• Click on Title and Scroll down to access - Introduction
  • STUDY LESSON 101: REPENTANCE
  • LESSON: 102: FAITH
  • LESSON 103: BAPTISMS
  • LESSON: 104 A, B & C
  • LESSON 105: SALVATION
  • LESSON 106: LIFE & DEATH
  • LESSON: 107 HEAVEN & HELL
  • LESSON: 108 SIN
  • LESSON: 109 TRINITY
  • LESSON:110 GOD THE FATHER
  • LESSON:111 GOD THE SON
  • LESSON: 112 GOD THE HOLY SP[IRIT
  • LESSON:113 MAN (Anthropology)
    • LESSON: 114 ANGELS & SPIRITS
    • LESSON: 114 ANGELS & SPIRITS
  • LESSON:114 DEMNS & 115 SATAN
  • LESSON: 116 ESCHATOLOGY (End Times)
  • APPENDIX A: VICTORY (booklet)
  • APPENDIX B: LOVE STORY
  • APPENDIX C: THE SAMARITAN RESPONSE
  • LEVEL TWO: INTRODUCTION
  • LESSON 201: STEPS TO MATURITY
  • LESSON 202: LORDSHIP OF CHRIST
  • LESSON 203: RENEWING THE MIND
  • LESSON 204: DISCIPLESHIP
  • LESSON 205: GOD'S DWELLING
  • LESSON 206A: PRAYER
  • LESSON 206B: PRAYER
  • LESSON 207: LOVE
  • LESSON 208: Spirit Soul & Body
  • A PRAYER FOR jULY 4TH
  • A SENSE OF FOREBODING
  • ACCOUNTABILITY
  • ALL AUTHORITY
  • AMERICA MUST REPENT
  • ANOTHER LEGALIZED SIN
  • AT THE END OF YOUR ROPE
  • AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
  • BEING MADE A VESSEL
  • BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS
  • BE CAREFULL WHO YOU LISTEN TO
  • BLIND TO THE TRUTH
  • CALLED OF GOD AND ......
  • CARNAL CHRISTIANS - Part 1
  • CARNAL CHRISTIANS - Part 2
  • CHRISTIAN WARFARE
  • COMPARING CHILDREN
  • CREATED IN HIS IMAGE
  • DARKNESS IN CHURCHES TODAY
  • DARKNESS vs LIGHT
  • DECEPTION
  • DECLARING THE KINGDOM
  • DEPENDENCE ON GOVERNMENT
  • DISCERNING THE WIND
  • DISCERNMENT
  • DIVINE GUIDANCE
  • DRIFTING INTO DARKNESS
  • ETERNAL VALUES
  • EXPERIENCEING HIS PRESENCE
  • FEAR - WHY?
  • GO AND SIN NO MORE
  • GOD STILL PERFORMS MIRACLES
  • GODLESS CHRISTIANITY
  • GOD'S PRESENCE
  • GOD'S SABBATH REST
  • GOD'S TIMING
  • GOD'S WORD IS ETERNAL
  • GOVERNMENT
  • GROWING TO MATURITY
  • HARVEST TIME IS ALMOST OVER
  • HE THAT HATH AN EAR
  • HIS ENEMIES - HIS FOOTSTOOL
  • HOW CLOSE IS CHRIST'S RETURN
  • HOW DISTRACTED ARE YOU
  • HOW TO SHIELD YOURSELF
  • I DREAMED OF TREASURE
  • IDENTIFYING ANTICHRIST
  • IMMORALITY IN THE CHURCH
  • IS THE DEVIL IN HARRY POTTER
  • IT IS TIME FOR GOD TO......
  • JESUS SAID IT WOULD HAPPEN
  • KINGDOMS IN CHAOS
  • KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD
  • KINGDOM THINKING
  • KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH
  • KNOW THE POWER
  • LET THE LIGHT SHINE
  • MAINTENANCE
  • MANY REFUSE TO REPENT
  • MYSTERY BABYLON
  • NECESSARY DISCIPLINE OF A CHILD
  • NOT ALL CHRISTIANS ARE BORN AGAIN
  • AN OMINOUS PROCLAMATION
  • ON BEING A WITNESS
  • POOR, BLIND & NAKED
  • PRAY AFTER THIS MANNER
  • PRAYER THAT CHANGES THINGS
  • PRAYING FOR ENDURANCE
  • PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT
  • PREPARE FOR THE LAST DAYS
  • PROOF ISLAM IS OF SATAN
  • PROPHESY GOOD TO US
  • PSALM 91: TRIBULATION PSALM
  • REASON TO WATCH & PRAY
  • RECOGNIZING TRUE MINISTRY
  • REJECTING TRUTH
  • RELEVANCE OF THE LAW
  • RELIGION vs TRUE CHRISTIANITY
  • REPENT MEANS CHANGE
  • RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP
  • SATAN'S STRATEGY EXPOSED
  • SELFISHNESS
  • SHALL DO EXPOITS
  • SHEDDING INNOCENT BLOOD
  • SIN AND GODLESSNESS
  • SPIRITUAL DECLINE
  • STRONG DELUSION
  • STUFF
  • SURVEILLAENCE
  • TAKE A STEP BACK
  • THE ENEMY WE DON'T SEE
  • THE BIBLICAL GOD
  • THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD
  • THE CHILDREN OF GOD vs ....
  • THE CHURCH & TRUTH
  • THE COMING OF JESUS
  • THE CONFLICT OF THE AGES
  • THE CURRENCY OF HEAVEN
  • THE GATES OF HELL
  • THE GOSPEL THAT PLEASES
  • THE GREATEST OF THESE
  • THE ABSOLUTE POWER
  • THE HORROR OF ......
  • THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS .....
  • THE LAST DAYS
  • THE MARRIED WIDOW
  • THE ORIGIN OF CREATION
  • THE OTHER CHURCH
