Here's Andrea Griffith. Women, we're the heart of the home. And what our attitude is, it is

catching. Our kids catch it. Our husbands catch it. So we want to make sure that it's joyful and fun and

life-giving in our homes. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamut, co-author of True Woman 101, for Thursday, July 6th, 2017.

All this week, Trent and Andrew Griffith have been walking us through Ephesians 5 and

unpacking the instructions that we find there for husbands and wives.

Trent and Andri have been dear friends of mine for many years.

Trent currently serves as the pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Granger, Indiana, real close to our Reviver

Hearts headquarters in southwest Michigan. Andrea has been our guest a number of times

before on Reviver Hearts, sharing her powerful testimony. Now, earlier in the series, Trent

used a large, green, potted plant to illustrate the way that a husband is to nourish and cherish his wife.

Husbands are called to care for their marriages, not unlike the way a gardener will water and care for a plant.

Andrew is going to return to this theme today. Imagine a large green plant on the stage.

As Andrea describes ways that wives can critique and cut down

their husbands, imagine her snipping leaves off the plant. She starts with small, handheld

pruning shears and then moves to larger clippers. Let's listen. So when we're dating, we are

looking to see if we can find the right one that's for us, the one we're going to marry.

And we look at this one and we say, oh, he's so tall.

And he has such nice hair.

Maybe.

But, you know, I really think this one is the one for me.

He just has all the qualities that I have been looking for

in a man. And when we're dating, it's so easy to just pour on that respect and pour on that

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