For ISHA

For ISHA

July 23, 2021 by SiteAdmin in Uncategorized

I went to a meeting in Ibadan. It was a meeting specifically for women. I just wanted to pray and worship. I get moments like that. I didn’t know anybody and nobody there knew me. So I was very very focused, sitting in the gallery of the building. I was so moved by the prayer points cause I love to pray until I heard the next prayer point;

“There’s a difference between our thing and your thing. When you have your thing, you’re respected and will be respected. May God give you your own thing”

All the women shouted a thunderous AMEN!!!

I was taken aback. Maybe I didn’t hear properly…but I did, because stories were said to buttress the point…and no, I didn’t misinterpret it. I have a humble and distant respect for the speaker. So I shook it off and listened to the the rest of the program, till I left quietly.

Having said that, I bring the burden of the Lord and sound an alarm to many. There are groups some of you are a part of or people of repute you’re listening to, that aren’t declaring the mind of God and for your own good, you should rightly discern them. These are the 2 things that you should arm yourselves with REGARDLESS of who the leader is;

1. Titus 2:3-5; Scripture here says older women are to teach younger women to LOVE and RESPECT their husbands. If the group you’re in, is teaching you how to be cunning with your spouse, how to open secret accounts and do secret businesses, how to “use wisdom” to disobey or be a sycophant to your spouse, how to prepare for his leaving you, prepare for him failing you, prepare for him cheating you and on you, and how men can’t be trusted. Then you know what to do. Are there men that have messed up? Absolutely! But those are not the norms and we can’t use tools that are supposed to be interventions to become the general rule. Some women are teaching these skills based on their own experiences or things they heard of others and some young women who have good men are embracing these tactics which have the propensity for ruining their homes. May God open your eyes.
2. Esther 1:9 – this is how having “your own thing” starts. For a long time I defended Vashti. Really I did. I thought her husband to be a tyrant and a despot because that’s what history portrayed him as. It’s hard being married to such a man and not have an attitude. History has it that he was very invasive and megalomaniacal. But look closer, a king is hosting a feast, who should be his co-host? His Queen. She decides to do her own thing and created a women’s group SEPARATELY smack in the middle of the feast her husband was hosting. Notice the scriptures emphasis “Also Vashti the queen made A FEAST FOR THE WOMEN, IN THE ROYAL HOUSE which BELONGED to KING AHASUERUS”. It’s like “can you beat that?” But the king was chilled until he wanted her beside him and the queen was enjoying her own thing, her own gathering. It got to her head. “Tell him I’m not coming”. She had no clue she was making a pivotal decision in the middle of divine events. It’s a warning to all of us. We can for valid reasons make decisions that will either put us in approved display or cause us to be replaced and fade into oblivion. When Esther came on the scene, we NEVER heard of Vashti anymore…and we should ask; how did a young inexperienced virgin, turn a powerful unwavering king into a softie, where a stately women’s leader queen failed???

Our watchword? Blamelessness. That’s what God is calling you and I to. Support with all blamelessness, assist with all blamelessness, help with all blamelessness. Ensure in all things that you remain blameless. Two wrongs can never make a right. It’s a tall order and a tough call but hey, you’re a Queen. Great power comes with great responsibilities.

To be continued……