Proverbs 12:4 TPT “The integrity and strength of a virtuous wife transforms her husband into an honored king. But the wife who disgraces her husband weakens the strength of his identity.”
We have always been preaching that the wife being the inside of a man is the starting point. She is first up to “bat,” like in baseball. Isn’t scripture saying if the wife changes, the husband is automatically transformed? Not just any transformation, but as a king! Is your husband a transformed king or the joker 🤡💩entertaining the crowd? Therefore, if the husband is withering away in destitution, does that mean the wife is the opposite of a virtuous wife? Scripture is actually implying the wife plays an important role in strengthening or weakening their husband.
In the Garden, Eve sinned first, but Adam was responsible. Now, it looks like Eve may be the starting point and is responsible for restoring Adam to his proper authority and position as a husband and father. A wife is the person who endures birth pains to bring forth new life. She must stay in consistent prayer and reading!
So, if a husband is failing, does that mean we need to look at the wife? When the physical body is sick, does the doctor not examine the inside of the person through blood work, X-rays, or a cat scan?
What is a virtuous married woman?
Passion version describes a virtuous married woman as, “an army that is wealthy,” “strong,” “mighty,” powerful,” “valiant, “with substance,” and “worthy.”
As I mentioned on numerous occasions if your husband is out of order and playing in the chicken coop,🍗 🐓 then it is the job of a wife to help restore him to proper authority and position as a king. The wife is called to be a helper, which also means restorer. Or you can continue to be jealous, lazy, disobedient, make excuses, and be resentful, and he will stay a joker 🤡 🤡🤡 entertaining the nations. You and him can be the byword to the butt of jokes.
The Bible does not say it is the husband who transforms the wife. The Bible does not say it is the disgraceful husband who is like a cancer to the bones of a wife. The Bible says the unworthy wife is like cancer to the bones. It is cancer that weakens and takes away one’s identity.
KJV
Proverbs 12:4 KJV “A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.”
Additional Comments:
Only when the husband becomes king can the wife be the queen. Or the wife can become queen first to squash the husband as Jezebel.
Does your husband look like this? Then, who is the wife of the Joker?
The Joker had a lazy, undisciplined, complaining, resentful, unruly, and nagging wife, and the king had a queen for a wife.
Remember, it was Job’s wife who told her husband to curse God and die. Christian wives may not say it so directly, but their lack of commitment, constant blaming, and lack of “all in” are telling the husbands otherwise.
There can be a temporary 80/20 rule, but only for a short moment
Seriously, if you look down on your husband, think he is a loser, and is a joke, then all we need to do is look at the wife.
The joke is on her as she is called to help restore and cultivate.
Pastor Steve Kim