Well Kurt, that’s a different topic you might say. Yeah, but it’s still great to think about. So, what makes for a truly great woman and what doesn’t? (We’ll take a look at great men later on, which is also very important)
A spiritually balanced, born again woman serving the Lord in a healthy Christian church lead by a great saved man..that's a great woman. Let's all follow Christ close and be blessed!
I was watching my wife Liney teaching the li'l children this morning in church and that’s what started me thinking on this. She is great, she lives it, and she teaches great too. Led by the Lord who is. Yep. Am grateful!
"Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:19-21 nkjv
The righteous women in the Bible who were great in God’s eyes lived as good examples of what people can do through biblical faith as they obeyed the Word.
Still today, a woman who consistently lives the Christian life like this.. starting in her thoughts and heart and then helps others to do the same is great.
Great women of God are industrious indeed. My wife is like that.
If you want to be great in God's Kingdom choose to be the servant of all. Teach the people he leads you to.. His word. How to wisely apply His word. Serve wisely without spiritual compromise, not serving too much.
"Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant.." Matthew 20:26 (see whole context).
She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches out her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for her household: all of her household are clothed with scarlet. She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land ( Proverbs 31:19-23 ).
1. God has gifted both men and women to understand and to teach His Word (to different people), to care for others in God’s family, to organize and to properly lead people. The only question Biblically is in what sphere those gifts are to be used. God and His church have great use for the gifts and energy of qualified women, but not in the role or responsibility of teaching men or in leadership over the congregation in general.
2. Being a man does not qualify anyone for leadership in God’s church. Though I believe the Scriptures teach that men are to lead in the church, no one should think that gender alone qualifies a person. The character qualifications of 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 mean that many or most men in the church are not yet qualified for leadership.
3. The Bible teaches male leadership only in the home and in the church. The Bible does not command male leadership in politics, business, the academic world, the community, and in other such institutions. God has special purposes for both the family and the church that go beyond pragmatism or efficiency.
4. God’s role and responsibility for men in the family and the church are not given because men are more inherently spiritual or gifted. Again, God has special purposes for both the family and the church that go beyond pragmatism or efficiency.
My friend in SoCal, Brian Broderson, says: “The two texts from which some have drawn the conclusion that women cannot teach in the church, meaning, they cannot give biblical instruction when both men and women are present in an assembly, are found in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 and 1 Timothy 2:11-15. We’ll take a look at them in order.Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Paul has already acknowledged (without disapproval) women praying and prophesying (speaking God’s Word) in the Corinthian fellowship (see 1 Corinthians 11:5). That has to be kept in mind when we try to understand his instructions in chapter 14.”
Great women are women of the Word that is Greater than all (Jesus the living word is the greatest). Listen great women, please stay strong in the Lord. Stay encouraged in the Spirit and word of God. Have the right priorities and stay focused on the promises of of God.
SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CONTRADICT ITSELF. GOD DOESN'T CHANGE, SCRIPTURE DOESN’T CHANGE AND REMAINS THE BEST COMMENTARY OF HIS SCRIPTURE.
We need to trust that God’s order is good and to be followed, even when the fashions and opinions of our time would lead us in an opposite direction.
- Be a Person of Prayer. Women in the Bible exemplify faith by simply praying to God. Hannah’s prayers bring about a real warrior for God (1 Samuel 1:9-11); Anna’s prayers are rewarded with the promise of God’s New Kingdom rule (Luke 2:36–38).
- Be One with a Great Support System. Look to God as your primary Source.. first. My wife, Liney, always spends her first hour in prayer and in the word each day. She always has. I always want her to love God more than she loves me -- we both love the Lord more cuz he is our Savior. Glad she never compromises spiritually for her husband -- I never want to for any, nor want her to for me or anyone. Together, Naomi and Ruth looked to God first. And they used Godly wisdom to secure their family’s future, and to literally change the course of history (See the book of Ruth in the Bible).
- Be One with Godly Determination. To see her own condition cured, one woman endures the possibility of disdain, scorn, and banishment in order to connect with Jesus Christ. She allows nothing to deter her from her God and from the healing Power of God, giving us a shining example of unwavering faith (Matthew 9:20-22).
- Be One with an Entrepreneurial Attitude. The impressive woman described in Proverbs 31 is a hard-working, enterprising, industrious entrepreneur who not only has her priorities right, but she’s willing to do what it takes to meet her children’s needs. She weaves her own fabrics (Proverbs 31:19), but from that fabric, she also “makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies sashes for the merchants” (Proverbs 31:10-31).
- Be Practical as a Winning Warrior. Deborah won a war for her people. She knew what would save her nation from oppression. She told the male leader that God told him to go to war and yet he wouldn’t go without her. (Judges 4). She did what she needed to do for victory.
- Be a Winner of Other People. Esther was willing to lay down her life for others..to see them saved. She was used of God via grace, fasting, and her own marriage relationship to save her Jewish people from extermination (Book of Esther).
- Be a Leader of Leaders. The Queen of Sheba, she heard God’s wisdom, and she used wisdom and discernment in giving King Solomon her blessing (1 Kings 10:1-13). He didn’t really need her blessing, cause God had already blessed him, but she was a smart seeker of God and supporter of him.
- Be Wisely Motherly (especially if God Calls You To Mother). Eve is the first woman – mother of us all (Genesis 3:20). And to Mary, a Savior is born, whose existence gave us a living example of our fullest potential in right relationship with the Father (Matthew 1:18-21). When you pray for people to get saved, when you plant seeds of faith in their hearts, when you water seeds of faith as the Holy Spirit leads you to, and then when they repent and believe in Jesus Christ.. they are born again babies in His Kingdom and guess what! He is the good Father God, but you can, by faith, help to nurture them along to full spiritual maturity in the truth and grace of God. Of course He causes the birth, but the Lord can use you to help his kids to grow up. Sure, but it all starts with you believing.
