Dear Sister,
I am very glad that you are seeking out biblical truths for your life, but you
missed some very important and life changing information because of one thing...
you did not put away your earthly understanding as you read what the Lord gave
me to minister to women (Proverbs 3 v 5). This ministry is about a very
dangerous and damning way of life that women the world over have accepted from
the enemy, and it is not man, but Satan rather who has fueled the fire of this
lie that tells us we are nothing but worthless house help, breeding factories
and free sex on demand. He has robbed us of our God given rightful place, a
place of honor and great importance if done correctly and from a right attitude
of heart.
We, at creation were MADE to be a helpmeet to our husbands, and unto the Lord if
we are unmarried. When we fell into sin, who was it that sinned first? Eve, she
then caused her husband to fall into sin, she demonstrated something that still
is prevalent today in women, she saw a shiny piece of fruit and had to have it,
we see a handbag or piece of jewelry or clothing, we can't help ourselves, we
have to have it, we think on it and meditate on it, we save up for it, we do
what ever it takes until we get it, the very same thing Eve did, now honestly
tell me, when was the last time you saw a man (not of the homosexual persuasion)
go giddy like a schoolgirl over some shoes or a kitchen appliance or something
like that, and when was the last time you ever saw a man go on a 'shopping
spree'? You just don't see it, when the Lord made woman, he took her 'out' of
man, we are two halves of the same whole, men got the unemotional, logical half
and we copped the lioness' share of the emotions, we are easily persuaded by our
emotions, and we very easily get on the band wagon about anybody or anything
that rubs us the wrong way, even about things that have nothing to do with us
and don’t concern us in any way, shape or form.
That is why men and women are so different, what was originally put into man was
split in two, and no not all things were evenly divided, because yes men have
some emotion and yes women when it suites them can be unemotional and think
logically, but woman were given the ability to care and nurture their children
and men were given the ability to be a strength and security unto the family.
God made us the way he did to fit HIS plan, and there is no changing it or
arguing around the fact, on this point we can do one of two things, accept what
God did and rejoice that everyday as we fulfill the role God has given us, both
as men and women, that we are pleasing in His sight and are doing His perfect
will, or we can begrudgingly deal with it and kick at the goads the whole way,
complaining and trying to find a better way of doing things than God Almighty,
the very one who holds all things in place with just a thought, pray he does not
forget us. There is no better way than God's and who wants to risk their
salvation by telling God they don't need Him. When you got saved, it was not
because you thought God was getting a sweet deal when you accepted Him, but
because you realized that 'your' way of doing things was not working, that 'your
way of doing things was going to send you to hell quicker than you can snap your
fingers.
Jesus Himself declared that He came for the sick and down trodden, that the well
do not need a doctor, just as those who think they have everything together, and
do not have to atone for the life they live here on earth do not think they need
God. If you got saved, you had better hope that it was because you realized that
you were a complete and utter failure at living your own life and that you
desperately needed God to take over and make sense of the confusion and chaos
that you called your life, because anything other than that is not a real
salvation, because at your salvation, you handed over the keys and deed to your
life and gave it to him to run for you from that point on, that you might be
used of him for his glory and the expansion of his kingdom and hopefully,
through you Jesus might reach out and save others.
It was not man but God who declared that the man would be the head of the house
or priest of the house, get that, God! So on this point, if you value your
salvation I would, with all the love in my heart for you, another sister in the
Lord, suggest you deal with it, accept it, embrace it and most importantly, with
everything within you, love and live it. I know my words might seem harsh, but
this is a very important subject to me because I see the millions of women that
are so bound and determined that they will not submit to their husbands, that
they would rather go to hell than to be told what to do by a man. I will not
beat around the bush on this, if you can not submit to those God has put in
authority over you, you can not submit to God and your salvation is lost to you
from the very beginning, for God is a man.
No, we were not under earthly law when we were thrown out of the Garden of Eden,
for earthly law (the ten commandments, the laws regarding clean and unclean
food, style of dress, Laws for the temple and sacrifice etc.) was not put in
place until Moses met with God on the mountainside in the middle of the desert.
