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Sacred Influence: What a Man Needs from His Wife to Be the Husband She Wants
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Sacred Influence: What a Man Needs from His Wife to Be the Husband She Wants (2006) (edit title/settings)

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Applying the concepts from his bestseller Sacred Marriage, Gold Medallion Award–winning author Gary Thomas reveals what a man needs from his wife to become the husband she wants. Now in softcover!

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  • “...some Christians spiritualize wishing - we call it 'praying.' Please understand, I'm not knocking prayer; I'm challenging a misconception about prayer, namely that we can merely voice our displeasure and expect our world and our relationships to be transformed. True biblical prayer is abou tmuch, much more than that. It involves receiving our marchin gorders and then acting on them.”
    Gary Thomas (author)
  • “'The pressure is off me,' she told them. 'Don't get me wrong; it's not that I'm not pursuing holiness. It's just that I know that my Father will get me where He wants me to be and that even my failures serve, in some way, to glorify Him. My relationship with God is growing to be all about His grace, His mercy, His power.'Then Elyse's friend 'astounded' her by responding, 'That must be such a blessing for your husband, Elyse. To be walking in that kind of grace must enable you to be so patien and so grace-filled with Phil. To know that God is working in him just as He's working in you must make your marriage so sweet and your husband so pleased. It must be great for him to know that the pressure is off for him too.''”
    Elyse Fitzpatrick and her friend
  • “It takes great spiritual maturity to love mercy, to offer grace, to give someone the same spiritual benefits we ourselves have received from our heavenly Father. Get in touch with how much God has done for you - how he has seen every wicked act you've ever committed; heard every syllable of gossip; noticed every malicious, ugly and hateful thought - and still, he loves you. Even more, he adores you. And he's forgiven you. Now comes the hard part: will you give your husband what God has given you?”
    Gary Thomas (author)
  • “Families crumble because we've lost our respect for responsibility. Instead, we allow romantic intensity to enthrall us. Since God created our feelings, they must be good; there must be a divine purpose behind infatuation. Unfortunately, however, we've become romantic gluttons. Instead of giving thanks for romance when it comes, we crave it, demand it, and even build our lives around it. We rarely give ourselves the opportunity to experience the more steadfast satisfaction of loyalty, commitment, and responsiblity.”
    Gary Thomas (author)
  • “The brilliance of Christianity is that God can grow you in an unhealthy marriage as well as in a healthy marriage. He can shape you in prosperity or need, in comfort or stress, in intimacy or loneliness. And intimacy with him is the most precious reward any of us can every know or experience.”
    Gary Thomas (author)
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  • If you truly want to love, motivate, and influence your husband, your first step must be to connect — and to stay connected — with God. Find your refuge, security, comfort, strength, and hope in him.
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  • Go into prayer armed with two lists: your husband’s strengths and your weaknesses.
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  • Your first step — the primary one — is to love, accept, and even honor your imperfect husband.
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  • When you demand that someone change for your sake, you’re literally trying to bend the world around your comfort, your needs, and your happiness. That’s pride, arrogance, and self-centeredness — and God will never bless that.
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  • Without feeling appreciated, admired, and genuinely respected, your husband probably will never change.
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  • Rule number one for influencing your man is this: stop taking your husband for granted. He wants to feel noticed, special, and appreciated. That puts him in a “moldable” mood. When he feels he is taken for granted, he becomes defensive and resentful of the mere suggestion of change.
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  • Your marriage is what you make it. The relationship you have is the direct result of what you’ve put into it, and in many cases, a marriage can rise only to the level of your courage.
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  • Your job as a wife is to fight to stay sensitive to your husband’s strengths. Resist the temptation to compare his weaknesses to another husband’s strengths, while forgetting your husband’s strengths and that other husband’s weaknesses. Don’t resent your husband for being less than perfect; he can’t be anything else.
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  • God, not your marital status or the condition of your marriage, defines your life.
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  • Can you see the good in your husband, even when he’s at his worst? Can you pause long enough to see the hurt behind the heat, and call him to his best? If you can learn to do that, you will move your man — directly into God’s arms.
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Table of Contents edit see section history

Dear Readers
Acknowledgements
Introduction: God Hears and Sees

PART 1: Your Marriage Makeover Begins with You
1. The glory of a godly woman - Understanding who you are in Christ
2. The strength of a fodly woman - Becoming strong enough to address your husban's "Functional Fixedness"
3. Be Worthy of me - How God uses the weaknesses of others to help us grow

PART 2: Creating the Climate for Change
4. The widow at Sarephath - understanding a man's deepest thirst
5. The Zarephath Legacy - How you can learn to appreciate an Imperfect man
6. The Hleper - Embracing the high call of marriage
7. A claim, a call, and a commitment - Focusing on Personal Responsibilities
8 Understanding the Male Mind - Learning to make allowances for your husband's masculinity
9. Jeanne-Antoinette - The power of a persistent pursuit

PART 3: Confonting the Most Common Concerns
10 Ray and Jo: Taming the Temper, Part 1 - Self-Respect as a first defeense against your husband's anger
11. Taming the Temper, Part 2 - Learning to Navigate through your huisband's anger
12. Rich and Pat: The magic question - Hleping your husband to become more involved at home
13. The biology of a busy man - How to help your man put family first
14. Pure Passion - Cementing your husband's affections and protecting his spiritual integrity
15. Ken and Diana: Affair on the Internet - Winning back the husband who strays
16. John and Catherine: Finding Faith - Influence a nonbelieving or spiritually immature husband

Epilogue: Everlasting Beauty
Notes

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  1. Gary Thomas (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Zondervan
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780310247401
Page Count: 249

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