Wow! Praise God for women like this. It is not often that you come across women like this, let alone hear them speak. My wife is one of them. She hardly ever shares openly about her convictions and what the Lord has taught her, though we are still in our early 30's. I will shares this with her. Praise God! This makes me feel almost "unworthy". It brings a sense of reverence and respect but also trepidation. Trepidation , because of the response God requires from us as husbands. They are the daughters of God.
I decided to comment after deleting a few initially. I have been thinking of this post the past few days and I appreciate the title change Eric but then I thought of something to add to this discussion. I think the question that I did not hear many on here ask is what is Jesus calling the mother and or wife to do? It’s easy to take one scripture and say this is what a mother or wife should look like but I think the answer is for women to hear from the Lord for herself, as she is serving not only her family but first Christ…. So this creates a situation where this looks different for all of us. Some women will be called to full time ministry where the spouse supports, and of course the traditional male being the lead pastor. I have seen both context. What if Jesus called the wife into ministry and not the husband…. What if ministry is not his gifting! What if they have issues financially and the women needs to get a second job to make ends meet? Some wives and moms are full time professionals and are not called to stay at home, what is Jesus’ call on their life! And then you have the single moms… My mom worked three jobs as a single mom, no time to stay at home! You get the point. What did Jesus call the wife or mom to do. I think this calls both husband and wife to love EACH OTHER and mutually submit! What is Jesus saying and how can you love and prefer another in the context that HE is calling? It takes mutual submission for this to take place. I know a husband and wife couple, where the women is the pastor. That’s her calling not his, yet she beautifully submits to her spouse and he submits to her. I also think the husbands and fathers should have been a topic for discussion as well. We always put so much pressure on women. We as women have a responsibility to follow and serve Christ the same as men and interestingly, I think the attack you mention on women is actually the freedom that is now coming to wives and mothers to follow the Lord as He is calling them! Notice I said the Lord, lol. Some do what they want but many abuse freedom, like how we abuse our freedom in Christ…..The main point I want to make is, to be content in Christ despite whatever your calling or situation because we all know, whatever calling you have…. It’s hard!!!!… ministry, professional, full time Mom! Single, Husband ! Father! Jesus we are content and liberated in you alone! This includes in all callings! Blessings Eric, I think this might help the discussion a bit. I follow you more than any other preacher just wanted to add my thoughts 😊.
Thanks for speaking on this subject. It’s definitely not talked about much anymore. My Mom raised us (4 daughters & 1 son) to know that being a wife and a mother is a high calling. I remember when I was little, her saying things to me like, “you are going to be a great mother someday” . She called out that identity and gave it value. I believe that truly helped myself and my 3 sisters to be content with our role as wives and mothers. My sisters & I are all Moms and have put that first. Now I have 4 daughters, ages 14, 17, 19 & 22 and we have raised them to know that preparing to be a Mom is something the Lord wants them to be focused on. Seems to me our society, even Christian culture steers young ladies in a different direction. It is hard for them when the focus is on preparing for a career. They are constantly asked, “What do you want to do with your life?” It is almost seen as wrong to mention becoming a wife and a mother or preparing for that. We’ve tried to help our daughters get mentors & choose ministry and college choices that will help them prepare for their future lives as wives/mothers as the Lord leads them. So far, they are all excited about their future role and hopefully won’t even contemplate the thought of “just being a wife/Mom” Again, thanks for the conversation about this. It is SO needed and almost nonexistent even in Christian circles. Blessings!!🙏❤️ So thankful for your ministry!!
Ego causes women to look down on "just being a wife". Someone who is truly submitted to the will of God will do whatever Christ wants no matter how insignificant it looks.
It took me a little while but I am learning to envelope my children with wings of grace..to comfort and to reassure... this is what Christ does to me in my growing in Him. When they are babies and all the mistakes and mishaps happen it's so easy to comfort and reassure. When they enter into teenage years, when they enter into that chrysalis of change , and we're tempted to become highly frustrated cos they seem to be making the silly mistakes. In their chrysalis everything we taught them is being mixed with their own ideals which will establish who they are as adults. At this chrysalis stage it is important to continue to comfort and reassure them, it will be the biggest thing they learn to do for themselves. Knowing how to comfort and reassure themselves gives them wings to fly in the face of making the many mistakes we might make as young adults.
I always wanted to be a missionary but when I was 20 depression sought me out with all it's strength. And a loneliness began to scream inside of me in a place where I once new God's love. So I cried out for a husband God gave me a husband but the loneliness remained. Because God alone can fill the space within. I finally know how to love my husband it's not at all what I thought it was at first. Love and humility can not be separated.
God also released me and my fiancé to be together, and as much as I love him and am learning to love him better, I still fight depression and loneliness. I know only God can fill that hole but I always seek out more love and attention from my fiancé before I go to the Lord. It’s unhealthy to demand so much of someone and treat them like an idol. It’s just hard when you love someone so much.
