THE ONE WHO LIFTS MORE

Proverbs 31:10-31 speaks about the qualities of a virtuous woman. It will give us a good understanding of The Church because Jesus refers to The Church as a woman.

When Jesus speaks about The Church as a woman, He is not speaking about sexuality or gender, but about attributes and how the Lord is going to use us today. I don’t think many of us understand our destiny because our destiny is not just a ministry. Our destiny is to be a part of the body and to know where we belong and how we function.

Let me lay a little foundation before I continue. The Lord said that He made male and female. Male means the one who lifts more. I know that men can lift more then women can, generally speaking. My husband lifts my suitcases for me, and he has a strength that I do not have. But this is not real manhood. The Church today has a big identity struggle on what a man should do, what a woman should do, how we should function together, and how our ministries should fit together and so on.

A man has to come into his maleness. Just because you are a man and you have a man’s body, doesn’t mean that you function as a man. To be a man means that you lift more and that doesn’t speak of lifting suitcases. Man is the shadow of Jesus Christ, the bridegroom, and what did Jesus Christ do? He lifted The Church to a place where the accuser could no longer attack us, so that we could come to the full development and fulfillment of what God wants to do in our lives. The devil has caused men to be dominators, and many times men end up using their wives or children as stepping-stones.

For ten years of my ministry I was not married because I did not think that marriage worked, but God brought the right man into my life at the right time. I thank God for my husband, David, because he has always lifted me to a place where the criticism of man, whether people liked my preaching or not, did not affect me. His love as a man and husband was strength to me and lifted me above criticism and opinions so that my ministry could be free to develop. Many women in ministry that I have met, use their ministry to prove something and try to fulfill a void that ministry cannot fill because they have not been lifted to a place of full development.

When God calls the man, as the shadow of Christ, and he comes into his full development in Christ, he needs to come to a place where he will no longer use his insecurity to step on his wife or children or other persons. Christ-likeness gives men the strength to lift their wives and children. In so doing, they lift a nation to a place where Jesus Christ will no longer deal on our level, but will lift us to a place where God can deal with us on His level. It is a place where He can endue us with His power and His glory and where we can walk in the full revelation of what He is.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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