My heart is heavy and my eyes overflowing with tears so much deception going on with us. I want to share my heart's cry to my fellow sisters. Women of God, I pray against the spirit of offense and I pray that you will join the movement to choose life and reclaim our families for the building of the Kingdom. I pray that the Lord begins with me first. All too long we have contributed to the failing of our society. Turn us back, oh Lord, I cry, Amen.
So many sisters are basking in lies instead of the Glory of God. Trusting in institutions that undermine the fabric of our homes, our marriages are under attack as we suffer from friendly fire within the walls of our very own homes. We have allowed the enemy to use us as weapons of mass destruction, Not you? Well perhaps the sister next to you…We continue to accept the pop culture’s constant redefining of the family structure even though it is contrary to the Bible. Not me? You say…I’m speaking to women as a whole. Yes, today Women of God are returning these thoughts, mind-sets and strongholds back to the fiery pit of hell, but our fellow sisters are still sleeping.
The progressive movement told women to despise our God-given role to function as a wife and mother, the first calling. God designed the woman as the help-meet. Since the Garden, we've progressively longed to be equal to man. When God put the woman under the subjection of her husband, after the fall in Eden, it became the defining moment of a long term battle between the sexes.
God said. "Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you Genesis 3:16
Woman's longing to be equal with man has caused us to devalue our worth and abandoned our post. Once women were referred to as wives, by identification of their role or function, today the word woman, has become a role in itself. Touting power and prestige , ‘a powerful woman -a successful woman or a business woman.’ It is the enemy that sold women on the idea that our success was based on personal achievement instead of personal sacrifice. We’ve decided that pleasing God is an option so long as it doesn’t interfere with our goals and personal objectives.
Since the Women's Liberation movement of the late 1960's, the home has suffered for the pursuit of women finding fulfillment and purpose outside of God's design. We have traded our god-defined role for social and economic parity. So we toast to vocational training, education and workforce empowerment at the expense of mal-nurtured children and unbalanced households. We opt for formula instead of nursing our children so we can move up the corporate ladder. Today we continue to pat each other on the back to congratulate one another on how well we balance motherhood and the workplace. We are commitment phobic because we don’t want to give the impression we need a man. When in all truth, we are afraid he’ll actually need us. Wasn't it God that said it wasn't good for man to be alone? Women our men need us...We need them, whether you like it or not. And our children need us both...This interdependent relationship works, it's the way God intended us to prosper. Our idea of marrying has become a strategic alliance necessary if it pushes us closer to obtaining our own dreams. Our children have become a nuisance so we vow to take personal responsibility and swear by birth control. When we get caught slipping we take a prescription of a single dose and take a few personal days. The married, long for the days they could do what they want to do, while the single take pleasure in making our lives appear to one to be envied. We resent our roles in the home yet act as the office spouse of our bosses.
Raising our daughters to pursue her personal interests is a way of negating the guilt from our own pursuit of dreams, the price of neglecting her when she needed us the most. The statistics show our success is contrary to the purposes God intended for us. Why aren't we willing to be honest and admit the reward has been far more costly?
We have outsourced the managing of our homes to hired helpers. We devalued the significance of a two-parent home to praise single-parenting. Our new method of co-parenting exchanges the father of our children for partnerships with aging parents, daycare, schools, local church affiliations, and community leagues and teams. We allow government, laws and anti-Christ philosophies to dictate our lifestyles. Our children are raised to seek knowledge without the wisdom of God. We excuse our poor parenting by blaming our parents, yet never choose to take personal responsibility of charting the course of the new generation. Our sons have no identity. They are misguided into assuming a visual representation of what a man is and lack understanding of their God given authority. We have imprisoned the man-child in our world, subjecting them to our dysfunctional mindset of their role as our sons. They never transition from son to man.
Now there is an even greater move in our society that I'm convinced will further deplete the value of our young girls. Girl power- girls rock is sweeping the nation- never in the entire Bible has pride been a good thing for anyone yet we are teaching girls to be PROUD. We should be grooming our daughters with understanding of why they were created in the first place. Our identity and pride should be in Christ alone. Teaching these girls that God has reserved us and called us with a holy calling should be our mission. When we point them to God, He in turn will reveal to them who they are and the purpose He created them for. Our daughters need to understand there is a clearly distinctive plan God intended for us to fulfill. Society wants us to be acknowledged for our ability to perform on equal level with man; instead we should embrace our role to function differently to accomplish what our counter-part could not. Women we have to fulfill our God-given assignment of the tending to our homes first. We are uniquely graced to answer the call that man could not fulfill. How can we instill these biblical truths when we ourselves have believed the lie.
