Who's Kingdom Are You Building?

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2007


Our enemy, the devil and father of lies, has always been cunningly tempting women to assert themselves over what God has said. The freedom and roles of women is definitely one of those areas. God's word has been under attack, in question, twisted, and watered down since the beginning. Satan, through radical feminists and socialism, have been using the lie that women are slaves to men, under the bondage of domestic duties, and losing their identity in years of maternal nurturing for quite some time. And, sadly, we (society at large) have believed them. But wherever Christianity has impacted a culture, women have been liberated from the tyranny of governments and religious systems where woman are nothing more than a possession to be had and from the plight of polygamy. Women of western culture owe the rights they now posses to God's Word, His providence and the spread of Christianity, instead they blaspheme His word by rebelling against God's created order. Alas, Christian women are not exempt from being deceived in this area, as a matter of fact, I will be as bold to say that many Christian and professing Christian women are running in the same flood of ideas as the unbelieving world. This is largely in part of the lack of sound Biblical teaching and the lack of older women to disciple younger woman. With the first cause described in the bible in 2 Timothy 4:3 & 4 "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths". That leaves us with the second cause, the loss of the older women, which has left us bleeding from deep wounds of abandonment and the castle walls called "Home" are crumbling. It is here where we really see that we (society at large) have believed the lie; hook, line, and sinker, by the absence of the mentor mother & grandmother (or any mentor type role a woman might have in a family or church family) . Our predecessors who should have been teaching us through the daily life of family, abandoned their post for a career or "ministry" that would validate them or a paycheck that would give trifles instead of making disciples. They became rats on a wheel as the precious years of their children's lives passed them by without even a spark on the torch to light their way. They traded in their aprons, where they freely served as helpmate to their husband in creating a God glorifying home, for a collared blazer where they furthered the dreams of other men, and became wage slaves.
God has had mercy on us, and there is an awakening going on in the home. Fathers and Mothers are seeing the destructiveness of feminism. Mothers are staying home to raise their own children and Fathers are taking leadership in the home. There is a revival of family worship, as commanded from Deuteronomy 6:7 "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." This was prophesied to us in Malachi 4:6 "And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction." Yet the family is still under siege, and the lines have been penetrated. We must reject the idea that Christian women can live as unbelieving women concerning the raising of our children, the honoring of our husbands, our manner and dress and the keeping of our homes. We must embrace the teaching of the Bible, that we are called to be set apart, distinctively different. It is time for Christian women to reclaim the honored role of wife and mother, to cleanse herself of worldly philosophy and renew herself in God's unchanging word. Ladies, let us not harden our heart as did Eve when she was tempted to exalt herself. Rather, let us humble ourselves in the sight of God that He may, through the praises of our families and the next generation, lift us up. Proverbs 31:28 "Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her". It is far better for us to gain a godly heritage from the Lord then to gain the passing pleasures of worldly success. Let us prepare our hearts to further the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ by making our homes a haven of true discipleship. In the days to come, may you be found with brick and mortar in hand, building a household of faith.

"The wisest of women builds her house,but folly with her own hands tears it down." Proverbs 14.1
“Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls." Luke 11:17

I would like to add that I know not everyone is a stay at home wife & mother and some cannot be overnight and some may be faced with TRUE challenges that keep them from being at home. I was a single mother for many years and went through a time when I worked and pursued ministry outside of my home. At times out of necessity, other times from outside pressure. Yet, God did turn my heart and provided in miraculous ways for me to stay at home, even as a single mother. Even more of a blessing though, He has caused me to be free and contented in the role I was created for by giving me vision for beautiful biblical womanhood. May God give you a vision today. ...to be keepers at home, Titus 2