God has a plan for every person He creates. He prepares our destiny before we are born (Psalm 139:16; Ephesians 1:4; and 2:10). Even more, He prepares our body for us. Each one is unique and different.When God marvelously prepares our body in the utter seclusion of the womb He determines whether we will be male and female. He creates a specific male body for the male and a special female body for the female. There is something very special about the different sexes. That’s why we wait with baited breath to know whether our new baby will be a boy or a girl! And then we celebrate the sex of the child!
The sex of the child is important to God. He decides. And it’s not for man with his puny understanding to change it! In a recent study, researchers analyzed 20,000 genes and found that 6,500 of them are expressed differently in men and women in at least one of the body's tissues. And I am sure they have not yet discovered all there is to know. God’s creation goes beyond our scientific studies. You can check out the link at the end of this article.
We must encourage our children in the way God created them. We should affirm our sons with their male body. God created them to be stronger to do hard physical work and to be able to provide and protect their families. We encourage them to be strong, hard-working, and not wimps. We affirm our daughters that God created them so wondrously with bodies that have the privilege to conceive and bring forth life into the world. Our children should grow up embracing who God created them to be.
I am challenged when I read about Jesus in Hebrews 10:5 where He states that His Father prepared a body for Him. Or rather “fitted for Him.” God planned and designed Jesus’ body and the purpose for His body before time began. He was the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19, 20 and Revelation 13:8).
Hebrews 10:5-10 goes on to tell us that the very purpose for His body was to be offered up as a sacrificial victim for the sins of the world. He gave His body as a willing sacrifice to obey His Father’s will. The fitting of his body was not only for His incarnation, but for obedience “even unto death” (Philippians 2:5-8). He didn’t do this grudgingly, but with delight (Psalm 40:6-8).
When God gives us a body, it is not to please ourselves, but to fulfil the purpose for which God created and planned before the foundation of the world. Because God chose by His determinate counsel to create us female, it is ridiculous to do anything less that embrace our femaleness and live it for His glory. We embrace the anointing to nurture and mother and bring precious and eternal babies into this world, not only for the revelation of God’s image in the world, but for His eternal kingdom.
In the same way Jesus came to give His body as an offering, so we should also “present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Romans 12:1, 2).
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Last weekend a missionary was speaking at Evangeline’s home. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend because of a prior engagement. However, a number who were present passed on this story to me. This godly man lives in Mexico and has a ministry to the street people, but periodically comes into USA to minister among young people.
Love the truth. Seek after truth. Know the truth. Never bend to lies or deception.
God has given us weapons. They have the power to demolish all strongholds. We have these weapons constantly available to us and yet how often do we use them?
Every now and then I like to get on my “band wagon” or my “soap box.” I have quite a few soap boxes! Which one am I on today?
In the midst of your daily routine and challenges of mothering you can often forget the awesomeness of what you are doing. Do you realize, mother, that your children are not only a gift from God to you but a gift from God to the world? Motherhood is so far-reaching. It's not confined to your little home. Each one of your children have been destined by God and have been in His heart from the foundation of the world. God has a special purpose for each one of them to fulfill. What a privilege to raise a child who is "a gift to the world"!
Dear mother, can I ask you what voices you listen to? There are many voices in this world, all vying for your attention. Humanistic voices lure you away from the heart of your home, the place God divinely provided for you to raise your children. Deceptive voices tempt you to get involved in more and more outside activities that take your time away from your home and family.
...the things that God loves and what He hates? We won’t fully know these things unless we are daily in his Word.
Do you like waiting? Well, in the natural world it is hard to wait, isn’t it? We like things to happen just when we want them. However, the Bible talks a lot of about waiting.
Paul wrote to the Corinthian believers: "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you" (2 Corinthians 12:15). The adding of "and be spent" to his affirmation means "vehemently, heartily, and exceedingly." This was Paul's attitude to the new believers in Christ.
God is a covenant-keeping God and He wants us to be covenant-keeping people.
The great preacher and author, Dwight L. Moody said, "If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!" He understood the power of investing in a child's life.
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
This is where many mothers have a hang up. They love their children but they don’t love motherhood. They have one foot in one world and one in another. To live in the joy and fullness of motherhood the secret is to embrace with all your heart your career of motherhood. To not only love your children but love motherhood makes all the difference. Begin confessing that you love motherhood.
I am not languishing. I am not deceived.
Oh yes, we fail and fall so many times. But we don’t have to stay down. In the strength of the Lord we can get up again.
God GAVE the land of Israel to His people for an EVERLASTING POSSESSION (Genesis 13:15 and 17:8). He calls it their OWN LAND (Ezekiel 34:13; 36:24; and 37:21).
We all know that God created women to be a “help meet” to her husband. The Hebrew words are “ezer kenegdo.” We understand the “ezer,” the help part which means “to do for someone what he or she cannot do for himself or herself.” It’s the same word that is used to describe God as our Help. God comes to our aid when we have no way of helping ourselves. What’s amazing is that God used this word to describe women before we read it as a description of God. To be a help to our husband is a divine mission. It is one of the attributes of God.