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| Women, Relationships, and Prayer |
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Lately, the Lord has been speaking to me about women, our relationships, and how he created us with relationships in mind. By our God given, human nature, we are nurturer's, and we have need to to take care of one another as well as relate to one another. Yet, in all this we struggle amongst ourselves to keep peace with one another.
It seems that even though we have a need for relationship and fellowship with one another as women, some of us have not learned the art of true friendship, and what it means to be able to trust someone as our sister in Christ. True, not everyone you know or will meet in the future will be your friend, but the Bible tells us in order to gain friendship we must first show ourselves friendly (Proverbs 18:24). So we must ask ourselves, what does it mean to be a friend? By definition a friends is: A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. (2) A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause:COMRADE. (3) A supporter, sympathizer, or patron of a group, cause or movement. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I didn't read anywhere in those definition's for the word "Friend" where it mentioned that a friend was someone who betrayed anothers trust, someone who gossiped about another friend, someone who took another friend for granted, someone who walked away from the friendship when the battle got hot for the other person, someone who could not or would not sympathize with the other person when they were feeling low, or rejoice with the other person when God blessed them. Yet, so many of us struggle on one or both sides of this fence.
Sistas, the devil knows that if we ever got together as women of God, and stopped allowing him to have dominion over our emotions, that it would be all over! He knows that God has given women this immearsurable gift of fortitude, resilience, and care. Women will and can endure the hottest spiritual battles, they can travail and bring forth victory in not only their lives, but in the life of everyone they come into contact with. Women are natural born intercessors! The devil knows this! He just hopes that we don't stop fighting each other long enough to find out the power we have through God!
Boo hoo hoo, we are always getting offended, and then to make matters worse, we hold on to those offenses. Girllllllllll, don't you know that the word of God says that offenses will and must come,(Matthew 18:7), but woe unto those by whom the offenses come. God knows how to take care of your offender. Our job is to stay holy and consecrated before the Lord so that our prayers are not hindered.
"If my people, who are called by name will humble themselves and pray seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes are open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place." ~2Chronicles 7:14-15
God wasn't talking about people who weren't saved and out of the church when he made that declaration. He was talking to those who called thenselves by his name...us! We who are called by his name must do things his way, not the way we feel is right, for his way is always right. Let us go on to holiness and sanctification, knowing that our real enemy is not our sista, but the Satan. Let us claim back those things that the devil has taken from us as women, such as our relationships with each other. Let us unify in the Spirit and began to do the things that God has called us to do. Let us become Wailing Women (Jeremiah 9:17-22), so that what has been lost, stolen, and taken away captive can be found, seized, and released through our intercession, amen.
So the next time you see your true sista in Christ, acknowledge her strengths and qualities, encourage her, and do what is in your power to do to help her become all that God has called her to be. If need be, admonish her in love. You do this and I can guarantee that you will have the devil shaking in his boots, because when women without offense get together to pray, something happens in the spirit realm and victory is inevitable through Christ!
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| Outstanding post. I really liked it ! |
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Renee' |
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November 04, 2007 at 9:52pm |
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JUST WONDERFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STAY BLESSED! |
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I learned so much from this piece of writing. It is something I've struggled for years, so much that I've avoided deep relationships with women simply because I do not like conflict. I've never understood why there is so much of it between women. My own sisters and I have had conflict for years over things that do not matter. These things have split our family. I've walked away from people who gossip and are spiteful because I just will not be part of that.
Tell me more, if you will about forming relationships, because I was just doing research today. I have friendships with women at church, but these women are the elderly. They are old enough, and wise enough to know better than to waste precious time battling around.
Joey |
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Deb |
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February 18, 2008 at 2:20pm |
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| Excellent blog! Like Joey, I have struggled with allowing myself to get close to other women, because of a very good friend who ended our friendship out of the blue...not by anything that she said (like our friendship is over), she just quit being there...I'd write, call, and nothing would come of it. I finally got the messag that she didn't want to be friends any longer. It takes two people to make a friendship. It can't be one sided. I have some great friends in my church that I attend now, and I would do just about anything for them, and hopefully they would for me too. |
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