Turning back or waiting for others slows you down, but only at first. Our strength is for service and not status. None of us will truly find fulfillment until we realize our place as one who lends strength to many. Shift your focus from how you look in your clothing to who you are in your spirit. It distracts and drains us from God’s work.Īllow the weight of God’s Word and the tempering and training of the Holy Spirit to quicken and develop the weak or injured areas of your life. Just as physical activity decreases rather than increase muscle strength, so spiritual busyness does not build spiritual strength. God uses hardship as a catalyst for making his people pure, precious, and sustainable. On becoming pillars of strength and raising others up: Jesus’ concern for us is holiness and not hygiene. Nothing wrong with baking, but if that is all we do, God won’t use us to change history. In light of this charge, God does not need a band of domesticated daughters who spend their days baking and behaving well. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means “anointed or Christlike one.” Jesus did not go around “being good” he went around “doing good”. God is not looking for people who act like Christians.
Evil is not displaced by rules or by hiding from it. God did not save us to tame us.Ĭonfusion happens when our focus is on avoiding bad rather than on doing good. Evil is overcome with good. God does not reveal himself as limitless in order to limit us.
Don’t confuse being awakened with being upset. When you are awakened, you can’t help but respond. The world needs you, lovely lioness sister, not to merely wake up, but to give expression to your God-given, fierce side. The world is yet to see what it looks like when Christian women, individually and collectively, are fully awake and dangerous.Īsk God to fill your mind with the idea of a lioness in whatever shape, form, or container he wants to use to inspire you.
God encourages daughters young and old to bring our solutions to the world’s problems. We are the collective body of Christ, and as such we are destined for triumph, victory, and signs and wonders. We are not some group of straggling, struggling, fatherless refugees who are overcome by sin and wondering if there is a God. When you are awake to what God is doing, then you will know what you are to do! But we must wake up, rise up, remember who we are, and confront the evil in this world with light- Lisa Bevere. To counter, he sedates us so that we might not do the things God has called us to do. He knows he cannot get close enough to capture and chain us if we are fully awake and mobile. We are truly frightening to our enemy and he has done everything in his power to contain us. There’s nothing more dangerous than being in the presence of lions wide awake. We need to be capable of whatever is necessary. We are called to be both virtuous and capable. The lioness knows she must stretch, before she attempts a pounce. Your strength is not to be feared, it is to be embraced. It is time to enlarge the way we see and interact with life. The ability to stretch produces flexibility. We will reach no further without a stretch. On embracing our stretch and engaging our strength: She’s not overwhelmed by the need to lose weight she focuses on the need to gain strength. Her attractiveness is undeniable, because her power is unquestionable.
It is captured in what her body can actually do, not merely in how it looks. She lives in the light and hunts in the dark.Ī lioness knows her beauty is revealed in her strength. She rises to gather strength, greet/groom others, hunt, move the young to safety, confront the enemies that threaten the pride and walk alongside her king.Ī lioness is at ease with strength and at rest with power. She has something which is fierce, wild, and at the same time beautiful. She gushed so much about her that I knew without a doubt that I’d get blessed reading one of her books.Ī lioness is more than a companion to the lion. I heard about Lisa Bevere for the first time from the amazing CoachE, our mentor at the TFSA. It was one of the several books I got as a gift back in TFSA days.
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