Waiting on the Lord for a Husband! Inspiring!
She's waiting on the Lord!
And so is she, as she does her "shopping for one" again!
Just look how delighted she is with her "gift of singleness". She's joyously content, as she "waits" and "trusts", knowing God's timing is always perfect!
Frieda Fruitcake writes: These ladies are so inspiring to me! I hope they have encouraged you too as you "wait".
But what I find truly amazing is how prophetic these ladies were. Given that "waiting on the Lord" to bring you your spouse is such a new doctrine, these ladies were truly ahead of their time!
I know it's hard to imagine now, but think what the situation was like only a generation or so ago. The church used to be pro-marriage, and helped and encouraged single Christian men and women to marry.
For these women to have prophetically embraced the gift of singleness (before the church even knew there was such a gifting!), and even when there were still some single men in the church, is truly an inspiration to me!
As always dear singleness-gifted sisters and last remaining brother in the church: Stay blessed, stay single!
posted by Captain Sensible at 10:01 AM
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I find these pictures quite shocking. Disturbing even. There is just something "wrong" about them. How far can you possibly get from God's plan for creation to be fruitful and multiply, than to have women in their (?) 60s, 70s, still waiting on the Lord for their husband? And for this to be "God's will"? It makes the Bible out to be full of contradictions.
Frieda mentions the "prophetic".
Sadly, I think these pictures should be taken as a prophetic warning.
It is a deadly thought of ending up like any of those women in the pictures.
Shazia - Don't even think about it! You are so far removed from these "singleness-gifted ladies" it's unbelievable!
I can't see it doing you any good to dwell on this, seriously.
Dear Captain,
Regarding the issue of "spiritual blackmail" you have recently been discussing:
I am aware of the personal attack that a certain person has published about me. I humbly ask and pray that this person will reconsider what he has said. Meanwhile, I will take comfort from the words of the Bible,
Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
I testify that Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Saviour, and that salvation comes only by Grace through Faith in Him, not of works.
Lisa Brown.
Lisa, consider yourself blessed for being wrongly accused for the sake of the Gospel.
:-)
Remember, we are in a spiritual battle, and it is not a pleasant place to be at times!
The enemy does not want to lose the tight grip he has on the church over this issue.
Think how delighted he is to see images like the ones I have posted: Christian women "waiting on the Lord" until they are barren -- and then some! It goes against the whole of Scripture, and the revealed will of God, and that's why I refer to the gift of singleness as being the devil's gift.
He has hoodwinked Christians for too long already.
Thank you Captain.
I want to speak of something that has bothered me for a long time.
I was deeply troubled when I read in Mrs. Maken's book about the attitude some Evangelical single adults have towards fornication. The idea that, "Oh, we don't want to get married because it might not work out, we'll just commit fornication and ask God to forgive us later." I was shocked at the numbers of people, single Christian adults, who were said to have dispensed with their virginity before marriage. In my eyes, this is a horrible abomination before the Lord. You may not agree with me as to the degree of the offense, but I KNOW that true, God fearing Evangelicals do not have such a cavalier attitude towards fornication.
It makes my blood boil over that everyone seems to look the other way and dismiss this horrible sin in Evangelical circles--while on the other hand we have these lifelong single Christian women, some of whom have waited decades for a husband, and have kept their virginity. They begin to find unchurched believers to marry--and are immediately and harshly condemned for marrying "outside of the faith." Again, anyone who doesn't meet the 101 million GoS qualifications for a true believer is "outside the faith." And I think that it is very unfair that on all the pro GoS websites, no one ever publishes a post from a woman who married an unchurched believer and is happy. It's always these women who clearly married out and out unbelievers and are miserable. I have so lost respect for the Evangelical establishment because of the way it refuses to address the very real problem of sexual sin in its congregations, yet is so unmerciful and harsh toward single women and men, who are guilty of the very horrible sin of wanting to be loved, and have a family, and GET MARRIED. We are talking about marriage here!
If the Evangelical establishment would actively start enforcing church discipline when it came to the issue of fornication, I believe we would soon begin to see more marriages. If more people who were guilty of sexual sin were actually disciplined by their churches, it would make it much easier for the sincere believing Christian men and women who were left to find each other.
Lisa, I agree with you.
I also really do feel that we are still merely scratching the surface of the damage that these singleness-related rogue doctrines are doing to the Body of Christ.
The more you look into it, the more benefits to the enemy you find. He's been smart and deceived a lot of believers.
But now the party's over.
This is a brilliant argument using photos. This should be turned into a powerpoint presentation or DVD for all churches to use. You should add photos of old single men showing how unattractive bachelorhood is.
I agree that these pictures are disturbing. If this lady has not been married, it is possible that she has the gift of celibacy!
"If this lady has not been married, it is possible that she has the gift of celibacy!"
Frieda Fruitcake writes:
These inspirational ladies have clearly never married, but are waiting for "God's best" in His perfect timing. They do not have the gift of celibacy because they do desire husbands and did want children, but they have instead the gift of singleness and its resulting gift of barrenness. These gifts are perfectly equal to a loving marriage and family of their own, and as the pictures show, they are glorious content with them as they "wait". And remember, Sarah gave birth at 90!
(Captain Sensible insists on adding that if anyone would like clarification on the difference between the gift of celibacy and the gift of singleness, they should get hold of a copy of Debbie Maken's book, "Getting Serious About Getting Married: Rethinking the gift of singleness". I, of course, think they would do better to boil their head in a large vat of mulled wine. Without drinking any, of course. That would be sinful and very, very silly.)
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