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A word fitly spoken

is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Proverbs 25:11

The Speech of the Godly Woman

his is the chapter that excites me the most to write about thus far. Those women
who grasp the message here and walk in it will be set to transform their worlds.
TWhat awesome power is in the tongue, and how incredibly positive this force
can be when employed by a godly woman.

In an earlier chapter I spoke of a woman’s high calling as a helper to man. Let me
elaborate a little bit upon this. I am convinced that one of the things a woman is
called to in her role as a helper to man is to help him recover the understanding of
who he was created to be. When a woman treats her husband with reverence and
respect she is affirming him and magnifying his own understanding of his high
calling. When women fail to respect men they act as a drag and a weight upon the
man. By failing to respect man, man is encouraged even more to not respect himself
and he sinks lower and lower.

A part of the high calling of women in this day and hour is to help men to regain the
understanding that they were created in the image and likeness and glory of God.
This will ultimately prove to be to the woman’s benefit. When a man sees himself as
created in the image of God, he will begin to act more godly. He will treat his wife
with love, compassion, mercy, and understanding. His behavior in all ways will
become more elevated. When man begins to see that he is the image of God and not
a mere beast, he will also begin to see that his wife is much more than a physical
body to be lusted after or despised.

Man needs a helper. It was Yahweh who declared that it was not good for man to be
alone. There has been no day when man’s need has been greater. May many
daughters of Sarah come forth to elevate their husbands, to lift them up in the midst
of a world that seeks to diminish them. May they by their very behavior, by their
conversation and respectful demeanor, remind their men that they were created in
the image of God and that the calling of man is an exceedingly high calling.

A woman’s tongue holds within it a tremendous power. It can build up, or tear down.