February 18, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi guys, welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast. You're
here with your hosts Amani on the podcast where we
talk about our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship
with the Lord. Happy Tuesday. Thank you guys for joining again.
For all my new people and new subscribers here, go
ahead and like, share, comment, subscribe all that good stuff
to help our channel and our community grow. And speaking
(00:21):
of community, I just want to shout out every woman
who came out to the initial meetup that I'm planning
weekly for US Christian girlies. It's a Christian girl meetup
slash Bible study that I'll be having in the city
in Atlanta every week. Details are on my website, so
you have to go to a moniworthom dot com, subscribe
to the emails, and I put out a weekly email.
But also make sure you follow me on my socials
(00:43):
because I posted about this meetup that we had today
Tuesday the eighteenth, twelve pm. We were at a coffee shop.
I posted about this on Monday on TikTok and I'm thinking, oh,
it's last minute. I saw a lot of comments of
women saying that they couldn't make it because they had
work and you know, Amani, we got jobs all that stuff.
So I was like, listen, Lord, I feel like this
is a long time coming. I've been feeling like I
(01:05):
should be the ones who initiate community if I want community,
and I just did it. I was just like, you
know what, whoever shows up shows up. Even if it
was just literally three women, I would have been overjoyed
with that. Y'all. Twenty women showed up, like, and that's
just how God works. You step out on faith, you
pray about it, you ask him to bless your plans.
(01:26):
You're moving within what he tells you to do, and
you're thinking small. I'm thinking, oh, maybe three to five
women will show up. Twenty he had twenty women show
up to our girl. We had Daydreamer coffee packed out,
we kept having to take cheers, and you know, every
like ten minutes, another woman would join. Like it was
(01:47):
just so amazing to see God work in that way.
And so that was our first initial meet up today Tuesday,
and shout out to everyone that came. I love y'all.
It's just gonna grow, like the Lord will bless it.
It will grow, and yeah, our next one's going to
be this Saturday. So, like I said, make sure that
you're on the website, I will put all the details
in the caption or not caption, but the yeah, the
(02:08):
caption to this video. But yeah, if you're in the area,
you can join our meetups in person. If not, I
will be streaming them on Instagram Live. Also, we have
our Christian Girls Trip still coming up Bali this summer
July nineteenth through the twenty fifth, seven days and six
nights with ten other Christian women going on a Christian
girls trip. Lux Tribes is hosting us. If anyone has
(02:28):
traveled with Lux Tribes before, you know that they are amazing.
It is a black woman owned travel company and when
I went with them to Morocco for my birthday, it
was amazing. They handled the entire itinerary and they had
the itinerary packed out for the Bali Girls Trip that
we are hosting. Elephant rides, the Bali Swing with the
long dress, floating breakfast, flower bats, spas like the whole thing,
(02:53):
the monkey Sanctuary, everything you guys, we're gonna be a
part of. And so if you will like the details
so that that will also be linked in the cap below.
I have been praying over every single woman's spot on
that trip, that the Lord will if this isn't his will,
and we will move forward, that it will go forward.
And that's it. So yeah, let's get into today's episode.
I saw a few creators I think TikTok YouTube, just
(03:15):
like in Passing of Women saying, you know, when you
really read through the Bible and when you think about it,
God is such a girl dad. And I was just
like they were giving examples and I was like, oh
my gosh, you're right, Like I never thought about it
that way. And a few months ago I forgot what
series we were in at my church, but we were
(03:36):
going through one of the books and our pastor was
telling us how Jesus was like the first feminist, Like
he came in and during a time where women were
second class citizens, where women didn't have any rights, like
you had to be married to be able to even eat. Okay,
he came in and said, no, you have equality in Christ.
There is neither ju nor gentile man, nor woman free
or slave. You have equality in Christ. And all these
(04:01):
notions about Christianity being so restrictive on women and it's
so oppressive, how could a woman, especially a black woman.
