Wives must not fight or challenge their husbands since God gave authority to men as the head of the family, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said.
According to the cleric, the job of wives is submitting to the Lord through their husbands.
In his second sermon on Sunday, 27 February 2022 titled: โHow to unlock the supernatural with your prayersโ, the founder of Action Chapel International (ACI) said: โโฆAnd wives, donโt provoke your husbands; donโt fight themโ.
โYour assignment in his life is not to be a challenger to rebuke him and to correct himโ, he advised.
โYour job is to submit to the Lord through him and if heโs not listening, donโt worry yourself; go to his head, for Christ is the head of the man [and] the man is the head of the wifeโ.
โSo, if heโs not listening, donโt argue with him; just go to his head; appeal to his head; his head will deal with him well well. And that is spiritualityโ, he noted.
In his view,
โtrying to argue with him and trying to challenge him and trying to get him to listen to you is not going to helpโ, explaining: โYouโll rather provoke him, make him angry and the fact of the matter is that authority was given to the man, everything else was given to the woman but the authority was given to the manโ.
โSo, he has the authorityโ, Archbishop Duncan-Williams stressed, noting: โHe can rebel, he can choose to do the wrong thing just because you have decided to challenge him; heโll prove to you that he has the authority; and, at the end of the day, it will hurt him, hurt you, hurt the children, hurt the whole familyโ.
โSo, thereโs no need to engage himโ, he emphasized, insisting: โDonโt engage him. Leave him alone. Just go above him to his head and say: โBoss, you are the head of this head youโve put over me; heโs misbehaving. Please, can you fix him for me? Please, fix this man. Show him youโre the real boss and not him!โ Simpleโ.
โGod will deal with him well well, and next time when you speak heโll listenโ, Archbishop Duncan-Williams said.
โBut we donโt have the patience. We just want to fix it. Donโt do thatโ, he said.