Joyce Meyer Daily Devotional 14 November 2022
TOPIC: God’s Calling
SCRIPTURE: — 1 Timothy 2:11-12 (AMPC)
Let a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness. I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to remain in quietness and keep silence [in religious assemblies].
Joyce Meyer Daily Devotional 14 November 2022 MESSAGE
In this controversial passage, it is evident that Paul was dealing with a specific situation for a specific time frame in history. As noted before, Priscilla, along with her husband, Aquila, had been a founding leader in this same church. I am not enough of a theologian to debate this problem fully. All I know is that God has always used—and still does use—women as leaders and teachers, preachers, ministers, missionaries, authors, evangelists, prophets, and so on.
Just remember that God loves you and wants to use you in powerful ways to help other people. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that God cannot or will not use you, just because you are a woman. As a woman, you are creative, comforting, and sensitive, and you’re able to be a tremendous blessing. You can bear a lot of good fruit in your life. You don’t have to merely pass through life unnoticed, always in the background. If God has called you to leadership, you should lead.
If He has called you into ministry, you should minister. If He has called you to be a missionary, then you should do missions. If He has called you to business or as a homemaker, you should boldly be all that He has called you to be.
Prayer Starter: Lord, I want to be used by You in whatever you have called me and gifted me to do. Show me where You want me to be, who I can help, and lead me wherever You want me to go, amen.
