Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing to each other in the role God has called us to as women.

I'm so thankful you've stopped by.

So grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit as we talk about how God's

word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women. Hello, friend. I'm Marcy Farrow from

Thankful Homemaker, and I'm so glad to be with you today. We are on episode 179, and I've titled

this one, Encouraging Your Husband, Biblical Wisdom for Building Him Up with Grace.

So we're obviously going to spend some time today talking about how we as wives can encourage and build up our husbands.

And I'm also excited to share with you.

There's a brand new free resource I've created to help us take small, intentional steps in this area because I know

sometimes it can be hard. Maybe we're not used to encouraging our husband. And what I created is it's a 40-week

husband encouragement challenge. So little bites, you can download this for free at thankful

homemaker.com in my free library. So it's in that free library of resources. If you're

already a blog subscriber, when you get an email from me at the very bottom, I always put the

password for the free library. You can find it there. So it's already there and up for you. But I'm

going to share a little bit more about it at the end of the episode here.

But as wives, God's word gives us such a beautiful and purposeful calling to come alongside our husbands as their helper, their supporter, their encourager. But I know even for me,

I have a wonderful husband. Let me tell you, I am so grateful to the Lord for him, but in the busyness of life

sometimes, it can be really easy to overlook just how much our words, our tone, even our simple

attitudes can either build up or slowly chip away at our husband's heart. And I don't want to do

that, and I know you don't want to do that. So just a quick reminder before we dive into here, I just want to share that if you

haven't visited thankfulhomeaker.com, I would say my little home on the web lately, I'd love for you

to step by. There are many other articles and resources on the blog that don't make it to the podcast.

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