Please pray about my Spiritual gifts

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Lioness901

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GOD has blessed me with the Spiritual gifts of wisdom and discernment and I'm thankful for these gifts they are wonderful. I get many sermon like thoughts in my head and I don't mean memories of past sermons. Thing is I can't preach cause I am a woman and 1 Timothy 2:12 says I'm not to teach a man. I can't write them either because a man may read them and I would still be teaching a man. I can't blog them because again a man may read it and I would still be teaching a man. I know of Joyce Myer and Beth Moore wonderful sisters in Christ and I have read dozens of commentaries for and against female teachers but I don't know who to believe. But I know if I don't use my gifts I'll be like the servant who hid his talent and the Master called him wicked and I don't want that servant to be me. I dunno what to do with these thoughts. Please pray that GOD will show and teach me what to do with the gifts and thoughts that I have been blessed with.
 

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Praying for your discernment.


First we need to realize just who Paul was writing at the time. The church at Corinth had many new believers and many of the women were bringing in much of the old pagan worship into the new faith.

I don't dismiss the guideline though, because it is God's Word. It IS better to have a Godly man lead a mixed group of believers...

however one must put legalism aside and allow God to use you where He wishes. We are not under the law, but grace. If others where you are don't accept you (assuming you have Seminary training level knowledge etc and have shown a long time of Spiritual discipline) then find where you can lead. There are also too many women who make huge mistakes and ruin many lives through their "ministries". God is always on time, have peace about waiting for where He wants you?

A further footnote of my thoughts: I believe we are in the "last days" and the Bible also says in Acts 2:17: English Standard Version
“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;"

Win as many as you can, yanking them from the fire that will consume their souls. :hug:

:prayer:
 
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Amen to that!...
Dear Father, we pray for common sense and your discernment in a confusing world of differing cultures;
Praying for peace and direction, in Jesus name, Amen
 
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