@@lilyawood May God heal your heart. His cross is enough he came to heal the brocken hearted. God's word says he will never leave you nor forsake you. May God show you that you are never alone. Cling to the cross it is everything. I am a refugee and have lost my mom and dad my brothers and sister and live in hiding yet I can testify that the power of the cross is enough to heal a brocken heart deliver the body from sickness and the mind from torment. Fall in love with Jesus and never leave the cross. Visit it daily for strength and life. The is no life apart from Christ My Lord.
I'm not an aged woman yet as it speaks of in those scriptures, but being in my late thirties God has had me speak into many younger woman. It's one of my passions and something God told me I would do. He spoke this very scripture to me. I love to build people up in the Lord and the power of His might. I appreciate this because it is a high calling to be a wife and a mother. Some people don't view it that way. Families are being torn apart and God wants to send His healing touch and heal the broken and hurting. Strong families are important for all...even for those who are single. I believe the secret of what these older woman would have taught is experiencing an intimate relationship with God to the point that it produces an outflow of love to their family. When a deep connection with the Spirit of God is actively in place it produces a joy in relationships that only God can be the source of. The gospel is again the secret recipe to success. The same thing goes for men as well...the deep love that men are supposed to give their wives can only come channelled through Him or marriage isn't all that it can be. There is the beautiful side to this though...when God loves your spouse through you, there is an infinite grace flowing too so that even if the other is not doing well, love covers a multitude of sins. There isn't anyone who will do things perfectly so we all need grace and the more we receive it from God the more we can give it. Hence it really comes back to our relationship to God, for men and woman. True grace truly transforms and conforms us into His image. This is the kind of person who can truly love and love and find it fulfilling and a joy to do so. Just like it can become so easy to love Jesus it can become so easy to love like He loves. John says (1 John 1-5) we know we love the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments. His commandments are not grievous. (When God's commands stop feeling grievous because God's grace changed you into His likeness...that's when the true power of God is seen.) This victory to overcome the world comes by faith, and faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God. When woman are taught how to receive and experience God's love at a very deep and fulfilling level by feeding on His word, they will love their husbands and their children. The one requirement is that they have to want God, desire Him and seek after Him with all their heart. Those that seek Him with their whole heart do find. Some moms find it difficult to find time to be with Jesus, but actually sitting at His feet means a rested mind. If the mind is at rest and in fellowship with Him, a busy day of taking care of children doesn't take time from Him, He actually comes in and helps with the daily chores by His companionship. Isaiah says He gently leads those that are with young and I believe if woman can tap into it there is a supernatural grace upon child rearing. There is a grace upon all of us that in whatever season we find ourselves to be in we can overcome if we are hearing and heeding the voice of God. I'm thankful for that.
Can u please pray for me? my familiy is sick and state tornamint is this weekend and im very inportent for the team i trust God that he will protect me from sickness are team has 8 wins i cant let my team down when i stay home but i must go! Please ask God about me?
That's soooooo good. What was revealed to me when you spoke the word in Titus 2 was more about position and authority than behavior. Hmmm I will have to chew on that one.
A lot of marriages back then were arranged, so the girls never had a chance to fall “in love”. Can you imagine being made to marry a man whom you aren’t attracted to in any way? You would have to learn to love and be obedient to God’s word. I think that’s what that scripture means😘❤️
In the Hebrew there is no pattern for falling in love though the 3 word given But the ruha ahava and the doad. I am sure my spelling is wrong. How ever it simply means friendship commitment and intamcy. If you can keep those flames alive a marriage will stand the test of time. Not all flames burn at the same time but when they do it truelly is beautiful
Read from a man that was in an arranged marriage. He said when people date, that meet the other person’s “representative” mostly. You will have to learn about and learn to love either way.
Within Christ we are timeless but eternity bound for matter in the moment when we see ourselves with out the feeling or even being "aged" but to be maturity in wholeness for the abilities to save the word which in fact we would have time and not like the world where time has them....and them defacing the world to destruction....hope and faith to finally see faith for what it looks like for we were created to not die ,but live...in all for TRUTH AND HOLY SPIRIT..PERFECTLY DONE TOGETHER...
So appreciate this vid. It is powerful & encouraging. Thankyou so much for speaking into wives & mothers. Really appreciate both of your insights. Thankyou again 🔥🔥🙌🙏
Hey eric. Please do a video about singlehood and being content with Christ alone. I haven't seen any preaching on this in full context. It's always about preparing for marriage and not being content with Christ alone during singlehood/celibacy
@@shantebrown9705 sis that's true. I have noticed a lot of young people desire to be married more than they desire to obey God's will. I believe many people who are called to celibacy run form it because of discontentment with Christ alone.
