The Price is not Greater Than God's Grace by Oretha Hagin

Author:Oretha Hagin [Hagin, Oretha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-22T16:59:10+00:00

Chapter 4

A Note to Wives: How You Can Support Your Husband's Call

In like manner you married women, be submissive to your own husbands — subordinate yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to them. So that even if any do not obey the Word [of God], they may be won over not by discussion but by the [godly] lives of their wives,

When they observe the pure and modest way in which you conduct yourselves, together with your reverence [for your husband. That is, you are to feel for him all that reverence includes] — to respect, defer to, revere him; [revere means] to honor, esteem (appreciate, prize), and [in the human sense] adore him; [and adore means] to admire, praise, be devoted to, deeply love and enjoy [your husband].

— 1 Peter 3:1,2 {Amplified)

Since the beginning of our marriage, I have always felt that my mission in life was to stand by my husband's side and help him fulfill the plan of God for his life. In our marriage, I've always wanted to minister to the minister! And I still feel that way. When Kenneth and I were married, we became one; I have a part in my husband's ministry. I don't have a pulpit ministry, but I tell people all the time that I've been in the full-time ministry for almost fifty-three years!

When I married Kenneth, I didn't know anything about the ministry, although I had faithfully attended church and Sunday school as a little Methodist girl. Kenneth had already been in the ministry about four years when we married, so he had a little bit of experience. The Lord had raised Kenneth off a deathbed just four years before, and Kenneth had committed his life to obey God and to preach the gospel. Kenneth made it plain to me before we were married that he would have to obey the Lord, no matter what the Lord called him to do or where He called him to go.

I agreed to obey the Lord too. That didn't mean I was going to do what God had called my husband to do because I didn't have a pulpit ministry. I wasn't called to preach. But obeying the Lord did mean I would help my husband do whatever God called him to do. And it meant I would go with Kenneth wherever God called him to go.

It's been said that a wife can either make or break her husband in the ministry or in whatever God has called him to do. A wife can either believe in her husband and help him, or she can criticize him and hinder him in his call. In Genesis 2:18 the Lord says, ". . . It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an HELP meet for him." A wife is a "helpmate" to her husband. She is called to stand beside her husband and help him, not hinder him. And she should support her husband's call first, not her own interests or desires.

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