Faith Lived Out ~ God’s Wisdom for Marriage & Becoming a Submissive Wife

Best of 2024! The most popular episode of 2024 with nearly 600 downloads. Whether this is a refresher or a 1st look, it's certainly worth a listen and share. Hope you enjoy!   He says I don't respect him, but I still don't know what this means. If we do not fully understand what it is to respect our husbands, we will continue to have problems. But, if we get this right, it will make all the differ...

Last week we looked at 19 character traits that we are striving to posses as a godly wife.  In God’s design for marriage, we use those character traits as we carry out God‘s purpose for our lives. Which begs the question, what is God‘s purpose for me as a wife? What has He called me to and what should my priorities be in living the Christian life as a married woman? Join me as we uncover how God h...

In our Christian walk, we often hear the term godly woman or submissive wife, and we know that this is what we are to strive for. But what does she really look like? What godly traits does she posses? We are taught that the coveted Proverbs 31 woman is our example to follow. However, is this even possible? And what does this virtuous wife look like in today’s society? For us to have a good underst...

No matter how hard we try, no matter how determined we might be, we will not be successful at becoming a submissive wife, without first doing two essential steps. Yes, we may make some strides here or there, but lasting change, a true change of the heart, only happens when we are willing to put these foundational steps into practice. How do I know? Because I’ve been there. I was the young wife who...

With the coming of a new year comes thoughts of how we want this year to be different. How we want to make personal changes, improve relationships, have more time, a better job, or to start something new. As many of us know, we can start the year out well, only to fizzle out a few months later by falling back into our same routines. But this year can be different! Today, I’m sharing some key ingre...

With the busyness of the holidays and wracking our brains in trying to figure out the perfect gift for everyone on our Christmas list, we can lose sight of the precious and amazing gift we have received in our Lord Jesus Christ. So today, let's steer ourselves away from the commercial busyness to focus on the invaluable gift received in Jesus. As we look at scriptures from Isaiah and the Psalms, w...

Today we will continue to hear Shannon Davis share her powerful testimony of God working in her and her husband’s life. How God used this faithful woman of God to reach her husband. She shares how God showed her that now was the time to act and put the people in her life that she needed, in order to make it happen. We will not only hear of Troy’s response to all of this, but how God took this chan...

In this inspiring episode, we have the privilege of hearing Shannon Davis share her powerful testimony of God working in her life and her marriage. After 20 years apart, God brought Shannon and her husband Troy, back into each other's lives and He did so for a purpose. I believe that God used Troy to help Shannon see her need for the Lord and that she couldn’t do this on her own and in her own str...

With the busyness of life and all that we have going on, it can be easy to let our marriage relationship take a back seat to it all. We spend our days taking care of the house, kids, work, going to church events, and taking the kids to and fro to all their activities. All the while our relationship with our husband begins to suffer. As each day passes we become a bit more distant, less loving and...

For many of us a heart of thankfulness doesn’t come naturally. We may have grown up in a home where there was negativity, a sense of entitlement, or selfishness and therefore not taught to be thankful. Our society and sinful nature does not promote being grateful but rather a focuses more on I want what they have or always wanting more. We want to be that thankful woman who radiates joy and peace...

Who wouldn't want to receive God's best for their marriage? As believers, we read about God and His blessings in scripture and we all want God’s best for our own lives. We want to receive His blessings for ourselves, our marriages and for our families. But how do we do this? Does both you and your husband need to live nearly perfect lives to receive God’s best? Are you afraid that maybe you’ve mad...

Welcome to the milestone 100th episode of the Faith Lived Out podcast! We're celebrating today with a special Q&A where I will be answering your questions on topics like conflict resolution, being supportive of husbands, controlling our tongues, and clarifying what it truly means to be a submissive wife. Listen as we discuss real-life questions from listeners who struggle with feeling unseen i...

