(Other) Women of the Bible & Proverbs 31 Women of the Bible-Continued

    

It's been 8 months and 3 days since I wrote about the Proverbs 31 Women of the Bible and Other Women of the Bible series. Here's the posts in the series so far:

Proverbs 31 Women in the Bible-part 1

Proverbs 31 Women in the Bible-part 2

Proverbs 31 Women in the Bible-part 3

Proverbs 31 Women in the Bible-part 4

Other Women of the Bible-part 1

Other Women of the Bible-part 2

Other Women of the Bible-part 3

Other Women of the Bible-part 4

Proverbs 31 Women of the Bible-part 5

Other Women of the Bible-part 5

Proverbs 31 Women of the Bible-part 6

I am going to be starting these series back up in June. I am going to be using my Bible as a reference, of course. I will also be using She Reads Truth's Bible study "Women in the Word" and the American Bible Society's book Women of the Bible: Heroines and the Lessons They Can Still Teach Us. I have really enjoyed doing these and I'm so excited to be able to start it back up this summer!

So far the women I have written about are: Noah & his sons' wives, Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Shipharh & Puah, Moses' Mother (Jochbed), Zelophehad's Daughters, Rahab, Aksah, Deborah, Jephthah's daughter, Ruth, Hannah, Abigail, Shumannite woman, Eve, Lot's wife, Keturah, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah &Zilpah, Dinah, Tamar, Potiphar's wife, Zipporah, Miriam, Jael, Abimelek's killer, Samson's pagan bride, Delilah, Micah's mother, Levite's Concubine, Wives of Benjamin, Samson's mother, Naomi, Orpah, Michal, Bathsheba, Tamar, Rizpah, Queen of Sheba, Widow at Zarephath, Medium of Endor, Wise woman of Tekoa, Solomon's pagan wives, Maakah, Jezebel, Athaliah, The Adulteress woman in Proverbs, Gomer, Esther, Jehosheba, The Psalms girl, Song of songs woman, Jerobom's wife, the prophet's widow, Naaman's maidservant, Huldah, Vashti, Job's wife, Job's daughters, The Daughters of Jerusalem, and Mary the mother of Jesus.

I'll do a small refresher course next Saturday and then Saturday, June 6th I'll start back on the series. I hope you all enjoy it and thank you for coming along with me on this journey through the lives of these women!

Mothers (of the Bible)

           

"But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." ~Luke 2:19

Who remembers making those crafts for their mom? You know the ones that have our hand prints in it and normally go on the fridge. Every year your mom received one of these gifts, she loved it and kept it. As you got older, you started picking out other things for her that she could actually use. Maybe something she'd been wanting for around the house or a piece of jewelry.Well, I'm thankful for my mom and all she does for me. Moms have a special job and no one, here on earth, is going to love you like your mom does. With that, let's look at some moms in the Bible.

Sarah: She wanted a child, but as each year approached and passed she and her husband weren't able to have children. She took matters in her own hands and her female servant had a child with her husband (I know this is weird, but back in the day this was kind of like adoption.) This plan didn't work out the way Sarah wanted and she still had no child. In her old age God gave her a son and she became a legacy of a nation! Sarah shows us that God has better plans than us and He reveals those plans at the right time. (Genesis 16, 18, 21)

Jochebed: This was Moses' mother. This woman also had amazing faith! She knew her baby boy would be killed if she didn't do something. So, she puts him in a basket in the river! She trusted God to keep that baby safe in the water and safe with who he ended up with, which happened to be royalty and he was used by God in a huge way! I truly believe that because of this woman's faith, her children turned into the Christian leaders that they were. (Exodus 2)

Pharaoh's Daughter: She was the woman who found Moses (Jochebed's son). She showed love by "adopting" and raising Moses as her own son. Step-mothers and adopted-mothers are a gift from God too! (Exodus 2:510)

Hannah: She was the woman who prayed to God for a child and when her child was of age she gave him back to God so he could serve God. She knew children are God's amazing gift. (1 Samuel 1)

Mary: She was chosen to be Jesus' mother. She was blessed to get to raise him and teach him. She also had the blessing of him dying for her sins on the cross when He died for all of us. This had to break her heart and I've always wondered if God allowed her to know what was going to happen. She's a perfect example of a loving mother who puts her faith in God and never walks away from her child. (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

There are many other mothers in the Bible who set great examples. God loves you enough to give you a mother, but His love is 100% better than a mothers love! Take time to thank God for the gift of your mom and to tell your mom thank you for everything. 

"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come....Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:" ~Proverbs 31:25, 28

God is so Good

                                   

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us," ~Ephesians 3:20

I have to share about the  blessings God gave me Tuesday night. I went with some of my church family to the Casting Crowns concert. I almost didn't go because my friends couldn't go. Bu when I got there opening for Casting Crowns was Josh Wilson! The Tuesday before that I had given a presentation on one of his songs! At intermission I got to meet Josh Wilson and tell him how much his song "Carry Me" has helped me.

The second blessing came at the end of the Casting Crowns concert. The song "Praise You in the Storm" got my family and I through some rough times. They played that song last and even though  my family is going through a similar rough time, it's completely different and just had to praise God.

On the way home I just bonded with my church family and that was another huge blessing. When I got home I realized that God had blessed me twice with getting to say thank you to a singer who wrote a song that helped me get through a rough time in my life. The first one was Britt Nicole in March 2012 and I thanked her for the song "Safe."

All of this is just proof that the battles that we go through will be used to help someone else! Talk about God doing things we could never imagine!

Casting Crowns concert

Meeting Britt Nicole in March 2012

       

Meeting Josh Wilson in April 2015
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us," ~Ephesians 3:20