She was torn from all she knew, made to live among the king’s harem, and now was to be the new queen. Esther was more than your average woman. She found favor in the king’s eyes. But she was more than just a beautiful woman. She knew her purpose as a daughter of God, and it showed. In today’s society, women who follow God’s purpose and role for their lives are looked upon as weak and stupid. But Esther gives us a great example of a woman who lived her life with God’s purpose and role in mind. She lived…
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The concept of biblical womanhood is something that is forgotten in our culture today. Instead of embracing their femininity, women tend to push it aside. Biblical womanhood is viewed as old-fashioned and not necessay for women today. If a woman embraces it, she is seen as weak. But all of that is a lie. God designed women for a purpose and with their own special abilities. The lies that this world tells about femininity is not true. Embracing your femininity does not make you less of a woman. It makes you the woman God intended you to be. There are…
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We as Christian women are constantly being told to guard our hearts. But what does doing so look like, and why is it so important? God tells Christians to guard their hearts. “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” (Proverbs 4:23, NLT) “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” (Proverbs 4:23, ESV) In the Hebrew language, the word for guard can be used interchangeably with the word for keep. Keep in Hebrew literally means to set a watchman over something. We need to set a watch…
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“All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her.”–George Washington. “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.”–Thomas Alva Edison “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angle Mother.”–Abraham Lincoln Being a mother is such an important and rewarding job. But so many women in today’s culture view the role of motherhood and homemaking to be…