I deleted my comments just don’t want to be a hindrance to any married women watching… and if you did read my comments it’s just hard sometimes to be single. The attack on all of us is to wish for something we don’t have but the key is to find contentment in Christ and serve with what we do have. Thanks for sharing Eric, I’m sure many will be blessed 💜. And my sis, I understand. Let’s hold on to Christ!
@@shantebrown9705 once a person submits their will to Christ daily, nothing is burdensome but it is easy and light. Singlehood becomes enjoying with you choose to find satisfaction in Christ :)
Absolutely agree, i'd love to be married at 44 and have asked God to take the desire away if it's not his will for me because it's getting in the way of my walk with him. I'd also love to see someone interviewing someone that married later in life.
One situation that I don't know I have EVER heard any teaching on is what to do when the husband tends to narcissism and simply squashing the wife's person, love & desire for Jesus (and that's not a 'I'm going to India' desire), with the full backup of the leaders of the church, but with no relationship or conversation or prayer with his wife about anything. So she is very much a single wife. Unprayed with. Unspoken to. And she tries to connect with him but he blocks and basically no relationship except the bedroom, which of course eventually dies like an unwatered apple tree. No guarantee that if you obey Jesus that your husband will turn. I call out the 'never met a submitted wife whose husband didn't love her' statement. That is SUCH a false, condemning statement. And wrong. I asked God if it was true. He took me to> Scriptural precedent: Abigail and Nabal. What IS a wife meant to do when her husband is like that? Domestic abuse - especially the 'milder' forms of narcissistic control - is not something that ANYONE ever preaches on biblically, especially within a marriage. What to do when the older women in the church are pretty much pushing things that are merely the traditions of their culture and family? And sadly, for a woman, the phrase 'Find a new church' is mostly not an option. I poured myself into my children and established a devotional life with them at bedtimes when it became obvious that unless I did it, it would not happen. There's lots of teaching on being a wife when both are committed christians and walking in humility and love. Not much teaching on what a wife can/ought to do when it is VERY much less than a committed christian she finds she is married to. Please - more teaching on the REALLY hard situations. Because the miracles don't always happen for whatever reason.
I love your channel Eric, as a Pastor for 30 years myself, I see your heart. But this is an area I strongly disagree with your theology. The scriptures are Holy Spirit inspired but still written in a context and culture of patriarchy. the word submit for example in Peter actually means mutual submission. It's like saying 'women must be silent in the church' we know this is not relative to the 21st century. The word doesn't change but our interpretation changes of it over time, as we understand more. We cannot make other things in the word 'contemporary' but continue to make women submitted to their husbands in this way. partners wives husbands must be submitted to one another equally. - This has been the problem all along, that the church is out of touch. Jesus treated women equally. (John 4 the woman at the well - much to his disciples' disagreement). Please study the word using thorough exegesis pertaining to all scriptural contexts. In other words, we mustn't single out or put pressure on what a woman should be doing but rather what we should be doing together in our marriages. For example, men using these texts to make women submit to them, and misogyny, which is rife in the church because of these teachings. I think we need to be doing more corrective teaching about how men should be treating women as equals and that men should not be threatened by this but taught about how damaging this kind of teaching has been in suppressing women. The world is still very much a 'man's domain' and women are still the most oppressed people group in the world. Selah - Blessings
@@josiahrandolphbaldwin8272 Please apply the rule of context when you interpret scripture. Otherwise read Leviticus it says you should not wear interwoven clothing, nor eat shellfish. NT Paul says a woman must be silent in the church. Do you know the correct context to this of the audience he was addressing in a society and culture where women were mere pieces of property and second class citizens? - Scripture talks about many things, but we cannot take texts in isolation to suit a patriarchal narrative. This is why women are still so oppressed in the Church. It must change, it's outright wrong, and scripture has been used incorrectly for too long bible bash women into submission and imply that they are 'disobeying' the Word if they don't 'submit' to their husbands. This will only change when more decision makers are equally women in the church. I'm not talking about being in 'charge' of sunday school, I'm talking about women on the Board in senior positions.Enough this is why we are losing the next generation because the church is out of touch. - I know what's coming next; "you can't make scripture adhere to society it must be the other way around"....Yes absolutely but you have to understand that the bible is complicated we cannot take every book literally we also must apply our own contexts to scripture and remove the biases and unlearn the injustices against women that the Church has held for years, among other things. - Selah and blessings that's me.
@@janetrexroat4841 Yes sadly you'll find because of this never ending cycle of women staying silent etc, most won't comment on here because they will usually get attacked by their male counterparts. we must not stay silent in this very partriachal society where men are still dictating to women what they should and shouldn't be and using scripture to justify stuff that Jesus never modelled.
