Lately I have thought of the organized church and the discernment has been so turned up in my heart. The Lord has told me things that are scary. I didn't want to write it all down. I thought, "Wow, I am never going to tell that on the email!" I tried to forget it. But now, as I stand here writing, I wonder why I can't forget it.
Well, are you all ready for this? The Lord told me that many churches -- not all -- are a hideaway for women who hate their husbands. It's an escape. A place to run to get out of housework and the care of the children. It's the only place a wife and mother can go to that touches her inner court and lies to her. When she goes to the grocery store and the other wives there sympathize with her over her boredom of housework, it means little to her, as she knows these women are unbelievers. Yet when she goes to church and the Christian women pat her on the back for putting up with her husband, then it pulls on her inner court. She allows the other Christian women into her inner man because "after all, Daaahling, these Sisters are Christian." So, unknowingly, Mother is opening herself up to a lying spirit. And she eats this lie whole hog or none.
Mother is tired and doesn't want to do her work. So husband is off work -- why can't he take the kids so she can go get refreshed at church? When he says that he wants her to stay home, she accuses him of being an unbeliever. Mother is not wanting to understand Christ but to get pity from her friends at church.
And say she does make it out the door. She comes back sullen and prideful as husband doesn't do things like they do at church. Husband looks like a half wit up against the so called Christian books she has read. Mother has gone elsewhere to find her spiritual authority. She has become war weary at home. She thinks her husband's rules are too hard and she feels she can't submit to him as he isn't where she is in Christ.
But we miss it here, dear mothers. Our husbands rules and regulations are to be too hard for us. Our husband's ways are to bring us crying to the feet of Christ for answers. The place of wife and mother is the place often of sufferng. Without the cross we can't see the Savior. Christ learned obedience through His sufferings.
Yes, we learn the word often as our husbands read it to us in family devotions. And this is what the worldly church often teaches. That the true husband will gather his family up each evening after supper and have devotions and if he don't, then, by golly, he is an unbeliever. Maybe so or maybe not. Most Christian men are not Dr. Dobsons. Most men will not pray with you over every ache and pain or emotional upset. We get the idea that if he would go to church he would pray on command. But most men won't?
In most homes it goes like this. The wife says, "Honey, I need prayer."
Husband: "Ok what now? Now what did I do?"
And then you say, "Never mind. I knew you would say that."
Then husband says, "Well, soooorrry I am not as good as the preacher at church. Why don't you just go live with him?"
Well, ya know, Husband's authority is so stomped on that he often becomes jealous of the preacher. But, see, preacher is supposed to recognize husband as the head of his household. And preacher is supposed to let the Titus women at church teach the women to love their families and be keepers at home. Mother shouldn't be running out from under her husband's priesthood to another man's authoirity. If she wants to go to church, then her husband is to find a preacher that he feels that he can learn under. And then he is to bring his family to this church. The preacher shouldn't have a harem of women chasing him asking him personal questions.
BIBLE REALITY
As we Christian wives are compared to Christ at the cross, we have to wonder, "Why does the church teach so many ideas that are not Biblical?"
Often Preacher loves to control the women at church. He loves the way they leave their husbands at home and chase Preacher and ask him for personal counseling. They become one with him and his thinking. This is how the love affairs begin at church. The church secretary is the only one who really understands preacher. She becomes one with him in spirit and then in the flesh.
When family order is thrown out the door of a church, then ya gotta wonder why. Certainly preacher can read the word, can't he? It's obvious that husband is to lead the family. But if preacher is goosin' the lady secretary, then he ain't about to talk about male authority in the home. He wants to be the authority in everyone's home.
And, ya know, if you ladies are like me, it's very easy to slip out from under our husband's authority. It's hard to submit to our husbands -- it's meant to be hard. The heaviness of the yoke of submission is to keep you running back to prayer and to Christ. But we miss it all, right here. The heavy yoke comes upon us and we run for an easy escape and, sadly, a lot of Christian women run to preacher and to the church to escape their places at home.
As Jesus prayed in the Garden for this cup of suffering to be taken from Him, we as wives come often to this garden of suffering, too. We are called to take on a yoke that we never bargained for. We are asked to carry a load that we know we can't carry. We want things to go smoothly at home and it don't and we think, "Why, Lord, what is wrong?"
And the answer is, "Nothing, dear heart ... all is well."
And we speak out of a bitterness in our hearts as the work is overwhelming and the baby is up in the night again and again. We so long for a sweet hour of prayer. We can't think, let alone pray. The enemy tells us that everything is all wrong. We are out of control and we think God is not watching over us. Yet He is, and He understands a Mother's Heart. But "church happens" in this place of mental suffering as you continue to persue your true Husband, Jesus Christ. As you will refuse to give up. As you refuse to escape your place in Christ as keeper at home.
Some of you flit from feminism to homemaking and back and forth. This causes you to be unstable in all of your ways. You become double minded. As the problems at home heat up. you change back to feminism. You feel things are hopeless. Yet, if you will just keep persuing Christ as the pressure mounts at home, then the anointing will come. You will find a new strength and a more powerful anointing. Don't run to church to escape your callings. The answer is at home.
And, ya know, if your husband is such a problem, then the Lord will cause him to leave you to protect you and the children. The Bible speaks that if the unbeliever should leave, then let him leave. But the Christian wife has no place in Christ to leave her husband. That's not Biblical. It's a religious idea that the worldy church has taught, and this teaching is blaspheming the word of God.
We miss it if we as women run out of our places of obedience and try to espcape our callings in God. The church is at home. Your place of teaching and spiritual growth is in your home where God has called you to be. Satan will try to chase you out continually. You will not learn faith and perserverence at church like you will at home.