Women we must get back to our call. Our men desperately need us on our post. Our children need us to nurture, teach and point them toward our Savior. We are the home builders, we've been out to battle on the front lines fighting in a war that we were never intended to. While we’ve allowed the enemy to lure us away from the home, our families are being ravaged and we are suffering casualties at a staggering rate. It's time to reclaim our identity and turn our homes back to God. We have been comforted by false security, girl power, desiring position, recognition, fame and fortune and all the treasures of this world with little regard for life itself.
Murder and strife is in our own homes instead of love and compassion. Our appetites continue to increase power and drama and chaos over truth. So many gainfully seeking after God's best, yet doing evil. Our hearts are filled with hatred for one another and we despise those who are blessed by God. We covet the gifts and anointing and want good measure but never seek the character of Christ. We go the church seeking a good report, a personal prophesy, and call them faith building calisthenics, yet won't bring an offering of praise.
We've grown accustomed to accepting every form of addiction. We trade our peace for trinkets and depreciating liabilities. Our lives destitute yet we are comforted by covering our head with masks. Hiding behind a well-kept body with a sin-sick soul believing that no one sees us, while thumbing our noses up to God. The women must wake up. There are souls at the crossroads. We are preaching success and prosperity yet all we eat is the spoils of our labor. Distant husbands, uncommitted lovers and estranged rebellious children. Our fruit is spoiling on the vine because we won't move our feet at His word. No repentance, no acknowledgment of correction. Where is our harvest? The harvest that is being reaped full of thistles and thorns because we have sown in barren land. We look so much like the world that when the world comes to us, they find us needier than themselves.
We commit murder, offering up our unborn as sacrifices to be slaughtered on the abortion table. We refrain from marrying and we despise authority of any kind. We are rebels and thrive in organizations that constantly praise us for our dead works. We've become the daughters of anarchy. We pray God bless the sinner each day as if God is hearing us and curse our siblings, children, spouses and parents. We expect our children to be blessed yet they don't honor us as the Bible teaches. We love to hate the sin in others but claim ours as simple personality traits to be accepted by those around us. Children are dying in the streets, and at the hand of their very own parents. We abuse and curse them with our mouths because we have been lied to. We are mistrusting because we are untrustworthy. So how can we trust God. Our faith is suffering. We are full of unforgiveness when the truth is no one has done us more damage than ourselves. We constantly make promises to ourselves and break them time and time again. We don't trust ourselves because we've become masters at telling lies.
We can't accept love because we haven't accepted God's unconditional love. So now women are walking away from our families emotionally and some of us abandon them physically. Child support has become the mitigating punishment for both parents. Mother's raising their egos while Dad's disconnected from the seed of his lust. The elder women are old fools going round the mountain. Where are the wise, god-fearing teachers? We quote men instead of the word of God. We expect moral conduct to be modeled to our children by athletes, celebrities, clergy and businessmen and women. We say we don't acknowledge gender, race or sexual preference as we claim allegiance to the very system that is responsible for our plight. We have rejected our god- ordained roles to identify with animalistic tendencies.
This should not be so...It's time to REPENT.
It's time to wake up, women. Christ is coming back again. Let's get our hearts right. Pray before its too late.
Turn us back, oh God....Turn our hearts back to YOU. We should refrain from ungodly commitments, desire covenant marriages and establish a godly heritage for the Lord. Our offering to bring our gifts and talent to the building up of our marriages, households and ministries. Ask the Lord to settle in us His desires to pursue His purposes that bring us true fulfillment. Give sacrificially with a cheerful attitude and be willing to crucify unbridled appetites for things that steal us away from our god-intended purpose.
-a servant's heart
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This is what the Lord says about this people:“They greatly love to wander;they do not restrain their feet. So the Lord does not accept them;he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.” Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people. Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.” But I said, “Ah, Sovereign Lord, the prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place. Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds. Jeremiah 14:10-14
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