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THE
WOMEN
MINISTRY
ADVANCED CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP
(100 LEVEL)
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GROUND
OF TRUTH BIBLE INSTITUTE
THE
WOMEN MINISTRY
INTRODUCTION
Despite the
fact that Paul asked women to keep silent in the church according to 1 Corinthians
14 that says:
“The women should keep quite in the
church meetings. They are not allowed to speak; as the Jewish law says, they
must not be in charge.” G.N.B Bible
It became apparent
that women are not to be useless in the work of the ministry. If we look at our
Bible very well, we will notice that there are notable women who did exploits
for the Lord, those whom we will study later as we continue in this teaching.
There are
many ministries in which a woman can be involved. Even several women have been
involved in the work of the ministry by one way or the other. But the first
ministry I saw God giving to a woman is the Ministry of Help.
God said ‘it isn’t good for man to
be alone; I will make a companion for him, a helper suited to his needs’. Gen
2:18 S.L.B.
According to
the passage, every woman should realise that she is a helper to her husband,
therefore, a woman has no separate ministry on her own except the ministry of
her husband, except on few occasions.
DEFINITION
Since we
know that a woman is a helper to her husband, we will rather look at the
definition of this study from HOME than looking at it from the offices of the
ministry.
THE
HOME 
It is
difficult to define the word ‘home’ for it is much more than a place. A
beautiful house might not be a home, while a very poor dwelling can be made
into a beautiful home. As Webster says, “the home is the abiding place of the
affection.”
What makes
the difference between a house and home?
The parents,
their attitudes, opinions, moral standards, actions, characters and
personalities in general.
A Christian
home consists of a God fearing father, God fearing mother and God fearing
children. A Christian home is an institution where parents are bound together
by Christian love; where children are welcome and scripturally instructed, and
the Lord Jesus is not only the supposed head of the home but the actual Head,
where parents and children gather daily for family worship.
“Every wise woman builds her house.
But the foolish pulls down with her hands.” Proverbs 14:1
In this verse, it is clearly written the importance of
virtuous woman in a home. We are not just talking of ordinary woman but a woman
that is after God’s heart. It does not speak of every woman but says, “Every
wise woman”. Before one can build, there must be a strong foundation, which
means the foundation of the woman in the home must be Jesus Christ. The woman
in the home must be born again not only born again but spirit filled Christian.
Having a strong foundation that cannot be blown off by anything. Romans
8:37-39.
THE
DUTIES OF A WOMAN IN THE HOME
1.
SHE MUST BE TRUSTWORTHY AND RELIABLE
TO HER HUSBAND Vs
11: firstly, it is the duty of the woman to live with her husband all the days
of her life just as it is the binding duty of her husband to live with her.
Roman 7:2 reads, “For the woman which hath a husband is bound by law to her
husband so long as it lived, but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the
law of her husband.” 1 cor. 7:10 reads: “and unto the married I command yet not
I, but the Lord, let not the wife depart from her husband.”
2.
SHE MUST BE A HELPER TO HER HUSBAND Vs 12: It is the duty of a good
woman to do her husband good and not evil all the days of her life. The woman
should not be antagonist to her husband rather she should live peacefully with
him seeking only his comfort and protecting his interest all the days of her
life
3.
SHE MUST BE A CHANNEL OF BLESSING TO
HER FAMILY Vs 14: It
is the duty of a woman to prepare good food for her family. What kind of a cook
are you? Are you the type who burns the food often or adds too much salt or
pepper to the soup so that the family complains of your cooking?
4.
SHE MUST BE A WOMAN OF THE WORD Vs 15: It is important for a woman
to have the word of God in her life, to teach and to live in it and it is her
duty to wake up early in the morning to make sure that her family do their
family Alter
5.
SHE DOES NOTHING WITHOUT THE
KNOWLEDGE OF HER HUSBAND Vs 16: It is also good for a woman to make sure that she must not do
anything in secret to her husband, she must take permission first from her
husband
6.
