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Women of Worth...

Wives of Faith is Committed to Building and Maintaining Healthy Christian Marriages. Our mission is to help Christian wives become the wives that God has called them to be.

Wives of Faith is a community of Christian wives who want to go against what the culture and society says about marriage, and find out God's design for marriage. The women of Wives of Faith pray for each other, listen, and support one another. We are in it together and want to grow in unity.

Wives of Faith and the entire Faith and Family Ministries are here to help you be all that God created you to be.

Wives of Faith Features:

PRAYER SUPPORT - Wives of Faith believes in the power of prayer! God's Word says in Matthew 18:19; "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in Heaven." The Wives of Faith Prayer Warriors are here to stand with you in prayer for your marriages!

SPIRITUAL GROWTH - "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."  (Hosea 4:6) We cannot neglect our Spirits and the power of God's Word. If we do not study His Word, we will not have the knowledge to overcome the battles that we face.

Our Spiritual Growth section for Christian wives is filled with articles, devotionals, tips, and resources to help you grow into the wives that God created you to be!

JOY FILLED MARRIAGES - In this section you will find stories, tips, jokes, and advice on having JOY in your marriage. As Christian Wives, we need to learn how to shine for Jesus before our husbands with a JOY Filled heart that overflows into the core of our marriages. Nehemiah 8:10 tells us that the joy of the Lord is our strength! Let's get strong, Wives of Faith!

HAPPY HOME LIFE - Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. (Proverbs 14:1). This section will cover a wide variety of important topics for Christian wives. We will discuss stewardship, cooking, gardening, and the many ways of building up our homes physically and spiritually for the glory of the Lord and in honor of the husbands He gave us!

MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Each month we will feature a new challenge for Wives of Faith members. They will challenge our flesh and bring us closer to becoming wives that please the Lord. Wives of Worth - A capable, intelligent, and virtuous woman...who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls. (Proverbs 31:10)

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER  - Subscribe to the Wives of Faith monthly newsletter for even more wonderful tips, resources, and spiritual marriage builders. We will also provide updates and news regarding the happenings at Wives of Faith.

WOF FORUM COMMUNITY - There is power in community and unity. This is a place for Christian wives to come together and share their struggles, support each other, pray for one another, and build strong faith filled friendships with other Wives of Faith.

WIVES of FAITH WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL  - Each week we feature a new devotional written by a Christian wife for Christian wives. It is meant to help build your spirit woman up, and help you to become the wife that God designed you to be inside and out. There is also homework, so that you can have something to study each day on the current topic.

WIVES of FAITH MONTHLY COLUMNS - We have been blessed to have several wonderful women volunteer to write columns to help Christian wives become all that God created them to be. We also have a monthly column that will give us a Husband of Faith's perspective.

She comforts, encourages, and does him only good as long as there is life within her.

~ Proverbs 31:12

August's Theme

Prayer

Prayer is the theme for this month. We must learn to make time to pray and bring our hearts before the Lord. This month we will talk about prayer and how it is vital to your marriage.

We have an interview with a husband of faith, recipes, devotionals, and many opportunities to discover the importance of prayer.

Prayer is our focus! Prayer is what every marriage needs! 

Prayer is the key to conflict resolution and the maintaining of a happy healthy marriage. Pray!

Wives of Faith Article of the Month

The Precious Privilege of Prayer

By: Travis Wiginton

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God! Prayer is more than 'a wish turned Heavenward':  It is the 'voice of faith directed God-ward'. Prayer fails many times because it is an obligation, rather than a privilege! Too many times, we pray to change or affect God....when Prayer needs to change or affect us! This is what God desires and we should also!

George Sweeting shared in Moody Monthly: "Prayer is a natural function of life. The cultivating of Prayer is not importing an alien, but is training a native citizen of the soil."

1) PRAYER IS FIRST AND FOREMOST COMMUNION WITH....AND ONENESS WITH....GOD.

This is available to anyone who desires it....learned or unlearned....rich or poor. It CAN be the loftiest aim within the reach of any soul. God desires it most of all from us. He looks forward to it....and so should we!

The greatest gift of God in Prayer is Himself...and whatever else He gives, is incidental and secondary. In Acts 4:13, the people took note that Peter and John had 'been with Jesus'. This is what I have desired as husband, father, pastor, preacher, friend and neighbor.

The New Testament uses the word 'abiding'. Paul calls it 'union with Christ'..."I in Christ and Christ in me". This happens when we take a position by repentance and faith...and Christ by His Spirit, comes to live in us.

Colossians 3:11 tells us that "Jesus is all in all". In John 15, Jesus refers to it as 'the vine and the branches'.

In verse 4, "Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me."

In verse 7: "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you."

A Monk, Brother Lawrence, found joy in Jesus just as much working in the kitchen at a monastery, as he did elsewhere. In his wonderful little book, 'Practicing the Presence of God', he wrote the following: "We should establish ourselves in a sense of God's presence by continually coming to Him."

The New Testament calls it 'Prayer Without Ceasing'.....which is mainly living in the attitude, spirit and practice of Prayer. We need to live in total dependence on God and continuing fellowship with Him.

Be careful here, for even though communion with God is the 'aim of Prayer'; perhaps the single greatest difficulty in maintaining the habit of Prayer is our tendency to make it a pious form or habit and not a vital transaction and relationship!
In other words, conscious fellowship with the Father Who cares!

In Luke 15, God is pictured as:
a loving Shepherd...
a warm-hearted woman...
and the father of prodigals.
All of these depict God as One Who is ready to hear and answer Prayer.

Prayer is the breathing of the soul.... and we need to breathe often and deeply in order to really live!

So, commune often with the God Who cares! This is what I call 'Oneness with The Three in One' anytime, anyplace and any circumstance.

2) PRAYER IS THE CALL (OR CRY) TO THE ONE WHO CARES MOST OF ALL

If Prayer is 'oneness with God', it is also 'openness toward God'. I John 2:1 calls us 'little children' and God is our Father Who responds to our cries and calls.

Jeremiah 33:3: "Call unto me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you know not."

Psalms 34:15: "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteousness and his ears are open unto their cry."

Psalms 105:1: "Oh give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name and make known his deeds among the people."

Psalms 145:18: "The Lord is near unto all them who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth."

Sometimes, the answers to our prayers may seem slow.....but God will let us learn lessons from what we're going through.

Vance Havner said, "God seldom shouts and does not wear track shoes!"

God WILL answer your call (cry)! He wants us to be sensitive to The Spirit and sometimes, He speaks in a still small voice.
(I Kings 19:11-12)

Bill Borden of Yale University, was a great witness on campus and longed to go to the Middle East as a missionary to the Muslims. He died at 30 yrs. of age before his desire was fulfilled. A biographer said, "Bill Borden won for 2 reasons: he always carried his Sword (Bible) and he looked up for strength."

Sometimes in our lives (like Bill Borden), there seems to be no rhyme nor reason, but we have The Truth that God's Promises are always true ....and all things work together for good to those that love God and are the called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28)
For example: Many missionaries have felt the call to missions because of the life (and death) of Bill Borden.

It may be the length of time God permits us to stay here, is not so much the work we are to do, but the closeness of relationship to Himself that He wants us to attain. After all, life here is preparation for Heaven.

3) PRAYER IS CONFIDENCE IN....AND COMMITMENT TO.....GOD

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