{"id":3410,"date":"2009-08-10T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2009-08-10T01:55:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T06:55:06","slug":"hes-just-not-that-into-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"I Wanna Give Him a Reason to Hate Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

The topic for today’s post has been at work in me for a while and was solidified by my friend Anne’s<\/a> post from last week.<\/p>\n

It is the power of being a woman. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Growing up, I was certainly a tomboy and even through high school I battled with the role of being a woman. The idea of submitting to any man was outside of my realm of possibilities. But the older I get, the more I embrace my womanhood. What makes me special is that I am a woman. The world wasn\u2019t finished before Eve and I think we as women should be embracing the power in that. And women need<\/strong> to feel empowered to be feminine. And everything that means.<\/p>\n

On more than one occasion I have read and heard about how much the enemy hates women. More so than he hates men. But why?<\/p>\n

Because he is jealous of her. Before the creation of Eve, Lucifer was the most beautiful thing God ever created and he knew that Eve was more beautiful than he. He didn\u2019t go to her because she was weaker than Adam. He went to her because he wanted to destroy her.<\/p>\n

But it sort of backfired on him.<\/p>\n

Yes, she was deceived and she ate, but in Genesis 3 God says to the serpent after Eve explains what happened, \u201cBecause you have done this (serpent deceiving Eve), cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity (hatred) between you and the woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the serpent thought God would destroy her for him. Or that God would change his mind about having created her. I don’t know. But instead, God further condemned him and further raised Eve up to do battle.<\/p>\n

So, not only do women have the word of God in them, we also have the calling and anointing to do battle. And even now the enemy knows we were created for battle against him. Which is why we are the ones he comes after.<\/p>\n

Yet, society is robbing us of that power. <\/em><\/p>\n

I think for too long (especially in my generation) we have been given mixed signals about who we are and who are to be. Some are told we are in competition with men\u2013in business, in ministry and even in relationships. And some of us have been told we are merely for show and created for pleasing a man sexually.<\/p>\n

Whichever voice we’ve heard most, it is creating a generation of women who are sexually confused, angry at men and our relationships with God are strained or non-existent.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 31:21-23 says, \u201cHow long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man.”<\/p>\n

This doesn’t mean a woman is more powerful than a man, or is to rule over a man… or to be ruled over… no. It means she will stand beside him, stand with him, surround him, and even protect him in spiritual warfare. And that\u2019s a powerful statement.<\/p>\n

The second chapter of Joel speaks of “the fig tree,” “the grapevine” and “the olive oil.” I believe this is what God’s women are made of. The oil represents the anointing, the fig tree represents the sweetness, and the wine (or grapevine) represents the new thing. And that’s a whole lot better than the old “sugar and spice and everything nice.”<\/p>\n

When God-fearing women begin manifesting these things in their families, their churches and the world, the enemy will be filled with terror. He knows that women will impact their world for God, just as the early church did in Acts 2.<\/p>\n

There’s a quote that says, “Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says, ‘Oh no, she\u2019s awake.'” <\/em><\/p>\n

Ladies, let\u2019s really give the enemy a reason to hate us.
\nGuys, help us by empowering us to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t really have a question to end this post, but the floor is open for discussion…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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