* This is a great verse for men who’ve lost their loving feeling for theirs wives.

* Allure - the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.

* In dating attraction leads to affection.

* Then we get married and things will inevitably change as real life hits.

* But in marriage it’s reversed - affection leads to attraction.

* Affection - a bent of mind toward a particular object.

* Affection takes place in the mind first.

* Matthew 6:21 - Jesus tells us where our treasure is there our hearts will be also.

* Our hearts will go where our minds take them.

* Our attraction will go where our affection takes it.

* Hosea 2:14 shows us this - even though the Israelites had cheated on God, He was going to win them back through the power of allure.

* God would “speak tenderly” to her (affection) and this would win her back (attraction).

* So do you want to be mysteriously and powerfully attractive to your spouse again?

* Then be proactively affectionate even if you don’t want to, and just watch what happens.