A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart. - Myles Munroe

is chosen freely, not imposed from without. Essentially, submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. Submission means putting the needs, rights, and welfare of another person ahead of our own. A marriage built on this kind of submission will grow healthy, strong, and fulfilling.

Satisfied needs produce fulfilled people, and fulfilled people are free to pursue and exercise their full potential as human beings. The primary goal, then, in any relationship should be the meeting of needs. We should not concentrate so much on meeting our own needs, but those of the other person in the relationship. A good test for the health of a relationship is to ask ourselves periodically whose needs we are meeting, ours or theirs? If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble. In successful, healthy relationships, both parties put a priority on meeting the needs of the other.

•Appropriate God’s Grace: Acknowledge God’s holiness, turn from your sins, and be cleansed through the blood of Christ. •Put on Righteousness: Appropriate the righteousness of Christ through faith. Live in that righteousness, doing what is right by keeping in step with the Spirit. •Put on Truth and Honesty: Be transparent and clean before the Lord, desiring truth in the innermost parts and living with integrity. •Cleanse Yourself with the Word: Before you come before God, make sure that you’ve read the Word and that you are