It's the white man's religion. It's so restrictive towards women,
it's trying to control women. Jesus came in and said, ah,
women are not second class citizens. You are equal in Christ. Okay.
And there are so many examples in the Bible of
God being on women's sides and really just being the
(04:23):
epitome of a girl dad. So I just wanted to
explore that in this episode. So first off, I just
want to tackle and dismantle the incorrect notion that people
have about Christianity being so restrictive towards women. How can
you decenter man if you worship a male god. Let's
just get into that first of all, okay, because I
really want to really talk about equality in Christ. So
(04:45):
we're gonna start in Galatians three twenty six. It says,
for you are all sons of God through faith in
Christ Jesus. For as many of you were baptized into
Christ have put on Christ. There is neither you nor Greek.
There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male
nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed
(05:06):
and heirs according to the promise. So right there, I
love that verse because it dismantles any hierarchy. You know,
we know that the Lord is not a respector of persons.
He doesn't look at rich or poor, male or female.
We are all equal in his sight. So right there,
it's just like, okay, we have verses that describe equality,
man not being above woman when it comes to the
(05:28):
way the Lord sees us, which is really all that matters.
And another verse I love that talks about equality in
Christ is First Corinthians eleven eleven through twelve, and it says, nevertheless,
neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of
man in the Lord. For as woman came from man,
even so man also comes through woman. But all things
(05:49):
are from God. So right there, Paul is writing to
the Corinthians and he's saying, there is no such thing
as a woman being second class. Not in heaven. That
won't matter, I mean on this earth. Besides, Adam was
created being a woman. And when it comes to women,
we know that Evel was made from Adam's rib. We
(06:09):
come from Man. There is equality in Christ when it
comes to the genders and the sexes. Men ain't over
women in Heaven. Absolutely not. It even gets specifically into marriage.
Colossians three eighteen through nineteen says, wives, submit to your
own husbands as it is fitting in the Lord. The
next sentence husbands, love your wives, and do not be
(06:33):
bitter towards them. And then Ephesians five twenty eight says,
so husbands ought to love their own wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. And
let me just say this to anyone that's out there
confused about what submission is and what that looks like.
As a woman, the only man that you submit to
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if you are unmarried is your father. You don't submit
to a boyfriend's sis. You don't submit to that brother
in Christ who thinks he's gonna marry you. Until he
marries you, you do not submit to him. Submission should
not even be a conversation. Okay before marriage. Really, all
(07:13):
submission is is letting God control you. I'm submitting to
God and my Father before I get married. That's it.
And then once you get married, your husband is submitting
to God, and then you're submitting under that authority. Any
man who is not a God led man should never
even be talking about submission because you aren't submitting to God.
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When it comes to a woman being submissive in a relationship,
submission is not the cause to your relationship. It's not like, oh,
I submit and because I'm submissive, I will get a husband. No,
submission is not the cause of your relationship. Submission is
the effect a man is leading you under Godly authority,
(07:56):
and so you submit. You don't submit to get the man.
You should never be submissive to. No man that did
not marry you. I don't care if that's your baby, daddy.
He didn't marry you. He wanted you to be submissive,
he would have married you. You don't submit to your boyfriend.
He didn't marry you. I don't care how long y'all
been living together. You don't do what that man says.
You do what God says and what your dad say.
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So let's get into God being a girl dad. Now
that we have established that there is equality in Christ,
there are sometimes in the Bible that I'm reading and
I'm feeling like God low Ki has a smidge of
preferential treatment when it comes to his daughters. And I
see it so many times to where God gives a
man a mission and the man will doubt, you know.
(08:39):
Moses said, I'm slow speech. Jemiah said, I'm still a youth.
There are so many men that the Lord gives them
a mission, and they have all these excuses, and the
Lord never coddles them. The Lord never says, oh, I
understand my son, like you know, pray for this, and
like he says, go and do what I told you
to do, like stop telling me what you can't do,
(09:00):
Go and do what I told you to do. But
with women, it seems like he has a little preferential treatment.
