Loving a Woman Well: Lead, Sacrifice, Cherish

This is all linked together. Right? Because when he says lead, he says, I want you to lead by loving her. He's gonna come say to her, I want you to love her like Christ loved the church. So fundamentally, that relationship with God is fundamentally but then he says, you you gonna be head, which God has put upon every man the mantle that you need to lead your family well. This is not this is not some toxic masculinity. This is this is the way God has designed it. [00:43:20] (30 seconds)  #LeadByLoving

This is the picture of what he says. To love a woman well is to love her in such a way that she feels free to be who God has called her to be. That she when she comes home from work, as crazy as work may be, as crazy as her boss and her coworkers that get on her last nerve may be, she knows when she gets home, she's got a safe place. [01:08:58] (21 seconds)  #HomeIsHerSafeSpace

Because if we don't make a con if we're not vulnerable, we become roommates, as you said. We become so focused on what's happening, what's next, what's being done, but we never connect at a heart level. Those seasons that we just talked about and those seasons sometimes that a man goes through, if a man is not vulnerable enough to say, you know what? I'm having a hard time in this current season. [00:53:26] (24 seconds)  #VulnerabilityOverRoommates

all that God has created her to be. God has been doing it, but sometimes God wants to partner with a man, send her and say, listen, you be my partner and help me to help her to be all whether single or whether married, I wanna love a woman well. I wanna treat all women with the dignity and the honor that they deserve because they truly are women are God's, one of God's, deserves to be celebrated. Help me celebrate. Help me thank God for the women in our lives. [01:09:51] (31 seconds)  #CelebrateWomenDaily

I said I do ten years ago. And they will think that I do last them for the rest of their lives. They forget that for a woman, every single day, she's bombarded with her own past wounds, social media, comparison, culture. She was just in a hair salon and heard about how some man did his woman, and they talked about that. She saw Meg and Clay, and she's wondering. She got questions. [00:56:09] (27 seconds)  #SheCarriesUnseenWounds

I think this is really, really good. No. I think here's some tips. Right? You gotta ask open ended questions. You gotta remember and revisit details. But I think what you said was so powerful. Right? Because I think that's what part of the when you talk about love sacrificially, and and and and I think part of that for men is the vulnerability that's important for us to make a connection. [00:53:07] (19 seconds)  #AskListenRemember

I think at the core of this is that it tells us is that we must as men, we must pursue her every single day. So every single day, you do you ever wrestle with that question? Does he still does that is that a question women wrestle with, you think, in terms of affection? I don't I don't I don't wrestle with that. Yeah. [00:56:50] (39 seconds)  #DailyPursuitOfLove

He says, love her. He says he says, this is the right and what what does Christ do? Christ leaves heaven, comes to earth to serve all of mankind. This is the type of leadership that we're talking about. It's not a domineering leadership. No. It's a leadership that that that that serves and sacrifices for someone else. The Bible tells us there are three forms of love. There is eros, which is a romantic love. [00:49:12] (23 seconds)  #ServantLeadershipLove

You gotta you gotta share. I gotta give you something. I gotta I gotta You gotta give me something. I'm not asking for every last detail, but give me something. Yeah. I can't just talk about the facts and the weather and pick up and drop off something. Can't give me superficial. I gotta get beneath the surface. [00:52:31] (20 seconds)  #GoBeneathSuperficial

Every day, you gotta pursue her because she needs to know that you still love her. [00:59:13] (52 seconds)  #LetHerKnowYouLoveHer

She knows when she gets home, she got a place where she is loved, valued, affirmed, appreciated, and celebrated. She knows that despite how crazy her other friends, boyfriends, or husband might be, my man ain't that crazy as yours. He got some in him, but he ain't that crazy. Right? She knows that the man that she has loves her, celebrates her, values her, and [01:09:19] (26 seconds)  #HomeIsLoveAndValue