Quite frankly, as a read the replies, the ones predominately from men, it is very sad the view of how men believe God intends a woman to be. Jesus ' example was to treat woman equally. Where this all stems from is a misogynistic view where mens ideas of who and how a woman should behave and how scripture has been twisted to accodomate this view, is frightening. I mean a 'good Christian woman' wouldn't dare argue with that right? Otherwise she's considered rebellious to the word? - No! She 's become an informed woman no longer wanting to be suppressed and dictated to by a man. - She is condemned for that. We might as well be bringing "Handmaid's Tale' back into society, looks like much of the church are still there. Alas, we are in the 21st century and still applying scripture to male patriarchal biases. --Adam may have been created first but please guys, every male born after that came from a woman, we don't twist scripture to suit a male narritive. the stereotypes men have built around women and how they should dress, look talk and act are just frightening...and still look at our society now...we are going back into an era where women are once again oppressed, cannot voice their experiences of gender violence based abuse in the church, for fear of not being taken seriously or believed. Let's get some real facts: Look around the world at 'reputable' church major ones, where you are starting to see woman talk about the male Pastor sexually abusing them, young girls, the same, Hillsong, willow, Mars church all perpertrators are males exercising violence whether it be sexual physical psychological or other, it's against women. In the church. Enough is enough. All this comes because men have felt they can get away with anything in the church because they are men. it stems from the way women have been portrayed and steretyped by men. These are all contributing factors. They run deep. I don't speak from an opinion alone, i've done gender studies in my theology degree, and 30 years of counselling women in the church I think gives me enough to make the assesments I have. Men submit to your wives, wives submit to your husbands. the word is mutual submission inthe GK Study it out people.
So if a little girl wants to grow up and be a doctor she should discard that cuz God only calls women to be housewives? Not all women become wives and mothers does that make them 'out of Gods will?' I love your teachings on the bride but this one bothers me.
The Gospel: Plain and Simple “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” - 2 Corithians 11:3 Ask someone today if they are saved and you will most likely hear responses like these: “I have accepted Jesus into my heart.” Or “I have made him Lord of my life.” “I’ve been baptized.” “I said a prayer.” Sounds all good and churchy don’t it; but it is difficult to de-termine whether or not a person actually knows the gospel that saves them. These useless phrases don’t describe a thing about what the gospel is and has left a devastating effect of people not knowing what it is that they are saved from nor how they are saved; which leaves a more serious effect of people questioning their salvation. Let’s not muddy the simplicity of salvation that is in Christ with vague church sounding phrases that do not communicate anything. But rather present God’s word with clarity and assuredness. So here is the gospel: plain and simple. Sin was passed upon all men by one man Adam, and death is a consequence of this sin (Rom 5:12). Mankind has an eternal destiny of condemnation and wrath - Hell - because of this sin (Rom 6:23). No matter what good works one might do we are still found sinners in the sight of our Creator God. And all unrighteousness and those who follow get indignation and wrath. We cannot be found righteous for by God’s law we are found sinners (Rom 3:19-20). If we have broken even one law we are found guilty. It is for this reason of not being able to create our own righteousness and being born in a sinful flesh that we need a savior (Titus 3:5). Christ is that Savior, God manifested in the flesh, sinless, died in our place on a cross 2000 years ago. Taking upon him the wrath and judgement that was intended for us sinners. And it is through his bloodshed, burial, and resurrection on our behalf that we are able to have peace with God and forgiveness of our sins (1 Cor 15:1-4, Col 3:14). This good news is unto all but only those that believe in it are made righteous in Christ (Romans 3:22). It is then after we have heard this good news of Christ’s righteousness available to us freely, that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit and we are now part of Christ’s body the church (Eph 1:13) There is nothing that we need to do, no good works that are required, and no bad works that can separate us from our new position in Christ (Romans 8:35-39). Faith and belief in this information from God’s word is the gospel. The gospel is not accepting Jesus into your heart. The gospel is not making him lord of your life, it is not saying a prayer and it is not being baptized with water. So next time someone asks you if you are saved. Give them the clear assured answer “Yes And let me tell you why!” Find more free resources at: www.graceambassadors.com
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I felt the fear of the Lord throughout this chat. So Holy. Thanks Eric and Danielle
Wow! Praise God for women like this. It is not often that you come across women like this, let alone hear them speak. My wife is one of them. She hardly ever shares openly about her convictions and what the Lord has taught her, though we are still in our early 30's. I will shares this with her. Praise God! This makes me feel almost "unworthy". It brings a sense of reverence and respect but also trepidation. Trepidation , because of the response God requires from us as husbands. They are the daughters of God.