And I think a good example is how to my knowledge, now,
you guys can leave it in the comments if you
find one. But I cannot find many examples in the
Bible to where a woman has prayed for something specific.
We see a woman praying, and we see that woman's
prayer and the Lord did not answer that prayer. When
(09:22):
I think about esther, how after the decree went out
for her people to be annihilated, her cousin Mordecai told her,
you need to go before the king and you know,
try to stop this. And she was like, I can't
just go before the king. If I go unannounced, he'll
kill me, Like that's what the decree is. And I'm
sure that there was a moment that Esther prayed for
(09:44):
strength and for courage like there. I can't imagine that
she didn't. And once she went before the king, he
held out his scepter. She touched it, and he said,
what is it you want, Esther? It will be given
to you up to half of my kingdom. Okay. When
I think about the women in the Bible that were
barren and wanted children, it seemed like they always got
their children. Hand Out with Samuel, Elizabeth with John the Baptist,
(10:07):
Sarah with Isaac. It seemed like they always got their children.
But there are times that I have seen the Lord
not answer a man's prayer. When David has that affair
with Bathsheba kills her husband, they have their first son.
The Lord kills that son, and while the sun is
sick before he passes away, David is weeping, fasting, okay,
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praying day and night for the Lord to save that child.
And the Lord does not. That child passes away. Even
when I think about Paul and him talking about the
thorn in his side, and about him pleading day and
night for the Lord to remove that thorn, and the
Lord said, my grace is sufficient for you. I'm not
removing that thorn. Also, when you go way back to
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Moses about how he had them anger issues girl and
struck the rock when the Lord told him to just
speak to the rock, and the Lord was like, because
of that disobedience, you won't make it into the Promised Land.
Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that being the
person who withstood forty years in the wilderness because other
people's disobedience, all to get to the promised land that
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the Lord said that he would bring his people into,
and because of one's sin, he does not let you answer. Listen.
But that's besides the point. We see Moses after that
he asks the Lord if he can still enter the
Promised Land, and the Lord says no. I'm not saying
that the Lord did not answer these men's prayers because
they were men. I'm not saying that there could be
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multiple reasons and explanations as to why the Lord did
not specifically answer those prayers. But all I'm saying is
it seems like when women pray, maybe we pray a
little different, Maybe we pray longer, maybe we're more trusting,
Maybe we are more obedient, have more humility whatever the
Lord is seeking to answer prayer. Maybe women just have
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a little bit more. But it sure seems like when
a woman ask the Lord for something, and she asked,
and she is diligent because even handled with Samuel, she
asks for a child. For years, y'all, she had to
sit back and watch her sister wife have child after
child after child, and she was depressed all those years
after not having a child, and then the Lord gives
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her Samuel. So, like I said, maybe women just pray
a little different. Maybe we have a certain level of
humility and expectation and we know the Lord will do
it rather than men. Who knows girl. All I'm saying
is it seems to me that when us women ask
the Lord for something, we get it. And is that
not girl dad treatment? Is that not girl dad preferential treatment?
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The Lord is seeing us as his daughters, and he
is saying, how could I resist answering my daughter's prayer?
Think about that the next time you pray in your
doubting Think about that the next time you pray and
you're limiting what God can do for you. He cannot resist.
God wants to answer your prayer. How can he resist
answering his daughter's prayers. He is a girl dad, He
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is your dad. He wants to give you what you're
praying for. Even if you don't agree with me saying
that it seems like the Lord has preferential treatment over
his daughters, you can at least agree that he has
extraordinary treatment of his daughters, even when you think about
the story of the woman at the well, the Samaritan woman.
First of all, Jesus speaking to a woman in public
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was a no no. Men did not just engage women
in conversation out on the street like we do today.
Back in his times, that was a no no. But
just the fact that the Lord not only speaks to her,
but he is really conversing with her. They have a dialogue.