Before God threw us out of the garden, he placed us under the headship of our
husbands, and as the priest of the house, man was to do as he was told by God
and he would lead us in they way that God directed, but because of the sin that
was committed, first by Eve and it was the sin of greed, the second sin was also
committed by Eve, the sin of pride, she was embarrassed by what she did and not
wanting to be the only one that made God angry, so she went to her husband and
caused him to sin through enticement the fourth sin, the fifth sin was committed
by Adam in that Adam then also ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and
evil, this way of life could never be, for rebellion in mankind was born that
day.
They were never under the ‘law of nature’, for there is no such thing, there is
only God’s law, nature does as it is commanded by it's creator, unlike humans,
nature is obedient and submits to God. There is no survival of the fittest,
creation follows God’s plan, and each creature is put here to keep a perfect
balance, harmony. With God’s way being done in His creation there is never an
over populous of a particular species, for if such were to happen it would
destroy life as we not it although we are doing a pretty bang up job of it
ourselves. The Lord designed this world to run like clockwork, everything in
sync, everything that is, except us, through sin, we humans are like a cog with
broken teeth that slips and falters at each turn. Our only chance of
restoration, of being whole again, is to be renewed in Christ Jesus and becoming
part of His loving plan.
As you can see, by reading further into Genesis, you encounter the flood, where
all the world but one man was in horrendous and abhorrent sin, this one man was
Noah and his wife who was in submission to him (she would have to have been, to
help build a massive boat over a period of one hundred and twenty years. when
there had never even so much a drop of rain had ever fallen from the sky at that
point in time, the ground was watered by a mist that descended at night to water
the earth, it was this layer of water that God tore open and flooded the earth
with, establishing rain for the first time, people thoughts he was crazy because
they knew not what rain was). Along with Noah and his wife were his sons and
there families
So, back to Eve, The Hebrew word the Lord used when he handed out Eve’s
punishment was Masal: means to rule, to reign, govern, have dominion, and
manage. Part of Eve’s punishment was submission to the appropriate leadership of
her husband over the family. One of its key meanings is also Self-Control.
Ecclesiastes 7 v 26 – 28: I find more bitter than death the woman who is a
snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God
will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare. "Look," says the Teacher,
"this is what I have discovered: "Adding one thing to another to discover the
scheme of things- while I was still searching but not finding— I found one
upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all. (Words
of King Solomon the wise)
Eve demonstrated that she had no self-control, so the Lord in His mercy for that
which He had created, put her under the control of her husband. The Lord
instilled in the family unit a system that if lived out correctly, would enable
future generations to grow up in the ways of the Lord and see how the Living God
works in a Christian’s life. In a Christian home, living under God’s grace, the
parents represent the God-head, to allow their children to see physically what
happens in the spiritual when they become old to (thank to Eve) understand right
from wrong and are able to sincerely ask Jesus to be Lord of their lives.
In such a Home, the father represents God as the Supreme authority, strength and
security there is safety to be found in him because he is reliable and steady in
his dealings (because he is obedient to God in his own life), he is the be all
and end all of decision making. The mother represents the Holy Spirit, she
nurtures, encourages, teaches, admonishes and rebukes and most importantly does
98% of the physical discipline, the conversation between the two, is the
interceding done by Jesus on our behalf before God, any time a mother asks the
husband for something on behalf of the children she is interceding for them.
When the child reaches adulthood and is considered mature (late teens) and able
to hear from God in their own right, that child’s parents take a back seat and
that child begins to walk on their own two feet with the Lord.
