Habits of Highly Successful Christian Women 12/7/2016

It's Wednesday and I hope each of you is having a good week. I can't believe that we're already a week into December. 2016 is winding down and the new year is fast approaching. I hope this short post encourages you.

Habits of Highly Successful Christian Women:

1.      They seek Christ first. This is probably a given, but a successful Christian woman can’t be a success without first seeking the Lord. It is the Lord who leads and guides us so if he isn’t first, we’re putting ourselves in a position where we cannot be successful.

2.      They sit properly under authority- There is no such thing as not being under authority. I don’t care if you are 10 or 100. Successful Christian women know how to biblically stay under authority. They also attempt to right any wrong relationships that they have with authority.

3.      They seek to develop their health in every dimension: mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, vocational, and social. Successful Christian women know it is imperative that they are healthy in every sense of the word. They know they need to have healthy bodies, minds, spirits and relationships. They also know that they need to have a healthy relationship with the vocation God has called them too (i.e. they should pursue it with passion, but it should not be an idol.)

4.      They work on their junk, until they are healed. They don’t stay in a perpetual state of healing. God is a God of completion. He wants us to move from one season to the next. We should never be in a space of perpetual healing. A successful Christian woman looks at her hurt, pain, addictions, etc. and faces them head on. She works on them until she is healed and completely set free. She doesn’t stay in a state of perpetual healing, but rather she does what she needs to do so that she can be an emotionally whole woman.

5.      They seek the purpose God has for their life, before they seek a mate. Marriage is an option. Fulfilling your purpose is not. Each of us has a God ordained purpose that we were born to fulfill. That purpose should coincide with the purpose our future mate has been called to as well. If we don’t know our purpose and are not seeking to fulfill it we are a). disobeying God and b). not in a place to attract the Godly man we should be with.

6.      They learn how to wait well. Successful Christian women are patient and are willing to wait for God’s best (without an attitude or complaint), until his timing provides. They don’t throw grown up tantrums. They don’t have an attitude when God doesn’t give them what they want, when they want it. Instead, they do what they are supposed to do, when they are supposed to do it.

7.      They become good a knowing how to make a stand for Christ. Successful Christian women know how to explain and defend their faith. They know how to be good examples of believers in both word and deed.

8.      They don’t compare. Successful Christian women don’t compare themselves to other Christian women (or any women for that matter). It’s ridiculous to compare yourself to your sister and that’s exactly what other Christian women are, your sister’s in Christ.

XOXO,

Myah Lonye’

What is a Prayer Time and Why Should I Have One? (Part Two)

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I hope that you found part one of this two part series to be beneficial. If you are just tuning in or would like a refresher, you can check out part one by clicking here. Okay, let’s jump right in.

Here are a few other motivations for having a prayertime.

Intimacy

Most Christians say they want to be closer to God and this is an excellent goal to have. In fact, until the day we leave this earth, it should be a goal of ours to know God more intimately than we did the day before. No one ever “arrives” when it comes to knowing God. We can all work to know Him more deeply. One of the best ways to know Christ is to spend time with Him daily. Having a relationship with God is just that, a relationship. The more we spend time with someone, the more we know them and the more they know us. Though God already knows everything there is to know about you, the more time you spend with Him, the more he will reveal himself to you and the more he will reveal, who you truly are to yourself as well. The word says, “draw near to him and he will draw near to you” (James 4:8). So if you want to know the Lord, spend time with Him, talk to Him and Listen to Him on a regular basis, and pretty soon, the two of you will be intimate friends.

Obedience:

There are certain things that as believers we are called to do. Not having a daily prayertime in and of itself is not sinful, however, in Joshua 1:8, the Lord commands us that we should meditate on the word “day and night.” When we do not, we are committing what is called a “sin of omission.” The sin of omission can be defined as “a sinful failure to perform an action.” James 4:17, is a great example of the sin of omission and how it translates into disobedience. It says: “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” We know that it is right to spend time with the Lord, not doing so is disobedience, and thus a sin.

Holiness

The Word tells us to be “holy as I am holy” (Leviticus 20:26 and 1 Peter 1:16). Knowing that the Lord is holy and we have a responsibility to be like him reinforces our need to have a daily prayer time. If we do not know his character, we cannot act like him. If we do not know his word it is impossible to be able to live up to his standard of holy conduct.

To defend the Gospel

In our current world, there is a general disdain for Christianity and many things associated with God or holiness. Many people feel that holiness living it “too extreme,” “unrealistic” or “judgmental.” If you are a follower of the Lord, you have a responsibility to be able to give a biblical defense on why you believe what you believe and why you live your life according to a standard of holiness. The word says “Always be ready to give a defense for the faith that is within you” (1 Peter 3:15).

I hope this post encouraged you.  For further growth, don’t forget to work through the Heart Check questions at the bottom of the page.

Until Next Time,

Myah

 

Heart Check

How can you center your life around daily fellowship with the Lord (rather than centering the Lord around your life)?

When you look at the motivations of prayertime (Intimacy, Obedience, Guidance, and to defend the gospel) which area(s) are leading your desire to have a consistent quiet time with the Lord?

 

 Sin of Omission definition: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sin+of+omission