If God can't change your husband and you have to give up on him? Then this alone will scar your heart for life. You will never get over it. In the back of your mind, a demon has taken up a residence. He will forever tell you this, "Some husbands can't be saved. Yes, God can perform the impossible but not always. Some people's sins are too big even for God." Now you may not say that openly but it's in your heart.
THE SUFFERING WIFE
Dear Hearts, I am writing to you who suffer in your homes. I am sorry for your sufferings. But don't be tempted by the worldly church to give up. They will offer you and your children food and shelter for a while. But in the end, they will gossip about you and wonder about you. "Why couldn't you please your husband? Was it your fault, too?"
Many churches have no guts or backbone. They won't teach the pure word of God concerning suffering. It's all this teaching about "God doesn't want you to suffer."
Well, ok, here is some reality for ya. Women who are submissive to their husbands can never be owned. They are not putty in Preacher's hand. But you get a woman who is boss in the family with a job? Oh, how preacher loves her! He knows the wife will tithe to him and make her husband tithe, too. So he doubles his money if he can get wifey to be Boss. In most churches of today, the wife runs the show. And she is just foolish enough to give her life and her sacred honor to the preacher. You see pews and pews of women at church, with a man here and there. And if this man was to stand up and preach wifely submission, then most of the church would get up and leave. And "Good Riddance."
Come on, fess up, you know I am tellin' the truth. I know I am just dumb enough to be the kid in the back who yells to the crowd, "The Emperor has no clothes." The crowd is yelling and having a great time ooohing and aaahhing over the Emperor's new clothes.
The herd loves to run together and to please one another. And, like a stampede of buffalo, they all run off a cliff together. As if murdering yourself was a good idea, as "Darling, your friends are all doing it, so it must be right."
And this is how most divorce comes about in the home. "My goodness, it must be ok because Sally Jones got one and she is a Bible teacher. She went to church all of her life and her parents have been in the ministry for 100 years plus. And she got a divorce so I did, too."
Well, Sally Jones ain't takin' you to heaven, Baby Girl. And the only way to heaven is through the truth of God's word. And the Bible does not tell a Christian woman that it is ok to leave her unbelieving husband. We as women who love God should be examples to the unbelieving husbands. When He was reviled, He reviled not again. He died upon the cross for the unrighteous and not the righteous person. Until we suffer for the unrighteous, we will not share in His glory, as we have not shared in His sufferings.
Don't miss the lesson here. Don't miss your opportunity to be like Christ as you suffer for righteousness sake. Be aflame with love for Christ and be the first in your family to say, "I am sorry -- it was my fault." Quit trying to win the battles with your husbands and give up.
Be zealous to please Christ in your sufferings. Be grateful to suffer for Him and His body. Count it all Joy when you fall into diverse temptations. Knowing that the trying of your faith works patience. Let patience have her perfect work that you will be complete and entire wanting nothing. Rejoice when men speak evil against you, knowing that the true men and women of God were also spoken evil against. You will be misunderstood as you follow Christ.
You are bought with a price. He shed His blood for you. Will you give up your will and your high honors in this world for Him? Will you take up your cross and follow Him? Your cross may be a hard marriage. Will you stay in your place of obedience and calling for His sake? Or will you come down off your cross and miss the calling He has given you? Do you love Him enough to suffer for Him? Will you give up your life for Him?
I am so glad that Jesus was faithful to the Cross. He could have called 10,000 angels to come to his rescue. But He didn't. He died alone.
SURVIVAL
Ya know, yesteday I got one of my favorite magazines in the mail, "Countryside." I read a story about the Depression era. This man was saying that during this period they worked mainly for survival. Meaning that they had few luxuries ... well, none, really. They had to work from dusk to dawn to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. And I thought of today and I said to myself, "Well, what do ya think we have to do today?"
But, see, it's a spiritual thing now. I mean we all have the food we need for the most part and we have a roof over our heads. Well, the ladies on this group I think do, for the most part. But our Depression Era that we Mothers are fighting is mostly at this point spiritual. There is a famine in our world right now and it is a famine of the word of God. The word is not taught as it once was. And, of course, the collapse of the church will eventually cause a physical Depression like the 1930s. And we must be diligent to continue to build our temples ... our homes in the wilderness.
Nehemiah taught the people of God to build their walls of protection back up with a sword in one hand and a building tool in the other hand. The Jewish people had to make a physical home and a spiritual home at the same time. And this is the game plan for us as keepers at home. We must fight two wars ... one spiritual and one physical.
We are called as keepers at home. This is our place under God's obedience. As we stay here, we are safe in Him. But we will go from spiritual wars to physical. As we fight a physical war to keep the money flowin' into the home, we may say, "Well, I sure can't afford to get pregnant. We can't afford the children we have." And yet in the spiritual war, you can't afford not to have the children. The spiritual realm is the true you where your conscience lives. You best not offend it as you will lose your physical war eventually if you aren't true to your spirt. Or true to your inner man. Your spiritual self is what goes on to heaven to live forever and ever, so don't sell your soul for a pot of soup. Or for a moment of pleasure in this life.
Well I am needing to quit writing. I am getting clear into another writing. But today, let's get out our Bibles and lay them on the table and refer to them as we care for our families. Let's take up our rolling pins in one hand and our Bibles in the other. Let's fight the good fight of faith and not give up until we see His glory. With one hand we carry our swords, the word of God in our hearts. And with the other hand we carry the baby. As we fight the good fight of faith, we learn to know Christ. As we suffer, we become good ground for the word of God to be planted. Our hearts suffer as it seems they are pierced with fear. And yet we become yielded to Christ.
Jesus never defended Himself. He only defended God. He never stood up for his rights but only the rights of the Father God. And as we lay down our desires and take on His understanding, we become true soldiers of the Cross. True believers. Branches extending from the True Vine Christ Jesus.