Now if they are not brought up to love correction and it’s life saving power
(Proverbs 12 v 1, Proverbs 5 v 1 –13, Proverbs 6 v 20 –23, Proverbs 29 v 15 &
17), they will never be able to accept the Lords correction and refining power
(Deuteronomy 8 v 5, Proverbs 3 v 11- 12, Hebrews 12 v 4 – 11), if the parents
did not get their job right, their child is set up to fail right from the get go
and there will be a lot of work on the Lords part to bring them into the calling
he has placed upon their lives, which is why he instructs us to train them up in
the way that they should go, and when they grow old they will not depart from it
(Proverbs 22 v 6, Ephesians 6 v 4), why, because it is the only life they have
ever known, and there is security in it for them, if they are brought up to
understand that when that transfer of authority takes place that the same life
they had with their parents, a very close and personal relationship based upon
love and obedience they will naturally fall into that walk with the Lord
unhindered and have total and complete faith and trust in the Lord, because they
understand the relationship and it’s workings, why, because they have lived it,
they understand that their parents lived they way they did so that their
children would be able to see it work before their eyes, and even though they
may not be able to physically see or hear God, the life they lived as child
opened their spiritual eyes and ears to enable them to hear their masters voice
and see his hand at work in their lives and the lives of others around them.
In a single parent home, the sole parent, either mother or Father remains in
place as the physical representation of the Holy Spirit and they deal directly
with God and their prayer life and interceding with the Lord for Him to meet
their daily needs etc. is the interceding done on behalf of Jesus for us in our
walks with the Lord.
And as they grow up in these Christian homes they witness the personal
relationship each parent has with the Lord as an individual, how he causes them
to grow spiritually, and they are able to see what it is like when someone is
experiencing the joy of the Lord, how he rescues them in times of trouble, heals
them when they are sick and raises them up when they fall. A truly beautiful
thing to behold.
Yes, here in this ministry we believe in equal pay for equal work, and we also
believe there are jobs that are better done by men, a fireman’s gear for
instance (and I know this because my husband is a firefighter), worn for
protection, weighs over 85 pounds, now I personally don’t want some 120 pound
woman trying to drag me (155pounds) plus her gear (85 pounds) and herself (120
pounds for a grand total of about 360 pounds) out of a burning building, that’s
just insane, our bodies as women, were just not built to do those kinds of jobs,
and men can’t have babies, no matter what science says and if women don’t like
it, don’t ‘rail against the man’ (no, there is no “on going struggle with man”
it is summed up in one word, division and it comes from Satan, so if you are
struggling against man, guess who you are allied with), take it up with God,
tell him that that which he said was good just doesn’t work for you. Let me know
what he says; just don’t put in a change request for me.
I have never been happier in my life than I am as a stay at home mom, a
housewife, a women’s ministry counselor, a marriage counselor alongside my
husband, a home school teacher to my five year old daughter whilst nursing full
time an 8 month old baby, a full time accountant and billings department
assistant manager to two very successful companies, I enjoy spending my spare
time doing cross stitch and crotchet and most important of all, with my husband,
I am his best friend and trusted confidant, we have no secrets between us
(really, I’m not saying it to make my life sound better than it is, it’s just
the truth and we work hard TOGETHER to get to where we are TOGETHER), and it
took a lot of years for us to build up that trust and break down those wall that
Satan would have seen set in place between us for all time, we are able to
openly bear our lives to one another, that there might be no room for Satan to
cause division to come between us, that we might be able to pray unhindered for
the benefit of others.
I have two sisters-in-law, married to my husbands brothers, and they are equally
as happy as I am, we all have two kids (so far, hoping for more and at least one
is due any day now, yeah!), we all home school, I work with finances, one of my
sisters works as a graphic artist and website designer, and my third sister
works full time with her husband in our caring hands outreach ministry, along
with taking people (currently 4 right now) who have nowhere to go into her own
home and providing a place for them to live as the Lord ministers to them and
works in there lives to restore them as heirs to his kingdom, we all have
personal hobbies, we all three of us are part of our own music group by the name
of Servanthood (see the link on the website), to which we all write and compose
our own songs that they might be used free of charge by anyone that would like
to sing praise to God, and although our lives might seem crazy to most people,
the one thing that holds each of us together, is our husbands, real men of God,
when things start falling down around us and we start drifting away from the
spirit of God and losing his joy and his will for us, our husbands are always
right there to reel us back in, to help us to ‘stop running and go pray, I’ll
take the kids honey, you go find God, cause you lost Him”, they are there to
help us keep our attitudes in check when the kids are tap dancing on our last
nerve, to listen to our ideas and enjoy our creativity, given the choice between
going out to dinner and eating at home, 9 times out of 10, we all prefer to stay
home and have a home cooked meal, my husband and I cook together and he helps me
keep the house clean, he does diapers and he is a wonderful father that takes
time to encourage his children in their pursuit of happiness, we make the most
of the time we have, because we know time is short, and we don’t want to waste
any of it fighting.
