Greetings to my sisters!
I'm grateful for the opportunity to be a daughter of God! I'm sure you are too! It is not something to take lightly but is a gift that we want to treasure. It is through the gospel that we become His children.
And part of that is leaving sin and seperating from that which is displeasing to our Father...
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:17-18
Yes we come out of the sins we once were in, the world, the flesh, and darkness. We crucify our flesh and fight against it. We leave behind all the things of the world that made us God's enemy...pride in our clothing and looks, unbiblical clothing, entertainment, music, sports, politics, and many other sins and false religious ways. As that scripture says, God will receive us if we do this. And we get to be His daughters. That sure goes against those who say we have no part to do but just have faith. But we listen to God's Word not man.
This is interesting too...being Sarah's daughter...
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
1 Peter 3:6
Which goes along with this one...
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Galatians 3:7
It's an interesting concept of being children of Abraham and Sarah by faith...children of promise.
And yet another aspect of being daughters could be in the new spiritual family we get. And as Jesus said those who did the Father's will were His family (mothers, sisters, brothers). And we see similar in what Paul was exhorting young Timothy in how to treat the members of the body here...
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
1 Timothy 5:1-2
So if we are younger women we may get to have mothers in the faith. Which also reminds me of the older women who are commanded to teach the younger women in Titus 2. So we see the family of God all working together as a close knit loving and caring family. We will get to spend eternity with our Father! We know the whole family of God is where He has them all scattered on this earth...but one day we shall all be gathered home with those who went before us. We may well have to stand alone and not know of another spiritual family member but we just stand and shine our light where God has us and go about our business living for Him.
Moving on...to some about giving God glory through our lives (as is the title of my post and blog).
We know all we have been given is from God...so there nothing for us to boast in is there sisters. And we don't want to anyway.
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
1 Corinthians 4:7
So let us give all the glory to our God. All we have is from Him and our hope to come is from Him. We can go about our business as godly women doing it all unto the Lord and for His glory.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
He owns us sisters...our body and spirit. So we don't do whatever we want with our life as we may have done a lot of in the past before becoming a new creation in Him.
Here's how we glorify God also....
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 5:16
Basically that's being children of light obeying God because all He commands of us are good works.
We know we were created unto good works (Ephesians 2). And we women have been told to adorn with good works (1 Timothy 2) and not our clothing or what else we put on.
And we know some of the areas for us women where we give God glory in our obedience. We cover our heads and hair (which is a our own glory) and do not show it off to the world. Our dress is unadorned in line with 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Peter 3 as we don't seek our own glory in the way we look.
As women we submit to the authority of men and in so doing bring glory to God for obeying His order. We do not teach in the body of Christ.
And we obey all the other commands of God also. What a joy to be His!
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I share my lunch with my sisters...
And I share these pictures of mine that a sister added scriptures to...
We still marvel at the things that produce good foods from the ground. What an amazing miracle how a tiny seed can grow into a fruitful tree bearing much good fruit.
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.Acts 9:36
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.1 Timothy 5:10
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalm 50:23
Love in Christ,
Sister Michaela
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