Who is a wife? - Apostle Joseph Simwela

Who is a wife?

*Text*

He who finds a wife finds a good thing,

And obtains favor from the LORD. 

*Proverbs 18:22 (NKJV)*

_Who is a wife?_

One simpler word that defines a wife is submission - wives are brides and it’s the nature of brides to submit.

*Text*

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 

*Colossians 3:18 (NKJV)*

_as is fitting in the Lord_

Which means to anything that is not a sin.

Submission means doing anything one has been asked to and practically its lesser to the higher - submission is to the master and for this reason husbands are masters.

Until you recognize that your husband is a master, then submission will be difficult and that will be the beginning of problems in your Christian home.

Let's not allow teachings outside the Bible ruin our Christian homes.

It is not everything that has a Bible quote means it is true and this is what Satan is using currently - he too says its written but does he interpret the mind of God?

It's true the Bible talks of one flesh - the two shall become one, but that does not replace the design of God for the lesser to submit to the higher.

*Text*

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 

*Genesis 2:24 (NKJV)*

*Text*

and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 

*Matthew 19:5-6 (NKJV)*

Actually Jesus brought in the meaning of one flesh in Genesis - they must not be separated, one body, and not legs and hands apart.

A hand does not say to the leg, "we are one and same, go and carry a cup of coffee a lone" - every part knows its duty and so it should be in a Christian home.

You are one body as husband and wife but different roles to play - Most problems we have in a Christian home today emerges from the fact that the husband or wife is not doing the designated role according to the Bible - the mind of God.

It is true that a woman was taken from the side of man, but that does not mean they are of the same level, such kind of teachings have brought disorder in the Christian home and everyone is in the driving sit, we cannot have two heads in a marriage.

God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit are one - the Godhead, it is in the Bible but Jesus being God did not forget the system -

He says, I do only what my father tells me to do - Submission.

And He said am going but be happy that the Holy Spirit is coming, - He will guide you in all things, He will not speak on his own.

*Text*

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 

*John 16:13 (NKJV)*

Don’t be misled, allow the Christian home to operate the way God designed it.

If you are a woman and experiencing problems in your family and God seem to be silent, ask yourself - am I a wife?

To God, being a wife does not mean a mother of his children, or a ring on your finger - the wedding, noooooo! - to God, a wife is she who submits.

If you don’t submit, no anointing will make your things work - you will keep on moving up and down seeing different servants of God in a fading hope.

_Submit_

Submit because God says so, you will be judged for your own part and not the fact that the other side does not love - let God deal with the unloving husband.

_(To teach on the husband's love in a separate teaching)_

Submission is a difficult thing but God demands it even if you are currently doing more for the family due to your capabilities.

Even if it is only you working

Even if it is only you doing business

Even if it is only you going to Church - win your husband by the good character you show.

Your Character is a window for your husband to the Church you are going to - he will follow a change in character within you - doing the word of God.

He did not only say don’t murder, don’t lie, don’t commit adultery - The same God also said, "wives, submit to your own husbands"

*Text*

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 

*James 2:11 (NKJV)*

A wife submits to a husband as to the Lord.