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30 Days Love Your Wife {Better} Challenge? (A shout out to MeN)


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*October 23rd (Sunday)
Day 23. Today determine to speak softly and avoid getting angry with your spouse.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools....
Proverbs 15:18
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led.

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to help you speak kindly and softly to your wife. Pray for God to help you lead your family spiritually. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

 

*October 24th (Monday)
Day 24. Give your spouse a massage.

Ephesians 5:28
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to help you love your wife sacrificially as your own self and care for her needs.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

 

*October 25th (Tuesday)
Day 25. Today get out your wedding album to look through pictures, watch your wedding on video, or take time to think back to your wedding day with your spouse. What were your wedding vows?

Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to help you remember your vows and remember how much you love your spouse.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

 

*October 26th (Wednesday)
Day 26. Ask your spouse what are 2-3 of their goals or dreams for this year and/or next year. Turn off all the electronics and, if you have them still at home, put the kids to bed. Come up with some goals and dream together for 2016 and 2017.

Proverbs 13:16
A wise man thinks ahead; a fool doesn’t, and even brags about it!

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to give you the wisdom and grace to plan for your family’s future.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

 

*October 27th (Thursday)
Day 27. Ask your spouse: “Where do you see us 10 years from now?” Turn off all the electronics and, if you have them still at home, put the kids to bed. Come up with some goals and dream together on where you want to be in 2026.

Proverbs 20:18
Prepare plans by consultation, and make war by wise guidance.

Proverbs 24:3-4
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work outside and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterwards, then, build your house.

Luke 14:28-30
For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? “Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish. ‘”

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to give you the wisdom and grace to seek Him for your family’s future.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

 

*October 28th (Friday)
Day 28. Go on a date this weekend that you planned earlier this month. It can be at home or out some place. It can be free or it can cost a pretty penny. Put some thought into it based on the preferences of your wife.

Proverbs 18:22
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to give you the wisdom and grace to plan for your family’s future. Pray that you would be sensitive to His Holy Spirit’s guiding in your life. Whatever that may look like.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

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Day 29. Talk to your spouse about their favorite things. Think for example heroes, authors, books, or activities.

1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to give you an appreciation for the things that matter to your wife.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

 

Day 30. Talk about finances with your spouse. Ask her to review your budget together, make a few changes, and revisit your giving together. It doesn’t have to be a long conversation maybe 5-20 minutes.

2 Corinthians 9:7
7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Psalm 50:10-12
For every beast of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird of the mountains, and everything that moves in the field is Mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and all it contains.

1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to help you better steward your finances and to be more generous in giving.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

 

Day 31. Talk to your spouse about a place they would like to visit someday. Don’t limit yourselves think about mission trips, trips for fun, or vacations.

Matthew 28:16-20
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them ...in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Suggested Prayer: Pray for God to give you a heart for discovering the world and making Jesus known to the nations.

Spend some time in prayer with your wife tonight. It can be as short as a few minutes or as long as you feel led. #LoveYourWifeBetterChallenge

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