South Africa commemorates Women's Month in
August as a tribute to the more than 20000 women who marched to the
Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws
to women. The Government of South Africa declared August women's
month and 9 August is celebrated annually as Women's Day.
What does the bible say about women?
In the creation account of Genesis 1, God’s first word on
the subject of men and women is that they were equally created in the image of
God (Genesis
1:27). Neither received more of the image of God than the other. So, the
Bible begins with the equality of the sexes. As persons, as spiritual beings
standing before God, men and women are equal.
Whilst today’s message is all about women, the men can read
this too to really appreciate the women in their lives and share this message
with them. They can take time to really consider all the awesome things the
women they interact with bring to their lives and how this interaction makes
them better. The men can take a stand against men who treat women poorly, against
human trafficking, against
all kinds of abuse and against GBV (Gender Based Violence).
Enjoy the Woman
God Created You to Be
- by Joyce Meyer
God wants you to start believing today that you are a rare,
one-of-a-kind, valuable and precious woman.
To help you learn how to be successful at being yourself, I
want to give you some easy-to-follow suggestions:
Speak good things
about yourself.
Declare what God’s Word says about you. For example, say to
yourself:
I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am made
acceptable in the Beloved. God loves me, and He formed me with His own
hand...and God doesn’t make mistakes!
Avoid comparing yourself with other women.
God must love variety, or all of us wouldn’t look so
different. He has created each of us differently right down to our fingertips!
We can look to certain people as good examples to follow,
but even then, good traits, if duplicated, will manifest differently through
our individual personalities.
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
Refuse to concentrate on your weaknesses except to turn them
into strengths. Keep your flaws in perspective.
People with a high level of confidence have just as many
weaknesses as those without confidence, but they focus on their strengths
instead of their weaknesses.
Learn to cope with criticism.
If you dare to be different, you’ll have to expect some
criticism. However, you won’t be comfortable in your own skin if you go against
your own convictions.
Going along with the crowd when you know in your heart that
God is leading you in a different direction is one of the reasons women don’t
succeed at being themselves.
You are a woman who is perfected and complete in Him. When
you start to believe that you will no longer feel you are lacking anything or
that there is anything wrong with you.
Remember this:
God will
never anoint you to be anyone other than yourself!
Let NOW be your time to go forward and be set free from the
torments of comparing yourself with others and trying to be someone you’re not.
God is proud of who He made you to be!
I encourage you to read the Scriptures below and see what
God says about you. Take some time to meditate on them and allow them to really
sink in.
Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding
that I may learn your commandments.
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me
together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden
from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths
of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were
written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there
was none of them.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast
is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I
awake, and I am still with you.
...hope does not put us to shame, because God's
love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been
given to us.
But if one loves God truly [with affectionate reverence,
prompt obedience, and grateful recognition of His blessing], he is known by God
[recognized as worthy of His intimacy and love, and he is owned by Him].
For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew
no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as
being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be,
approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].
Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every
circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests),
with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.
And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a
soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God
and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace]
which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your
hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
From: https://bit.ly/2BXccyF
The link below has various devotionals on the YouVersion
Bible app for women:
https://www.bible.com/reading-plans-collection/928
Below is a link to some awesome devotional prayer books for
women:
I'd like to end this devotional with the video below.
Mary the Mother of Jesus was a phenomenal woman! She was undoubtedly faithful and as the angel Gabriel explained, she responded in humility.
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