Yesterday J from the letters group came to visit and we had a ball. J is a happy mother of 4 children. Noah is the youngest and he is 3 months old. And the oldest girl is 5. Is all of that right, J? Anyway, J brought homemade bread and cookies and I made soup in the crock pot. I made a pig of myself on J's bread. Anyway, as we sat outside and watched the children play, I was telling her about K on the response group. I had been praying about your question, K, that goes like this. "How does a mother with many children find the time to seek the Lord and pray?" Well, this is what I came up with in prayer.
See, the mother with many children just doesn't have as much time to pray as she will when the children get older and out of the house. I think the Lord calls the older Titus mother to help out and somehow go to bat for her. I mean when her back is up against the wall.
See, even though Dixie was only a year older than me, she only had one child. So very often, Dixie would be prayed up when I was lost in a fog. But actually, it overloaded Dixie, too, as she was still the younger mother. Between Jill, Dixie and I, the blind led the blind for the most part. We became makeshift older mothers to each other. It was as though the mother had died and the sisters were left in charge of each other. In reality, the older Titus Mother in the church has indeed died and we were abandoned.
I think I especially felt the loss, as I had six children and Jill had two and Dixie one. God had called the older Titus mother to me but I guess she disobeyed, as I never saw her. I would cry on my knees to God to send her. I felt cheated and I grieved so for the comfort of the older woman. Then one day, when I became 50, I became the older Titus Mother. People say about the Titus 2 mother that it isn't her age but her spiritual growth. Well, I think it is a woman whose children are mostly grown and the growth in her spirit has come as she is faithful in her calling as Keeper at Home.
See, the young married mother isn't supposed to run off and get a career. Then learn the fruits of the Spirit as she submits to her boss and learns how to get along with the other worldly people she works with. She isn't supposed to get a college education. She is married with children and her spiritual education is now learned in the trenches. She learns the fruits of the Spirit as she cares for her family. She isn't to run from true education and try to get a job. The Lord has set her up to be a queen in her palace to care for her own children. Not a slave who must run to the street to pick up its trash.
There is no higher calling than keeper at home. It is a private home school for the Mother and wife. She lives in protection as she learns to know God. I mean to really know God the Bible way. Not the way the world tells you to know God. In this place of seclusion with the children, you can learn true patience and humility, long suffering and gentleness. It's easy, Darlin', to be gentle and nice to the neighbors. But in the middle of the night when Baby has awakened you for the 10th time is when you learn true love and long suffering. That's when you learn what life is all about.
And until you learn to be a keeper at home as a young mom, you won't be the Titus 2 Mother when ya get older. A mother can't be unfaithful all of her life and then, when she gets older, she decides she is too tired to do anything else, so she decides to be the Titus 2 Mother. It don't work like that. What you do as a young mom NOW counts. The battles you win in prayer as a young mom will be what makes you effective as you become the older Titus Mother.
The body of Christ needs the ministry of Mother in the church. But the church has played games for a long time and it shows. The Word of God is blasphemed. Mother ran out. Titus 2:3-5.
Run-Away Mother
See, this is why we have child porn, abortions, birth control for Christians. Divorce, gay marriage, bad schools that are nothing more than government run babysitters. Wife swapping. Well, it's all feminism. The plague of this century.
It's because the world has invaded mother's temple. The world has walked right into her quiet place where the meek and quiet spirit is to be hidden, groomed and fed. It's been like throwing 10 foxes in a hen house of sleeping chickens. The women who have no spine will become hysterical and fly out of there with every excuse in the book. But Sarah's daughters are not afraid with any amazement. Sarah's daughters will stand back in a secret place and hide away until the Lord kills the fox.
The Virtuous Mother ain't runnin' for anyone and especially fear won't drive her out. Her heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. She announces that all of her children are blessed. No evil shall befall her and no plague will come nigh her dwelling. She isn't afraid of the Bird Flu or hurricanes or any other catastrophe -- though 10,000 shall fall at her side it will not come nigh her. Only with her eyes will she see the reward of the wicked. Psalms 91. Mother is in the the hallow of His hands. The death angels pass over her house as she has the blood of Jesus upon every door post. She knows Jesus as Savior and is praying for her family.
Mothers, we can't run out of the secret place and expect the Lord to run after us. We must stay hidden away in our nest and blend with the branches. God won't run after us, catch us and throw us back into the secret place of our temple. (Our place of submission to our husbands as unto the Lord.) We can't enter the temple unless we are willing to bow our heads and lower our eyes. We must come back into the holy place with our spiritual coverings of wifely submission. You can't pound a square piece of flesh into a round hole. We must spiritually fit ourselves into our secret place. We must submit to our own husbands as unto the Lord.
There isn't 40 ways to be the virtuous woman. The Bible only shows us one way. EVERY wise woman builds her home and the foolish tear it down with their hands. So you are either tearing the home down or building it up. You are either fearful or in faith. Either you will choose to be evil or holy. Choose this day whom you will serve. God or the devil? Either you want a home or you don't. And many of you young women on here will either be made or broken by your family. Either Satan will break you and make you turn tail and run or you will remain steadfast trusting in the Lord.
Virtuous women don't run in flocks or Bible studies. The true Bible virtuous woman was as a rare flower hidden away in God's secret garden. She is the ruby upon His hand. She is the pure white rose with drops of tears upon each petal. She is called out from among them to be Holy into the Lord. She comes willingly to the secret place, her heart is soft and she trusts only in Him. She is as Esther who lays down her life for her people. She feeds His sheep as she loves Him and Him alone. She is wise as she knows the times and the seasons of things. No one pushes her to do anything. She is confident in her quietness and strength in God. She is not guilt ridden, allowing other women to take her strength. She is surefooted, trusting only in Him.
The devil tries to condemn us but God knows what we will do. Satan tries to scare us out of the home to confuse us. Also to divide us from our husbands. He wants to divide and conquer us as we run out from our covering. We are not make-shift maids to cover all the basis the world would have us fill. We are specialists, gifts to our families. Queens set apart to work in the palace of the Lord. Our children are prophets and handmaidens. Our children are gifted spiritually as we have raised them, not with money, but golden faith.
