morning ladies!

    shan
    The How-to Guru

    1. That’s my desire as well Christa…that husbands and wives would choose to obey the Lord, walk in humility and be transformed by the Word!

  7. Freedom from fear is what I’d like to see in my marriage. I’m always fearful that if what is in my heart comes out of my lips he’ll think I’m some raving total lunatic! For years, I refused to pray in front of my husband, feeling like the weaker vessel and not confident at all in what was on my mind and in my heart, nor was I confident in who I was/am in Christ. Only recently am I stepping out from behind that fear and making myself reveal what’s really there.

    Thank you for sharing and for challenging me!

    1. Wow, Sabrina! Thank you for sharing your struggle so openly!

      I just want to encourage you in something I’m learning that practice makes permanent. So the more you practice obeying the Lord and not walking in fear, the more permanent it becomes and before long it’s not something you have to wrestle through, it’s just something you do because it’s part of you.

  8. Such a good read!

    For me, I need some more freedom from fear. 2017 was a year of the Lord ever so gently unveiling so many lies and fears that I didn’t even know were there; fears and lies I have believed my whole life!!

    I am excited for a new year and new freedom as we continue our journey with the Deliverer!!

    1. I am excited for you my friend!

      I’m always amazed at how patient and loving the Lord is while we are in the process of growing up spiritually!

      And yes and amen to walking in new and continued freedom!

  9. Wow, Tiffany! I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be discipled by your husband! I think my brain is still in that “um, no!” stage. 😳 Much to think about here! Thank you for sharing!

  10. WOWZA! There is so much deep truth here! So many nuggets! Sharing this with the ladies in my messy marriage group. Thanks for your willingness to share you struggles and encourage others to overcome their’s with God’s help! Blessings! P.S. I’m a MilSpouse, too!!

  11. This is so beautiful! I was like that too … just looking at what my hubby was doing wrong. “Lord please change me!” is probably one of the most powerful prayers we can whisper! Blessings to you … ❤

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