We all want to break free from negative thoughts and
paralyzing mindsets, so I am giving you my insights from Scripture – are a
lethal combination to crush the enemy’s lies. Prepare to be fully awakened to
your G-d given identity. Who we uniquely are in the Messiah transforms us from
playing it safe to taking our place in G-d’s great plan of redemption.
Dearest
one, You are a child loved by a Father without reval, entrusted with a message
and promise beyond compare, in a time without precedent. You have been hosen
for this moment that is at once great and terrible. For this reason, you must
love fearlessly … believe outrageously …and hope without measure.
If you discovered that the life you have always wanted was
outside the realm of competition, this is for you.
If you struggle with feelings of worthlessness
or lack a sense of purpose, know G-d has positioned you to find contentment during
any circumstance and live a life without comparison. Can’t you feel G-d putting
His hands on both sides of your face, turning our attention toward Him, and
then saying slowly and firmly, ‘I love you.’
Your first step in knowing your identity is found in who you
are to Him.
Gal. 3:26 There is neither
Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:
for ye are all one in the Messiah Y’Shua. All of them are equal implies G-d
does not love sons more and daughters less. He loves male and female uniquely. Marvelously
loved, there is absolutely nothing accidental about you and you don’t have to
fight for your place at His table. No one can take you out or replace the gifts
He has given you … you have no rival.
We were gifted salvation, for G-d saw us in our wretched,
caged state, cowering in the corner of some religious humane society, and paid
the price to save us to use our G-d given gifts.
Rom. 12: 5-8 So we,
being many,
are one body in Messiah, and every one members one of another. Having
then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according
to the proportion of faith; Or
ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching; Or he that exhorted, on exhortation: He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that
ruled, with diligence; he that shows
mercy, with cheerfulness.
It is time G-d’s daughters celebrated ‘unique’ and stopped settling
for the ‘same’ religious Pharisees. As we read the Bible, it is G-d’s Holy
Spirit who instructs and leads us into all truth. Your eternal Father is the
only one who has the right to define you, place His gifts in you, as we worship
G-d, you are transformed into His image from glory to glory. Were one chooses
to fellowship with should be G-d lead, for you want to be corrected by people
who will bring out the best in you and recognize your G-d give gifts, having
gender without rival. We cannot be opposed to racism, in which people are
discriminated against as a result of something about which they can do nothing –
their skin color and then accept with equanimity the gross injustice of
penalizing others for something else they can do nothing about – their gender.
Male lions are the best killers, but lionesses are the best
hunters. If you can’t speak to the women, you can’t win the war. Women have a
voice and value just like the lionesses. Lionesses needed to know they were not
simply following male orders but that they were part of something more eternal,
the mandate to bring healing and life to their sisters who were isolated and
often despised simply because of their gender. Without the involvement of
women, there are many battles that cannot be won.
If the United States military understand that without the
involvement of women a nation can fight but it will not win, then isn’t it high
time the church empowers its daughters to come alongside the men. Gender
rivalry has been known to swing both ways, but more often than not women are on
the receiving end of the discrimination.
I have carried in my heart the women who’ve been wounded in
the rivalry of the sexes. Women who have suffered in her marriage, family,
workplace, or house of worship. I regularly read hateful comments directed at
women on social media. This does not even begin to address the issues of sex
trafficking, gendercide, and pornography.
Sadly, gender prejudice still blurs the lines of our gospel;
we seem to use it to extend full redemption and freedom to men while measuring
controlled portions to women.
Gender prejudice by stepping back to a time when the church
was newborn, alive and growing after the resurrection, and there was an
outpouring of G-d’s Spirit on both sons and daughters. The gospel was being
released in both word and deed as the resurrection of Y’Shua was proclaimed.
Panicked temple leaders, in an attempt to calm the storm of gender ruled only
males could serve, for someone had to had to take care of business at home. Women
could not even read the Torah (they might find out G-d’s Word was for both
genders) but women could serve in their old age because their home duties are
done.
