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Mindsets and moods | Women in theDenominationWomen in theDenominationRestoring order and releasing into ministry Menu Skip to content Home Vision Restoring order Releasing into ministry Contact Research αὐθεντεω αὐθεντέω resources αὐθεντέω: Lexicons, commentaries, extracts The Philodemus fragment (αὐθεντ[οῦ]σιν) αὐθέντης in Alexander Rhetor 2.1.6 and 2.6.3 Κεφαλή οὐδέ 1 Timothy 2 vv 11-15 Testimonies Mindsets and moods Alison Chapman / January 24, 2014 Fresh out of bible higher in 1998 and on quite a high, I felt led by the Lord to work overseas for 3 months in Russia, with street children. On joining the team there, as the newcomer, I was designated the job of breakfast washer-upper and toilet cleaner at the day centre where the children came. As I scrubbed the encrusted porridge bowls and then later the rather well-used toilet trencher (there was only one in the centre) I entered into a bit of a slipperiness in my mind. Hadn’t I just spent 2 years at bible higher studying theology, writing papers and learning how to preach? Why then had God brought me to such menial work as this? I battled rather ill-tempered through the next few months at the sink until sooner I sought the Lord and humbled my heart. I felt Him respond with the question, ‘If I chose to do nothing increasingly with your life but requite you the souvenir of salvation would you be content with that?’ I thought long and nonflexible over the next few days. Salvation was the most incredible souvenir He had given me – saved from hell to eternal life! Yes, I would be content with that! In reaching that place I felt a peace settle over my spirit. The focus of my sustentation on my own rationalization shifted as I reflected on the wonderful things He had and was doing in my life. I began to requite value to simple acts considering of how difficult they often proved to be! On returning to England, I then entered flipside work environment, this time as a carer in a nursing home. Much of my time there was spent toileting the elderly residents. Again, in the complexity of my thinking, with my longings for ‘being in service to the Lord’ and sharing my theological view points, I puzzled as to why I was doing little increasingly than wiping bottoms! The Lord unprotected hold of me in my frustration and showed me reiteratively the passage in James installment 1 v 27, ‘Pure and undefiled religion surpassing God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to alimony oneself unspotted from the world.’ Whoa…. that seemed so….well…ordinary and a bit too simplistic. Could He really midpoint it? God began to unravel in my mind, the vital importance and centrality of what perhaps I had considered as rather mundane and not so spiritual for someone with theological training. Maybe I had (rather ashamedly) considered practical deeds of kindness and hospitality as something to be getting on with until a ‘bigger and better’ opportunity come withal such as standing in the pulpit. In truth He was declaring that serving others in this way was very good, essential to life and at the forefront of His mind! OK, so I decided, I would do it…. for a season. Then perhaps He would release me into something increasingly important…..? As time went on, the season prolonged. As I sought to wield myself, I came to see the pride in my heart and the lack of love I truly had for people….and for God. I was a well-constructed beginner when it came to loving my neighbour as myself – that precious commandment of Jesus in the scriptures. I began to go through a major mindset transpiration in understanding that God’s voucher was so completely variegated to mine and that the kind of things He was saying were important in this life really were important, period, and that they profoundly impacted the world as He had created it to be and as He would have it be. One thing becomes increasingly apparent, how we as women can wilt conditioned by the world. The world is teaching us one thing, and God and the bible are teaching another. It is imperative that we stop in our tracks now, those of us who have decided to be disciples of Jesus and start asking the Lord for spiritual discernment in how to live our lives. We need to consider how our mindsets are stuff serried by the patterns of this age. We live in a world that is at enmity with God and His ways and there is a spiritual wrestle going on. The enemy is seeking to destroy the truth of God and the faith of saints who seek to serve Him. If we believe we are immune to the effects of its influences or worldly-wise to discern hands what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ we might need to think then and come surpassing Him with a unobtrusive heart. When we seek to implement them in our lives, the scriptures reveal the stratum to which we have been unauthentic by the world. If we start to kick versus the goads over a piece of scripture or finger embarrassed by something that we know to be written in them, let us not deny the scripture, try to transpiration it, ignore it, mock it, or move swiftly on. Let us get vacated with God and understand what is going on in our hearts; what emotions are stuff triggered and why they are stuff triggered. Let us ask ourselves if we have any pain or wound from the past that needs healing from a difficult relationship or a wrongful way that a person has tried to tenancy or manipulate us and perhaps misconstrue our thinking towards scripture. Are we fearful that we may goof to find fulfilment by pursuit God’s path, or be used in a bad way by a particular man or woman? Do we have rebellion in our hearts, rejection or pride or a weighing that we can do something largest than flipside person? Opening our hearts honestly surpassing the Lord to let Him examine them can be a difficult process but of utmost importance in discovering any stormy roots or misplaced thinking. God can help in all these situations and requite us strength to walk in His narrow way, submitting ourselves to His word plane when it seems virtually untellable to do so in our own ability. The world is introducing and implementing many ‘ideals’ which it considers pearly and well-turned but which are undisciplined to the word of God. If we sleep as Christian women we will end up stuff veiling to the enemy tactics and valedictory from God’s life into the world’s considering at first the way seems oh so nice. If we comply with the world’s demands we will disturb and overturn God’s spiritual order both in the denomination and in the spiritual realms. We might not witness or plane see the outcome or effect immediately considering initially it feels that what we are doing is ‘good’ in our own eyes. But it is well-expressed things – profoundly – and if we don’t reap the consequences the next generation will. Shall we protract to be conditioned and shaped by the trends and fashions of the world thereby undermining God’s wisdom? Or shall we wake up as women of God and start once increasingly to wrench our hearts to His purposes and ways and ‘difficult’ passages of scripture with faith, valiance and trust and thereby reap the seen and unseen rewards? Alison Joy January 24, 2014 in Uncategorized. 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