Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, 
giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your
prayers be not hindered (1 Peter 3:7).

Right now we are in the midst of one of the mightiest outpourings
of God’s blessings in the history of mankind. Yet many
believers are missing out on these blessings. The Apostle
Peter tells us that prayers are hindered because of
dishonorable lives. This applies not just to husbands,
but also to wives and children.

Honor is an integral part of prayer—and vice versa. Prayer
doesn’t work for someone who is continually disobedient to
the Word of God. If one claims to be a child of the living
God, but at the same time is mistreating one of His children,
then that person cannot expect God’s blessing to continually
be on his prayer life.

As husbands and wives, as brothers and sisters in
Christ, we have a covenant agreement before God
as well as a covenant agreement with one another.
I must be just as honorable to the Body of Christ as
I am to my wife and to my God. You are His child just
as much as I am.

How can I be dishonorable to His child and at
the same time be honorable to Him? It can’t be done,
because you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.

Honor Pleases the Lord

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children
walk in truth (3 John 4).

When we honor one another because of obedience to the Word
not because of tradition, not because of our own selves,
but because of God’s command the Lord is very pleased.
It is the godly thing to do.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth has honored us with His Name
and His life. When we act on that kind of honor and walk
in it, when we are honorable regardless of our feelings or
our finances or whatever else we think we might lose
if we do so, we are truly walking hand in hand with Jesus.

Walking in truth, honesty and honor pleases our heavenly Father.

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

God can make us honorable. He honors us with His own life.
What the Bible calls eternal life is administered to our spirit
man by the Holy Spirit. Then He instills in us the desire to
honor Him in how we conduct our lives.

When I was born again, I was suddenly filled with the desire
to honor God. When the little girl who had tried to kill her
family was born again, she was filled with the desire to
honor God and obey Him, even to the extent of honoring
her family.

God wants us honorable. If you are not honorable, now is
the time to go before the Father and ask Him to make you
that way.

Satan Will Try to Steal This Word

The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way
side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard,
Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word
that was sown in their hearts. And these are they
likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when
they have heard the word, immediately receive
it with gladness; and have no root in themselves,
and so endure but for a time: afterward,
when affliction or persecution ariseth for the
word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

And these are they which are sown among thorns; such
as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things
entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
And these are they which are sown on good ground;
such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth
fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an
hundred (Mark 4:14-20).

You must realize that honor is a powerful spiritual force,
and Satan will try to keep you from walking in it. He will
try to steal this word. I want you to know what he is
going to use against you to do it. You don’t have to fall
for his devices. Greater is He who is in us than he who
is in the world (1 John 4:4)!

In the parable of the sower and the seed, Jesus warned that,
when the sower sows the Word, the devil comes immediately
to steal it from those who have heard and received it.

He did not bother to talk about those who refused to
receive the Word. What was there to say
about them? Nothing. He talked about those who
did receive it.

They received it gladly, but some did not hold
onto it long. Many allowed the devil to steal it for one
reason or another. Some let him steal all of it. Others
let him steal fortyfold, and they only retained sixtyfold.
Still others did not let him have any of it.

You can depend on the fact that Satan will try to steal
the Word out of your heart. You need to study those
areas of the Word, particularly Mark 4, to learn how your
enemy operates. He only has five ways to attack you.
Read this passage again carefully to find out what they are.
Make the decision to resist the devil and his devices,
then stand firm on your decision.

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland