148. WOMEN LEADERS AND QUEENS
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Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised (Pro.31:30).
1. If the Lord and we place a woman in authority over men she's not usurping that place, but coming by it rightly, by divine appointment and His ordination. There were women all through the Bible in positions of responsibility and authority as well as all through history. So if you can't accept the God-given authority of a woman, Brother, you are not only defying the Lord Himself, but also the authority of your leaders who she represents and for whom she acts as a voice. There were many mothers in Israel, queens, and prophetesses, to whom the men of God submitted themselves and whose leadership they followed, especially if they represented the king, or the Lord Himself! So who are you to defy it?
2. Some people need to know what women can do and what kind of confidence God puts in women leadership. We have some outstanding women leaders!
3. Never underestimate the power of a woman in the Holy Ghost! When it comes to the Church, the Work of God and the Spirit, women have just as much right as anybody. That's one place where maybe you can even pass him up, girls, if you're really yielded, surrendered and used of God.
4. "It shall be a day for women, and they shall rule My people with a kind hand and gentle staff and such words of love, so precious, so beautiful!"
5. It seems like in this Endtime the women are going to come to the fore and handle a lot of the leadership!
6. Women have a tremendous power even naturally, humanly, physically--God has given them a natural power--the power that they have over men. But the power God has given you, our girls, is a greater power, a very great power. So together with the power of God you have terrific power, and you must be careful that you use it wisely, unselfishly and not for selfish purposes, but to create, to mend, to heal, to love and not to break and destroy.
7. Women's Lib has nothing on us!--We have women running a lot of our Homes, where the men are just necessary figureheads, but the girls are the powers behind the thrones!
8. In the ministry of the Body of the Church, women are spiritual and administrative equals, liberated from the bondage of masculine domination by the grace of God.
9. If any of you insecure and uncertain males concerned about your masculine authority being threatened by this little fireball are still on that "women" kick, you'd better snap to and get with it that there is no male and no female in Christ nor His Kingdom nor service--all are one in Christ Jesus!--So though that little gal of yours may be your physical slave when it comes to sex or doing your housekeeping and mothering your children for you, as head of the house over the woman, as it says, she's nevertheless not your servant when it comes to the Lord's house, but His--and on an equal plane with you, if not even higher, and only under His authority and that of His elders and the Kingdom of God! So you'd better recognise God's authority!
10. There's something wrong with your spiritual state when you will not let your wife put God first, particularly when her training, calling and ministry are apt to exceed and outshine yours! It's just plain, pure, masculine jealousy, damnable, hellish pride, and you're going to wreck her life as well as yours and maybe even some of God's work if you persist. In the realm of the Spirit she is no longer yours, but God's, no longer yours, but her public's, no longer bond, but free, no longer even female! If she has training, spiritual education, talents and gifts which far exceed yours in the spiritual ministry of the church, then you must not try to hold her down. You cannot keep her back, or you're in trouble! You're apt to break her spirit, crush her heart, smother her zeal, destroy her ministry, and displease God. Watch out!
11. If your wife has a spiritual anointing for leadership, watch out that you don't take over and take the lead spiritually and make her take a back seat, squelch her gifts, and silence her witness, or you may nearly ruin both of you. If you try to domineer you will get in God's way and God's work may roll right on over you and leave you far behind.
12. The superiority of a wife over her husband in spiritual things, in this day and age, is not rare! My Mother was an example of this, but they made a perfect team, because my father humbly and rightfully acknowledged it and supplemented her ministry with his own gifts, which she lacked!
13. Don't stand in God's way, even if it's God in your wife, or you'll be sorry, and so will she, for she may have to go on without you, rather than fail God, and God is more than able, in these exceptional cases, to supply her with a better co-worker, who will acknowledge her gifts, give way to her ministry, and do everything he can to help her perform it.
14. You have stood in her way and not only failed God yourself but caused her to fail God too. There is no more time for foolish pride, and your fleshly masculine domineering! Get out of yourself, and get in the spirit! Let go and let God work through your wife--now, before it's too late, or both she and God will leave you behind. We need both of you, everyone of you, but no one is indispensable!
15. Don't hinder the work of God by holding her down! Give her a chance!--That's all God asks! You need her, and His work needs her. But she can have no other gods before the Lord!
16. God needs every ounce of talent that both of you have. Don't either hinder the other! Obey God, work together! Know your limitations! Use all your talents!
17. While my father was willing to share my mother with the whole World, thousands and thousands were blessed! When he tried to selfishly possess her for himself alone he lost her and he lost his own usefulness and the blessing he had been in making her ministry possible.
