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Dealing with marital differences

I find the more I talk to people, the more they tell me the number one thing that is frustrating them in marriage, they don’t understand their spouse. Men don’t understand women, women don’t understand men.
Being around women most of the time has given me some insight on how they think, how they feel, and how they react to situations. Guess what guys? God made them different from us. But thank God, He gives us the blueprint to help us, the Bible.
My suggestion is this: Whenever you feel really frustrated or anxious about your wife’s behavior and her attitude, take your Bible and go into your prayer closet. Pray this prayer, “Father God, please change ME to deal with my wife in a way that honors you”.
Right now, I probably lost 99% of you with that prayer. I know you would rather be like James and John and ask the Lord to rain down fire on your wife’s head. Maybe then she would submit herself to your leadership. But trust me on this. If you are truly seeking God’s will for your life, you will instead ask Him to change you, not your wife.
If you do this, you will find that God’s wisdom will be given to you. You will know how to life with your wife in a God honoring and fulfilling way. Ask Him for the wisdom that from above, and ask Him to fill you with His love for your wife.
1 Pet 3:7 " Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with UNDERSTANDING (emphasis-mine), giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered." NKJV

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