  • THE REFORMATION CONTINUES
  • THE RISE OF LAWLESSNESS
  • THE SECULAR CHURCH
  • THE SEVEN CHURCHES
  • THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LOVE
  • THE THREE HOLY SPIRITS
  • THE WALKING DEAD
  • WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE
  • THE WORKS OF GOD
  • THREATENED WITH DEATH
  • THE TIMING OF EVENTS
  • TO FEAR OR NOT TO FEAR
  • TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH
  • THE TRAGEDY OF ICABOD
  • TRIED BY FIRE
  • TRUE RICHES
  • TRUTH vs DECEPTION
  • TWO KINDS OF WISDOM
  • TWO NATURES IN CONFLICT
  • TWO KINDS OF ENEMY
  • UNCLEAR PROPHETIC WORDS
  • UNDERSTANDING THE LIBERAL MINDSET
  • WHAT HINDERS GOD
  • WHAT BECAME OF THE NEPHILIM
  • WHAT DOES JESUS HATE
  • WHAT GOD WANTS
  • WHERE IS YOUR TRUST
  • WHY A MINISTER FALLS
  • WHY CHRISTIAN DECLINE
  • WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE
  • WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?
  • WHY GOD MADE MAN IN HIS IMAGE
  • WHY IS AMERICA IN DECLINE
  • WHY IS THE CHURCH IN DECLINE
  • WHY NO JUDGMENT ON THE WICKED.....YET
  • WHY PEOPLE REJECT TRUTH
  • WHY PEOPLE WORSHIP FALSE GODS
  • WHY PRAY
  • WHY THE CROSS
  • WHY THE LATTER RAIN
  • WHY THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
  • WHY WAS JESUS BAPTIZED
  • WONDER OF THE SEED
  • YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER
  • YIELDEDNESS
  • YOUTHFUL LUSTS
  • YOUR BEHAVIOR REVEALS .....
  • DO NOT BE DECIEVED
  • WHEN ARE WE CAUGHT UP
  • WHERE IS THE POWER
  • REAL SURVIVAL GEAR
  • UNITY IN CHRIST
  • VISION OF TWO CHURCHES
  • WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
  • WHY SEXUAL PERVERSION EXISTS
  • WHEAT AND THE TARES
  • ON BEING SONS OF GOD
  • WHAT KINGDOM DO YOU DESIRE
  • WHAT IS THE GREAT AWAKENING
  • THE GREAT AWAKENING - Part 2
  • TWO HIGHWAYS OF LIFE
  • PRAYING FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY
  • WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN POLITICS
  • WAS JESUS LATE?
  • WHY THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH
  • WHY DID JESUS COME
  • WHY IS THE CHURCH IN DECLINE
  • WHY CHANGE IS COMING
  • CLARIFYING THE GREAT AWAKENING
  • YOU WILL FACE THE JUDGE
  • FAILURE OF THE PRIESTHOOD
  • WHAT DOES "LORD" MEAN
  • THE ULTIMATE LOSS
  • THE WAY YOU THINK
  • WHAT IS REALITY AND TRUTH
  • THERE IS A PRICE TO PAY
  • WHY IS PATIENCE IMPORTANT
  • WHERE WAS GOD WHEN ......
  • WHY MANY WON'T BE SAVED
  • SECTARIANISM IN THE CHURCH
  • WHY SO MUCH DARKNESS
  • INCREDIBLE DECEPTION
  • THE VALUE OF SALT
  • WHY THE PARABLE OF WHEAT AND TARES
  • WHO IS IN CONTROL
  • We Are Wonderfully Made By God
  • STUDY OF DIVINE POWER
  • TOTAL REDEMPTION
  • THE HARVEST IS RIPE
  • THE PENALTY OF UNBELIEF
  • WHAT PRECEDS THE RETURN OF CHRIST
  • WHO WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN HEAVEN
  • THE ERROR IN THE GRACE MESSAGEE
  • FINAL CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
  • HAS AMERICAN BECOME WORSE
  • WHY CELEBRATE PENTECOST
  • WE HAVE BEEN INFILTRATED
  • IS A FAMINE COMING?
  • THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS .....
  • DEALING WITH LEFTIST PROGRESSIVES
  • MAN'S KINGDOMS vs GOD'S
  • MOTIVATION TO PRAY
  • PRIDE - WHAT GOD HATES
  • SEEING IS BELIEVING - OR IS IT?
  • WHY THE DISCIPLES HAD GREAT SUCCESS
  • REVIVAL vs ENTERTAINMENT
  • FACING DEATH
  • AFFLICTION
  • THE CONSEQUENCE OF BITTERNESS
  • THE REALITY OF HELL
  • TIME OF TRAVAIL
  • IN HIS IMAGE
  • BELIEVERS ARE SONS OF GOD
  • EXPOSING A FALSE DOCTRINE
  • EXPOSING A FALSE DOCTRINE - PART 2
  • THE POWERLESS CHURCH
  • WHAT IS ATONEMENT
  • UNGODLY COUNSEL - BEWARE
  • BEWARE FALSE PROPHETS & MINISTERS
  • THE GREAT DISCONNECT
  • WE HAVE A SERIOUS FUEL SHORTAGE
  • WHY SO MUCH CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT
  • PROOF OF A DIVINE CREATOR
  • THE DANGEROUS PROSPERITY DOCTRINE
  • SPIRITUAL WOLVES
  • OUR WORLDLY STRUGGLES