18. If you are the stronger member of the team in some ways, greatly useful, valuable and dynamic and of a very high quality for the work God has given you to do, an ideal mate for you will be one who's willing, agreeable, placid and wonderfully sacrificial, thankful that he even gets a little of your time and can be with you even a little. You are worth a world of men with your power of the Spirit and wisdom and Word and you can be a blessing to thousands, not just one.
19. May she not make a move without hearing from Thee, as the kings of old who did not move except they heard the Word of the Lord through Thy prophets! Those who succeeded were those who waited upon Thy Word, and those that failed were those who went ahead without it. May she never operate in her own strength, but always by Thy Divine Power and by Thy Divine Light.
20. Help her to be willing to do anything to lead Thy people to victory!--To go out and fight with the men, like Joan of Arc, who even became a violent fighter! She was only a little peasant girl, so meek and lowly, but in the quiet she heard the voice of Thy Spirit, and the Lord made of her a violent revolutionary that was willing to carry a sword and fight to defeat the enemies of the lord and the opponents of the Cross!
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21. Like Joan of Arc, she shall stand at the head of her forces in shining armour, courageous and unfailing to inspire them to fight Thy battles!
22. A queen is one who carries a bit of the weight of the king with her and speaks with his authority and rules by his power and holds position by the royal right of his appointment, his honour and his designation. She is, therefore, only a queen or wife or a concubine because he has made her thus by such an honour, even as the king himself holds his kingship by the appointment of God and exercises his office by the honour of God and holds his place by the divine right of his ordination by God.--The divine right of kings.
23. A queen is one who has been promoted to royal rank and special commission with more serious responsibilities and greater authority than others.
24. For you women leaders who have a special anointing, a special calling: God's going to do something great with you and we cannot take a chance on anybody who's not going to be a help to you or is going to hold you back or hold you down. Unless your husband is willing to be your flunky like my father was for my mother, unless he's willing to be your porter, your baggage man, your bodyguard and just bathe in your reflected glory, forget it! You have to remember, you belong to the Lord and you belong to everybody, therefore you can never belong to anybody alone. They may belong to you, and if you can find somebody who is willing to exist just for your benefit, for your sake and to help you in the Lord's work for the Lord's work's sake, to be a real team mate and flunky and helper in all the things that you need.
25. This little one, though so frail, Thou canst make so strong, with a will of iron and a tongue of steel against Thine enemies, that she shall bow her knee only at Thy throne and call no man her conqueror but Thee!--That anyone that loves her must know that he only serves--he does not rule. He waits upon her, but does not dominate her and cannot and must not, but must show her due respect and obeisance, honour, and even a measure of reverence as Thy representative.
26. Let none be so foolish as to dream that he, through her, may also rule. That she shall not place her neck within such a fleshly yoke to obey the will of any man, but Thee alone shall she serve. Thee only shall she serve, Lord; she shall not serve another, and she shall have no other gods before Thee, for Thou, the Lord her God, art a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers unto the third and fourth generations!--She is married only unto Thee! Thou alone art her husband, and she shall serve no other than the King Himself! For thou shalt love the Lord thy God will all thy heart and Him only shalt thou serve!
27. Help her to remind herself that she is of that peculiar breed who can only rule and reign.--And she shall know that the role of leadership is a lonely one, and the Shepherdess is often alone at the head of the sheep.
28. May the Queen never forget that any comfort, faith, encouragement, joys, pleasures or health come from the Lord.--And not only for her sake, but that she might be happy in her task, that she might better do Thy work, and that she might rule well, and that she might be fit to rule as the Lord wants her to rule.
29. Queens are very special, called and chosen to be special brides, very special parts of His body and very special to the Lord. They must save the best place for Him.
30. She is born to be a Queen and can be no less! There are some things others may do but she cannot.
31. There are certain standards a Queen must uphold which are not required of others. She must set the example to show the people that she puts the Lord's work and duty before personal pleasure and personal concerns.
32. A Queen must show that she loves the Lord's people more than herself or those who love her. She must remember that she must put her people first.
33. A Queen cannot always be a woman--but she must always be a Queen. More important than being herself or a woman, she must never forget that she is the Lord's Queen and she has His people in her hands.
34. May our Queens never forget their first love--that they handed the Lord a blank check signed by them for the Lord to fill in.
35. Help her never to forget that full surrender, that total submission to the Lord's will, to remind those about her that they can never take the Lord's place in her heart, nor the place of the Lord's work in her life.
36. There are some things which others can never share with a Queen--that divine anointing, that divine right, that divine occupation, that divine calling, that divine responsibility--the crown which she alone can wear, and sometimes must also bear.
37. The crown so beauteous to him that beholdeth, is so heavy to her that weareth it!--That though so often beautiful to them that see it, it is sometimes a heavy burden to bear! But the Queen must bear it for the sake of the Lord's Kingdom and let no one else steal it from her, not even a part of it.
