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Germaine Griffin Copeland is the founder and president of Word
Ministries, Inc. Word Ministries is a teaching and
prayer ministry, offering practical prayer instruction, personal prayer
support and life-transforming guidance to other believers worldwide. Germaine’s
teaching leads others into an intimate relationship with the Father-God
as they learn to pray the powerful and effective Scriptural prayers that
brought her to a place of victory in Christ Jesus.
Germaine is an intercessor for GWTW. This article was originally
sent to her mailing list. You'll notice that a she encouraged
women to come to our website "for teachings and encouragement for women
to fulfill God's original plan for them." We are honored by her
support. To access her books and prayer ministry go to
www.prayers.org
A Message to Women of God
This is a call to women of God to arise clothed in the armor of God (Ephesians
6). You are women of valor with great inner strength and well able to
influence communities and nations for righteousness and justice. You have
the power to possess the gate of the enemy.
According to the signs of the time, we are living in the “time of the end.” The
knowledge of God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets is increasing everyday.
(Daniel 12:4) Women, the Lord is calling us to rise up in power and faith
that works by love. There is revival coming to the church, preceding the
great end-time harvest, and it is imperative that we walk in obedience to our
God.
God is calling us to walk in His original plan. In the beginning He
created man and woman in His own image, and His purpose was for them to walk
together as one in fellowship with their Creator. Adam and Eve made
choices that frustrated this divine purpose. They disobeyed God.
Adam blamed woman for his sin, and she has carried the blame, guilt and
condemnation for both ever since. When she turned from God to man, and he
began to rule over her, she lost her self-respect and self-confidence. The
church and society reinforced her negative image of herself, and she became
separated from her true personality.
Woman gave away her empowerment to be the person she was meant to be; man
relegated her to a subservient role. Religion reinforced the rule of man
over woman and devalued woman as an equal, robbing both man and woman of God’s
best. The need to rule and control was birthed in their souls opening the
door for competition, and we lost our way.
Manipulation and control issues took root within their souls as women tried to
please men. They built emotional walls to protect themselves from being
hurt even while looking to each other for emotional healing and fulfillment.
Selfishness and self-centeredness occupied first place in their hearts.
Woman gave up who God created her to be and allowed her identity to be shaped by
man’s opinion of her. Longing for intimacy, she tried to fulfill man’s
expectations, and forgot that she was created in the image of her Creator.
BUT GOD! His original plan has been restored in Christ Jesus—in Him there
is neither male nor female. In Him, there is healing, salvation, emotional
wholeness and the intimacy for which woman longs. In Him, all your needs,
including emotional needs, are met.
The souls of men and women have to be restored to God’s original purpose.
Fuchsia Pickett wrote in the Women of Destiny Bible: When redemption
cleanses us from the desire to rule, man and woman will not be threatened by
each other, but will welcome each other’s godly counsel. This is the hour.
God has called you and designed you to be a woman of influence. He has
given you His power to be His witness at home and in your community. You
are a world-changer! Like Eve, the choices you make will determine your
future and the future of those who come after you.
Let us renew our minds according to the Word of God. We can no longer use
our parents, husbands, and the church as an excuse to ignore our responsibility
to God and others. We have a job to do. It is time to establish and
maintain an intimate relationship with the Father. It is time to take
responsibility, whether you are married or single, for your own decisions and
behavior – determine to fulfill your destiny. With the Holy Spirit as your
helper and wise counselor, you will be able to come alongside man to fulfill
Genesis 1:26-28.
You have the God-given power of choice. Jesus, the Truth, made you free to
choose and take control of your thought life and to pull down strongholds that
are exalted above the Word of God. What you believe about yourself is
important. Either truth or wrong perceptions will determine your
decisions, actions, and reactions.
There is an example in the Old Testament of a man who believed a lie. He
believed he was about to die; and he chose to give away his birthright, which
changed the course of history and the lives of his children. Your choices
will either perpetuate the sins of the fathers or produce blessings for this and
future generations.
What are your perceptions about God, about yourself and about others? Have
you given up your right to make choices? Do you blame others for your
present circumstances? You have no responsibility for what was done to
you, but you are totally responsible for your actions and reactions today.
Your past can either be a hitching post that keeps you tied down or a guidepost
leading you to your destiny. Even if you don’t acknowledge that you are
making choices, you are.
Woman of God, you have an enemy – the same enemy Eve faced – but you don’t have
to make the same mistake. God is not your enemy! Satan is your enemy
and his plan is to use your influence for destruction in the lives of those
within your area of influence. If he can convince you that you don’t
measure up and that you can’t do anything about your circumstances and if he can
establish a stronghold of self-pity, guilt and condemnation and if he can
convince you that not even God loves you, he can hold you in bondage to
self-destructive, thought patterns. If you have children, they will suffer
the consequences of your thoughts, behavior and decisions or the rewards of your
good choices.
God wants you to take responsibility for your life; He wants you to make wise
choices. Satan wants you to continue the blame game—blaming other people
for your mistakes and failures. God wants you to succeed and enjoy the
more abundant life. Satan wants you to maintain a victim mentality; God
wants you to be a victorious woman – more than a conqueror. Satan wants
you to fail and struggle all your life. God wants to set you on a high
place of success. Satan wants to hold you in the miry clay of selfishness,
self-centeredness, fear, anger, unforgiveness, resentment, manipulation and
depression. Which will you choose? Who will you worship? Who
will you seek to please? Who do you desire? Who will you serve?
Who is your first love?
You were born for such a time as this. You are a vital link between
generations, and God wants to use you as an instrument of righteousness and
justice in your sphere of influence. Your re-created spirit--that factor
in human personality which proceeds immediately from God--is the lamp of the
Lord, searching all your innermost parts. (Proverbs 20:27) As you
read the Word of God, ask the Holy Spirit to come alongside your spirit and
expose the religion, man-made doctrines and traditions that have hindered you
from rising up as the woman of God. Exchange old thought patterns about
yourself for God’s thoughts about you. You will become well-balanced and
in tune with God’s spiritual laws that govern the universe.
Give God pre-eminence in your heart and soul. Let your desire be to please
the Father, and take your place as a valuable, vital part of the Body of Christ.
You are God’s woman!
To see yourself as God sees you I encourage you to purchase Prayers That
Avail Much for Women from our online bookstore at
www.prayers.org This is not a book to
simply read, but a book to be prayed before the Throne of God in the name of
Jesus with the help of the Holy Spirit. Schedule a time to pray and the
Presence of God will be with you. In His presence is fullness of joy and
at His right hand are pleasures forever more.
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them.
Copyright © 2006 by Germaine Copeland
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