Faithbox March

A woman as a Pastor? Does it make it right if there is a need for pastors?

From my own research into if woman can be pastor or not.


Can they be? Certainly.


Does the Bible prohibit such things? Absolutely.


Can one be a Christian and disobey a clear instruction from the Bible? Certainly.


Personally, I would not join a congregation or sect that permits women to act as pastors because it is indisputably contrary to Biblical instruction.


But that said…


Women have the unique privilege to teach their children who God is by raising them under the admonition of the bible.


Women are teachers just not in the church! doesn't mean they aren't capable, God just wants them teaching in a different context.

Jesus, help me

 I’ve found each time I start to get stressed and anxious, if I pause and start whispering, “Jesus, help me,” my pulse slows and I can think more rationally. Our souls were designed to recognize and respond to the name of Jesus.

My Love Is You - original print from The Worship Project.

Ephesians 3:14-21.

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”

Daily Prayer

May God look over all the homeless people, stray animals, and those with no electricity during this harsh weather.

Prayer

“

God, give charge to Thy blessed angels,
To keep guard around this stead to-night,
A band sacred, strong, and steadfast,
That will shield this soul-shrine from harm.

Safeguard Thou, God, this household to-night,
Themselves and their means and their fame,
Deliver them from death, from distress, from harm,
From the fruits of envy and of enmity.

Give Thou to us, O God of peace,
Thankfulness despite our loss,
To obey Thy statutes here below,
And to enjoy Thyself above.

”

Shame

It is not in our strengths and wonderful qualities that we meet Christ. Our egos are so impenetrable at those points that such a union is impossible. If we will accept that little shame, we will meet the Crucified Christ at that very point, for it is He who bears our shame.

But the vulnerable stage of shame is the place where our ego can break free and where it can admit the existence of another. But this is extremely hard because the instinct of shame is to cover itself and hide. Therefore we are asked to “bear a little.”


Shame is the ego’s deepest instinct and the first recorded reaction of man after the Fall. It is the dread of being seen for who we truly are rather than who we want or pretend to be.


But there is a self that is deeper than the shame. It can be found if we are patient and we stay still for a little while. Which is hesychia and nepsis, stillness and sobriety.


This self can be described as the “place of the heart”. In this place we can stop judgement, not critique, not to measure,not to compare. It is a place where we will find union with God and the ability to pray. It is also the place where the tears of repentance can be shed.


All of this is the patient, an inner journey of repentance and the gateway into the Kingdom of God. It unites us with Christ’s bearing of the whole Adam’s shame ,the shame of the whole of humanity, which is known as His crucifixion.