Spiritual Truth # 4
“Superwomen Get Grace Too”
Superwoman, is this a title you could easily attach to your name.
“Yes, met Superwoman Alice”, etc. Do you feel, like it or not, you have to be the superwoman military wife because so much is required of you? Stop, take a deep breath and read on in chapter 5: Superwomen Get Grace Too and learn how change your perspective.
Opening Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, We praise you for your loving grace. We praise you for your steadfast ways and abiding love. We ask you to help us to not be anxious about our daily circumstances, but in everything by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make our request be known to you. Grant us your peace and guard our hearts and minds. Let us remember to look up and call on you when our burden is heavy. Help us to set our priorities on the things of God and not to be overwhelmed by daily issues of our own making. Keep us humbly dependent upon you and let us rejoice in the day and the work that you have given us. In Jesus name we pray, amen.
If I don’t do it, it doesn’t get done.
Good Advice: Don’t try to be “Superwoman”.
Don’t ask more of yourself more than you would advise to a friend in a similar situation.
Adjust your Perspective
When we perceive that everything is up to us, that we are responsible for it all, and success or failure rests completely on what we do, stress begins to build and the burden becomes to heavy for us to carry alone. However, if we adjust our perspective and take our eyes off of ourselves and focus on God, we can experience the grace he has for us.
Look up
What makes a God Strong Superwoman?
Fear the Lord
Proverbs 31:30 b: “but the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised”
This verse describes a woman who is in awe of God. She walks in reverence and admiration and amazement of who God is and who he is in her life and what he means to her.
Psalm 111:10 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”.
This verse is a description of her heart, her countenance, her soul. We need to cultivate a view from within that looks to God and away from ourselves.
The Gift of Grace
God does not want our perfect works; he simply wants our hearts. Why do we get ourselves in knots trying to do everything, to be everything, like a super woman does? Who called us to be super military wives?
God has given us something better. God has given us a bigger gift.
He has given us a gift that lasts, and it’s his ultimate gift of grace for us.
It is Jesus, He is our gift
Jesus, is all we need, because it is through him that all our needs are met.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a results of works, so that no man can boast. For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so we would walk in them”. Ephesians 2:8-10
Building Our Tool Box:
Keeping God in the center of our lives
As military wives, it is often our natural tendency to depend upon ourselves to do. But God is asking us to learn to lean upon his strength through his grace to be.
Addition reading: A Woman After God’s Own Heart® Deluxe Edition By Elizabeth George
The Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado
Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender by Beth Moore
My So-Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife: A One-Year Experiment…and Its Surprising Results
By Sara Horn
Comments/questions:
What can we share?
- Thoughts and comments from Strength Trainers question
- Words of Encouragement
- Life Experiences
- Testimonies of Praises
- What we have learned
- Favorite Bible Verses
So speak encouraging words to one another 1 Thes 5:11
Praise and Worship song: Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) -Chris Tomlin
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One of the statements in this chapter that really jumped out at me was the statement that I should not ask more of myself than I would advise a friend to do.
It is easy for me to give advice to someone when they ask for my view and my suggestion on their circumstances, but do I take my own advice and slow down and look to the Lord for my our strength and peace when I am pushing to finish my own “to do” list? This chapter reminded me to make sure that I look up and follow God’s ultimate plan for my life day by day.
Romans 8:28- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
This is definitely a big problem for me! I am a perfectionist, so it is very difficult for me to let go of a task and not do it myself. I really like the comment that God doesn’t expect us to do, but wants us to lean on His grace to BE. This is also an opportunity for me to think about what is the most important in my list of things to do.
Sam,
I couldn’t wait to share this with you. It was really cool. This was a quote from Tom Phillip’s Facebook post from #WOLQT, I know just what he is saying, how often do I, as a believer, make life harder than God planned:
Isaiah 48: God promises prospering, peace, profit, protection and power for those who put their trust in Him. My problem, like Israel, is that, many times, I think I can do a better job with my life than God. How stupid can I be. God help me to open my hands to you. Tom Phillips
I always think of God’s promises being highlighted in the Psalms, but look at how many promises he makes in Isaiah 48! I need to memorize these verses!!!
Thanks!!!
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Throughout this whole book, and over the past few months, God has really been trying to teach this lesson (to completely rely on Him) to me. Lately, everything that can go wrong (seemingly) has gone wrong in our lives. I have to learn that it’s okay for my life not to be perfect…and not to try and carry all of my burdens on my own shoulders. I want to take care of it all, but that is not what we’re called to by any means! Praise the Lord that I don’t have to carry it all, because I think I would break down! I’m so thankful that the Lord cares enough about me to teach me, as a father teaches a son.