38. Those which serve a Queen must do so on bended knee, even though it be in the bed of love!
39. The Lord would have our Queens be strong, courageous, valiant, fearless, upright, righteous, unselfish, sacrificial, self-denying, taking up the crown as though it were a cross, for indeed a cross it may be!--Holding the sceptre as though it were a burden, for indeed a burden it shall be!
40. They that bear the cross shall wear the crown.
41. Being a Queen is not an easy task, it is one in which the Lord has asked her if she's willing to come and die for Him--die to self, die even to personal pleasure, die to privacy of life, die to personal will and choice, and submit only to the Lord and to duty; that she may be truly great in the Lord's eyes and be honoured of her people.
42. A Queen should not make a decision wholly alone without word from the Lord and confirmation of her counsellors. Help her to know how important this is: To not only seek the Lord's face, but to seek the reflection of His will in the faces of those around her--the confirmation of the Lord's will--in the multitude of counsellors there lacketh not wisdom!
43. A queen should have good wise counsellors and she should not be ashamed or hesitant to ask their advice or to say that she has to pray about it before she can make a decision or give an answer. Help her to be slow to speak and slow to anger. Give her great wisdom above all things.
44. Give her great love, which is wisdom--the greatest of all wisdom, Thy love.--That she'll be patient and understanding with her people; that she'll have real humility before the Lord and them, and know she's nothing without Thee, Lord, or them.--And to know that she needs both to be a true Queen!
45. Help her to be the Queen of the Lord's heart--a Queen after the Lord's own heart and a Queen of hearts!
46. May she rule with love, and rule their hearts with love, and have great compassion, great wisdom, great patience, great understanding, great sympathy, and yet great firmness and great discipline!--That she shall stand strong and know when to be firm & unflinching & unchangeable!--That the Lord shall make her forehead adamant as flint when the time comes: And that she shall fear no man's face, but only the Lord's!
47. Help her to always remember that she's a symbol, not only an instrument, but a symbol of the Lord's hand. She symbolises the Lord's Kingdom and its rulership--the Lord's Own! She represents the Lord to her people!
48. Help the Queen always to remember that she belongs to the Lord first of all; and to her people, her children, next; and last of all to herself! Help her to keep things in that order.
49. "For Thou dost bestow Thy divine appointment, that with the mantle of the office comes the anointing of power and of Thy Spirit."
50. "This torch You have given her and placed within her hand to bear it, that its light might shine and enlighten the hearts of men around the World! She bears the torch--these hold the flame!"
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51. ACT.2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
52. GAL.3:28b There is neither male or female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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NOTABLE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE
Gen.17:15-21 -- SARAH, wife of Abraham
Exo.2:1-9; 6:20 -- JOCHEBED, mother of Moses and Aaron
Jos.2:1; 6:17 -- RAHAB, the harlot who hid the spies
Jud.4:4,5; 5:7 -- DEBORAH, a judge, prophetess and military leader
Jud.13:6,23-25 -- MANOAH'S WIFE, mother of Samson
Rut.1:16; 2:11-4:22 -- RUTH, the Moabite
Rut.3:1-4 -- NAOMI, Ruth's mother-in-law
1Sa.1:11,22-28 -- HANNAH, mother of Samuel
1Sa.25:3,14-19 -- ABIGAIL, wife of David
1Kg.17:8-24 -- WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH, who fed Elijah
2Kg.4:8-30 -- THE SHUNAMMITE, who gave hospitality to Elisha
2Kg.22:14-20 -- HULDAH, a prophetess
Est.4:14,16; 7:1-6 -- ESTHER, a queen
Mt.15:28 -- THE SYROPHENICIAN, woman of great faith
Mt.26:6-13 -- MARY (of Bethany) who washed Jesus' feet
Mt.27:55,56 -- SALOME, mother of James and John
Mk.16:1,9 -- MARY MAGDALENE, girlfriend of Jesus
Lk.1:30-38,42-55 -- MARY, mother of Jesus
Lk.1:5,6,13-17 -- ELIZABETH, mother of John the Baptist
Lk.2:36-38 -- ANNA, a prophetess
Jn.4:7,28-30,39 -- WOMAN OF SAMARIA, the "evangelist"
Jn.11:1,5 -- MARTHA, sister of Mary and of Lazarus
Ac.9:36-42 -- DORCAS, a disciple, raised to life
Ac.16:14,15 -- LYDIA, a convert who gave hospitality to Paul
Ac.18:26 -- PRISCILLA, of Aquila
Ac.21:8,9 -- DAUGHTERS OF PHILIP, prophetesses
Ro.16:1,6,15 -- PHEBE, MARY, JULIA, early church co-workers of Paul
2Tim.1:5 -- LOIS and EUNICE, grandmother and mother of Timothy, women of "unfeigned faith"
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