MESSAGE: REV. MRS. TOMI AKINNOLA
[biblegateway passage=”GENESIS 1:27; 2:22, 5:2″ display=”GENESIS 1:27; 2:22, 5:2″]
God is a beautifier. Many woman are dissatisfied with themselves: The tall want to be short and the short want to be tall; the fair want to be dark and the dark want to be fair. Every woman has to come to a point where she knows that she is good just the way God created her.
Womanhood is about being a woman, not a girl or man. A woman needs to give up her immature girlish ways. Marriage is not for girls, it is for women.
The man God created was male and female and they were called Adam. Both sexes were made together but they were separated so that they can reunite again. Every woman should be content with who she is; the earlier they do that, the better. Every cage holding up every woman has been broken and burnt by the Lord!
We often define beauty based on externalities but beauty in our context transcends that. God gives us beauty to please Him with. Beauty is elegant, excellent, glorious, fair and perfect. Beautiful things are desirable and pleasurable.
Womanhood is beautiful because God made it. Everything God made is good. Many women hate being women because they don’t know who they are.
God is redefining womanhood in the light of His word as opposed to the definitions of the society, culture, feminists, religion, men, women, etc.
[biblegateway passage=”MATTHEW 19:4″ display=”MATTHEW 19:4″]; [biblegateway passage=”GENESIS 1:28″ display=”GENESIS 1:28″]
The male gender is not superior to the female gender, vice versa. Each gender was made for a specific purpose and it is foolhardy that we have contention between the sexes in our world today. The dominion mandate is for both male and female. Both genders are equal before God. The scenario is a bit different in marriage where wives are required to submit to their own husbands.
A close relationship with God is the basis for the accurate realization and awareness of the beauty of womanhood. There is more to womanhood than marriage and rearing children. Marriage is not the ultimate definition of womanhood.
Male is blessed; female is blessed. The single estate is blessed as well as the marriage estate. Women who tie the full realization of womanhood to marriage don’t really know who they are. People dump many things on women because they don’t know who they are in Christ. Having a male child does not make a woman better than the one with a female child. Every child needs godly nurturing to turn out right. A woman’s definition should be found in Christ, not in what she has or she doesn’t have.
Many adverts today are incomplete without a nude lady on it; the world has reduced the value of women to their sex appeal. Many women borrow because they want to meet up to certain standards. The beauty of womanhood lies in the fact that you only wear what you have. If you don’t define yourself, other people will define you.
[biblegateway passage=”LUKE 10:38-42″ display=”LUKE 10:38-42″]
Jesus always stayed in Martha’s house whenever He was in Bethany. Martha and Mary were women whose marriages we really know nothing about. They chose the path of following God and they were better for it. Definitions are very critical and every woman must see to it that she is defined from the standpoint of God rather than that of the world.