  • UNEXPECTED AND UNPREPARED
  • WHAT GOD IS
  • EVERTHING IS BEING SHAKEN
  • NO EXPIRATION DATE
  • WHY JUDGMENT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF GOD
  • WALKING IN THE SPIRIT
  • THE STATE OF THE UNION
  • HOW AWESOME IS GOD
  • SELF PRESERVATION
  • A HOUSE DIVIDED
  • WICKED vs SINNERS
  • PREPARED FOR THE LAST DAYS
  • WHAT'S LACKING IN CHURRCH LEADERSHIP
  • WHAT A PRIVILEGE
  • WHAT GOD HAS PROVIDED
  • GOD'S LOVE RESTORES WHAT WAS LOST
  • WHY TRIALS AND TESTINGS
  • SIGNS OF THE TIMES
  • SPIRITUAL WARFARE
  • WALKING IN VICTORY
  • HAS THE EZEKIEL 38 WAR BEGUN
  • ON BEING A SERVANT
  • UNPREPARED FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD
  • BOOK - THE OTHER CHURCH
  • LUST IS A HUMAN PROBLEM
  • THE POWER OF GOD
  • WHAT CAUSES APOSTASY
  • MAN: GOD'S BELOVED MASTERPIECE
  • WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR AMERICA
  • WHAT HINDERS GOD'S POWER
  • APOSTASY
  • WHAT TIME IS IT?
  • WHO OR WHAT IS BABYLON
    • THE TWO SIDES OF GOD
  • WHY SATAN PRODUCED GIANTS
  • WHY ALL THE CORRUPTION
  • THE AWSOME RESPONSIBILITY OF A PASTOR
  • THE DESTRUCTIVE SIN OF COVETOUSNESS
  • COMPARE KING DAVID & JESUS
  • WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN
  • THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD
  • HEAVEN IS NOT FOR SINNERS
  • AN APPOINTED DAY
  • SPIRITUAL WARFARE WILL INTENSIFY
  • JESUS TELLS OF SOWING SEED
  • BLIND TO THE TRUTH
  • BLIND TO THE TRUTH - part 2
  • HOW SHALL THE BELIEVER LIVE?
  • WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT "WOKE" AMERICA
  • IGNORANCE OF DEMONIC ACTIVITY
  • THE END IS NEAR
  • WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF?
  • WHAT IT COSTS TO LIVE AS A CHRISTIAN
  • THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD
  • REAL TREASURE
  • PREPAREING THE WAY OF THE LORD
  • PREPARING THE WAY OF THE LORD - Part 2
  • COMMUNION - THE LORD'S SUPPER
  • LIFE CONSISTS OF TWO COMPONENTS
  • LOVE: FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM
  • MISPLACED TRUST
  • CELEBRATING PENTECOST TODAY
  • ENDURING FATIH
  • DON'T READ THE BIBLE......
  • IF MY PEOPLE......
  • HUMAN NATURE ISN'T HUMAN
  • LIGHT AND LOVE
  • World In Upheaval
  • IS YOUR FAITH GETTING WORN OUT?
  • TO SERVE OR BE SEREVED
  • TO SERVE OR BE SERVED - Part 2
  • WHAT WILL IT TAKE
  • WARNING ABOUT REVIVAL
  • PERILOUS TIMES ARE HERE
  • LIFE - PHYSICAL vs SPIRITUAL
  • LIVING FOR CHRIST IN A HOSTILE CULTURE
  • ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - AN OPPORTUNITY
  • CORRECTING OUR WORLDLY LOVE
  • UNBELIEF AMONG CHRISTIANS
  • WONDERING WHAT'S GOING ON
  • INTIMACY WITH CHRIST
  • LEARNING TO STAND IN THE EVIL DAY
  • THE CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS
  • GOD HEARS A DESPERATE CRY
  • BABYLON IS FALLEN
  • TECHNOLOGY - The Modern Tower of Babel
  • THE CONSEQUENCE OF FALSE MINISTERS
  • THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVE
  • GREAT EXPECTATION
  • SOWING THE GOSPEL AS SEED
  • WHAT YOU THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE - INS'T
  • DECEPTION IS GOING EXTREME
  • GOD KNOWS IT ALL
  • INSIGHTS ON THE BOOK OF JOB
  • WILL YOUR LOVE BE TESTED
  • GOVERNMENT IN DARKNESS
  • APPROACHING HARVEST TIME
  • INSTRUCT YOUR CHILDREN
  • Apostasy - PART 2
  • THE IMPORTANCE OF PATIENCE
  • THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD
  • BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS
  • THE UNRECOGNIZED CHRIST
  • TRANSGENDERISM - A DEATH SENTENCE
  • REBUILDING JERUSALEM'S TEMPLE
  • WHAT IS A LIVING SACRIFICE
  • THE CHURCH OF THE ITCHING EAR
  • THE DEVIL'S MISTAKES
  • BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS - Part 2
  • THE CONSEQUENCE OF IDOLATRY
  • EMBRACING TRIBULATION
  • CALLED TO SEPARATION
  • CONSEQUENCES OF ENVY AND STRIFE
  • WHY GOD SENT JESUS
  • KEEP LOOKING UP
  • FILLING THE VOID
  • NOTHING IS DONE IN SECRET
  • OUTSIDE THE BOX

