15 Healthy Habits As A Christian Wife
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Today, we’ll be talking about 15 healthy habits as a Christian wife. Healthy habits aren’t always easy to start, let alone maintain. As Christian wives, it’s important to continue developing our discipline, and healthy habits help us to begin taking steps in the right direction.
Let’s walk through 15 healthy habits as a Christian wife that you can practice daily.
1. Start Your Day With Prayer
As a Christian wife, this is one healthy habit you can’t afford to skip. God is our Sustainer. His mercies are new each morning. He wants to talk with us. He wants us to commune with him and express our every thought and worry. Take a few moments to pray as you wake each morning. Ask the Lord to prepare your heart for the day, to remove any emotional obstacles that may be overwhelming you. Prayer is a healthy habit for any Christian wife, and developing a healthy prayer life does take mindfulness and discipline, but it can make all the difference in our daily lives.
2. Exercise to Christian Music or Podcasts
If exercise is already part of your daily routine, you might want to consider taking advantage of this time to fill your heart and mind with worship songs or your favorite Christian podcast. Use Spotify to shuffle Christian worship music, create your own playlist on your phone, or check out this Christian worship playlist from Elevation Worship on YouTube. I have a handful of favorite Podcasts that I listen to, but I’ve really been enjoying In the Market with Janet Parshall and Ask the Pastor by JD Greear.
3. Study the Bible
As far as healthy habits as a Christian wife go, this seems like a no-brainer, right? However, when the day gets busy and the to-do list seems to be a mile long, we can often push aside our time with the Lord to focus on the tasks that are right in front of us. Study the Bible. Meditate on its words. Don’t just read it. Allow its teachings to infiltrate your mind so much that it transforms you from your very core.
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 NIV
4. Say “No” to Social Media (especially in the AM)
The dangers of spending too much time on social media platforms aren’t much of a secret these days. Developing the discipline to say, “no” to it is a crucial healthy habit as a Christian wife. More specifically, social media is certainly not something we should be starting our days with. Choosing to fill our mind with Jesus, his Word, and prayer will have a far greater impact on your mental health than beginning your day with idolatry, comparison, vanity, and consumerism.
5. Use Timers for Accomplishing Tasks
Let’s face it, our days as homemakers can be overwhelming at times. Caring for a home well is a healthy habit in itself. To stay on task, I find it really helpful to set timers for myself. Timers help to boost motivation when you know you only have a certain amount of time to get something accomplished. This healthy habit as a Christian wife will have you tackling your to-do lists and getting more done in a day…guaranteed.
6. Listen to Worship Music While Completing Tasks
Similar to the time spent exercising, accomplishing tasks can easily become boring in the silence. It’s not really a recipe for motivation, am I right? Try popping in some earbuds and hitting play on your favorite Christian music playlist tomorrow while you fold laundry, cook dinner, mop the floors, or clean the bathroom.
7. Practice Thankfulness
Healthy habits as a Christian wife may not always come easily. Most of the time, healthy habits require discipline, mindfulness, and practice. Practicing thankfulness throughout our day is a healthy way to keep our mind focused on things that are good and keeping the negative ideas of this world from infiltrating and influencing our mood, thoughts, and actions.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me – put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
philippians 4:8-9 NIV
8. Encourage & Pray for Your Husband
One of the most important disciplines you can master as a Christian wife is praying for, and encouraging, your husband. A husband is such a precious gift given to us from our Father. Learning to regularly encourage and pray for your husband will completely change your heart toward your spouse. I promise you. Encouraging words of affirmation will show that you delight in him and appreciate his efforts to provide for his family. Use prayer to lift him up to the Lord and ask that He gives your husband wisdom and discernment. You can also use prayer as a weapon against the struggles your marriage is facing. Whatever is on your heart, your Heavenly Father wants to hear from you.
9. Encourage & Pray for a Friend
As often as we are encouraging and praying for our husbands, we should also be doing the same for our friends and sisters in Christ. This healthy habit will help exercise selflessness as you focus your thoughts and prayers on others instead of yourself. I don’t know about you, but I can easily become very self-centered when life gets hard and stressful.
Sometimes, all I can think about are things like, “Why me? When will this struggle end? How do I get this all done?” Ladies, let’s make new healthy habits as a Christian wife. Let’s practice putting others before ourselves. Reach out with an encouraging word to a friend today. Ask them if they need prayer for anything, and then take 5-10 minutes to bring their worries to the Lord on their behalf.