I decided to comment after deleting a few initially. I have been thinking of this post the past few days and I appreciate the title change Eric but then I thought of something to add to this discussion. I think the question that I did not hear many on here ask is what is Jesus calling the mother and or wife to do? It’s easy to take one scripture and say this is what a mother or wife should look like but I think the answer is for women to hear from the Lord for herself, as she is serving not only her family but first Christ…. So this creates a situation where this looks different for all of us. Some women will be called to full time ministry where the spouse supports, and of course the traditional male being the lead pastor. I have seen both context. What if Jesus called the wife into ministry and not the husband…. What if ministry is not his gifting! What if they have issues financially and the women needs to get a second job to make ends meet? Some wives and moms are full time professionals and are not called to stay at home, what is Jesus’ call on their life! And then you have the single moms… My mom worked three jobs as a single mom, no time to stay at home! You get the point. What did Jesus call the wife or mom to do. I think this calls both husband and wife to love EACH OTHER and mutually submit! What is Jesus saying and how can you love and prefer another in the context that HE is calling? It takes mutual submission for this to take place. I know a husband and wife couple, where the women is the pastor. That’s her calling not his, yet she beautifully submits to her spouse and he submits to her. I also think the husbands and fathers should have been a topic for discussion as well. We always put so much pressure on women. We as women have a responsibility to follow and serve Christ the same as men and interestingly, I think the attack you mention on women is actually the freedom that is now coming to wives and mothers to follow the Lord as He is calling them! Notice I said the Lord, lol. Some do what they want but many abuse freedom, like how we abuse our freedom in Christ…..The main point I want to make is, to be content in Christ despite whatever your calling or situation because we all know, whatever calling you have…. It’s hard!!!!… ministry, professional, full time Mom! Single, Husband ! Father!
Jesus we are content and liberated in you alone! This includes in all callings!
Blessings Eric, I think this might help the discussion a bit. I follow you more than any other preacher just wanted to add my thoughts 😊.
Your comment is the best. You answered the what-if questions I have. Thank you.
Thanks for speaking on this subject. It’s definitely not talked about much anymore. My Mom raised us (4 daughters & 1 son) to know that being a wife and a mother is a high calling. I remember when I was little, her saying things to me like, “you are going to be a great mother someday” . She called out that identity and gave it value. I believe that truly helped myself and my 3 sisters to be content with our role as wives and mothers. My sisters & I are all Moms and have put that first. Now I have 4 daughters, ages 14, 17, 19 & 22 and we have raised them to know that preparing to be a Mom is something the Lord wants them to be focused on. Seems to me our society, even Christian culture steers young ladies in a different direction. It is hard for them when the focus is on preparing for a career. They are constantly asked, “What do you want to do with your life?” It is almost seen as wrong to mention becoming a wife and a mother or preparing for that. We’ve tried to help our daughters get mentors & choose ministry and college choices that will help them prepare for their future lives as wives/mothers as the Lord leads them. So far, they are all excited about their future role and hopefully won’t even contemplate the thought of “just being a wife/Mom”
Again, thanks for the conversation about this. It is SO needed and almost nonexistent even in Christian circles.
Blessings!!🙏❤️ So thankful for your ministry!!
This is beautiful. What encouragement I needed today. Thank you.
Thank you. Needed to hear this today.
🙌😭literally just Read Titus a few minutes ago before listening to this, so blessed 🙏🏾
So needed
This vlog spoke to me so much
Danielle is a shining good example for what God has designed women to be! Thank you very much for sharing.
This comment may be out of place, but I always see ads for the mormon church when I click on one of Eric's videos.
Wow this tremendously blessed me 🕊
THANK YOU
Ego causes women to look down on "just being a wife". Someone who is truly submitted to the will of God will do whatever Christ wants no matter how insignificant it looks.
So good thank you! We need more of this truth and encouragement!
It took me a little while but I am learning to envelope my children with wings of grace..to comfort and to reassure... this is what Christ does to me in my growing in Him.
When they are babies and all the mistakes and mishaps happen it's so easy to comfort and reassure. When they enter into teenage years, when they enter into that chrysalis of change , and we're tempted to become highly frustrated cos they seem to be making the silly mistakes. In their chrysalis everything we taught them is being mixed with their own ideals which will establish who they are as adults. At this chrysalis stage it is important to continue to comfort and reassure them, it will be the biggest thing they learn to do for themselves. Knowing how to comfort and reassure themselves gives them wings to fly in the face of making the many mistakes we might make as young adults.
I always wanted to be a missionary but when I was 20 depression sought me out with all it's strength. And a loneliness began to scream inside of me in a place where I once new God's love. So I cried out for a husband God gave me a husband but the loneliness remained. Because God alone can fill the space within. I finally know how to love my husband it's not at all what I thought it was at first. Love and humility can not be separated.
God also released me and my fiancé to be together, and as much as I love him and am learning to love him better, I still fight depression and loneliness. I know only God can fill that hole but I always seek out more love and attention from my fiancé before I go to the Lord. It’s unhealthy to demand so much of someone and treat them like an idol. It’s just hard when you love someone so much.
