Help for A Ministers wife

1 Peter 3:7 KJV 1900

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Genesis 12:12 KJV 1900

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

Why our focus on this?

To Avoid Unhappiness at home

To Avoid Ministers untimely death

To have a continuity in of anointing

To Avoid shame and ridicule among the heathen and the believers

Who is your wife in your ministry

She is your ministry Helpmate

Ministry Highest confidant

She is a gate keeper

What frustrate Ministers wife

Right given away

Other Pastor’s confidants and inner friends

Carrying her husband shame

Church culture and activities

Given a role beyond her capacity

Husband Struggling with ministry

Abnormal behavior by members and so call leaders in the church

when her husband does not value what she valued

when her husband did not see what she sees.

when she help others and no one is read or willing to help her

Loneliness in the ministry.

Symptom of Ministers wife Frustration

When your begin to accept everything - She is frustrated

How to make your wife happy in the Ministry

Celebrate your wife before everyone

Celebrate her in the secret

Share ministry resource with her

Pay her a salary

Dont neglect Hum mm or sleeplessness or unnecessary quietness

Never allow someone to rubbish her in the public or secret

Build her first before building others

Have a listening hears for her and her children

She is your first priority

No matter how anointed she is lay your hands on her and pray.

Watch what she does like and stop doing it

Appreciate her always.

Dont be close to people competing with her in the church.

When she complains about anyone take it serious.

When your wife is damaged

Seek for help

Never see her wrong even when you know she is wrong _ story of a damage car

Use choice words of love for her

End Result of unhappy Ministers wife

Resignation in the ministry

Competition in the ministry

Rivalry

Underworld help

Prayer - I take my wife back -

forego their right - Shara - Told Abraham to take Hagai - cover the husband

Forego to do her duty when she wanted a good life for her husband.

read

Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England - Pg 214

wives of ministers

Aaron ;

What we should do to our wives

Take her - He took me to the banque hall, His banner Over me is love

Make her beautiful - ;

Honour Them