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When the Seeds Fly, the Effect is Fire
For as long as we stifle our gifts and talent, that is how long it will be before we can live a highly effective Christian life.
I know that people have a sly way of making it sound like you are not gifted with teaching and preaching, or even the big one, speaking the words of God.
For many years women have been teaching on this subject, so I recommend that you read their books. More so recommend you start by looking for evidence in the Bible of women doing what you are called to do.
The Silencing of the Lambs
Jesus spoke clearly and in parables during His whole time in ministry. He spoke truth to the Pharisees and truth to His disciples. He wasn’t silent about truth.
If burying your gifts and talents was His plan for women, would He not have said that clearly in the three years He was preaching the good news to those who needed to hear it.
He called ALL of us His sheep. All of us are to follow Him. All of us are to use our gifts and talents to equip the Body of Christ. There should be no silent sheep.
Evidence Abounds in Scripture
Imagine if Esther kept silence. Imagine if Deborah did not prophecy to Barak. Imagine if Priscilla had not taught Apollos. Imagine if Mary (mother of Jesus) had not been obedient. Imagine how everything would sound without the voice of women relaying the voice of God to anyone.
Our voice is heard loud and clear in Scripture but the hard heart hears it not.
I know that your voice is screaming inside of you but your fearful spirit is turning it off. Or maybe your voice is screaming out loudly but anyone listening is turning it off. We can go from one extreme to another sometimes trying to be effective Christians.
Join me this week in Midlife Ministry Makers as we lay out the Biblical Power Tools for setting your home fires burning without burning every bridge you come across even if it is against you.
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The Matter of Appointment
Note: Facebook removed notes so I have relocated The Affect to my website. I will eventually move them all onto this site from Issue 1 onward.
The Affect Volume 1, Issue 17
The fact that the Lord ✝️ has appointed my days and is the only one who knows them drives me into His arms. I want my days to be filled with hope. My vision is that hope.
I am a Woman of Vision and you are too. The Lord has appointed your days to walk in that vision from the appointed time of sun up to the appointed time of sun down.
A Woman of Appointment
Our salvation is not a matter of man but a matter of God. He has brought you and me into salvation for His matter at hand. Our appointment is wrought with hope and anguish in the beginning because it is going to go against the flow.
Maybe the river you float in goes in the direction of women as decorations in the church. Maybe it flows in the direction of women replacing men in ministry. Maybe it flows meekly, insecurely or wavey with your progressive choices leading your out of the visionary direction.
A Woman of Courage
No matter how the river flows in your world, good or bad, the current will come against you because the Devil is controlling the opposing current to your vision from God. He is not expecting you to have courage. He is expecting you to stay in the boat while he shakes the courage out of it.
You know what you are made of. Jesus knows what you are made of. Jesus will allow the shaking to give you more courage because you are going to need it as your grow into your ministry.
A Woman of Knowledge
Since it is God who gave you this vision He will equip you to fight the Devil. He has appointed you to win but not without a fight. It’s the fight that gives you more courage. It’s the fight that makes you strong. It’s the fight that opens the door for more knowledge about the Devil.
We read the Bible so we can know the Lord and we fight the Devil so we can know his schemes against us, and the people we serve. The Devil will ask the Father to shake us. He will give him permission for the sake of our faith.
A Woman of Vision
“Climbing the Ministry Mountain” is faith driven. The more we follow the finger of God pointing out our direction the higher we will get toward this visionary cause. You are a ministry maker, for the glory of God. To bring people hope by answering the questions they have about themselves and Jesus.
Your vision is appointed to you alone. Your time to be released is appointed to you by God alone. Your ministry mountain is already standing. Your pathway to your ministry is already laid out. You can choose to either follow the God’s path or follow your path.
My Visionary Living Advice 💦 for you this week is to choose your path wisely because the consequences have also already been appointed.
