Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands [Kindle Edition] Author: Gary L. Thomas | Language: English | ISBN:
B000SEOEGE | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download books file now Download Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link God calls women to influence and move their husbands in positive ways. Applying the concepts from his bestseller, Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas offers a view through a man's eyes. Here's the inside scoop on what men find motivating---with inspiring real-life stories of women who are employing this knowledge to transform their marriages.
Sacred Influence doesn't flinch from difficult marital problems. But by using this faith-focused approach, you'll see how to help your husband become the man God intends him to be. At the same time, God will shape you to be the woman he designed you to be.
God has given godly women a wonderful power to influence and encourage their husbands. What's the secret? This book will provide challenges, examples, and hope to women who want to love their husbands well and be loved well in return.
--Dennis Rainey, President of Family Life Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Download Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands
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- Publisher: Zondervan; annotated edition edition (May 26, 2009)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishing
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000SEOEGE
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Sacred Influence addresses a woman's role in marriage as designed by God. This book is Biblically sound and doctrinally accurate. Gary Thomas' ability to tell women how be the wives that husbands need them to be and the women God designed the to be in such a kind and gentle way demonstrates his skill as an author and his understanding of love defined in I Corinthians. He does not compromise the truth regarding the requirements God sets before a woman in her marriage, or the roles for which we are designed. However, instead of beating down a woman's spirit, he mananges to motivate women to do their duties, in even the most difficult circumstances because it helps a husband be the man she wants and needs him to be. When I finished this book, it was very clear to me how much men need their wives in every facet of life. The better a wife treats her husband, the more likely she is to be treated better in return. The level of success of this priciple is of course relative to the humility of soul in both people in the marriage, and Thomas does not back down from that principle, either. Being valuable and needed is necessary validation for all of us. Thomas suggests that wives look for how their husbands might be trying to give them that validation, rather than assume the husbands aren't because they aren't doing it the way the wife thinks they should be. Furthermore, he suggests living by example in that regard--don't demand what you're not offering. If wives treat husbands like they are men, instead of wishing they would be something else--namely women, then they come to a point where they cannot live without us. Many women who are dissatisfied in their marriages complain that their husbands aren't men they want them to be.
I must first and formost admit that this is was a very difficult book for me to read. The TRUTH presented in it hit home like a tone of bricks! I really appreciate Mr. Thomas's point of view and I really like that this book is written from a man's point of view. I really feel like God has chosen me to do a good work in my husband's life. This book has helped me see how I have not been cooperating with God in being a Godly influence to my husband. Here's the thing: I'm not sure I would recommend this book for women who are being neglected or emotionally/physically abused by their husband. Women in this position are in a very delicate state and need to be built up in God and receive a stronger foundation in Him before being able to take a look at themselves throught the lens of this book. There are elements in this book that may inadvertently reinforce a woman's belief that her mistreatment is her doing and her responsibility. A woman's abuse at the hands of her husband is his choice and his choice ALONE. There are so many woman out there who need to be empowered FIRST, before one is able to pick apart their roles in their abusive relationships. There needs to be a greater awareness of this issue and it needs to be addressed more openly in books that deal with the woman's role in the marriage.
Although there was a chapter on husbands who are unsaved, it was not adequate. This kind of union has different needs from a christian union and I felt that this book did not provide this different perspective.
Another bad taste that was left in my mouth after all this was that in my readings of so many of the Christian lit on marriage (including this one), men seem to not be held accountable for ungodly behavior as much as women. Despite this very valuable point of view from Mr.
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