[...]Should women work? « Ephesians 4:14[...]…

[...]Should women work? « Ephesians 4:14[...]…

Since we are under our husband’s authority concerning the family, that’s where the answer is.

Does your husband want you to work? If yes, then work. If no, then don’t.

Submitting to our husband’s authority can make some questions really easy to answer

Joshua learned to sit in the Presence of God and soak it in…and when the time
was right he could be the leader to the the people into the promised
land.

It is the Presence of God that changes us inside out…and it is the glory of
God that will change our world, our cities, our nations.

I left everything and started helping homeless people and
heroin addicts…like the good Samarathan…
I got totally drained…I was almost destroyed in the process…
I was not yet “wet” enough, soaked enough, inside out…
there was still dry places in me when I walked out in faith…
and being dry…ministering to dry people…it doesn’t work.
Those needy people need you to drip with the annointing…
They need you to not be ancle deep, knee deep, but totally
saturated with God.

I was wet..but not wet enough…and in the heat of the b
battle I didn’t fill up enough…

So there was results…in the beginning especially…but it
started fading, like Moses’s face the glory started fading,
because he wasn’t enough in God’s presence anymore.

I feel like I went full circle…Yes, James said show me your works
and I will show you your faith…Yes, Jesus said we need to FO what
He said and not only be hearers of the Word in order to
have our house built on the rock… Yes there is a dying world
and we are supposed to care and stop for the dying man
next to the road and not walk passed obsessed with ourselves and
our comfort like the Pharisee and the Levite in the parable of
Jesus….
Yes, all this is true.
But there is another Truth, that precedes these Truths…

Jesus opened his sermon on the Mountain, his first public address,
with the Words…blessed is the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom.
Without Him, you can do nothing.
Even Jesus claimed that kind of desperate dependancy
on the Father and His guidance during His ministry.

The fact is – you can’t do it.
Jesus said “heal the sick”. You can’t do that. You can pray uyes, but that’s not what He said, He said heal them.
Jesus didn’t say encourage the sick, or pray for them. He said to heal them.
He said to the disciples “you feed them”.
Jesus said “be perfect”.

You can’t work and do what God wants.
None of us can.
We need supernatural invation of heav en on earth.
We need the Glory of God to invade earth, to do God’s works.

So we get that by realizing our dependancy, and starting with the first
commandment – to love God first, and to receive His love.
When we are saturated with His love, we can love Him back in the way He wants.
And then we can love people with supernatural love.
And God can be revealed.

That’s why I say, labour to go into rest, as the book
of Hebrews says, is where it starts.

PS: Here’s a very encouraging teaching to download about
Miracles http://www.winvin.org/node/136

I found this post very interesting and encouraging. Contrary to many of the women who have replied on this post already, I attend a city centre metropolitan church where most people are very career focused. The teaching encourages men and women to work for God and follow their calling, whatever sector that is in. However, it seems that because of this teaching stay at home mums and people in similar positions have had a harder time accepting their occupation as God given and blessed. I am going through a personal journey at the momement where God has called me not to work, because of illness, but to rest in him and discover the gifts that he has for me, which I am finding wonderful for discovering more about myself and Gods hidden character. I’ve heard and read very unhelpful, and in my opinion, graceless teachings about how you should not be allowed to eat if you don’t work, and that you should accept any job instead of a dream you really feel called to…which I find really contradicts what God says in the Bible about relying on him, trusting him, and following his individual will for your life.