The Power of Affirmation
You’ve got power, but it’s not where you think. It’s in your tongue! Matt and Lisa Jacobson join with Dave and Ann Wilson to talk about the power of words in marriage. The scriptures tell us that kind words are like a honeycomb and build our spouse up, rather than tear them down. Lisa remembers a time when she complimented Matt, only to learn how ugly he felt as a child growing up. You can help heal your spouse’s past wounds by practicing affirmation through heartfelt, encouraging words.
About the Guest
Matt and Lisa Jacobson
Matt Jacobson was an executive in the publishing industry for 25 years and has been a teaching elder/pastor at Tumalo Bible Fellowship for the past 16 years. Matt is also the founder and teacher at FaithfulMan.com, an online social media community focusing on the topics of marriage, parenting, and biblical teaching. He is the author of 100 Words of Affirmation Your Wife Needs to Hear and 100 Ways to Love Your Wife. He lives with his wife, Lisa, in the Pacific Northwest, where they have raised their eight children.
Lisa Jacobson is an author, a speaker, and the founder and host of Club31Women.com, a powerful online community of Christian women authors who write weekly on the topics of husband, home, family, and biblical truths – a strong voice for biblical womanhood. She is the author of the bestselling 100 Ways to Love Your Husband and 100 Words of Affirmation Your Husband Needs to Hear. She lives with her husband, Matt, in the Pacific Northwest where they have raised eight children.
Episode Transcript
Bob: I mean—
Lisa: Appreciate it.
Bob: I mean, yes; I just want to affirm you and make you feel good. [Laughter]
Matt: We feel affirmed.
Lisa: Good; good.
Bob: Thank you guys for being here.
Matt: It’s been great to be here.
Lisa: Right; thank you.
Matt: What a blessing. Thank you.
Bob: Let me encourage listeners, who are saying, “I don’t even know where to start.” Here’s an action point: get a copy of Matt and Lisa’s books, 100 Words of Affirmation Your Husband Needs to Hear; 100 Words of Affirmation Your Wife Needs to Hear. Read through it, pick five that you can start with, and just start saying these things to each other. We’ve got copies of the books in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center. You can order the books from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to order by phone.
Again, the titles of the books: 100 Words of Affirmation Your Husband Needs to Hear; 100 Words of Affirmation Your Wife Needs to Hear. We’ll send you both books when you order them. Again, order, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-358-6329—that’s 1-800-“F” as in family, “L” as in life, and then the word, “TODAY,” to get your copies of Matt and Lisa’s books.
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And I hope you have a great weekend. I hope you and your family are able, in some form or fashion, to worship together with your local church this weekend. I hope you can be here on Monday when we’re going to meet a woman, who always dreamed of being a mom until that dream was taken away from her temporarily. We’ll meet Heather DeJesus Yates and talk about how she has become a mother of thousands. I hope you can tune in for that.
I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I’m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today.
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