He is not afraid of being seen speaking to women,
shows how he views women as equal, shows how he
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views women as his daughters. He goes against societal norms
for his daughters. We can also go into how the
Lord chooses to use women in this Areascially is what
differentiates Christianity, true Christianity, being a true follower of Christ,
from every other religion out there. There is no other
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religion that uses women in the same way that men
are used for the glory of the Creator. Even when
you go back to the Old Testament Deborah, it seems
to me, at least the way it's mentioned in the
Bible that she is the first woman mentioned to be
a prophet and a judge. She was one of the
judges and Deborah spoke about in the Book of Judges.
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But even before that we can talk about Rahab. Rahab
was a prostitute, and she was the one that allowed
the Israelite spies to come into Canaan so they could
scope out the scenery right and get an edge on
defeating those people to go into the Promised Land. And
then Rahab ended up being an ancestor of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Esther, she was used to save her people.
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Her people would have been exterminated. There was a genocide
going on. There was the one that went to the
king risking her life. Esther is the one that saved
her people from genocide. Okay, they were going to be
exterminated at the hand of their enemies. She went before
the King, risking her life in order to save her people.
For its such a time as this, she was appointed
(15:16):
to the King, not king queen hood, okay, for such
a time as this, to save her people. And even
when we talk about Jesus himself, the first people that
knew about his resurrection were women, and they were told
to go and tell everybody else. The resurrection is such
a huge part of Jesus's story, and women were the
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first ones to the tomb. And this just goes to
show that the way that we see the Lord show
up for women, the way that we see the Lord
use women, the way that he says that we are
equal in his eyes, shows us how we are needed
in the Kingdom in the world. One thing I always
like to say when it comes to Adam and Eve
is Eve was not created because she needed Adam. Eve
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was created because Adam needed her. Just keep that in mind,
and when more women understand how precious, how prized, how
useful we are to the Lord, they would take their
positions in the kingdom a little more seriously. I think
when we think about leadership in the church and we
know that men are head pastors and men are head
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of the household, we tend to shrink in our roles
because we think, well, if they're the head of these institutions.
Where does that leave me? That leads me always playing
second fiddle, that leads me always being less than That
is not true. We've just gone through several examples of
equality of the Lord using women. There's a certain order
that the Lord has for a church or has for
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a family unit. Yes, but I heard a saying from
I think it was from a movie. The man may
be the head, but the woman is the neck. And
isn't the next telling the head turn left, turn right.
When women realize how important and prized they are and
the Lord Lord's eyes, they realize how important, truly important,
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and necessary their roles are in the kingdom. And only
when you understand that, and when you search the scripture
and you see how the Lord moves in the lives
of women from the Old Testament to today, you are
then able to fulfill and step into your role. If
you trust that the Lord has an important role for you,
then you are able to step into it. I mean,
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how can you fulfill a role that you don't think
is open. I know that the Lord thinks that women
are important. I know that he's a girl dad. I
know that he's answering women's prayers and That's why I
have the platform I have right now. That's why we
all have the platforms we have. We all have the
jobs we have, we all have the children, we have
the capabilities that we have, the talents that we have,
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and we might not always have the best dads on earth,
but trust and believe that the Lord is the girl
dad that you've always wanted and that you will always have.
All Right, you, guys, I will talk to you and
see you later. I'll see you next week. Make sure
you check out the description below for all the meetups.
This Saturday is going to be our first official Bible
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study and you will only get those details, okay if
you're a subscribed to the weekly email newsletter that is
on the website amniworthm dot com. So get those details. Girl,
follow me on social media because I'll be announcing it
on TikTok and Instagram of course for everybody that's not
on the website, so that everyone can come out and enjoy.
Everyone that was not able to make it today, we
had such a good time a day Dreamer Coffee. Shout
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out again to all the women that showed up and
showed out and just were so vulnerable. It was such
a beautiful day, a beautiful moment, a beautiful two hours
spending together and creating new connections and friendships, and I
hope to do a lot more of that and the
very near future, and we will definitely see you later. Bye.
