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Chapter 14

        
"THE POWER OF A SPIRITUAL FEMALE"

by KAREN BOHLEN

 GOD'S PURPOSE FOR WOMEN

           John, my husband, has a way of going around the

         country, and many times, during his stay in different

         places, when I am not with, or even when I am with

         him, he will start to brag on me. He'll say I'm his

         "Proverbs 31 woman", and he'll start telling them

         about this woman he married who is so fantastic and

         wonderful -his "Scandinavian goddess"! So, when I

         get word through the "grapevine" of these people

         wanting to meet this "Proverbs 31 woman", I get to

         thinking I better start living up to what he says about

         me. Better yet, I better see what God says about who

         and what is a powerful spiritual woman, and then

         start walking it and living it!

           Now, I am going to brag on him! John practices

         what he preaches. I trust him implicitly - if you get

         near him, he'll ask for a "discrete one-arm hug".         

           Early in our marriage, I was very jealous of him. He

         was, and is, so handsome! and all the beautiful women

         thought so too! God had to deal with my jealousy, and

         I learned that God had given John tome and only me,

         and that was fact and truth, and all other thoughts

         were lies, and nothing was going to change that ‘til

         death do us part! (or the rapture doth us glorify).

           John is the greatest husband in the world! He loves

         dearly. He serves wholeheartedly. He gives outrageously

          I remember when I gave him a beautiful

         expensive pocket knife - someone admired it and he

         gave it away.- so I bought him another one. This time

         when he was on a ministry trip, he needed money for

         gas, so he sold it. His mother bought him a beautiful

         winter coat, and he gave it away - - so now, when I

         buy him a gift, I tell him that it's mine, but he can use

         it. He won't give anybody else's things away. Material

         things don't mean much to him. He has a deep deep

         desire to do the will of God and see the Kingdom of

         God come forth. You ought to meet him! You know

         why he's the greatest husband in the world? Because

         he's found "The King's Greatest Secret"! And he has

         embraced it in his own life, and so it's as though I am

         married to the Christ who comes forth in John!