SHE TAKES SPIRITUAL RESPONSIBILITIES
VERY IMPORTANT Vs
17: A good woman must not be slack spiritually, she must make sure that all
spiritual responsibilities that are given unto her is well handle and make sure
that her relationship with God is a cordial.
7.
SHE MUST BE A PRAYERFUL WOMAN Vs 18: A good woman must be able to
talk to God in prayers at all times and her life must be a prayerful one. She must
make sure that her antenna is always set out in prayer.
8.
SHE MUST BE A HARDWORKING WOMAN Vs 19: A good woman must be
hardworking, she must not be lazy, her hands must always be busy for the work
because the woman in the Bible worked willingly with their own hands.
9.
SHE MUST BE A GENEROUS WOMAN Vs 20: She must make sure she gives
willingly to everybody her life must be an answer to the cry of those who are
in need in terms of money, clothes e.t.c.
10. SHE MUST BE AVAILABLE AS A COVERING CLOTH TO HER HUSBAND Vs 21: The sexual life must be with understanding,
it should not be in an animalistic way. Prayerfully a means of the real
enjoyment should be found and the parties should find solution to a happy
union.
11. SHE MAKES HER HUSBAND PRESENTABLE Vs 23: She must be a woman who put her husband into high
position and gives her husband honour in the way that he will be presentable
outside
12. SHE MAKES HER POSITION STRONG AND SECURE Vs 25: A good woman must be ready to
welcome visitors and in-laws. Her genuine concern should be for their
salvation, if they are not yet saved, she should see them as her own people,
and a good woman must know how to endure in the home especially in the time of
needs.
13. SHE MUST BE A WOMAN WHO CONTROLS HER TONGUE Vs 26: A good woman must not engaged
herself in careless talks, she must know how to talk or give reply to a
discussion in the society, among brethren and in their family also. James
3:2-12
14. 
SHE MUST BE A WOMAN OF LONG SIGHT Vs 27: A good woman must be a woman
of faith, who plans ahead of things.
SHE MUST BE A WOMAN OF LONG SIGHT Vs 27: A good woman must be a woman
of faith, who plans ahead of things.
THE
WOMEN WHO BROUGHT REVIVAL INTO THEIR GENERATION
A.
THE OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN AND REVIVAL
LABOUR
INTRODUCTION: Whenever we talked about Revival, many people misunderstand
it, they thought it is singing and dancing, while some people believed it to be
hard sermon. But if you do not understand, do not misunderstand.
Revival is God’s
interruption to a system or to a generation. Though it is obvious that God is
usually silent about mentioning the name of women in the Bible, but if it looks
as if there are some women that heaven cannot be silent about their names
simply because of their involvement in the revival labours
Therefore, we are going
to consider some women in the Old Testament whom the Lord used to bring, that
is, the interruption of God in their days
1. ZIPPORAH: This
is Moses’ wife whom the Lord used to rescue her husband when God was about to
kill him because of circumcision. Exodus 4:24-26
2. DEBORAH:
(Judges 4:1-24) This Deborah was a prophetess in her days, but the bible still
calls him the wife of Lapidoth which means she was a responsible wife in her
husband’s house. (Vs 4)
The second lesson we can
learn from this woman as regard revival is that she loved the Lord, because the
Bible makes us to understand that “she judges Israel” which means she was a
teacher of the word (Vs 4)
The third lesson to learn
from this woman is that she did not cover her life because the Bible said she
sat under the palm tree, therefore, any woman that brings revival to her
generation must live a transparent life (Vs 5)
Lastly, she gave
encouragement and supported Barak concerning the revival in the land (vs. 8
& 9)
3. RUTH: (Ruth 1:
6-3: 18) If we are to look at the records of women in the Old Testament,
without mentioning the name of Ruth, the record is incomplete, because of the
exploit she did.
The first lesson to learn
in the life of Ruth is that she was a woman of long sight, large heart and
strong determination (Vs 14-18).
Any woman who will bring
revival into her generation must never be of a shallow heart.
