Women’s Place
MARCH 2025
SCRIPTURE FOCUS OF THE MONTH
Proverbs 31:25-26: "She speaks with wisdom and teaches with kindness. She opens her mouth with discretion, and on her tongue is the law of kindness."
(Using wisdom and kindness in communication)
Prayer: “Lord, let my tongue be tamed by Your Holy Spirit. Help and guide me to listen intently and consider with compassion, the conditions and circumstances of those who test my patience. Allow me the blessed insight to think long before I speak and create in me a discipline to wait and pray before I rebuke, scold or counsel another, taking into account the possibilities of the aftermath.
Let me remember Your strong counsel, through the Apostle Paul, who said; “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”
Oh, Lord, help me that I may abide in and practice these words, to love my neighbor, my family, my brethren and speak words of life!
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
From Suzie’s Desk:
Suzie D. Camara
Titus 2:3-4 - the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Proverbs 31:10 - Who can find a virtuous wife?
For her worth is far above rubies.
As I contemplate the content on this month’s Women’s Place, I cannot help but think about the enemies of all us women of today. They are the same enemies for all Christians; the world, the flesh and the Devil, but of course, each attack is custom fit for the target.
As young ladies, girls are being exposed to and taught so many worldly and fleshly ideas and thought processes, that the identity of who God has called them to be is silenced by the ever-louder voices of ungodly women, who scream ideologies of selfishness, promiscuity and belligerence.
As older women: mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmas, if we are not living honest, godly Christian lives ourselves, we can end up forfeiting great opportunities to be examples to our daughters, young women, and counterparts. As an example, many mothers destroy relationships with their daughters by attempting to be “a good friend” in place of “a godly mother.” They fear that if they do not offer the freedoms and relationships the world exposes them to, they could lose them, and that is exactly what happens, they become lost without self-less, holy, firm, stable, compassionate, godly mothers and mentors.
As women, we can wrongly internalize our past experiences of abuse, misogyny, under-appreciation, lack of acceptance and understanding, only to expose the fellow women in our lives to fleshly words and outbursts of behavior that are void of any spiritual fruit.
Christian ladies, we fight a fight for love, compassion, truth, and holiness! We also have a great advantage. We have a God who IS love, to guide us through! Whether you are a mother, single girl, or middle-aged go-getter, we need God to lead us to be holy and successful women in today’s society. We stand for God, with God, in the power of God’s Holy Spirit, and we can only have victory over the enemies slew of evil machinations, if we live by example, knowing exactly what God expects of us, so we can live it, teach it, and share it! Godly women fight with prayer, fasting, worship, study, and obedience in all things Christ Jesus.
Each day, week, month or year, we only have so much time to teach, train and guide the other women and young women in our lives. Hopefully, in this little time, we can help them see what blessings and honor come from being a genuine woman of the Lord; pure, compassionate, loving, intelligent, caring, nurturing, holy women of God.
Sin’s War against Love
From Trillia Newbell of Ligonier
I hate sin. It is ugly. It disrupts life. It messes with precious relationships. It confuses the mind. Sin is pervasive. Sin affects us to our core. Sin wreaks havoc on every aspect of life, especially on our ability to keep the commandments to love God with all our heart and soul and mind and to love our neighbor as ourselves. I think that’s perhaps one reason Paul rebuked the Corinthians about their selfishness and division with verses about love:
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Cor. 13:4–7)
Despite how familiar those verses might be, they truly are the way of love. The Corinthians had trouble loving one another. This difficulty was clear in their pursuit of spiritual gifts. Some had elevated their gifts (or perhaps certain gifts) over others. Paul reminded them, “There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord” (12:4). He then explained that the church has many parts but is one body (vv. 12–30). And then, Paul made it extremely clear that one could use the gifts they were elevating and do so completely in vain—without true love for others and only for selfish gain and glory (13:1–3).
The correction to the Corinthians’ selfishness is the same helpful correction to our selfishness and to the many sinful desires and struggles that cling so closely—love. If love is patient and kind, we will fight to learn to put on gentleness and kindness. Love does not insist on its own way—pride does, so we ask God to give us humility. Love is not irritable or resentful; therefore, every relationship, if it is beyond surface level, must be doused in the patience and forbearance that can only come from the power of Christ. Love bears with one another and is not selfish; love believes the truth and the best until proven otherwise. Love hopes for the absolute best in all situations and in the gospel that reconciles. Love endures with hardship and trouble. Love doesn’t give up.
Now if you are like me, after reading and reflecting on these commands to love, you are likely pleading with God for help. We don’t love the way we ought to. But God has graciously given us His Spirit, who enables us to love. We love others not because we are good people, nor do we love God because of anything in and of ourselves (1 John 4:19). This is great news for us. It means we can ask God—the same God whose power changed our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh and whose power enables us to love Him—to use the same power to enable us to love our neighbor as ourselves. We will fail, but there’s repentance and forgiveness available. Let’s call out to God for help to put off that nasty, selfish sin, and love.
Mary was a Jewish woman from the fishing town Magdala on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Her name is mentioned 12 times in the Gospels, more than most of the apostles. Mark and Luke recorded the healing of demons from Mary’s life in their Gospel accounts.
She was a prominent figure in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. She is mentioned several times in the Gospels as a devoted follower of Jesus who was present at his crucifixion and burial. She is also believed to have been the first witness to the resurrection of Jesus. Mary was a woman of strong faith who had been healed of seven demons by Jesus, and her loyalty to him was unwavering. She was one of the few female disciples of Jesus and played an important role in the early Christian church.
Her story serves as an example of faith and dedication, and she remains an important figure in Christianity today. Mary’s desperate longing to be close to Christ and serve Him in any way she could became how she lived her life. She knew she would not have a life if not for Him. What Mary lived daily is the faith we all strive to achieve.
From Biblestudytools.com
