GROUP VIGILS
WOMEN VIGIL: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2021
FOCUS: GOFAMINT WOMEN IN THE DAYS OF HIS POWER:
WINNING IN EVERY AREA OF OUR LIVES.
TEXTS: GEN. 1:27; 2:18
INTRODUCTION FOR DISCUSSIONS.
It is very instructive for us at this stage to let our women know
that the traditional thinking that they are confined to the background, and never to minister in the same capacity should be jettisoned. We must shift from an archaic paradigm that the
women assignment is consigned mostly to the kitchen. We shall
handle this topic through a series of discussions that will ignite us
in prayers as GOFAMINT women in the days of His power.
WOMEN IN MISSIONS
1. Can we give Biblical examples of women that God used for
special Missions both in the Old and New Testament, and how
God picked them instead of using the men on ground?
(Remember the Samaritan woman at the well, who became
an evangelist!)
2. What of contemporary examples in our world today? Give
examples of women church founders or evangelists.
(Remember Catherine Kuhlman, the great evangelist).
3. On the day of Pentecost, and during the times of the early
apostles, were women present too? Did the same Holy Spirit
fall upon them as the men?
4. Were the women too involved in the Mission work in the New
Testament. Justify your position from the Scriptures.
5. Should the motherly and wife role of a woman be a detriment
to her role in the work of God? If the husband is a minister of
God, can she also be involved in the same ministry? Discuss.
(Remember Pricilla and Aquilla too).
6. What roles should our husbands play to encourage their wives to be strong together with them in ministry? Shouldn’t a woman also carry the spiritual title (or rather, responsibility) of her husband as partner in ministry?
AREAS OF WOMEN INVOLVEMENT IN MISSIONS
If truly the Holy Ghost was poured on men as well as women in the
early church, then, it would amount to a waste of God’s resources
if these same vessels are kept on the shelf of our church unused.
It is true, there were some excesses exhibited by women in both
the Biblical and contemporary world, but the Holy Spirit is available
to correct all vessels that are yielded to Him. (The Yoruba says,
“Oribibekonioogunorififo”, that is, “You don’t solve a problem by
destroying the container in which the problem resides”, or on the
other hand, “You don’t throw away the baby with the dirty bath
water”.). It is high time we come out of our old traditional
paradigm, and use the women in Missions, for the work of harvest
is so great, and the men alone cannot finish it.
Discuss the following examples as areas where our Women can be
used in our Church Missions in the days of His Power.
(a) Hospitality to the Prophets and Ministers of God. (2 Kings
4:10 – Shunamite woman)
(b) Anointing of Jesus’with costly alabaster box. (Mark 14:3,
Luke 7:38).
(c) Serving the Church as workers. Fellow workers with
Paul. (Rom. 16:3 - Priscilla).
(d) Acting as Judges. (Judges 4:4 – Deborah).
(e) Meeting emergencies and needs. (1 Sam 25:18 –
Abigail, Acts 9:36 – Dorcas)
(f) Prophetesses ( - Mariam, Exod 15:20
Deborah, Judges 4:4 Huldah, 2 Kings
22:14 Anna, Luke 2:4, Daughters of Philip,
Acts 21:9)
Remember in addition to the above the key roles played by women
in the Ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why then do you think we
are not fulfilling our roles as GOFAMINT women in Missions in the
days of His Power? After all, if we look at most of our churches, the women form over 60% of the population. Discuss, and bring out
solutions and suggestions on how our women can arise and take
their place in God’s harvest field
ATTITUDES OUR WOMEN MUST REMOVE IN ORDER TO BE
USED BY GOD
Discuss the following attitudes, among others you may know as
women, which are serving as hindrances to being used by God, and
must be removed through these prayers.
1. The delusion of the eyes. Everything the woman see is a
temptation towards her appearance for attractiveness to the
opposite sex.
2. The gossips and murmurings among the womenfolk, that
leads to prejudices, bickering and petty politics. Remember
the women in Acts 6:1-2.
3. The selfish tendencies that wants to shrink possessions to
herself rather than give them away.
4. The tendency for greed and envy that may arise in course of
service to God. A woman can naturally be over-possessive.
5. The general possibility of indifference and apathy to things.
Remember that before you can see one Deborah among
women, thousands would have gone unconcerned.
LET US PRAY
1. Give thanks to God for making you a woman, and pouring His grace and endowments upon your life
2. Let us also thank God for the establishment of the Women Ministry in the GOFAMINT, as a vessel to raise up our women in ministry, and take their rightful role in God’s harvest field.
3. Let us ask the Lord to forgive us of all errors and irregularities of the past in our ministries as women, which had led to the enemy’s penetration of our ranks and files.
4. Let us pray for the healing balm of Gilead upon all that have been adversely affected in the past as a result of these errors, and have withdrawn to their shelves.
5. Ask God that a new spirit of love will arise among us that will
wipe off the negative attitudes of the past, and make new vessels
of honour arise among us.
6. We have women of substance and influence among us, like the
Shunamite woman. Let us pray that God will make more room for
them to play their part and use their gifts without let or hindrance
in the church.
7. In the days of His power, thy people shall be willing, O Lord.
Therefore; create in our women special gifts that will make room
for them to minister to the Body of Christ.
8. Remember women who are in special challenging situations,
such as widowhood, single parenting, those with infirmities, those
looking to God for the fruit of the womb, etc, that in these prayer
sessions, God will come through for them.
9. Ask for a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our women folk, that the Lord will equally raise the 5-fold ministers among them as He had done for men.
10. Since our women are far larger in number than our men, let us pray that the Lord will raise up more Kingdom harvesters among them to compliment the efforts of the fewer men.
11. In the days of His power in GOFAMINT, let us pray that the Lord will raise up among our women, strong supporters of the ministry, anointed church planters, and fervent prayer warriors for
Kingdom advancement.
12. Now let us pray that the Lord should deal with those negative attitudes in our lives that can hinder these objectives, and uproot them from our lives in Jesus Name.
13. Let us pray for those women among us, who have strong potentials, but are discouraged and hence got consigned to the background situation of the Church that the Lord will raise them up
in His power to start fulfilling their roles.
14. Let us pray that we shall as women of faith carry the gene of Sarah; giving due honour and respect to our husbands, as heirs together of the grace of God.
15. Ask that the Lord will make our husbands to carry us along in
ministry always, as well as develop us together with them for
multiple harvest.
16. Pray that the Lord will baptize us with wisdom to play our role
as dutiful wife, mother and partner together in ministry with our
husbands, so that the enemy will not be able to gain access into
our homes.
17. O Lord, raise us up as strong intercessors for our husbands
ministries, and let not the enemy prevail over us as we work
together.
18. Father, make us worthy examples to the coming generation of
women, as they behold our chaste conversation coupled with godly
fear.(1 Peter 3:1-2).
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