Hi guys, welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast. You're
here with your hosts Amani on the podcast where we
talk about our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship
with the Lord. Happy Tuesday. Thank you guys for joining again.
For all my new people and new subscribers here, go
ahead and like, share, comment, subscribe all that good stuff
to help our channel and our community grow. And speaking
(00:21):
of community, I just want to shout out every woman
who came out to the initial meetup that I'm planning
weekly for US Christian girlies. It's a Christian girl meetup
slash Bible study that I'll be having in the city
in Atlanta every week. Details are on my website, so
you have to go to a moniworthom dot com, subscribe
to the emails, and I put out a weekly email.
But also make sure you follow me on my socials
(00:43):
because I posted about this meetup that we had today
Tuesday the eighteenth, twelve pm. We were at a coffee shop.
I posted about this on Monday on TikTok and I'm thinking, oh,
it's last minute. I saw a lot of comments of
women saying that they couldn't make it because they had
work and you know, Amani, we got jobs all that stuff.
So I was like, listen, Lord, I feel like this
is a long time coming. I've been feeling like I
(01:05):
should be the ones who initiate community if I want community,
and I just did it. I was just like, you
know what, whoever shows up shows up. Even if it
was just literally three women, I would have been overjoyed
with that. Y'all. Twenty women showed up, like, and that's
just how God works. You step out on faith, you
pray about it, you ask him to bless your plans.
(01:26):
You're moving within what he tells you to do, and
you're thinking small. I'm thinking, oh, maybe three to five
women will show up. Twenty he had twenty women show
up to our girl. We had Daydreamer coffee packed out,
we kept having to take cheers, and you know, every
like ten minutes, another woman would join. Like it was
(01:47):
just so amazing to see God work in that way.
And so that was our first initial meet up today Tuesday,
and shout out to everyone that came. I love y'all.
It's just gonna grow, like the Lord will bless it.
It will grow, and yeah, our next one's going to
be this Saturday. So, like I said, make sure that
you're on the website, I will put all the details
in the caption or not caption, but the yeah, the
(02:08):
caption to this video. But yeah, if you're in the area,
you can join our meetups in person. If not, I
will be streaming them on Instagram Live. Also, we have
our Christian Girls Trip still coming up Bali this summer
July nineteenth through the twenty fifth, seven days and six
nights with ten other Christian women going on a Christian
girls trip. Lux Tribes is hosting us. If anyone has
(02:28):
traveled with Lux Tribes before, you know that they are amazing.
It is a black woman owned travel company and when
I went with them to Morocco for my birthday, it
was amazing. They handled the entire itinerary and they had
the itinerary packed out for the Bali Girls Trip that
we are hosting. Elephant rides, the Bali Swing with the
long dress, floating breakfast, flower bats, spas like the whole thing,
(02:53):
the monkey Sanctuary, everything you guys, we're gonna be a
part of. And so if you will like the details
so that that will also be linked in the cap below.
I have been praying over every single woman's spot on
that trip, that the Lord will if this isn't his will,
and we will move forward, that it will go forward.
And that's it. So yeah, let's get into today's episode.
I saw a few creators I think TikTok YouTube, just
(03:15):
like in Passing of Women saying, you know, when you
really read through the Bible and when you think about it,
God is such a girl dad. And I was just
like they were giving examples and I was like, oh
my gosh, you're right, Like I never thought about it
that way. And a few months ago I forgot what
series we were in at my church, but we were
(03:36):
going through one of the books and our pastor was
telling us how Jesus was like the first feminist, Like
he came in and during a time where women were
second class citizens, where women didn't have any rights, like
you had to be married to be able to even eat. Okay,
he came in and said, no, you have equality in Christ.
