SEND FOR THE WOMEN
This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them. Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids. The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.’ Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament. Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares. Jeremiah 9:17-21
BELOVED DAUGHTER OF ZION! You have talents and gifts and resources within you that can do serious damage to what Satan is attempting to do in this world.
When the children of Israel were about to be taken in bondage to Babylon, the prophet Jeremiah said something like this, “Send for the mourning women. Find some women who are not so hateful and bitter that they have become like mannequins, women who are not so downtrodden that they can no longer feel. Send for some women who still have the ability to feel and cry so they might wail against what the devil is doing.”
Get a picture of what these women were to do. They were to weep and wail, to mourn in sackcloth and ashes, to wake up everybody around them. They were to call out, ” The devil is destroying us! Death is on its way!” They were God’s warning shout to His people. They were His alarm system, His tornado signal, His air-raid siren. They were the ones God would use to warn His people of the impending consequences of sin. They were the ones who created a platform from which Jeremiah’s words could ring out with stinging conviction.
These women had a God-given destiny to destroy the power of Satan over God’s people by waking them up and calling them to a mourning of repentance. These women were instructed to teach their daughters to weep against sin and the assault of the devil.
God has a destiny for women today – a destiny for you. He wants you women loosed to open your mouth and cry out against the devil that the devil has put upon God’s people. You have ideas that haven’t been voiced. You have energy that hasn’t been released. You have abilities that haven’t been exercised. You have power that hasn’t been loosed. You have spiritual gifts that haven’t been given expression.
The day has come for you to forget those things that are past and look toward the future. It’s time to look at what you can be and what you can do and what you can say and what you can possess that will bring glory to God and defeat the devil and fulfill your destiny.
Arise, therefore, and be doing. And the Lord be with thee!
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