A Prayer for the Biblical Girl – Your Each day Prayer – July 17

A Prayer for the Biblical Female
By Emily Rose Massey

“And what ever you do in word or deed, do all in the identify of the Lord Jesus, providing thanks to God the Father via Him.” – Colossians 3:17, NKJV

Social media has altered a large amount in excess of the many years. What utilized to be a way to basically share snapshots and keep connected to family and friends has now turn into a earth-vast “town square” for anyone to have a voice and impression on just about any topic conceivable. In Christian on the net circles, a single distinct matter that has seemed to grow to be extremely popular is biblical Womanhood. In point, there are complete social media webpages, podcasts, YouTube channels, and weblogs exclusively focused to what is means to be a biblical female. Just look for the hashtag “biblical womanhood” and you will obtain a plethora of diligently curated infographics, tasteful and inventive reels, and beautifully posed images to scroll by for times on stop. Of class, there are Bible verses to accompany these posts, and they will usually say one thing about giving God glory as a lady. But I have observed that a great deal of what you will uncover can be described, in my feeling, as cookie cutter, as if there is only one particular aesthetic that defines biblical womanhood.

Some illustrations are baking selfmade sourdough bread, donning only attire with aprons, homeschooling, elevating chickens, cleaning ideas, food prepping, and gardening. Buddies, all these factors can be beneficial as a female in the dwelling, but permit us be very careful not to equate 1950s homemaking to what is indicates to be a biblical female. When it will come to what God is anxious most about, it is a issue of the heart, not what we see on the outdoors. I am reminded of this exhortation from the Apostle Paul to the church at Colossae:

“And what ever you do in term or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father as a result of Him.” – Colossians 3:17, NKJV

Homeschooling, holding the home arranged, and planning foods for your spouse and children are all great matters that a woman can do, but if she is not carrying out all those issues with the correct coronary heart or motive, it is all finished in vain. No matter if you are one, married, a remain-at-residence momma, a operating momma, a lady with a profitable occupation, retired, or a grandma with expansive life-encounter and knowledge, God has called you to be a biblical lady by living your life exclusively for the Lord Jesus with a heart entire of thankfulness for all that He has done for you.

Your natural beauty or well worth as a lady isn’t about how difficult you can slay or hustle, how immaculately cleanse your household looks, or how properly-behaved your kids are. Real elegance comes from complete dependency on God. What blooms in your existence will be wonderful since of Him. 

Your story of strolling with Jesus is not about your is effective or what you can do in your very own energy or energy, it is about operating with grace and allowing for it to do its operate in you and by way of you. The much more you lean into His grace, the more you will see growth and maturity in your coronary heart and everyday living. By way of this dependency on Him, you will make Jesus renowned and not your have identify. God on your own will get all the glory that is thanks His title. Might we understand how to surrender our lifestyle to Jesus each single working day and rely on that He will use it all for His glory.

Let’s pray:

Heavenly Father,
I extended to be a biblical female, but I do not want to get swayed by what others convey to me what that must glance like. I want to glimpse to the scriptures initially and foremost. You are not concerned with what I glimpse like on the outside the house, but You are additional concerned with the posture of my heart. Support me to provide my household and my neighborhood without the need of grumbling or complaining as I count solely on You each and every working day. I pray that You would use each individual trial and problems in my life to conform me into the image of Your dear Son. I prolonged to give You glory in all that I say and do. Help me lean upon Your grace to be the girl You have called me to be, to further more Your Kingdom and notify of Your goodness and faithfulness.
In Jesus’ identify, amen.

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