Many of us want to learn how to be a submissive wife and what this looks like in today’s society? As I’ve said before, none of us walk down the aisle knowing this. It is something that is learned over time and in the thick of marriage.   No matter our background, if we want to have the wonderful loving marriage that God designed for us, we will all need to learn for ourselves what this looks like...

Scripture can be a bit vague as to how we are to treat those of the opposite sex. Couple that with our desire to push the limits, not wanting to hurt someone’s feelings, or society’s passion for attention and ever changing view on sex outside of marriage, and we can find ourselves in some pretty muddy water. What was once thought of as outrageous or scandalous behavior with someone of the opposite...

Hi girls, Today we're covering a topic that a member of our FB community has asked about and one that each of us will most likely face at one time or another in our marriages. As submissive respectful wives, what do we do when our husband sins or is allowing a stumbling block in his life that can lead him down a destructive path? Hurting both himself and our family. In this espisode we will look a...

Last week we asked the question, are you suffering in an unhappy marriage? One where your husband is maybe unkind or unloving and you fear that you will be bound in a loveless difficult marriage forever? We talked about some bad advice that is out there and even though it may seem biblical, it isn’t and will only lead you to more problems. We also began to look at the hope and peace that we have i...

Are you suffering in an unhappy marriage? One where your husband is maybe unkind, not the man you thought he was, unloving, or doesn’t consider your feelings? Have you prayed to God, tried to change things, but nothing seems to work? Are you looking for a way out because you fear that you will be bound in a loveless difficult marriage forever? If this is you, then I have two things for your today....

Are you praying but feel like God isn’t hearing your prayers because nothing is changing in your life? Have you lost hope in your prayers and therefore lost hope in your marriage ever being what you want it to be? There is power in the Word of God and when we pray scripture, there is power in our prayers. The verses that we are going to begin to pray over your marriage today, are the basis for all...

In the last two episodes we have looked at how Christ loves the church as an example of what the husband's role is in marriage. Knowing that none of us can live up to the perfect love of Christ, we have also talked about what our realistic expectations of our husbands should be. By knowing what their role is, having grace and mercy to understand that we are all a work in progress, by being encoura...

Last week we began our journey into the husband's role in marriage as we looked at Christ's example of an active love and a sacrificial love. We also looked at what our realistic expectations should be in this and how when we do our part as wives, we are helping to support our husbands in their role as well. As we continue our conversation, we will discuss 3 more examples of how Christ loves the c...

Many of us come into marriage with notions of what it will be like. Some of our ideas come from what we saw with our parents or other relatives, what we have seen portrayed in sitcoms, movies or what we have read in books. We also may know what scripture says about the roles of husbands and wives and have our own version as to what this looks like in our minds. However, are we accurate and realist...

As we talked about last week, we all have stress or anxiety from time to time, and have felt the negative emotions of being annoyed, frustrated, or even angry in our marriages. Christen shared with us how the simple use of essential oils with the power of scripture, helped her with the stresses of law school and brought her back into a right relationship with the Lord.  Today, we continue our conv...

As busy wives and moms, we all have a certain amount of stress and anxiety. Yes, we are told in scripture not to worry, however as we all know, that is much easier said than done. We also know that the blessing of being married, brings with it a gamut of emotions from love, excitement, and even joy, to feelings of being annoyed, frustrated, and yes, sometimes down right angry. My guest today is go...

As believers, many of us know that we should be a part of a church family and be attending church regularly. Last week we talked about how being a part of a fellowship of believes can help us to improve our marriage and our family’s life. However, the thought of finding one or what to even look for, can be an overwhelming and daunting task. As promised, I’m going to help you with that today by sha...

It happens all the time, a problem arises, things get busy, and attending church becomes less and less of a priority or falls by the wayside altogether. We have well-meaning intentions that we are only going to skip church for a short time for this one thing. But then, as our weekends get filled up with activities, it becomes harder and harder to get back into the habit of getting everybody up, re...