Good Evening Marvelous Married Ones! We pray that you are having an outstanding day with your sweetie!
As I have been prayerfully studying I have taken notice of a women that most of my life I had never heard about. Oh I heard people carrying her name but I didn't really pay attention to her until last week. She is a blessing to all of us who seek to be all that God wants us to be as wives. So who am I talking about? I'm talking about Abigail.
In I Samuel chapter 25 we have the story told to us about a rich man named Nabal, David and Abigail. Long story short David and his men are hungry so David sends his servants to Nabal to ask for some food. Nabal very disrespectfully tells David's servants..who is David? Ooops wrong way to respond Nabal. David rallies up his men and is on his way to kill Nabal and everybody in his house. Abigail finds out about it and she gets up, gets some food together, saddles up the donkeys, grabs her servants, and goes to David in hopes of turning his wrath away from her house. She meets David falls on her face before him and she bows down to him. Now that's deep all by itself. Then she talks to David with intelligence, humility, calmness, and divine wisdom. She apologizes for her husbands bad behavior and David clearly impressed by this sister responds favorably to her and agrees with what she has said. WOW!! Please read the story for yourself, as Abigail is NO JOKE! She's on point like icicles! In the end Nabal dies after Abigail tell him all that she did and said to David...the Bible says his heart died within him. I don't know what that was all about, but that's tore up! After David hears about Nabals death he proposes to Abigail and she accepts.
In my Bible John Maxwell comments on her qualities. He writes, Abigail's patience and submission during difficult times, as well as her wisdom and problem solving skills prepared her too be an excellent wife for David. David valued Abigails strength and felt greatly attracted to this highly capable female leader. Can I tell you that as women we lead all the time in many areas, whether we believe it or know it. We also have great influence and with that truly comes great responsibility. Stop and think how you use it in your marriage. Are you calm, humble, and submissive? Do you listen to God's Spirit first before you respond? Are you a good problem solver? Do you like to resolve issues? We are queens and we have been blessed with kings, lets serve them and help them with even more excellence in the areas of humility,submission and godly wisdom.
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