[Faith-talk] FW: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] URCTC Prayer Group 2 devotional: [New post] What Did She Say? Part One by Sis Bee Jay

[Amy Ragain]

wow! thats some pretty powerful stuff there!!
think we could all probubly use this message in our lives every now and then...


On May 19, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Eric Calhoun wrote:

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> From: "BeeJay" <beejayokla at cox.net>
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> Subject: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] URCTC Prayer Group 2 devotional: [New post]
> What Did She Say? Part One by Sis Bee Jay
> Date: 
> Thu, 19 May 2011 22:47:38 -0500
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>        What Did She Say? Part One by Sis Bee Jay 
>      sisbeejay | May 20, 2011 at 2:58 am | Categories: Uncategorized |
> URL: http://wp.me/p1sTxT-4S  
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> What Did She Say? 
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> Part One
> 
> By Sister BeeJay
> 
> No, I am not attacking women, but rather my intention is to exhort
> Christian women to be better women. You might ask yourself, "But why?"
> Well, we Christian women have great, great influence in the world, in our
> own communities, and in our homes. Some might even say that behind every
> good, successful Christian man is a good Christian woman. I can attest to
> the fact that this is usually true, not only in a worldly sense, but
> definitely also in a spiritual sense. You see, women are unique in the fact
> that God created us to be help meets to our husbands and mothers to our
> children. It might not seem like it to many people, but we women of God
> have a great responsibility; and yet, so little of us know our own worth in
> the home or even take this responsibility seriously. 
> 
> Over the years, I have often wondered why marriages fail, why children
> rebel against society and their parents, and why circumstances in certain
> homes are so bleak. I thought and thought about it for some time and I now
> know that the Holy Spirit has begun to give me some light on the matter.
> The Lord began to show me that women have a great deal to do with many of
> these things. The buck could stop with us women. You see, the woman is the
> one who nourishes in the family. She is the one in the family who feeds or
> sustains with substances necessary to life and growth. She has close
> contact with her husband and her children. She teaches her children from a
> very early age and she can be the very one in the family who can be the
> encourager. So, a lot of what she says and does directly affects the whole
> family. When the mother says to her young son, "You are just like your
> daddy! You'll always be no good," she is not just speaking negatively, but
> she is actually cursing her husband and his son by saying that they are
> both resigned to being no good for the rest of their lives. Well, many of
> you will think that I am being a little too extreme and that I am taking
> words too seriously, but as Christians we have to learn that our words are
> to be taken seriously. Proverbs 6:2 says, "Thou art snared with the words
> of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth."
> 
> We Christians speak words that are powerfully creative and we get what we
> say. When we speak to our children words of curses, we are actually
> speaking into their lives things that will eventually happen. So, when your
> eighteen-year-old son has just been sent to prison, do not wonder what you
> as a parent did wrong. Go back a few years and try to remember what words
> were spoken over your child with your own mouth. When you call your husband
> a "no good, shiftless, good-for-nothing womanizer," do not be surprised if
> that is exactly what he becomes. Proverbs 14:1 says, "Every wise woman
> buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands." 
> 
> I know that we all want to be wise women. Therefore, we must remember to
> always speak words that build up and not tear down, especially in the home.
> We are framing our destinies with our words: we are speaking directly into
> our own lives, the lives of our husbands, and the lives of our children. We
> are changing circumstances by what we say. "A man's belly shall be
> satisfied with the fruit of his mouth: and with the increase of his lips
> shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they
> that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. [Proverbs 18:20-21]"
> 
> If you would say to me, "Sister BeeJay, you are right; I am guilty," then
> join me in this prayer (because we all have been guilty at one time or
> another): Heavenly Father, I am guilty! I have spoken cruel, negative words
> over my family for years. Father, I repent of all the words of death that I
> have sown over my life and over the lives of my husband and children.
> Heavenly Father, forgive me. Lord, stand guard over my lips and my tongue,
> in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.
> 
> Sister BeeJay can be reached at beejayokla at cox.net 
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