@@lilyawood
May God heal your heart. His cross is enough he came to heal the brocken hearted. God's word says he will never leave you nor forsake you. May God show you that you are never alone. Cling to the cross it is everything. I am a refugee and have lost my mom and dad my brothers and sister and live in hiding yet I can testify that the power of the cross is enough to heal a brocken heart deliver the body from sickness and the mind from torment. Fall in love with Jesus and never leave the cross. Visit it daily for strength and life. The is no life apart from Christ My Lord.
I so wish they had also addressed women who are not wives and mothers
Beautiful Danielle, thank you.
I'm not an aged woman yet as it speaks of in those scriptures, but being in my late thirties God has had me speak into many younger woman. It's one of my passions and something God told me I would do. He spoke this very scripture to me. I love to build people up in the Lord and the power of His might. I appreciate this because it is a high calling to be a wife and a mother. Some people don't view it that way. Families are being torn apart and God wants to send His healing touch and heal the broken and hurting. Strong families are important for all...even for those who are single. I believe the secret of what these older woman would have taught is experiencing an intimate relationship with God to the point that it produces an outflow of love to their family. When a deep connection with the Spirit of God is actively in place it produces a joy in relationships that only God can be the source of. The gospel is again the secret recipe to success. The same thing goes for men as well...the deep love that men are supposed to give their wives can only come channelled through Him or marriage isn't all that it can be. There is the beautiful side to this though...when God loves your spouse through you, there is an infinite grace flowing too so that even if the other is not doing well, love covers a multitude of sins. There isn't anyone who will do things perfectly so we all need grace and the more we receive it from God the more we can give it. Hence it really comes back to our relationship to God, for men and woman. True grace truly transforms and conforms us into His image. This is the kind of person who can truly love and love and find it fulfilling and a joy to do so. Just like it can become so easy to love Jesus it can become so easy to love like He loves. John says (1 John 1-5) we know we love the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments. His commandments are not grievous. (When God's commands stop feeling grievous because God's grace changed you into His likeness...that's when the true power of God is seen.) This victory to overcome the world comes by faith, and faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God.
When woman are taught how to receive and experience God's love at a very deep and fulfilling level by feeding on His word, they will love their husbands and their children.
The one requirement is that they have to want God, desire Him and seek after Him with all their heart. Those that seek Him with their whole heart do find. Some moms find it difficult to find time to be with Jesus, but actually sitting at His feet means a rested mind. If the mind is at rest and in fellowship with Him, a busy day of taking care of children doesn't take time from Him, He actually comes in and helps with the daily chores by His companionship. Isaiah says He gently leads those that are with young and I believe if woman can tap into it there is a supernatural grace upon child rearing.
There is a grace upon all of us that in whatever season we find ourselves to be in we can overcome if we are hearing and heeding the voice of God. I'm thankful for that.
Yes and AMEN
Can u please pray for me? my familiy is sick and state tornamint is this weekend and im very inportent for the team i trust God that he will protect me from sickness are team has 8 wins i cant let my team down when i stay home but i must go! Please ask God about me?
God bless everyone
That's soooooo good. What was revealed to me when you spoke the word in Titus 2 was more about position and authority than behavior. Hmmm I will have to chew on that one.
A lot of marriages back then were arranged, so the girls never had a chance to fall “in love”. Can you imagine being made to marry a man whom you aren’t attracted to in any way? You would have to learn to love and be obedient to God’s word. I think that’s what that scripture means😘❤️
In the Hebrew there is no pattern for falling in love though the 3 word given
But the ruha ahava and the doad. I am sure my spelling is wrong.
How ever it simply means friendship commitment and intamcy. If you can keep those flames alive a marriage will stand the test of time. Not all flames burn at the same time but when they do it truelly is beautiful
Read from a man that was in an arranged marriage. He said when people date, that meet the other person’s “representative” mostly. You will have to learn about and learn to love either way.
Amen
Within Christ we are timeless but eternity bound for matter in the moment when we see ourselves with out the feeling or even being "aged" but to be maturity in wholeness for the abilities to save the word which in fact we would have time and not like the world where time has them....and them defacing the world to destruction....hope and faith to finally see faith for what it looks like for we were created to not die ,but live...in all for TRUTH AND HOLY SPIRIT..PERFECTLY DONE TOGETHER...
*WORLD
Amen 🙌🙌 powerful 🔥🔥
So appreciate this vid. It is powerful & encouraging. Thankyou so much for speaking into wives & mothers. Really appreciate both of your insights. Thankyou again 🔥🔥🙌🙏
So so good.