                                                                                    THE MARRIED WIDOW
                                                                                                                       By W. G. Guy
 
          The term, married widow, initially sounds like an oxymoron; words that give a conflicting description.  How can a woman be married and also be a widow at the same time?  Unfortunately this describes the plight of a lot of married women these days.  To understand this all-to-common situation we need to look at the word widow as it is defined in the New Testament of the Holy Bible.
         
        The word widow comes from the Greek word that means deficiency; lacking a husband - literally or figuratively.  This word is most commonly recognized by its narrow usage that describes a wife whose husband had died.  But there is actually a broader meaning to this word as the Greek definition puts it.  When used literally, as it customarily is, the word widow means husbandless; implying her husband is deceased - thus she is without a husband.  However, it is the broader or figurative use of the word that helps us to recognize the unhealthy marriages many couples have today. 
 
        The married widow is a woman who has a deficiency in her relationship with her husband.  It is as if she did not have a husband - thus, she is a married widow; without a husband.  Such a wife is deficient; she is lacking the proper and meaningful relationship that God intended a loving husband to provide for his wife.  She is a widow indeed - figuratively!
 
         Today we have many married women who live without a real husband; women whose husbands are alive, but these poor wives have to live as though they have no husband.  Their husbands are not being true husbands.  Thus they live husbandless; they have a deficiency; they are married widows because these women have to live out their marriage without a true loving, caring, cherishing husband.  Such women have husbands who treat them with disrespect; treat them as chattel property; consider them as an expense or liability; consider them a tenant of their home who simply exists to serve him; or other such demeaning conditions.
 
      A married widow is married to a man that is not fulfilling the role of a true husband to her.  For non-believers in the Lord Jesus Christ this condition may not be surprising.  The reason is that the non-believing, non-Christian, husband DOES NOT have the LOVE of God in him!  However for a Christian husband, one who is supposed to have the Love of God in him, this absolute failure of a proper marital relationship is actually an affront to God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!
 
