How To Honor Your Husbands – Rev Mrs Funke Felix Adejumo
How To Honor Your Husbands – Rev Mrs Funke Felix Adejumo
Many of you, even though your husbands are physically alive, have killed them with the way you speak to them. You disrespect your husband so much that the man has forgotten his first name. You talk to him anyhow because you think you are a bit better off, maybe due to your background or some other reason. Please, do not aim to have an African marriage or an American marriage. Have a Bible marriage.
Honor your husband. He may be as short as a bottle—you saw him like that before you married him. Do not marry a man you cannot respect. The greatest need of a man is not sex; if he’s not born again, he can get that from anyone, including a prostitute. The greatest need of a man is not food; he can get it from any restaurant. One of the greatest needs of a man is respect, particularly public respect. Respect your husband and speak kindly to him.
Sometimes, I wake my husband early in the morning with a love song. I sing to him while he’s waking up, calling him by his native name and telling him how much I appreciate him. I touch his hair as he wakes, and he responds, “Good morning, darling. What do you want? Half of the kingdom?” Treat your husband with dignity and let your marriage be exciting. Bring honor to your husband and stop disgracing him in front of the children. Stop repeating the mistakes your mother made. Please come down from your pinnacle and start honoring that man. If you treat your husband like a king, he will treat you like a queen. There’s no man you honor who won’t honor you in return.
Can husbands please start treating their wives the way the Bible encourages us to? My husband is a bishop overseeing thousands of people, and by God’s grace, we have 35 churches, yet he still spends time with me. He carries me on his back, swings me around, and that increases his anointing. If your Christianity does not work at home, don’t export it. Don’t tell me to respect you if you cannot take care of your wife and children. Many men are lost in ministry or business. Your wife returns from the salon, and you cannot even look up to admire her because you’re too busy with preparations for Sunday service. The next time you acknowledge her, it’s only to adjust your mirror and ask, “What is it that the Bible says—two shall be one?” People are lost in church, lost in business, but are failures in marriage.
Many things kill husbands, and many things kill wives. Bring some sanity into your marriage. Once in a while, drop everything and spend time together. Check into a hotel or plan a getaway. My husband and I met Pastor and his wife in Dubai, and we had so much fun. When last did you take yourselves out? Some of you walk and work endlessly until you drop, and then it’s too late. Take a break. You will wake up one day and discover that you are 75. Enjoy life before life finishes with you.
