The Incredible Power Of A Wife Over Her Husband

1st Kings 21:25, “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.”

1st Peter 3:1-4, “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”

I chose two appropriate passages of Scripture, to show the contrast between a bad wife and a good wife. In the case of wicked Jezebel, the Bible says that she stirred up her husband's heart to do evil against the Lord. But in the case of the wife in 1st Peter 3:1-4, the Bible says that her submission to her husband is so powerful, that even if that husband refuses to obey God, he will listen to his wife because of her godly testimony. This is an amazing truth!

Ladies, you have much power over your man. A wife is her husband's significant other. God took one of Adam's ribs to create Eve. The Lord performed the first surgery in the Bible. Genesis 2:21-22, “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” Like Adam, God could have simply created Eve without using one of Adam's ribs.

I humbly believe the reason why God took one of Adam's ribs, was to forever show the human race that in marriage a wife literally becomes united as one with her husband. Jesus seems to confirm this truth in Matthew 19:5-6, “And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” In God's sight, when a man and a woman are united in marriage, they now appear as one unit in God's sight, until death do they part.

Ladies, what kind of wife are you? Do you stir up your husband's anger? Do you discourage him from attending church because of your laziness at home, sassy mouth and tendency not to submit to his authority? How would you compare to the type of wife described in Proverbs 31? A rebellious heathen wife has the power to cause her husband to quit church and never go back. But a submissive godly wife has the power to encourage her husband to repent and live for Christ. It's your choice Ma'am. 1st Peter 3:1-4, “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.” There you have it directly from the inspired Holy Bible—a wife has the incredible power to steer her husband toward or away from God.

Proverbs 19:14, “House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.”

Proverbs 12:4, “A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.”