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Lesson One: Knowing God Better ~ The Key
Day 1: Knowing God as Author
Day 2: Knowing God as Abba
Day 3: Knowing God as Awesome ~ The Three “O’s”
Day 4: Knowing God as Our All
Day 5: Knowing God as Loving Authority
Jesus said in John 17:3, “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”(NIV) This is the key that will unlock all of God’s blessings in our lives. It is the starting point for this study, the sure foundation on which to build healthy lives and marriages. The truths we study about God will draw us closer to Him. The purpose of this first lesson is to initiate or reinitiate and strengthen the vertical relationship between the student and God. As that relationship increases, His love and grace will flow horizontally to bless her husband.
Lesson Two: The Savior and the Helper
Day 1: The Downfall
Day 2: The Consequences
Day 3: The Redemption
Day 4: The Assurance
Day 5: The Provision
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV) The questions "Why is marriage so tough?" repeatedly plagues those of us who are married. In this lesson, we'll examine one of the most critical events in Scripture, the event that set humanity's course against God, destroyed relationships, and turned the paradise He had made into the imperfect world we now know. But God, in His goodness, had a Promise in place.
Lesson Three: Pleasing God ~ A Study in Obedience
Day 1: Defining the Problem
Day 2: The Disobedience of Unbelief
Day 3: Love the Lord Your God
Day 4: The Disobedience of Compromise
Day 5: Embracing the Solution
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22,23, NIV) A wife’s relationship with her husband is perfectly juxtaposed to her relationship with her Lord. As she learns to surrender all to God without compromise, these two primary relationships in her life – the one with her Lord and the one with her husband – will strengthen. This lesson tackles head-on our resistance to obeying God.
Lesson Four: Obedience in Action ~ The Process of Change
Day 1: A Matter of the Heart
Day 2: Everyone Has a History
Day 3: Getting on Track
Day 4: Full Steam Ahead
Day 5: Staying on Track
“Commit your ways to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will act.” (Psalm 37:5, RSV) Those negative characteristics in us that disrupt our lives and marriages are like the Canaanites that the Israelites faced when entering the Promised Land. Unless we “utterly abhor and detest” them (Deuteronomy 7:26), they can and will continue to wreak havoc in our lives and in our marriages. This lesson shows how to confront our inner enemies and “destroy them totally”, “little by little”. (Deuteronomy 7:2, 22).
Lesson Five: Marriage ~ God’s Will and God’s Way
Day 1: “Bone of My Bones…”
Day 2: And the Two Shall Become One
Day 3: The Covenant Love of God
Day 4: The Marriage Covenant ~ A Biblical Perspective
Day 5: Loving God’s Way
“For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. Consequently, they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Matthew 19:6-9, NASB) This lesson examines the different ways
God established the permanence of marriage, which is to be as vital and unshakable a bond as His is with us. And He sealed it with a love that only He could design, a love patterned after His own, a love of eternal, binding commitment ~ covenant love.
Lesson Six: Right Attitude ~ Right Love
Day 1: Enhancing My Marriage Begins with Me
Day 2: Loving My Husband, No Strings Attached
Day 3: Submission ~ God’s Powerful Conduit
Day 4: Respect ~ The Evidence of Honor
Day 5: My Friend or My Enemy?
“Love (God’s love in me) never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:8a, Amplified) Lesson Six explores what unconditionally loving our husbands really means, and illustrates how to live out this powerful principle no matter how good or how tough a marriage is. It also solidly and clearly sets forth the powerful principle of godly submission, clearly distinguishing it from “doormat” submission. It addresses those issues that hinder a wife's willingness to be submissive, such as anger, disrespect, resentment, fear and control. This lesson will speak to wives of believers and unbelievers alike.
Lesson Seven: The Freedom to Love
Day 1: The Burden
Day 2: The Unburdening
Day 3: Understanding Forgiveness
Day 4: Time to Forgive
Day 5: Through Your Eyes, Lord
“…be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2, NIV) God wouldn’t command us to live out His principles unless His power was going to be evidenced in them. This lesson examines God’s principle of forgiveness and how it not only releases the offender into God's just hand, but frees the one offended. As a wife learns to consistently apply forgiveness, she becomes free to love her husband God’s way.
Lesson Eight: Our Sexuality ~ God’s Ultimate Wedding Gift
Day 1: The Purpose and Pleasure of Sexual Intimacy
Day 2: The Principles of Selfless Sexual Intimacy
Day 3: Major Roadblocks to Sexual Fulfillment
Day 4: Common Obstacles Along the Way
Day 5: On the Road to Sexual Fulfillment
“Eat, O friends, and drink; drink your fill, O lovers.” (Song of Solomon 5:1c, NIV) Two become one, not by marital contract, but by the act of marital sex. How God must have smiled on that first couple as He watched the passion that He gave them stir, ignite and pour forth – in purity and mutual honor, but with unbridled passion! This was a matchless moment in time – the sacred sealing of the marriage covenant – powerfully intimate and blessed by Almighty God. This sadly misunderstood area of marriage is boldly confronted – naked and unashamed!
Enhancing Your Marriage - Lesson Nine: Let the Romance Begin
Day 1: Returning to “First Love”
Day 2: The Object of My Love
Day 3: Building Romance – How Do I Love Thee?
Day 4: Building Romance – Let Me Count the Ways?
Day 5: Building Romance – Putting It All Together
“I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.” (Song of Solomon 7:10, NIV) God knows what it’s like to woo someone to Himself, to win over a heart, to stir a fire that leads to an all-consuming communion with Himself. He knows how to romance us, His Bride. And He is able to teach us how to romance our husbands with a Holy Spirit-creativity that is immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine, which will not only bless our husbands but teach them to romance us!
Lesson Ten: Words Are Not Enough ~ The Art of Communicating
Day 1: Men and Women – Vive La Difference!
Day 2: Charting the Course
Day 3: God’s Guidelines for Good Communication
Day 4: Communication – Beware the Saboteurs!
Day 5: Conflicts – Handle with “Fair”
Effective communication is the bedrock of a healthy marriage. This lesson will teach the general communication differences between men and women and God's guidelines for meaningful communication under any circumstance.
Lesson Eleven: My Husband, My Friend
Day 1: Building Trust
Day 2: Building Knowledge
Day 3: Building Friendship
Day 4: Building Unity
Day 5: Building Memories
“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.” (Proverbs 31:10-12, NIV) This lesson shows a wife how to keep up with her knowledge and understanding of her husband so as to enhance their being together and doing together – ever going deeper together so that their empty nest years are gratifyingly full.
Lesson Twelve: Praying for Your Husband
Day 1: God’s Purpose for Our Prayer
Day 2: A Plan for Our Prayer
Day 3: Our Part in Our Prayer
Day 4: God’s Power in Our Prayer
Day 5: Praying ~ Waiting ~ Standing
"The earnest, (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available – dynamic in its working.” (James 5:16b, Amplified Bible) This lesson brings insight into the motives and goals behind a wife’s prayers. Are they truly “husband-centered"? She will learn how to pray God’s goals for her husband and her marriage.
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