Hey everyone is Leslie Lutie, host of the Set-A-Part-Gull podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

This week we are going to be looking at a key way that we can motivate the men in our lives

towards a higher standard without nagging, complaining, and manipulating.

Is that even possible?

I think a lot of us as women would say no to that question, but it is possible and in fact it's God's pattern.

There is a way that we can motivate the men around us

towards God's standards in a godly Christ honoring way.

So we're going to explore that a little bit today. Now we've all

been in that situation where a man in our life, whether it's a husband, a dad, a

brother, a guy friend, does something irritating, rude, disrespectful, insensitive, or selfish.

And we immediately think of some kind of snide remark or some angry lecture that we can whip out

and just throw in his face.

We've often probably, if we grew up in Christian

circles been told that nagging and complaining and griping won't actually

get us anywhere with the men in our lives but for some reason we seem

inexplicably drawn to do that anyway.

It's like that nagging spirit just wants to come out.

We think that if we can maybe just make enough noise,

be dramatic enough, hit the guy with that perfectly chosen verbal punch it will finally cause him to

wake up and get his act together. But ironically there is nothing in all of

human history or in the Bible that supports this idea.

Men just do not respond well to our complaints and our criticism.

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