Created To Be His Help Meet Study ~ Week Two

Do you know why women were created? If so, how do you feel about it? Do you consider it a blessing, a curse or have you not really thought about how it applies to you?

Guess what?!?!

You didn’t marry “Mr. Right”, because that comes along with a fairy tale! You aren’t “Mrs. Right” either, both of you are sinners. There is no fairy tale.

We were created to be our husband’s helpers! They need us. God custom designed us to fill their needs (not the other way around). God calls us a “good thing”, and a man obtains God’s favor by getting a wife. We were created to make him complete, not to seek personal fulfillment equal to him. 

If God created a special woman perfectly suited to be your husband’s helper, would you be that woman? Just as you are, right now?

Does your husband share Adam’s feelings of delight when he looks upon you? Do you wake each morning ready to make your husband happy and blessed, to serve him to the best of your ability – to be his helper? Are you engaged in active goodwill toward your man? That is God’s perfect will for you. 

When you are a help meet to your husband, you are a helper to Christ, for God commissioned man for a purpose and gave him a woman to assist in fulfilling that divine calling. When you honor your husband, you honor God. When you obey your husband, you obey God. The degree to which you reverence your husband is the degree to which you reverence your Creator. As we serve our husbands, we serve God. But in the same way, when you dishonor your husband, you dishonor God. 

It is your nature to be your husband’s helper. Don’t fight it. 

Remember, when you are a helpmeet to your husband, you are a helper to Christ!

Homework! 🙂 

Find new ways this week to help your hubby. Tell me about them as a comment, chat or email.

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Vermont Maple Oatmeal Bread Recipe

We are loving this bread, but it is a bit expensive to make as an everyday bread. So it will be our favorite once in a while bread. Enjoy!

I started with this recipe here, but tweaked it as you will see below.

Dough Ingredients

3/4 C. + 2 Tbl. Hot Water

1/2 C. Old Fashioned Oats

1/4 C. Maple Syrup

1/4 C. Shortening

1 1/4 Tsp. Salt

1/2 Tsp. Cinnamon

3/4 C. King Arthur Whole Wheat Flour

2 C. King Arthur Bread Flour

2 1/4 Tsp. Fast Acting Yeast

Topping Ingredients

Maple Syrup & Sugar (mixed to desired consistency)

In a large mixing bowl, combine the water, oats, maple syrup, shortening, salt and cinnamon. Let cool to lukewarm; this will happen as you stir.

Add the flours and yeast, stirring to form a rough dough. Knead about 10  minutes by hand.

Transfer the dough to a lightly greased bowl or measuring up (8 C.+). Cover the bowl or cup with plastic wrap, and allow the dough to rise for 90 minutes.

It should be very puffy and about double in size.

Gently deflate the dough, and shape into an 8″ log. Place it in a lightly greased loaf pan.

Cover the pan with plastic wrap and let it rise until it’s about 1″ over the edge of the pan. Approximately 60-90 minutes.

Gently brush the top of the loaf with the maple syrup and water.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

For the last 10-15 minutes you might want to cover it with foil to prevent over-browning.

The interior of the loaf should read 190 degrees on a thermometer.

Yes I forgot to get a picture before we cut into it! LOL!

It was so yummy! Enjoy!