There is neither ju nor gentile man, nor woman free
or slave. You have equality in Christ. And all these
(04:01):
notions about Christianity being so restrictive on women and it's
so oppressive, how could a woman, especially a black woman.
It's the white man's religion. It's so restrictive towards women,
it's trying to control women. Jesus came in and said, ah,
women are not second class citizens. You are equal in Christ. Okay.
And there are so many examples in the Bible of
God being on women's sides and really just being the
(04:23):
epitome of a girl dad. So I just wanted to
explore that in this episode. So first off, I just
want to tackle and dismantle the incorrect notion that people
have about Christianity being so restrictive towards women. How can
you decenter man if you worship a male god. Let's
just get into that first of all, okay, because I
really want to really talk about equality in Christ. So
(04:45):
we're gonna start in Galatians three twenty six. It says,
for you are all sons of God through faith in
Christ Jesus. For as many of you were baptized into
Christ have put on Christ. There is neither you nor Greek.
There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male
nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed
(05:06):
and heirs according to the promise. So right there, I
love that verse because it dismantles any hierarchy. You know,
we know that the Lord is not a respector of persons.
He doesn't look at rich or poor, male or female.
We are all equal in his sight. So right there,
it's just like, okay, we have verses that describe equality,
man not being above woman when it comes to the
(05:28):
way the Lord sees us, which is really all that matters.
And another verse I love that talks about equality in
Christ is First Corinthians eleven eleven through twelve, and it says, nevertheless,
neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of
man in the Lord. For as woman came from man,
even so man also comes through woman. But all things
(05:49):
are from God. So right there, Paul is writing to
the Corinthians and he's saying, there is no such thing
as a woman being second class. Not in heaven. That
won't matter, I mean on this earth. Besides, Adam was
created being a woman. And when it comes to women,
we know that Evel was made from Adam's rib. We
(06:09):
come from Man. There is equality in Christ when it
comes to the genders and the sexes. Men ain't over
women in Heaven. Absolutely not. It even gets specifically into marriage.
Colossians three eighteen through nineteen says, wives, submit to your
own husbands as it is fitting in the Lord. The
next sentence husbands, love your wives, and do not be
(06:33):
bitter towards them. And then Ephesians five twenty eight says,
so husbands ought to love their own wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. And
let me just say this to anyone that's out there
confused about what submission is and what that looks like.
As a woman, the only man that you submit to
(06:53):
if you are unmarried is your father. You don't submit
to a boyfriend's sis. You don't submit to that brother
in Christ who thinks he's gonna marry you. Until he
marries you, you do not submit to him. Submission should
not even be a conversation. Okay before marriage. Really, all
(07:13):
submission is is letting God control you. I'm submitting to
God and my Father before I get married. That's it.
And then once you get married, your husband is submitting
to God, and then you're submitting under that authority. Any
man who is not a God led man should never
even be talking about submission because you aren't submitting to God.
(07:35):
When it comes to a woman being submissive in a relationship,
submission is not the cause to your relationship. It's not like, oh,
I submit and because I'm submissive, I will get a husband. No,
submission is not the cause of your relationship. Submission is
the effect a man is leading you under Godly authority,
(07:56):
and so you submit. You don't submit to get the man.
You should never be submissive to. No man that did
not marry you. I don't care if that's your baby, daddy.
He didn't marry you. He wanted you to be submissive,
he would have married you. You don't submit to your boyfriend.
He didn't marry you. I don't care how long y'all
been living together. You don't do what that man says.
You do what God says and what your dad say.
(08:18):
So let's get into God being a girl dad. Now
that we have established that there is equality in Christ,
there are sometimes in the Bible that I'm reading and
I'm feeling like God low Ki has a smidge of
preferential treatment when it comes to his daughters. And I
see it so many times to where God gives a
man a mission and the man will doubt, you know.
(08:39):
Moses said, I'm slow speech. Jemiah said, I'm still a youth.
