Greetings servants of God!
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:2-11
Awesome scripture from our brother Paul which I share with my sisters today! I hope you're pressing on in obeying the good news - Jesus Christ!
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:1-3
Another great scripture to obey.
Thinking about willingness and how important it is in our faith walk.
Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.1 Chronicles 29:9
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.Exodus 25:2
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.Philemon 1:14
She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.Proverbs 31:13
It shows our heart and it's why we can't force anyone to come to the faith or to obey. We have to be submitted to the Lord with our own will and then led by His Spirit and continuing to obey Him.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.Romans 8:14
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.Galatians 5:18
I just saw this scripture...
These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.Numbers 29:39
And what does it make you think sisters? It makes me think about freedom in Christ. About spirit and truth worship and how we ourselves are now the living sacrifices in a new and better covenant! Praise God! We know it speaks about the bondage of the old law. We surely are blessed in Christ!
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians 2:12-14
A sister read that scripture when we got to talk today. It's awesome isn't it! He indeed is all we need! He is our portion! There is nothing we desire on earth besides Him. And He is the Giver of all the blessings we do have. And one being a sister to talk with and we got to share a lot of edifying things. Good refreshing in a dark world where love has waxed cold. (Thank you for your love and faithfulness sister:-) Praises to my sisters who fear the Lord.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.Proverbs 31:30-31
Just a simple picture...
But good pure and true works. God made mankind to work the ground and eat what grows from it. We came from the ground we are dust and will return to it one day. But our soul will live on, either in eternal destruction or eternal good rewards with the Lord. Let us be wise and prepare to meet our God. That comes by fearing Him and believing and obeying Him doesn't it.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.Proverbs 31:16
Pulling up all the pumpkin vines will be a big job which I am starting on...
Indeed moth and rust may corrupt and thieves may break through and steal things on this earth...but our true treasures are above right sisters?!
I hope all your good works are going well sisters. Whatever your calling and however simple your life may seem if it's all done unto the Lord and in submission to His will of what He has in front of you then it's...GOOD! Yes just being a godly woman having been transformed by the Lord and left behind sin and all false ways is an awesome life. What is left? Good pure and true works which often involve such simple duties. But in these we can rejoice because we see the Lord wants us women to labour in them. The Word speaks about living a quiet and peaceable life and we woman know that a meek and quiet spirit is of great price to God. Let us not let anyone despise us in this. But we just press on as unto the Lord and not to men right sisters.
Part of feminism is women didn't want to be content to stay at home and keep it...raising and teaching children, cleaning, cooking and being a helper to her husband. No she dumped those duties on to child day cares and schools and ran off to work to seek a career and do her own thing. So rejoice if you have those simple duties sisters because they please the Lord! They may be looked down on by the world but in Christ they are great works! And even us sisters need to be careful not to think we should be doing something 'higher' than what the Lord has for women lest we be putting our own scale of importance on the commands we have from the Lord. But it all depends on what calling we each have as well and we do NOT want to be comparing ourselves among ourselves or 'puffed up one against another'. There's wives, there's mothers, there's single women, there's widows. Let us all seek to please the Lord in the life He gave us.
And we get to share the glad tidings of Jesus and His way however the Lord has us within our other godly woman's works! Rejoice to know the way He has for us and let's keep refining and growing within that and pressing on! Much to learn right within the life we each have and we want to be faithful with it and seeing where we could do better for His glory.
Wives...get to focus on being the best helper to their husbands. Loving and obeying him as we see in Titus 2 and elsewhere and submitting to him.
Mothers...get to focus on helping their children grow to be godly men and women. Loving them and looking after their needs.
Single women and widows...get to focus on whatever the Lord has in their lives...people to serve or sisters in the body to help encourage etc. They may have more time to study His Word and get to work to help support themselves and have other ministries that are becoming of godly women.
There's all different situations but I'm just encouraging us all to have an undivided heart and grow right where the Lord has us. I have learned that only if we are discontent or looking for a different life may we neglect to do all we do have and can do to the very best of our ability. Let's do all we should unto the Lord sisters! And for sure over our life there may also be times and seasons too as children grow up and leave or a spouse may die or some may get married and the Lord brings changes into our lives overtime. But let us keep focusing on Him and doing our best as unto Him!
I just made a random audio to encourage you somehow.
And nope you don't need to listen to me as the Word is best and I don't claim to be the best speaker but guess what it doesn't matter. I do my best and true sisters don't care if I stumble around with my words or don't finish my thoughts sometimes:-) I don't care if my sisters do that either! It doesn't matter one bit. God loves His daughters and so do I! And I just want to edify and encourage you however I can. It's encouraging isn't it to know the Lord uses the 'weak' things and things which are despised for His purposes. Others may seem to cast us off if we don't talk well or enough but let's just do our best and know the Lord sees our heart. Press on my sisters! Lord willing I will be back sharing edifying tomorrow. Hold fast!
Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.Ephesians 6:24
Love in Him,
Sister Chayil
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