10. Be the First to Greet Your Husband When He Gets Home
This is one healthy habit as a Christian wife that I’m still working on cultivating. I originally heard this idea from Milena Ciciotti; a Christian wife and stay-at-home mom YouTuber. In one of her videos, she mentioned that she is always the first to greet her husband when he comes home. Not even her children get first dibs. Why? Because God created a hierarchy for a reason.
Our love and loyalties reside firstly in Christ, then our spouse, then our children, and then everyone else. As Christian wives, we uphold a responsibility to our husbands before our children. Even if it means that I have to race to the door to beat my dog, I want to be the first person my husband sees and receives love from when he walks through that door at the end of the day.
11. Unpack the Details of the Day With Your Husband
Communication in a Christian marriage is a non-negotiable for me. I find that when Jon and I take the time to discuss our days together, we create opportunity to encourage and speak life into each other as we learn more about the ups and downs of each other’s day. Healthy habits like communication allow the space to express ourselves to our spouse.
Sometimes, a listening ear is all a person needs at the end of a long, stressful day. Give your husband opportunities to verbalize his needs, desires, and thoughts. Then ask if there’s anything that you can be doing for him that could help, and then pray over the things he shares with you. This leads us to our next healthy habit…
12. Pray Together With Your Husband
This healthy habit as a Christian wife may not come naturally to some. I know it didn’t for me at first. To be honest, when Jon and I met, I refused to pray out loud in front of him at all. It was a major fear of mine. Thankfully, he gave me a lot of grace while continuing to encourage me. Eventually, that fear subsided as Jon remained faithful in setting an example for me. A year into our marriage I began praying out loud with him, and nearly 12 years later we now making it a daily habit to pray together every evening.
Since implementing this daily healthy habit into our marriage, the growth within ourselves and our marriage has been obvious and measurable. Prayer isn’t a miracle, cure-all drug for your marriage, but it’s a powerful weapon that God has given us. It’s a privilege to be able to come together as husband and wife and bring our requests before the Lord.
13. No Phone Before Bed
Again, this is a healthy habit that I’m still working on implementing into my daily life. We’re all a work in progress, right? With that said, I’ve found that on the days that I intentionally set aside my phone for the evening, I notice that I have a healthier mindset going into the next day. Saying “no” to my phone helps with a couple things:
- It helps clear my head of all the to-do’s and helps me to “turn off” my brain and prepare for rest. I recently heard on Mark Jobe’s podcast, Bold Steps, that we rest to work. We don’t work to rest. Rest is meant to prepare us for work. Putting my phone down helps my brain to relax and prepare for sleep so that I can wake up rested and ready to tackle another day’s work.
- It limits my use of social media. I am a huge advocate for zero to limited social media usage. Learning discipline when it comes to scrolling your socials is a healthy habit that I feel any Christian wife should be practicing. As explained in point #4 above, Say “No” to Social Media, the negative impact that it has on our mental health is not to be taken lightly. Practicing healthy social media habits is essential to the health of our minds, marriages, and Christian walks.
- Blue light is bad for sleep. Physically, studies have shown that exposing your eyes to blue light before bed can have a very negative impact on your quality of sleep.
14. Read Christian-Based Books
One of the most recent healthy habits as a Christian wife that I began incorporating into my life is reading Christian-based books. I am by no means a reader. If I’m being honest, I can count on one hand the number of books I’ve read in the last 18 years since I graduated high school. No joke. Please don’t judge me. Haha!
Since beginning to regularly listen to Janet Parshall’s podcast, In the Market, I’ve noticed an increase in my desire to read. The daily guests she hosts on her show have written so many amazing Christian-based books. She makes them all sound so, so good. And without realizing it, I’ve begun to purchase her suggested books and have found many really insightful. I’m currently reading through The Responsive Marriage; a book about reacting vs. responding to our spouse and how our marriage can be impacted by the way we choose to approach each other.
15. End Your Day With Prayer
Just as we begin our day with prayer, I believe it’s equally important to end our day the same way. Our Father desires to commune with us. He wants us to bring everything to him. So, instead of counting sheep tonight, I encourage you to pray. Is there anything you need to repent for as you end your day? Ask the Lord to prepare your heart for tomorrow and leave the worries of today behind you.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34 NIV