Sadly, that is how doctrines are being made, for most church’s
do not study the times and culture of when the Bile was written, to get the
full understanding of what was being said, so they obstruct its members and
silence their voices. For more than two millennia religious leaders have
limited and at times prohibited thousands of church’s daughters from preaching
and teaching in the sacred spaces under its governance.
Can’t you hear the Spirit whispering, ‘far too many of the
daughters I have called and gifted by My Spirit for ministry have been held
back, and denied their call by the church’.
You might have heard religious leaders say, ‘Women can teach
other women but not men’. Or, ‘Women can share but there is to be no preaching’.
And: ‘Women can lead, as long as it is outside the church’. Women who are bold
with their faith are too quickly labeled aggressive. Women who are confident in
their G-d are mistaken for ambitions. Is it right in the sight of G-d to listen
to men rather than to obey G-d?
We can find our answer in the words Y’Shua spoke right
before He ascended in
Mark 16:15-19. Go into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creation. Whoever believes and is
baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these
signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons;
they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands;
and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them, they will lay their
hand on the sick, and they will recover. So then Y’Shua HaMashiach, after He had
spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of G-d
the Father.
This directive was given to ALL who believe. The Great Commission
is permission, it doesn’t even require a building or an organization, and this
mandate is inclusive of both genders. In the Messiah, all are called and
liberated to declare G-d’s good news. Once we’ve known G-d’s freedom and truth
we should never allow human threats to silence us. G-d is our high and holy
King. Our King has commissioned and empowered you. He has asked you to speak to
His people on His behalf. This being true, how could you ever allow those who
lead under the King to deter you? Each of us must be a living, breathing
declaration of
Matthew 4:10: We will
worship the
L-r our G-d and serve only Him.
If obeying the King’s subjects means disobeying the King,
then your real problem is with the King. In Esther (Hadassah) the king of
Persia had not called for her, and the statues of his court forbid her to come
before him. But Hadassah understood that obeying the ki8ng’s parameters meant
disobeying G-d. Hadassah feared G-d more than she feared the displeasure of people,
and she went. She approached the king strategically, but she did not dare
remain silent when so many lives were at stake.
There is a very real enemy who will not be
content with simple silencing you. he is after your life and the lives of your
daughters.
I’m not talking about ascending the pulpit by force, but you
can use your G-d given gifts on those who have an ear, and not be afraid of the
backlash. This is not the time for the faint of heart or the image bearers of
G-d, both male and female.
The last
thing we need to be caught doing is fighting amongst one another! The learning
curve is steep because until recently the women in this world have been few and
far between.
The answer is not the elimination of the feminine voice; it
is the education of women, gaining wisdom so the daughters with their Father’s
Word in their mouths can speak. Should those with a portion of the answer be
silenced? Be prepare to be shunned and resisted. This means you will run the
risk of being misinterpreted, and very often you will suffer verbal attacks and
isolation, but gender has little to do with someone’s capacity to lead.
Humility, experience, faithfulness, education, and virtue are just some of the
qualities that qualify leaders. But gender alone does not a leader make, apart
from the Messiah we are all unfit.
Y’Shua teaches and instructs, it is with love and acceptance
of all. He likened His church to a bride, His bride is made up of male and
female.
Eph. 2:10 For we are His
workmanship, created in Y’Shua HaMashiach unto good works, which G-d hath
before ordained that we should walk in them. Males and females were created
to be separate in expression but never to be divided in purpose. G-d’s
daughters are under vicious assault by the spirit of this world, and far too
many houses of worship do not know how to foster the gifts of G-d has given to
women. Far more than twenty centuries men and women have been learning side by
side in the church. It is time we realize who we are in Y’Shua and lead side by
side just a we were originally created to function in the garden. Men leading
as men and women leading as women. We are to echo
G-d’s words rather than become mired down in a reasoning
match. Let’s serve G-d so stunningly that we are living, breathing arguments
for living a life of faith.
In heaven’s design, gender is neither an issue of wounding
nor a battleground of rivalry. G-d’s sons and daughters living as one may yet
be revealed on this earth. And through our unity, the image of G-d will be
unveiled, and the glory of G-d will at last shine forth n all its dazzling
splendor.