Powerful
Amen Amen
Soo good
IN JESUS NAME....AMEN /SPIRIT OF TRUTH/FAITH/LOVE/
Hey eric. Please do a video about singlehood and being content with Christ alone. I haven't seen any preaching on this in full context. It's always about preparing for marriage and not being content with Christ alone during singlehood/celibacy
@@shantebrown9705 sis that's true. I have noticed a lot of young people desire to be married more than they desire to obey God's will. I believe many people who are called to celibacy run form it because of discontentment with Christ alone.
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I deleted my comments just don’t want to be a hindrance to any married women watching… and if you did read my comments it’s just hard sometimes to be single. The attack on all of us is to wish for something we don’t have but the key is to find contentment in Christ and serve with what we do have. Thanks for sharing Eric, I’m sure many will be blessed 💜. And my sis, I understand. Let’s hold on to Christ!
@@shantebrown9705 once a person submits their will to Christ daily, nothing is burdensome but it is easy and light. Singlehood becomes enjoying with you choose to find satisfaction in Christ :)
Absolutely agree, i'd love to be married at 44 and have asked God to take the desire away if it's not his will for me because it's getting in the way of my walk with him. I'd also love to see someone interviewing someone that married later in life.
One situation that I don't know I have EVER heard any teaching on is what to do when the husband tends to narcissism and simply squashing the wife's person, love & desire for Jesus (and that's not a 'I'm going to India' desire), with the full backup of the leaders of the church, but with no relationship or conversation or prayer with his wife about anything. So she is very much a single wife. Unprayed with. Unspoken to. And she tries to connect with him but he blocks and basically no relationship except the bedroom, which of course eventually dies like an unwatered apple tree. No guarantee that if you obey Jesus that your husband will turn. I call out the 'never met a submitted wife whose husband didn't love her' statement. That is SUCH a false, condemning statement. And wrong. I asked God if it was true. He took me to> Scriptural precedent: Abigail and Nabal. What IS a wife meant to do when her husband is like that? Domestic abuse - especially the 'milder' forms of narcissistic control - is not something that ANYONE ever preaches on biblically, especially within a marriage. What to do when the older women in the church are pretty much pushing things that are merely the traditions of their culture and family? And sadly, for a woman, the phrase 'Find a new church' is mostly not an option. I poured myself into my children and established a devotional life with them at bedtimes when it became obvious that unless I did it, it would not happen. There's lots of teaching on being a wife when both are committed christians and walking in humility and love. Not much teaching on what a wife can/ought to do when it is VERY much less than a committed christian she finds she is married to. Please - more teaching on the REALLY hard situations. Because the miracles don't always happen for whatever reason.
22:08 To be tied together through marital bonds while your hearts are estranged is to be tormented. Sigh~~~😔
If a woman doesn't know what it means to submit to Christ she wouldnt know what it means to submit to her husband
I love your channel Eric, as a Pastor for 30 years myself, I see your heart. But this is an area I strongly disagree with your theology. The scriptures are Holy Spirit inspired but still written in a context and culture of patriarchy. the word submit for example in Peter actually means mutual submission. It's like saying 'women must be silent in the church' we know this is not relative to the 21st century. The word doesn't change but our interpretation changes of it over time, as we understand more. We cannot make other things in the word 'contemporary' but continue to make women submitted to their husbands in this way. partners wives husbands must be submitted to one another equally. - This has been the problem all along, that the church is out of touch. Jesus treated women equally. (John 4 the woman at the well - much to his disciples' disagreement). Please study the word using thorough exegesis pertaining to all scriptural contexts. In other words, we mustn't single out or put pressure on what a woman should be doing but rather what we should be doing together in our marriages. For example, men using these texts to make women submit to them, and misogyny, which is rife in the church because of these teachings. I think we need to be doing more corrective teaching about how men should be treating women as equals and that men should not be threatened by this but taught about how damaging this kind of teaching has been in suppressing women. The world is still very much a 'man's domain' and women are still the most oppressed people group in the world. Selah - Blessings
Amen! Deborah Bell!! Thank you for your response to a very difficult topic.
@@josiahrandolphbaldwin8272 Please apply the rule of context when you interpret scripture. Otherwise read Leviticus it says you should not wear interwoven clothing, nor eat shellfish. NT Paul says a woman must be silent in the church. Do you know the correct context to this of the audience he was addressing in a society and culture where women were mere pieces of property and second class citizens? - Scripture talks about many things, but we cannot take texts in isolation to suit a patriarchal narrative. This is why women are still so oppressed in the Church. It must change, it's outright wrong, and scripture has been used incorrectly for too long bible bash women into submission and imply that they are 'disobeying' the Word if they don't 'submit' to their husbands. This will only change when more decision makers are equally women in the church. I'm not talking about being in 'charge' of sunday school, I'm talking about women on the Board in senior positions.Enough this is why we are losing the next generation because the church is out of touch. - I know what's coming next; "you can't make scripture adhere to society it must be the other way around"....Yes absolutely but you have to understand that the bible is complicated we cannot take every book literally we also must apply our own contexts to scripture and remove the biases and unlearn the injustices against women that the Church has held for years, among other things. - Selah and blessings that's me.
