Dear Mothers,
Good Morning! This morning I am thinking of the scriptures in Psalms 37:2 Delight thyself also in the Lord and He will give thee the desires of thine heart. Well, I have always felt that this means that, as Believers who have given their hearts to Christ, our deepest desires would be His desires for us. The desires that are deep in our hearts that cause us to chase God with a holy abandonment unto Him. That if these desires are scriptural and are not desires of the flesh, then these are desires from God. The burning desires to glorify God, to me, are desires put on our hearts by God. It is how He leads us and guides us into righteousness.
In our places as Keepers at Home, we have many callings. Also I would couple this teaching with the scriptures in Deuteronomy 28, about the blessings and cursing. How if we obey God then we will be blessed in the city and in the country. Our wombs will be fruitful and our animals and gardens, etc. If we obey God. But if we don't obey God, then our wombs would be cursed and we will be cursed in our storehouse and our gardens, etc. Funny, though, how the Word of God never says this is just for young people. I think what the Lord is saying is either you are fruitful or you aren't.
The spirit of barrenness in a home can come to a young family or an old couple. But our society is so out of whack with the word of God. It's like when a Mother gets her children raised, then it is time to seek your fortune. But none of this is in the word of God. It seems from God's viewpoint, either you are fruitful or barren. Either you are cursed or blessed. Either you are obedient or disobedient. To get too old to work, but just young enough to just sit and watch TV, doesn't seem to be in the Bible. Either you are cursed or blessed. No one in the Bible retired. Well, that's good as Jim and I will never do that, anyway. And ya never hear of the saints of old goin' to the doctor, either. Well, that's good as we can't do that, either. But we can be like the saints of old.
Sarah was beautiful even in her old age. She was strong and she had a tender heart. She followed Abraham wherever he went. She was so lovely in her old age that her husband was afraid when the king wanted to buy her. He was afraid someone would kill him just to have Sarah. So he lied and said she was his sister.I mean, this old girl never lost her place on the stage! She packed a crowd wherever she went and got put by God in the hall of fame and faith (Hebrews 11). Even if she was a woman, she didn't have to claw herself to the top. She got to the top, to God's heart, by going with the desires of her heart. Barren all of her life, she did so long to have a son. Oh, mercy, that spirit of barrenness is a spirit of death that locks a woman into a cold to the bone silence. Sarai was barren -- when God called her she, at first, was contentious and too bitter to do the will of God. But then she changed her mind and became a submissive wife. She came to this place of having a baby in her old age kickin' and screamin' but, in the end, she submitted to God and to her husband.
God calls barren women to do His bidding because they have nothing in themselves to be proud of. I had written down all of the barren women in the Bible God used, but now I can't find my list. And, as always, I am in a hurry. But I think there were about 8 or 9. Sarah, Rebekah, and Samson's Mother were barren. Hannah and Mary and Elisabeth. Actually, all the women God used to have children were barren.
The Word says that He causes the barren woman to be fruitful and to be a joyful keeper at home. The Joy is to come at home. The miracles are to come out of Mother's place at home. The supernatural is to come out of the Mother's home. In the word of God, this is so. Noami bowed out of her place to conceive a child as she said she had no husband. She never said "I am too old to have a child."
