There's no gridlock with God…no stalemate…no tie game. If a husband and wife have talked things out, but cannot come to agreement on a matter, the Bible teaches that the husband's authority prevails. By divine design God has entrusted to the husband leadership and authority with which to wisely and lovingly rule the household. The husband is not guaranteed the smartest decisions-but God does expect him to exercise leadership in the home and to have the power to veto (break up an impasse with his vote). However, this does not give him the right to be arrogant and to flaunt his authority, or to run roughshod over other family members' feelings. He has no right to refuse to listen to his wife, to withdraw from confrontational discussions, to act in anger, or to act in a non-understanding way (1 Peter 3:7). He has no right to exasperate his children or anyone else in the family. He must love his wife even as Christ loves the church and gave Himself up for it. Because of the Biblical doctrine of ';male headship,' I place (and I believe God places) the brunt of the responsibility for family growth, happiness, and harmony, upon the husband. Since he is the one entrusted with leadership, he is the one chiefly responsible for leading the family towards the goal of Christlikeness (Peter Wise).
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Depression

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DEPRESSION

JOB 4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

JOB 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

JOB 9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

JOB 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

JOB 9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

JOB 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

JOB 9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

JOB 9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

JOB 9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

JOB 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

JOB 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

JOB 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

JOB 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

JOB 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

JOB 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

JOB 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

JOB 9:31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

JOB 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

JOB 9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

JOB 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

JOB 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

PSA 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

PSA 22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

PRO 24:10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

LAM 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

MAT 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

MAR 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

LUK 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

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