There are so many men that the Lord gives them
a mission, and they have all these excuses, and the
Lord never coddles them. The Lord never says, oh, I
understand my son, like you know, pray for this, and
like he says, go and do what I told you
to do, like stop telling me what you can't do,
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Go and do what I told you to do. But
with women, it seems like he has a little preferential treatment.
And I think a good example is how to my knowledge, now,
you guys can leave it in the comments if you
find one. But I cannot find many examples in the
Bible to where a woman has prayed for something specific.
We see a woman praying, and we see that woman's
prayer and the Lord did not answer that prayer. When
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I think about esther, how after the decree went out
for her people to be annihilated, her cousin Mordecai told her,
you need to go before the king and you know,
try to stop this. And she was like, I can't
just go before the king. If I go unannounced, he'll
kill me, Like that's what the decree is. And I'm
sure that there was a moment that Esther prayed for
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strength and for courage like there. I can't imagine that
she didn't. And once she went before the king, he
held out his scepter. She touched it, and he said,
what is it you want, Esther? It will be given
to you up to half of my kingdom. Okay. When
I think about the women in the Bible that were
barren and wanted children, it seemed like they always got
their children. Hand Out with Samuel, Elizabeth with John the Baptist,
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Sarah with Isaac. It seemed like they always got their children.
But there are times that I have seen the Lord
not answer a man's prayer. When David has that affair
with Bathsheba kills her husband, they have their first son.
The Lord kills that son, and while the sun is
sick before he passes away, David is weeping, fasting, okay,
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praying day and night for the Lord to save that child.
And the Lord does not. That child passes away. Even
when I think about Paul and him talking about the
thorn in his side, and about him pleading day and
night for the Lord to remove that thorn, and the
Lord said, my grace is sufficient for you. I'm not
removing that thorn. Also, when you go way back to
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Moses about how he had them anger issues girl and
struck the rock when the Lord told him to just
speak to the rock, and the Lord was like, because
of that disobedience, you won't make it into the Promised Land.
Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that being the
person who withstood forty years in the wilderness because other
people's disobedience, all to get to the promised land that
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the Lord said that he would bring his people into,
and because of one's sin, he does not let you answer. Listen.
But that's besides the point. We see Moses after that
he asks the Lord if he can still enter the
Promised Land, and the Lord says no. I'm not saying
that the Lord did not answer these men's prayers because
they were men. I'm not saying that there could be
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multiple reasons and explanations as to why the Lord did
not specifically answer those prayers. But all I'm saying is
it seems like when women pray, maybe we pray a
little different, Maybe we pray longer, maybe we're more trusting,
Maybe we are more obedient, have more humility whatever the
Lord is seeking to answer prayer. Maybe women just have
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a little bit more. But it sure seems like when
a woman ask the Lord for something, and she asked,
and she is diligent because even handled with Samuel, she
asks for a child. For years, y'all, she had to
sit back and watch her sister wife have child after
child after child, and she was depressed all those years
after not having a child, and then the Lord gives
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her Samuel. So, like I said, maybe women just pray
a little different. Maybe we have a certain level of
humility and expectation and we know the Lord will do
it rather than men. Who knows girl. All I'm saying
is it seems to me that when us women ask
the Lord for something, we get it. And is that
not girl dad treatment? Is that not girl dad preferential treatment?
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The Lord is seeing us as his daughters, and he
is saying, how could I resist answering my daughter's prayer?
Think about that the next time you pray in your
doubting Think about that the next time you pray and
you're limiting what God can do for you. He cannot resist.
God wants to answer your prayer. How can he resist
answering his daughter's prayers. He is a girl dad, He
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is your dad. He wants to give you what you're
praying for. Even if you don't agree with me saying
that it seems like the Lord has preferential treatment over
his daughters, you can at least agree that he has
extraordinary treatment of his daughters, even when you think about
the story of the woman at the well, the Samaritan woman.
First of all, Jesus speaking to a woman in public
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was a no no. Men did not just engage women
in conversation out on the street like we do today.
