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~April 23rd, 2014~

²⁰Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; ²¹Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. ²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. ²⁹For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: ³⁰For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. ~ (Ephesians 5: 20-31) ~

Submission is not an opportunity to throw around your Authority. To submit means to respectfully receive the opinion of your husband/wife, in a loving and patient way. Father I thank you for the word submission and for the ever-increasing way that you are revealing to me how I am not submitting respectfully to my husband/wife in our Marriage. Submission is an intricate piece of our Married love and it plays a significant role in how we grow together as Husband and Wife. This prayer of submission is not only a repentance prayer seeking forgiveness for any time that I ceased to submit to my wife/husband, but it is also a plea to TEACH us BOTH how to respectfully submit to one another. Marriage is a union of two string-willed individuals and my Marriage has yet to disappoint in this area. I am a string man/woman and the strength that I project into my Marriage may sometimes hinder the growth that my wife/husband may need to survive. Forgive me for over-stepping my responsibility as a respectful, submitted husband/wife, and teach me daily how to not only hear my wife/husband with a closed mouth and an open heart, but to listen intently as the Spirit of Truth shows me through my wife’s/husband’s loving words what lessons are meaningful to our Married Love. Marriage is a covenant vow of forever, and I am committed to forever. I am committed to seek your instructions daily God to make me a better Husband/Wife, and to reflect the love of Jesus onto every facet of my wife/husband each and every day. My submission to my husband/wife, begins with my willingness to submit to you God. My submission to my Faith and Belief in you God is a reflection of how I submit to my Marriage. If any of these areas have fallen by the waste-side, and I am no longer committed to my Faith, and my responsibility as a true believer in Christ, I ask your forgiveness today. I come before you humbly receiving and believing that Jesus is my Lord and Savior, I accept Him in my heart right now, and believe that Jesus died for my sins, and this day, I am born again. In my re-birth, I commit to trusting you to guide my every step as a FAITHFUL Wife/Husband, knowing that the intimacy that you and I share God, is a direct correlation of the intimacy, love, and relationship that I will return back to my husband/wife. I honor submission today. Thank you for teaching me how to be a Faithful, Submitted participant in my Marriage, and thank you for believing that in my Marriage, I am a Righteous participant in the Love and Longevity of our Marriage vows. I humbly ask this prayer, in Jesus name I pray…… ~ Amen