Ephesians 5:25 - "husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it".
 
         Can God be pleased with a supposedly Christian man who in effect leaves his wife husbandless?  These kinds of men actually live with their wives, but do not love them as Christ loves the church and devotes himself to cherishing, nurturing, caring and making that relationship blossom with his presence and goodness.  I'm not describing men whose profession or other circumstance takes them physically away for extended periods of time.  Those who are away can still make their wives feel loved and cherished even in their absence.  I'm describing the husbands who are physically present in the home but are, for all practical purposes, materially absent.
 
        Too many Christian wives live as widows with their Christian husbands because the husbands do not cherish their wives as they should.  There are two basic reasons causing Christian husbands to not have a proper love for their wives - leaving them as widows;  these two reasons are SELFISHNESS and PRIDE.  (Selfishness and pride are also the root causes of sin and are the open door that the enemy comes through with his temptations - but that is another topic.)
 
        Selfishness is SELF-LOVE. A husband full of self-love wants and keeps the best for himself and will not share what is considered precious to him.  He may give tokens out of a sense of duty, but there is no real caring, sharing and cherishing of the wife in their relationship.  Such a husband is motivated to provide, protect, please, comfort and reward his own SELF.  Selfishness is all about getting.  Selfishness is the opposite of Love, because love is giving!
 
       Pride shows up when a husband cannot admit or recognize when he is wrong about something.  Pride will get very upset and enraged when a wife identifies a fault, failure or mistake in the husband and brings it to his attention.  Pride cannot take correction and rebels against any effort on the wife to identify a problem, failure or weakness.
 
         In the proper marriage relationship, both the husband and wife must loose each other in each other; that is, each self must die out and be a willing sharing partner with the other for the others benefit.  This fulfills the Biblical definition of Love as presented by our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
John 15:13 - "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
 

         To summarize, Love is desiring the best for the other even at one's own expense.
 
         Husbands are REQUIRED to LOVE their wives in the same context that Christ loved the church and gave himself for it - (Ephesians 5:25).  Anything short is a marital failure for the Christian husband.  (It seems that some “Christian” husbands have a long way to go).
 
          A real Christian husband, a true man of God, allows God's Love to flow through him to his wife.  If he can't show God's love to his wife, how is he going to show God's love to others as God commands - (John 15:12 & 17; 1 John 47-21).
 
          Those husbands who have made their wives widows are also husbands that are unfaithful!  Unfaithful, not as in having an adulterous affair with another woman, but unfaithful in giving their wives their due devotion, attention, loving care, comfort, and all the love that is due them. 
 
Ephesians 5:28-29 - "So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.  He that loveth his wife loveth himself.  For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church."
 
        Wives should get at least equal attention as the husband gives himself; making the wife his equal, not subservient.  Loving your wife as your self means to love and treat her as your equal! … but with a special cherishing as a weaker vessel.
 
         Some Christian husbands who have made their wives widows behave as dictators or demigods over their wives.  They quote the Bible verses how wives are to submit to their husbands.
 
Ephesians 5:22-23 -  "Wives, submit yourselves unto you own husbands, as unto the Lord.  For the husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church:..." 
 
        These same husbands ignore verse 25 that commands husbands to love their wives which is required first and foremost.  If the husband really loves his wife she will feel secure in that love relationship and will eagerly submit herself to him.  Love is his responsibility and submission is her response to his love.  Her submission must be earned by his love for her; submission can't be demanded.  Submission demanded by a husband is a result of his selfishness and SELF  love; such is a trait of ungodliness and NOT Christ-likeness.
 
      What is a Christian wife to do when she finds herself deficient of a husband – being a married widow?  She is to cling to the one who really loves her, cherishes and cares for her.  Her help, hope and strength comes from the one who watches over the widow:
 
Psalm 68:5 - In acknowledging God, scripture says He is: A father of the fatherless, and a judge (one who makes determinations for or on behalf ) of the widows....".
 
Psalm 146:9 -  "The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow....".
 
Jeremiah 49:11 - "....and let thy widows trust in me".
 
       CONCLUSION: Husbands, don't make your wives widows, at least not while you're alive!

          Christian husbands are to be to their wives as Christ is to the church.  What a difference this makes in a marriage.  Just look at what the God kind of love (charity or cherishing) does and does not do:
 
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV) - "Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking (selfish), it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails."
 
         Husbands, do you have this kind of love for your wife?  You should if you are a  child of God - a Christian husband !
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