Barbara Rainey says one of the greatest gifts a wife can give her husband is to choose to believe

in what God could do through him. When I believe in my husband, that frees up God's power

to work through me and in his life. My belief in him is the most important gift that I give him.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, June 10, 2016.

All week, Barbara Rainey has been talking with Nancy about the art of being a wife.

She's written about this in a new book called Letters to My Daughters.

All week, we've been giving you a chance to get a copy when you support Revive Our Hearts with a gift of any size.

Visit Revive Our Hearts.com to get your copy. Today, Nancy and Barbara will get into

a lot of practical issues in marriage, and we're starting with a question from our listener.

At what would be the optimum time that you would want to give someone the book to read it?

The time that I had in mind when I was

writing the book was I was writing this book for my daughters and their generations. So it's really

the 20s through 40 was really what I had in mind because that's the age range of my girls. And so I was,

I had their faces in mind as I was writing a lot of these questions.

So I wrote it for them.

However, all of us as women in our marriages are always needing to learn.

We're always needing to grow.

And encouragement is always helpful to any of us at any season of life.

So I honestly hope that it will be a book that women will read beyond their 40s.

So I'm hoping that women in their 40s and 50s and beyond will also read it. And we have some

single young women in here. I hope that it will be an encouragement to single women to say,

this is what marriage is supposed to look like. I may not have had a good model. I may have had a good model,

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