Are You an Accountabilty Partner?

I read an article by Jeff Fisher on skills needed to become an accountability partner and it dawned on me that we need to be accountability partners to our husbands. Fisher defined accountability as not asking a list of questions but being involved in another’s life. Proverbs 27:17 states it well: “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”. What an awesome concept that your “help mate” can also become a perfect accountability partner.

Here are four skills to become a great accountability partner:

1. Cheer – Your husband needs to feel that someone is in his corner. He does not need fake cheers to boost his ego; he needs to know that his wife will give him genuine encouragement.

2. Challenge – Your husband needs you to help him see beyond his vision, mission or big picture. He needs encouragement and a push to be better.

3. Confront – Confronting can be the hardest thing to do in a marriage. If one’s behavior is hurting the other, or one is willfully sinning— confrontation is necessary. God calls us to be “our brother’s keeper,” and our husband’s too.

4. Comfort – We can show our husband comfort by being a close friend, praying for him, holding him when he is down and demonstrating a continuous true commitment to him.

Each skill has it time and place for application. You may be stronger at one skill than another—and that is okay. By practicing good listening, in time you will know which skill to use in any given situation and become a perfect accountability partner for him.

Love Always,
The Only Wife

Source: Jeff Fisher