Another lesson we can
learn from sister Ruth is that she submitted herself under Naomi’s leadership,
any woman who will bring revival into this generation must be a correctable,
humble and advisable woman (3: 1-5)
4.
QUEEN ESTHER: Esther is
another woman we need to learn from, but before we do so, we need to firstly
look at the down fall of Vashti and learn some lesson from her. (Esther 1:
1-22)
These are the lessons to learn from Vashti, e.g.
A. Vashti believed that she has a separate
ministry apart from her husband
B. She forgot that the first ministry
that a woman has is her family. She led her husband to polygamy.
C. King sent to Vashti because she was a
presentable woman.
D. Vashti handled the Eunuchs with the
hand of levity, but it is the duties of Pastor’s wife to take care of them. Matt. 19:12
THE LIFE OF ESTHER
The first
lesson to learn in the of Esther is that Esther was kept for a year (12 months)
for probationer period, she cannot go out and visit her friend, but she was
there for purification, in fact she cannot go and look for her uncle, because
God wanted to use her for revival work.
Likewise also the woman that God will use for
end time revival or for her husband ministry must pass through the probationer
period. (2:12).
The second
lesson we can learn from the life of Esther is that she is a woman who was
ready to risk her life for her people’s sake, she is a woman that was concern
about other people’s problem than himself (4:16).
THE NEW TESTATMENT WOMEN AND REVIVAL LABOUR
As we said earlier
on that revival is God’s interruption to a wrong system in a generation.
Therefore we shall consider few of the New Testament women who contributed to
the progress of the church and the revival work in their generation.
1. MARY, THE MOTHER OF THE LORD (ST LUKE 1:28 – 38)
Mary, the
mother of Jesus has been called the most privileged among women because of the
roles she played in the lives of all, throughout the whole world, because she
surrendered her life to holy living though she missed many things, but yet she
still went head to allow the promise of God to come to pass through her life.
SOME OF THE THINGS MARY MISSED
A. She missed her engagement ceremony
B. She missed her wedding ceremony /
honeymoon
Because of
the revival of the whole world can you miss Engagement and Wedding Ceremony?
2.
MARY MAGDALENE (A woman from Magdala of Galilee) Jn. 20:1 – 18, Matt 28:11 – 15
This woman
is another notable woman in the Bible, because of the role she played in
bringing the reality of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because the
first news after the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ is a bad one in the
sense that the soldiers were bribed to be telling untrue story that Jesus did
not resurrect.
Thank God
for Sis. Mary who woke up earlier before anybody to visit the sepulchre of our
Lord, and not that alone, she brought Peter and John even when those ones left,
she was still standing at the sepulchre for a genuine encounter that
interrupted the bad news that is going all about.
SOME
BAD WOMEN IN THE BIBLE
There are
some women in the Bible that we must not imitate because of the bad example
they introduced in their days, some of them are even wicked to extend of
becoming an instrument that the devil used in killing revival e.g.:
1. EVE (A woman
who brought the downfall of human race) Gen 3:1 -7
2. PORTIFIAR’S WIFE (A woman of immorality) Gen 39 :7 – 18
3. DELILAH (Who
betrayed Samson) Judges 16: 4 – 19
4. PENINAH (Who
provoked Hannah) I Sam 6
5. JESSEBEL (A
wicked Queen who pushed her husband into wickedness) I Kings 16: 1 – end
6. ATAHLIAH (Who
destroyed all the royal seed) II Kings 11: 1
7. HERODIA (Who
killed John the Baptist) Matt. 14: 1 – 12
In
conclusion, women are very important in the work of the ministry, therefore men
should know this fact that whosoever knows how to manage his wife would enjoy
her also they should realise that women are weaker vessels.
Women also
must realise that they are the salt in
the family, and helper in the ministry therefore we must do our best to win God’s
approval on our lives and earnestly contend for the faith for by this we will
be able to be standing pillars in our husbands’ ministry.
GOD BLESS YOU.
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