It may be a little contentious in some circles to admit this, but the church would be ineffefctual and weak without the strength of women’s leadership. Often seen as the hidden power in a marriage (‘behind every good man…’) women have long been the unseen partners in the leading of the church. All this is set to change as I believe the Lord is about to raise up a new wave of leaders who are motivated by love and who walk in step with Him, in Love, so much so that He will give them the power to perform miracles, and that they (the miracles) will be multiplied by Him as His power is released.
Nothing new or unexpected there – as the Word of Christ says that “these signs shall follow those who believe… [ref]…sick will be healed”. Potentially contentious would be the thought that it would be women who rise to take leadership in the church – His church, as the Holy Spirit comes on them and they begin to understand that there is nothing stopping them from proclaiming the good news with signs and wonders.
Long has the church in the UK been hiding their light under the proverbial bushel: the light being meant for the world (not for us to light up the inside of churches so that we have everything lit up and right there, while the world outside goes to the wall. No! Our calling is to rise up and bring good news, God’s goodness, kindness His love to every living person outside the church! And who are more numerous? Women or men? Women. Is it possible that not releasing women to be the leaders that the Lord wants them to be has held back a wave of evangelism and love?
Not that women or men are somehow to “blame” for a lack of growth in the church, but it’s just that we are entering, by His love, a new season of fruitfulness where every woman will feel empowered to rise up and take their royal positions as daughters of the One who chose them! In so doing they will realise the power they have inside them! THe great unlimited power that coursed through the body and Spirit of Jesus Himself! They will begin to believe that they do not need men’s permission to go out on the streets to evangelise, or to start greatworks of social change and innovation, or to start businesses or to heal the sick and raise the dead. No longer wll they – or we as men – be held back by the notion that women are somehow second line partners in this great mission to reach the rest of the world.
Women do NOT need our permission to follow His voice! Women you must obey His voice! I am no more a vessel than you are: different we are, but better? No! Never! Do you deserve the Lord’s blessings of being able to bring freedom to t he captives; sight to the blind; hearing to the deaf? Yes, as do I, but not because of our own merit or de-merits! We are equal in our needing to accept that ALL is a free GIFT! We no more “merit” it than the next person. We are given it. No woman needs to wait or to ask permission of the male leadership to rise up in her identity as a daughter of Christ. We are not to work independently; but we are to be fully activated in all of our inheritance in and from the Lord – and this is done through an act of agreement and submission to the Spirit.
Some may argue that women should be submitted to men – yes, but we should serve women! Each preferring the other! So, women: BE FREE and enter all the Lord has for you. Ride in on your royal horse into all the good things He has in store for you. Enjoy your inheritance, sing, dance, be free, rejoice in the gifts he will give you and has already given you. Astonish us (men!) and please your Lord first! Go forth and proclaim His goodness and the beauty of the Risen Christ and tell all you meet, with power and conviction, that He loves them! And that His power is at work in you. Raise the dead, heal the sick and accept His callings on you, beautiful Bride of Christ, be His fully and as He sends you out, be filled with His Spirit!
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