My husband is at least a foot taller than me, and very strong, in him I find
great peace and security, just like I do with the Lord, because as my headship,
he is my protector and my guide, if he says no, then no it is, I may not like it
all the time, especially if it is something I really want, but I know my husband
and I know that he does not have a cruel bone in his body and he does not deny
me the things I want without good reason, whether I ever find out why does not
matter to me, I trust him and sometimes, he knows about things that are coming
up that I know nothing about that he is trying to plan ahead for, usually a
surprise for me anyway (like for my birthday this year, he sent me to a Spa for
the day to be pampered wohoo!). He buys me flowers and we go on romantic walks
together, and if we have no money, he will stop and pick me flowers from the
roadside.
I wish every woman in the world could experience my life for one week and see
what they are missing out on, see what they are giving up so that they don’t
have to submit to man. To see how happy my sisters and mother-in-law and I truly
are. Our husbands open doors for us and pull out our chairs, they give up their
seats if we have nowhere to sit, they will take the kids if we are tired beyond
words from a long night with babies so that we can get some sleep, why? Because
they were brought up in the love and admonition of the Lord and were taught to
live this way in order to have a happy home and marriage.
My father-in-law has always tried since his sons came kicking and screaming into
this world to teach them how to treat a lady so that when they were married they
would know how to treat their wives (and from where I am standing, his hard work
paid off, and praise God my sisters and I are REAPING the benefits). He treated
his wife like a queen so that they would see how it is done, that they would see
how to love a woman and make her feel like a woman, to feel beautiful in ratty
old pajamas and morning breath and bed hair.
He (Pastor Ron) would wake up early every day and clean the kitchen so that
their mother would not have to do it in the morning because he knew that it was
her least favorite thing to do (in fact, he still does, everyday, honestly
before God), to wake up and find a messy kitchen (and when my husband was
growing up and even now, they typically had or have at least 10 people living
with them that their parents had taken in off of the street or that many people
in and out of their house all day, so it was generally very messy in the
kitchen, not an easy feat to keep clean on a good day), and it was all out of
love, service is love there was and is no hidden agenda or point to prove, you
must get out of the ‘woman are a doormat’ nonsense it is self pity and
self-indulgence in the worst possible way, get out of it and make something of
your life.
If fathers would do what God has commanded them to do, to raise up their sons in
God, in his ways, they’re sons would grow up to be men rather than what we have
which is a world full of whiny little boys that lack responsibility, men who
would treat their wives correctly and keep their wife beating hands to
themselves, and women would be ecstatic to be exactly that, a woman, if mothers
would raise up their daughters in such a way as to be a real ‘feminine’ woman,
then women would be able to be gentile and dainty, motherly and still have
strength and courage and the ability to hold jobs that are commanding as well as
run a household and see to the needs of the family. But don’t you think for one
moment that there aren’t women out there who physically abuse their husbands
too, because there are, it’s disgraceful and as a species, we are tearing each
other apart.
If all this were done, there would be peace in the home, I do the things I do in
my marriage as an act of service out of love, I love my husband and I respect
him and I want to please my husband, I want to keep him from wandering so I give
him the very best of myself at every opportunity, and he does the same for me,
because he wants to make me happy, he loves me and he wants to keep me from
straying to find something better, neither of us have to, for in each other we
have found the very best.
My heart goes out to single mothers and fathers who have to work so hard to keep
food on the table and clothes on their children’s backs. They work so hard that
their children are raised by the system, in schools and daycare centers, by
people who are not obligated to teach them anything of value. We live in a time
and age where morals and decency have gone out the window. I pity women that
have to ‘have it all’, the executive position (not because they are deserving of
it mind you, but to prove that they can do it all) and the bigger paycheck than
their husband, horrible women that take pleasure in stripping their husbands of
their manhood and their God given right to be the bread winner and main provider
for their family, women that are more than OK with always being at odds and in
competition with their husbands rather than their friend and partner, the one
the other can count on as having their back when the whole world seems out to
get them.