@@janetrexroat4841 Yes sadly you'll find because of this never ending cycle of women staying silent etc, most won't comment on here because they will usually get attacked by their male counterparts. we must not stay silent in this very partriachal society where men are still dictating to women what they should and shouldn't be and using scripture to justify stuff that Jesus never modelled.
Quite frankly, as a read the replies, the ones predominately from men, it is very sad the view of how men believe God intends a woman to be. Jesus ' example was to treat woman equally. Where this all stems from is a misogynistic view where mens ideas of who and how a woman should behave and how scripture has been twisted to accodomate this view, is frightening. I mean a 'good Christian woman' wouldn't dare argue with that right? Otherwise she's considered rebellious to the word? - No! She 's become an informed woman no longer wanting to be suppressed and dictated to by a man. - She is condemned for that. We might as well be bringing "Handmaid's Tale' back into society, looks like much of the church are still there. Alas, we are in the 21st century and still applying scripture to male patriarchal biases. --Adam may have been created first but please guys, every male born after that came from a woman, we don't twist scripture to suit a male narritive. the stereotypes men have built around women and how they should dress, look talk and act are just frightening...and still look at our society now...we are going back into an era where women are once again oppressed, cannot voice their experiences of gender violence based abuse in the church, for fear of not being taken seriously or believed. Let's get some real facts: Look around the world at 'reputable' church major ones, where you are starting to see woman talk about the male Pastor sexually abusing them, young girls, the same, Hillsong, willow, Mars church all perpertrators are males exercising violence whether it be sexual physical psychological or other, it's against women. In the church. Enough is enough. All this comes because men have felt they can get away with anything in the church because they are men. it stems from the way women have been portrayed and steretyped by men. These are all contributing factors. They run deep. I don't speak from an opinion alone, i've done gender studies in my theology degree, and 30 years of counselling women in the church I think gives me enough to make the assesments I have. Men submit to your wives, wives submit to your husbands. the word is mutual submission inthe GK Study it out people.
So if a little girl wants to grow up and be a doctor she should discard that cuz God only calls women to be housewives? Not all women become wives and mothers does that make them 'out of Gods will?' I love your teachings on the bride but this one bothers me.
You are right. I changed the name of the video.
The Gospel:
Plain and
Simple
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your
minds should be corrupted from the simplicity
that is in Christ.” - 2 Corithians 11:3
Ask someone today if they are saved and
you will most likely hear responses like these:
“I have accepted Jesus into my heart.” Or “I
have made him Lord of my life.” “I’ve been
baptized.” “I said a prayer.” Sounds all good
and churchy don’t it; but it is difficult to de-termine whether or not a person actually
knows the gospel that saves them. These useless phrases don’t describe a thing about what
the gospel is and has left a devastating effect
of people not knowing what it is that they are
saved from nor how they are saved; which
leaves a more serious effect of people questioning their salvation.
Let’s not muddy the simplicity of salvation that is in Christ with vague church
sounding phrases that do not communicate
anything. But rather present God’s word with
clarity and assuredness. So here is the gospel:
plain and simple.
Sin was passed upon all men by one man
Adam, and death is a consequence of this sin
(Rom 5:12). Mankind has an eternal destiny of
condemnation and wrath - Hell - because of
this sin (Rom 6:23). No matter what good
works one might do we are still found sinners
in the sight of our Creator God. And all unrighteousness and those who follow get indignation and wrath. We cannot be found
righteous for by God’s law we are found sinners (Rom 3:19-20). If we have broken even
one law we are found guilty.
It is for this reason of not being able to
create our own righteousness and being born
in a sinful flesh that we need a savior (Titus
3:5). Christ is that Savior, God manifested in
the flesh, sinless, died in our place on a cross
2000 years ago. Taking upon him the wrath
and judgement that was intended for us sinners. And it is through his bloodshed, burial,
and resurrection on our behalf that we are
able to have peace with God and forgiveness
of our sins (1 Cor 15:1-4, Col 3:14). This good
news is unto all but only those that believe in
it are made righteous in Christ (Romans
3:22).
It is then after we have heard this good
news of Christ’s righteousness available to us freely, that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit
and we are now part of Christ’s body the
church (Eph 1:13)
There is nothing that we need to do, no
good works that are required, and no bad
works that can separate us from our new position in Christ (Romans 8:35-39).
Faith and belief in this information from
God’s word is the gospel.
The gospel is not accepting Jesus into your
heart. The gospel is not making him lord of
your life, it is not saying a prayer and it is not
being baptized with water.
So next time someone asks you if you are
saved. Give them the clear assured answer
“Yes And let me tell you why!”
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Amen