Dear Mothers,
Well, I have baby Olivia Rose (5 weeks) this morning. She is sleeping so I will have some time to write.
Mercy! I was watching Joyce M this morning and man alive. She is just out and out putting down the submissive wife. She says that a preacher tried to tell her that her husband should preach and she should be quiet at home. So her husband tried to preach and he didn't know how. So she preached and won many to the Lord. And she told how the crowds followed her. None of what she said was backed up by scripture. She is getting her calling from looking at her experiences.
Ya know my daughter Christian Joy told me once over the phone -- as she calls me often -- she told me years ago, "Mom, anyone can get an audience. There are so many crazy people out there." She told me that on the internet, you can sell about anything and someone will buy it. I have always remembered that. Just because a lot of people follow you, it don't mean you have the truth. In fact, if crowds of women follow you in this sin sick world, it probably means you don't have the truth. But it just galls me that so many women are following Joyce. And now so many women preachers are coming forth.
It bothers me that on Christian TV, there is no representation of the women of strength and dignity. I wish I could be on Joyce's show and, man alive, I would tell it all. Let me tell ya. What bothers me a lot is the old church women on TV who are screaming at the young women to not live in an abusive marriage. It's so sick. You get out of abuse by going against God's word? The abuse starts in your own heart and must end there. You need to be built up in God. Getting a divorce isn't going to change you inside. You will bring your tattered and torn personality into the next marriage, too.
Then Joyce has this woman on there who had a testimony of living in abuse and how she got out and happily married someone else. Oh, God help us. But when that woman was being abused, a Titus 2 Mother should have come to her from the church and showed her how not to be abused. Women who are so torn down are torn down to start with ... without an abusive husband. And there are men this way, too. Some men are just battered by their wives but won't say anything, as they don't want to lose the home or children.
Letting yourself be abused is self destruction and it's no one's fault but yours. I feel like a fart in a storm again trying to write this stuff. Abused children are different as they don't know how to get out of the situation -- because they are children? But what are some of these women going to do when they reach heaven? Blame their lives on their husband? And then they think they will be excused because they didn't trust in God?
Especially Christian women need to learn to love an abusive man. A Christian is called to love more, not less. We are to love our enemies and bless those who curse us. Vengeance is mine saith the Lord I will repay. God is to fight our battles for us. And most women in this age are abusing their husbands. The wife is to submit, but a man should not submit to an abusive wife. But when dealing with an abusive husband, you should know right from wrong and not submit to evil. You must be as Esther was before the King. You can pacify your husband but you have your own agenda with God in your heart. No one owns your mind except for God. These Christian women that have to be LARGE AND IN CHARGE don't have the guts Esther had. They win a few battles but always lose the war.
"Oh, Father God, encourage and raise up true women of God in this hour as lights in this present darkness." So many watching Christian TV are being led to Satan's pit. Arise, oh daughters of Zion. Come forth, dear Daughters of a New Revolution!
Ya know no one in their right mind would ever publish this stuff I write about wife abuse. So I am glad I have my own group. I guess I publish it myself.
But ya know Lady preacher takes out the cross of Christ. She speaks of Christ at the cross. But no one ever speaks about the death of self. About crucifying the flesh as the Bible speaks of. Or taking up our cross daily and following Him. The death to self and the exaltation of Christ is the teachings in the Bible. No, what we have in the modern church is death to Christ and exaltation of self. Joyce teaches about the confident women. And God says our confidence comes as we abide in Him and crucify the flesh. We are not to exalt ourselves but we are to exalt Christ.
Many are scared spitless in this present day. With wars and rumors of wars, we are much afraid at times. And so people try to get a false sense of security by acting tough and trying to be confident. Well, Jesus is the conquering hero, not us. Let me tell ya somethin', Darlin', we are in a mess in our country. I don't trust either party. I live daily with Jesus. Yes I get afraid. But each new day, I give my fears to Jesus and I wait upon Him.
We want quick fixes. If we do this and that, then we will be OK. We feel confident as someone gives us a formula for success. But it is not us who will take ourselves through but only Jesus. 1 Peter 2 and 3 says in the King James version that Jesus is the example to the abused wife.
Love,
Connie