I can’t stand women who allow nannies to raise their children because they have
better things to do with their time (side note: this does not apply to women who
genuinely need the help because they have no outside assistance because the
husband is gone for whatever reason i.e.: death, divorce, traveling salesman, a
clown with the circus etc.).
As for my sisters and I, we don’t want someone else raising our children, we
don’t want to miss a second of their precious lives, for they are the embodiment
of the love that flows between ourselves and our husbands, through them our love
for each other lives on and we can see the fruit of our love walking and talking
and laughing and growing in the Lord. We don’t want our children lost in some
classroom of 30 other children, where they cannot get individual attention to
meet their needs to help them succeed in life, my daughter is the oldest of all
our children she is five and a half, my nephew will be five soon and I have two
nieces that will soon be four, and through home schooling, they are reading and
writing, they know their alphabet and the phonetics of each letter, as well as
the additional ones that apply to vowels, they are very artistic, they speak
clearly and fluently and express themselves so well that people walking by on
the street comment to us about how well developed they are, even their doctors
and dentist mention it to us at each and every visit.
And we owe it all to God for the life he has given us, for the opening our eyes
to the truth about the wonderful blessings that can be found in living what most
women consider a curse and a plague upon women the world over, the life of a
wife in submission to her husband. How sadly misled you have all been, so when
you ask me if you are wrong, I answer you with this. Yes you are wrong,
emphatically 100% dead wrong and you have cheated yourself out of a life of such
joy and total completeness that cannot be measured or fathomed. And I am so very
sad for your loss, and I wish there were some way that I could open your eyes to
allow you to see it for yourself.
My response may not have been what you were looking for, for I and my family are
not comrade’s with women’s liberation it is the enemy and a family killer and it
is sending countless women pouring into hell at an astonishing rate You know
that heart disease is now the number one killer of women today, and it does not
surprise me, for women have lost their heart the heart of motherhood, of being a
wife and a helpmeet to the one who is supposed to be the love of their life
aside from God, they traded pure gold for fools gold, real diamonds for cheap
imitation jewelry, a life time of honor for generations to come for short and
fleeting false glory and through their vanity they starve and purge their
bodies, not to attract men, but to please other women. Oh how we have fallen, is
there anyone who can rescue us in these the end times?
For the sake of your eternal salvation, I would encourage you to once more read
all of the articles posted on our website by myself and my sisters, my aunt and
my mother-in-law, and this time, try to see the blessing in it, try to see what
you are missing out on and above all else, try reading it without listening to
the lies of the enemy telling you that you are worthless if you submit to man,
because this is how we, if we are in submission appear in God’s eye’s, as said
by the wisest man in creation; King Solomon:
Proverbs 31 v 10-31: A wife of noble character, who can find? She is worth far
more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of
value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. She selects wool
and flax and works with eager hands. She is like the merchant ships, bringing
her food from afar. She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for
her family and portions for her servant girls. She considers a field and buys
it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work
vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. She sees that her trading is
profitable, her lamp does not go out at night. In her hand she holds the distaff
and grasps the spindle with her fingers. She opens her hands to the needy. When
it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in
scarlet. She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and
purple. Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among
the elders of the land. She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies
the merchants with sashes. She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can
laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction is on
her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the
bread of idleness. Her children arise and call he blessed; her husband also, and
he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” Charm is
deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be
praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise
at the city gate.
This is a woman in submission. Now I don’t see a single mention of small-minded,
dimwitted baby making factories in that piece of scripture at all, do you? This
is how we are to model our lives. It seems like a very high commission indeed to
me and I intend to continue to enjoy it to the fullest, and I encourage you to
pursue it, married or not, If nothing else, be in total submission to God for
the saving of your soul. Stop denying yourself the humble glory of womanhood,
and live for just once in your life, live.
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