Inspiring Women...

Recently at a prayer meeting I was in a small prayer group with my close friend and two older ladies. Admittedly my first choice of 'prayer partners' would have been my close friends but having these two women proved to be a real blessing. Both of these women are mothers and wives and it was incredible being prayed for by them.

Straight away they volunteered to pray for me and began laying their hands on me. It was amazing! They prayed with such conviction, power and expectation that I felt ashamed to have been so passive and faithless. Their prayers over me were so full of love and anticipation that I was taken unawares and God really met with me. They spoke into my life with wisdom and full of caring hearts that I felt privileged to be prayed for by them.

It highlighted to me their importance within the church family and how crucial they are to its growth and character. It is so easy to look up to those in the spotlight, but its the mothers and the wives that have brought up families and been steadfast wives throughout the years that I want to give praise to today.

These women put me to shame with their seemingly boundless faith and their high levels of expectations; their age and past experiences haven't made them cynical or faithless, rather it has made them more full of faith. And there I was 20 years their junior struggling to be expectant at all. It's women like that, that I aspire to be like; the women that have fought long battles, been strongholds during storms and have stood steadfast through it all to come out the other side as strong women of God; warriors ready to fight and full of faith on God's adventure.

They deserve honouring.

I want to be a warrior as they are; to bring up a united family, that loves and serves one another, to have a strong marriage that can take the unpredictability of life, to be prayerful and in that be expectant and full of faith and no matter what the past has been like to look forward to the future and be constantly in love with God.

Today this blog is for you, you incredible women of God. I aspire to someday be as priceless as you are, for you truly are a rarity.