O que você faz, quando você é cristão e acredita em Jesus Cristo, mas seu cônjuge não acredita em Deus e se recusa a aceitar Jesus como Salvador e Senhor? O que você faz, when you live with an unbelieving spouse and your spouse doesn’t want to go to church with you, leia a Bíblia, e rezar? Do you feel lonely in your marriage, because your spouse doesn’t believe the same way you do and disagree with how you want to raise your children? Maybe you’ve tried all kinds of things to convert your unbelieving spouse, like applying prayer methods for an unbelieving husband or proclamations, but it didn’t work and now you wonder what to do. Bem, then this article is for you! Find out what the Bible says about living with an unbelieving husband and how to convert your unbelieving spouse to Christianity.
Do you feel lonely in your marriage?
When you and your spouse don’t share the same faith and are not on the same level, you can become very lonely in your marriage. There are many Christian women, who are married to an unbeliever.
Some Christian women deliberately married an unbeliever, apesar da advertência da Palavra de Deus. They thought they could win their spouse for Jesus, in no time, but that didn’t happen. There are other Christian women, who are converted during their marriage. And there are women, who married a believer, but during their marriage, their husband left the faith.
But what do you do, in these circumstances? Do you stay patient and faithful to your unbelieving spouse? Or are you fed up with the whole situation and step out of the marriage covenant and get a divorce?
Are there effective prayer strategies to convert your unbelieving spouse?
There are many sermons and Christian books about estratégias de oração in combination with jejum for the conversion of people. Many Christians apply these prayer strategies and methods to convert their spouses. But when their spouse is not converted after a few months or years, they become frustrated and give up. Or even worse, they give up on their marriage and break their marriage covenant.
When Christians give up on their marriage and break their marriage covenant by getting a divorce, they act out of the flesh; out of selfishness. They don’t act out of the spirit in obedience to the Word of God. Because divorce is not the will of God and it will never become His will. (Leia também: ‘O que a Bíblia diz sobre o divórcio?').
If you feel hopeless and embittered about the fact that your unbelieving husband is still not converted, despite your many prayers, I would like to encourage you and say, that there is one way to lead your unbelieving spouse to Jesus Christ according to the Bible.
Como converter seu cônjuge incrédulo?
There is one way to convert your unbelieving spouse and that’s through you! Sim, você leu bem, through you! Let’s have a look at what the Bible says about an unbelieving husband and how to convert an unbelieving spouse:
Da mesma maneira, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; que, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; Mas que seja o homem escondido do coração, naquilo que não é corruptível, até mesmo o ornamento de um espírito manso e quieto, que é de grande valor aos olhos de Deus (1 Peter 3:1-4)
It’s important that you acknowledge your husband as the head of your family, as Christ is the Chefe da Igreja. Through your subjection to your spouse and by respecting him, through your behavior your spouse will be won for Jesus Christ. That’s what the Bible; the Word of God says.
“How can you submit yourself to God,
if you can’t submit yourself to your husband?”
The Lord has appointed the man, as the head of the family. But because the spirit of feminism (spirit of darkness), rules in the lives of many women, women become rebellious against their spouses. They want to be head of the family and refuse to submit to their spouse.
Submission doesn’t mean being treated like a slave and being controlled and abused (physically and mentally) by your spouse. But submission means, that you recognize your spouse as your husband, as the head of the family, and that you respect your husband.
Don’t judge your husband. Don’t put him down, by making fun of him or by making sarcastic remarks about your husband, especially in front of your children and others. But honor your husband.
Acknowledge your husband’s task to care for and provide for his family. While your task is to nurture the members of your family. (Leia também: A aliança matrimonial).
She talks piously, but what about her walk?
Will you convert your unbelieving spouse, pelas suas palavras? By your daily preachings, correções, e castigos? A resposta é não. This will only drive your husband further away from the faith.
The only way to convert your unbelieving spouse is by your behavior; through your pure manner of life which is accompanied by a reverential fear.
Aqui temos o problema principal porque muitas mulheres cristãs não dão este fruto. Seus cônjuges não veem seu estilo de vida puro.
Eles não veem uma mulher mudada, quem anda segundo o Espírito. Em vez de, eles veem uma mulher rebelde, que não respeita o marido e não quer ouvir e se submeter ao marido.
Eles veem uma pessoa, que quer levar sua própria vida, fazendo sua própria vontade e aplicando sua vontade ao marido e aos filhos.
Eles veem alguém, quem é arrogante, talvez fofoca, falar mal dos outros, reclamar, murmúrio, etc..
O cônjuge incrédulo vê uma mulher inalterada, que vive como o mundo, fazendo as mesmas obras e dando os mesmos frutos (adultério, fornicação, Impureza, lascívia, idolatria, feitiçaria, rebelião, ódio, variação, Emulações, ira, luta, sedições, Heresias, inveja, Assassinatos, embriaguez, folias, e tal).
Portanto, o marido incrédulo não se sente atraído a se tornar cristão e servir a Jesus. O marido não vê nenhum benefício em se tornar cristão e a necessidade de arrependimento. Porque ele não vê diferença no estilo de vida de um cristão e de um incrédulo.
A única coisa que o marido vê que difere do seu estilo de vida, é que sua esposa crente lê a Bíblia e vai à igreja aos domingos. Mas é isso. (Leia também: Se os cristãos vivem como o mundo, do que o mundo deveria se arrepender??).
Contanto, como você não vai mudar,
seu cônjuge também não vai mudar
Quando você faz o que a Palavra lhe diz para fazer e se submete à Palavra e começa a respeitar seu marido, em vez de controlar seu marido e confrontá-lo o tempo todo com seus erros, deficiências, e falhas, então a situação mudará.
Haverá uma mudança porque você mudou.
Quando você faz o que a Bíblia diz e produz o fruto do Espírito, que é amor, alegria, paz, Longanimidade, suavidade, bondade, fé, mansidão, e temperança, your husband shall notice the change in you. Por aqui, you shall win your husband for Christ.
You shall not convert your unbelieving spouse by your words, but by your deeds
A Bíblia diz, that you shall not win your unbelieving husband by your many words, but by your deeds.
When your unbelieving husband notices your meek and quiet spirit and sees the fruit of the Spirit, então não vai demorar, before your unbelieving husband gives his life to Jesus Christ.
How long does it take? Ninguém sabe, but it shall happen because the Bible says so. And we know that the Bible; o Word of God is the truth. Therefore if you want to convert your unbelieving spouse, ser paciente, submeta-se à Palavra, e faça o que a Bíblia diz para você fazer, because God’s Word doesn’t lie.
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