Virtuous Daughters

Challenge #30

Good morning, my dear girls!

I pray this finds you doing very well and being blessed in your walks with your Saviour. 

Today is a question that I think we need to pay special attention to, as I know in my own life, this one question/answer, has played a huge part in my own life. This is a question, that if not answered correctly, or you do not know the answer to, will get you into more trouble than most anything else.  Why? Because the world (and yes, even “believers”) will encourage you to do something that I believe is very contrary to what Yahweh says and what His divine will for us is, as His daughters.

So please, dear girls, pay close attention. Pray about this one question and ponder in your own heart, what is the right thing to do.  You HAVE to have an answer for this question, so when you are faced with it (and you will be faced with it!), you will be able to stand strong in Yahweh, knowing that you are doing the right thing, even when your friends or the world, tries to tell you otherwise.

Enjoy!

Question #4

“Are we only to learn spiritual matters from our husbands/fathers, because wouldn’t this be taken away the role of the Holy Spirit from out of our life”?

No, I don’t believe it does any harm with that, at all. 

Let me give you another example; I love fathers (and wherever I say fathers, if you are married, you can just as well replace it with husbands) for a certain reason. Well, I love them for a lot of reasons other than this one, but I am going to give you this reason to try to explain my point…and quite honestly, I just LOVE this about them!   I totally and completely agree with the idea that God will lead through our authorities, with or without us. God has placed them over us, and if it is His will that we do a certain thing, He IS going to lead through them, no questions asked.

 Now that that’s said; there has been many a time that I believed God was telling me to do a certain thing. You could say that I believe this was the Holy Spirit talking within me or speaking to me through the scriptures. How can I confirm this?  Yep, you guessed it! I can go to my father (never telling him that I believed this was from God) and ask my father about whatever it was I felt God telling me to do, and ask him to pray about it.  IF, my father comes back and says “yes, I agree, you should do such and such a thing” I know for a certainty that it was from God. IF, my father comes back and says “No, Samantha, I don’t think you should do this” then I know I heard wrong, OR it just isn’t the right time for it. 

There have also been things that I have told my parents about, and at the time, they did not see how it could have been of God.  But, God was still confirming that I did not hear wrong, this was of Him, and His doing. Okay, now what do I do? They said they don’t see that happening now or in the future, yet I have God clearly telling me, that it will.  What should a person do in this situation? I say, WAIT!  Don’t do ANYTHING!  You should put it on the back burner, acknowledging that it was from God, and tell God that “until He tells them and works through them, I am just going to wait on you!”  I have done this I don’t know how many times.  And, if for some reason my father comes to me, and asks me to do something that I think “might” put what God told me in jeopardy, what do I do? I follow my dad’s leadership.

Girls, God will work through our authority! He will work through the chain of command. He won’t tell you to do something and then tell you to disobey His word and go against what they feel or believe.  No. He may indeed tell you something, but we are to wait on Him to work it all out in HIS timing. We can’t just take things into our own hands, just because we heard something from God.  It may not be the right timing, and that may very well be why God has not given them peace about such a thing.  God may still have to show them something before they would ever be able to adopt such a doctrine or whatever the case may be.  We can still acknowledge that God is God and what God has told us. But, we can acknowledge that by obeying God and staying under that authority figure…by submitting to them. For, if we just get up and do whatever we believe is right, and whatever we believe God has told us, we are now going against our authority, and we are now in direct disobedience to God’s word, thus in direct disobedience to God Himself! So, no longer are we now “obeying” God, but disobeying Him.

Let me go one step further. If we believe something differently than our authority, I believe we are not even supposed to talk about it with another. We are supposed to back our authority up, not what we personally believe and they don’t. Either, we don’t talk about it at all, or back what they believe until God changes them, IF, He changes them…remember, we could very well be the ones in the wrong here, not them!

And that brings us to another question… J

But, you’re going to have to wait for that one, until next time! J

May Yahweh richly bless you all and continue to challenge you on in your daily lives and walks with Him!

Samantha