We hear about women's intuition from non-Biblical sources, yet the Bible too demonstrates that women can be sensitive to circumstances that appear intuitive. Beyond this, scripture also gives clear instructions on how men should regard their wives, and the goodness they bring, both to the union and to the community. So, it is important to listen to our wives, and other women in our lives, who may perceive things that we, as men, either cannot, or that we have missed. But this does not mean surrendering our leadership roles in the family and in the church because God “also” speaks to women. These points of clarification in the Bible are intended to disperse the biases men have had in thinking that somehow God would not speak through or to women. Men have come to think that because, in her naivete and weakness to the serpent’s temptation, Eve first defied God’s instruction in the garden of Eden, God would not speak through women; or perhaps because God's design originally only included man, does he only speak to or through man. The foundation and the result of those thoughts are clearly wrong, as illustrated throughout the Bible in God’s use of women as well as men to bring about his will. So, God intends for men to respect the purpose He has in creating and using women for His will and our need. Women meet the needs of men, just as men meet the needs of women. But in acknowledging the insights and discernment of women, or in respecting their intuition, God never intended man to forget that He speaks to men “first.” He originally spoke to Adam first. He revealed Himself through the prophets in the Old Testament first. He sent the prophet John the Baptist to herald the way of the Messiah Christ. The 12 apostles were men. The problem is that men don't always listen or remain sensitive to all that God will reveal. God will use women to complete what He started. But if a man thinks he is supposed to submit to what his wife is hearing from God, without himself first listening for God to speak, he is disrupting the order God established for the relationship He created us to have with Him. Can you imagine a church pastored by a man, who leads, but only after confirming with his wife that her insight and discernment from God affirms his decisions-or perhaps even leads only after he gets his instructions from his wife? This is not what the Bible is teaching us to do regarding the wisdom God also imparts to women. Men must embrace the fact that God will speak to and through us, gifting us with discernment; and we can trust Him to provide for where we lack and need additional support through our wives, to whom He also speaks, and delivers knowledge, wisdom, insight, and discernment.