Back in his times, that was a no no. But
just the fact that the Lord not only speaks to her,
but he is really conversing with her. They have a dialogue.
He is not afraid of being seen speaking to women,
shows how he views women as equal, shows how he
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views women as his daughters. He goes against societal norms
for his daughters. We can also go into how the
Lord chooses to use women in this Areascially is what
differentiates Christianity, true Christianity, being a true follower of Christ,
from every other religion out there. There is no other
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religion that uses women in the same way that men
are used for the glory of the Creator. Even when
you go back to the Old Testament Deborah, it seems
to me, at least the way it's mentioned in the
Bible that she is the first woman mentioned to be
a prophet and a judge. She was one of the
judges and Deborah spoke about in the Book of Judges.
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But even before that we can talk about Rahab. Rahab
was a prostitute, and she was the one that allowed
the Israelite spies to come into Canaan so they could
scope out the scenery right and get an edge on
defeating those people to go into the Promised Land. And
then Rahab ended up being an ancestor of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Esther, she was used to save her people.
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Her people would have been exterminated. There was a genocide
going on. There was the one that went to the
king risking her life. Esther is the one that saved
her people from genocide. Okay, they were going to be
exterminated at the hand of their enemies. She went before
the King, risking her life in order to save her people.
For its such a time as this, she was appointed
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to the King, not king queen hood, okay, for such
a time as this, to save her people. And even
when we talk about Jesus himself, the first people that
knew about his resurrection were women, and they were told
to go and tell everybody else. The resurrection is such
a huge part of Jesus's story, and women were the
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first ones to the tomb. And this just goes to
show that the way that we see the Lord show
up for women, the way that we see the Lord
use women, the way that he says that we are
equal in his eyes, shows us how we are needed
in the Kingdom in the world. One thing I always
like to say when it comes to Adam and Eve
is Eve was not created because she needed Adam. Eve
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was created because Adam needed her. Just keep that in mind,
and when more women understand how precious, how prized, how
useful we are to the Lord, they would take their
positions in the kingdom a little more seriously. I think
when we think about leadership in the church and we
know that men are head pastors and men are head
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of the household, we tend to shrink in our roles
because we think, well, if they're the head of these institutions.
Where does that leave me? That leads me always playing
second fiddle, that leads me always being less than That
is not true. We've just gone through several examples of
equality of the Lord using women. There's a certain order
that the Lord has for a church or has for
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a family unit. Yes, but I heard a saying from
I think it was from a movie. The man may
be the head, but the woman is the neck. And
isn't the next telling the head turn left, turn right.
When women realize how important and prized they are and
the Lord Lord's eyes, they realize how important, truly important,
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and necessary their roles are in the kingdom. And only
when you understand that, and when you search the scripture
and you see how the Lord moves in the lives
of women from the Old Testament to today, you are
then able to fulfill and step into your role. If
you trust that the Lord has an important role for you,
then you are able to step into it. I mean,
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how can you fulfill a role that you don't think
is open. I know that the Lord thinks that women
are important. I know that he's a girl dad. I
know that he's answering women's prayers and That's why I
have the platform I have right now. That's why we
all have the platforms we have. We all have the
jobs we have, we all have the children, we have
the capabilities that we have, the talents that we have,
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and we might not always have the best dads on earth,
but trust and believe that the Lord is the girl
dad that you've always wanted and that you will always have.
All Right, you, guys, I will talk to you and
see you later. I'll see you next week. Make sure
you check out the description below for all the meetups.
This Saturday is going to be our first official Bible
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Everyone that was not able to make it today, we
had such a good time a day Dreamer Coffee. Shout
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out again to all the women that showed up and
showed out and just were so vulnerable. It was such
a beautiful day, a beautiful moment, a beautiful two hours
spending together and creating new connections and friendships, and I
hope to do a lot more of that and the
very near future, and we will definitely see you later. Bye.
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