Many of the women in the Bible are rarely mentioned but those women that are mentioned provide us with much needed life lessons. These women play a pivotal role in shaping the lives of their families and can do the same for our families today. These strong women faced the same challenges that many of us do today. Their struggles, pain, heartache, love for their families is no different than our challenges today. God wants us to know these women intimately because all the stories of the Bible are written for our learning. The same devil that tormented them is the same one we are facing today, he has no new tricks. God has provided a way of escape for all of his daughters regardless of their past but we must utilize His word in our lives so that we may experience his freedom, joy, peace and love. The nuggets and details to our success in marriage, career, as mothers is in the stories of the Women in the Bible.
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The Faces of Eve
Eve was bored and continued a conversation with Satan that led to destruction. She changed the way women have been treated and viewed throughout history.
Silent Partner (Men who are not strong leaders): Adam and Abraham
The Original Mean Girls: Sarah and Hagar
Sarah created a plan of her own because patience and her trust in God waned. Hagar forgot that she was not a wife that Abraham chose. Men never love the woman that is forced on them.
Silent Partner: Lot
Lot’s two daughters slept with their father. Produced two nations: Ammonites and Moabites. These two daughters were offered up to be raped in place of the angels of God by their father, sex trafficking, thereby reducing their value.
Silent Partner: Isaac (Momma’s Boy)
Rebekah started out right but succumbed to her desire for her favorite child, Jacob, to reign and rule over the oldest, Esau, which cost her precious time with him. She died never seeing him again. Favoritism among children creates rivalries that last a lifetime. This is bad parenting.
Silent Partner: Jacob (Momma’s Boy) He never protected anyone but Rachel
Esau (Impatient, hot head, yet strong)
Leah and Rachel: The First Sister Wives
The trickster was tricked by his Uncle Laban and Leah. Leah was never loved because she was forced on Jacob. Rachel and Leah passed Jacob around between them as they competed with children and time with him. Men never love a woman who tricks him into a relationship by manipulating them with lies or by having a child. Children should never be used as a pawn to trick anyone into a relationship. It's unfair to your child and to you. All women deserve to be loved and wanted. God does not want us in relationships that require we are in a daily competition. Those relationships are exhausting because they become mentally and emotionally draining. Men never love a woman who tricks him into a relationship. Jacob was willing to work 14 years to be with Rachel. The woman a man works for is the one he wants. If he's not working to be with you, "he's not that into you". No man is ever too busy with their career, friends, family or hobby to be with the woman he loves. Jacob loved Rachel and he was willing to work for her.
The Sin of Passivity: Many men suffer from the sin of passivity. We will review and point out these type of men in the Bible as we encounter the women who then take it upon themselves to create a plan or vision in the absence of one from the leader of the household. Men who are inactive, cowardly, uninvolved, take no initiative, numb, indifferent, apathetic, complain but offer no solutions will cause much heartache for wives and children. Jacob is the perfect example of a passive man. Jacob was never moved by the birth of his many sons or the rape of his only daughter Dinah because they were all the children born to him by a woman he didn't want, Leah. When dealing with a passive man, your first hard question should be to him, Do you love me, us? That is a Yes or No question. It does not come with any other explanations.
