For Women Only:
Seat of Influence..... A Woman on the Rock
I love empowering women to be strong and courageous. To leave all their fear at the door and enter boldly into everyday life! God empowers us to live this way through His word that He gave us and through the redemption we receive when Jesus went to the cross for us. It is up to us, women, to find and accept all the promises He gives! It is up to us to understand what He is saying to us in His word. My hope and my mission is simple:
Edify the body of Christ....Feed Women! Empower Women! Pray for you to be who God says you are!!
The author is unknown to me but I found this poem that I would like share:
"Be a woman of substance.
Be a real woman.
It is difficult to breakdown a real woman because she will learn from her mistakes,
gather her strength from her struggle and overcome the obstacles courageously."
I am not all that and a bag of chips but I am pursuing Him and trying to lay down all of my fears to overcome and be courageous so that I might help those around me. One of the great women of the bible that encourages me tremendously is a woman that has less than a chapter about her. Yet, what she did has the power to transform your life. I am talking about Rizpah. 2 Samuel 21
David has been asked to take seven sons of Saul to be sacrificed as the peace offering for a previous offense Saul had committed. David took the seven, v 9 "delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So they fell, all seven together and were put to death in the days of the harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of the barley harvest." It is important to note that there had been a drought in the land for three years because of Saul's actions. David had prayed each year for rain but none had come.
v 10 Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the water dropped from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them (the bodies of the seven) by day nor the beasts of the field by night.
v 11 And David (the King) was told what Rizpah had done.....He buried the bones of the sons. And after that, God heeded the prayer for the land.
Dakes concordance says "This act of Rizpah's is not equaled in human history. Taking a sackcloth and spreading it upon a rock, it seems she kept watch over the bodies of her sons about 5 months...She maintained a vigil in the open field on that shadeless rock, exposed to heat by day and coldness by night from the day of their execution"
She protected their bodies from vultures and wild prey. She endured extremes of nature. She did not leave the rock for 5 months. She laid on the Rock until she got the notice of the King! Because of her love and determination, God heard and saw what she did and he healed the land. The rain came. The drought was over. The famine was over.
"Be a woman of substance.
Be a real woman.
It is difficult to breakdown a real woman because she will learn from her mistakes, gather her strength from her struggle and overcome the obstacles courageously."
Rizpah was that kind of woman. Her struggle made her courageous. Her God saw her plea. She was a woman on THE ROCK.
Proverbs 31:25 "She is clothed in strength, dignity...she shall rejoice in time to come"
Dear Lord,
As women, we come to you asking you to help us leave all fear at your feet. We praise you because you are a God that hears and loves us more than we can ever imagine. We know that you made us unique and with purpose. We praise you for that! I praise you because in you, all things are possible. In you, we can trust!
Give us wisdom to overcome all fear. Give us wisdom and understanding to know you. Lord I ask that you help us to have the strength and the courage of Rizpah! To know that we can endure all life has because you are our strength. Help us to realize that, like Rizpah, we can make a difference.....Rizpah changed the world around her. She brought healing to their land. Raise up the "Rizpah's" of today Lord!
For unto Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could ask or imagine through His spirit that is at work within us!
In Jesus name,
Amen
Carla
