Motivation Monday – Why Jesus Believed Women Were Worth Investing In
“We are asking you, this Advent season to also invest in the God-given gifts that have been seeded in women in Canada, which are waiting to be called up, raised and released.”
We are officially in Advent season. We know it is necessary to find time to sit and reflect on what “Emmanuel, God With Us” means to us personally, and for the world.
We also know that if the women don’t make Christmas happen, no one will.
We carry the weight in this season of being women of the word, women who take time to be in God’s presence, to light candles, to pray, to wait, expectantly for all God wants to do in our hearts during Advent.
We also carry the weight of planning for gatherings, and gift giving, and going here, there and everywhere to make sure that memories will be made that will last a lifetime. We find ourselves wondering if we are somehow forgotten in all of the list-making, meal-preparing, house-cleaning and carpooling.
We may forget that in all we carry, our own self-care, nurturing and development are also important.
JESUS BELIEVED WOMEN WERE WORTH INVESTING IN AND WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO CALL THEM TO SOMETHING THEY COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED WITHOUT HIS COMMISSIONING.
He called up the evangelist in the Samaritan woman at the well.
He called up the servant leader in the woman who anointed Him with oil.
He called up the apostle-like faith in the hemorrhaging woman.
He called up the gospel-carrier in Mary, who was first at the tomb, and first to carry the good news of His resurrection.
He called up the image-bearing identity in the woman bent over in the synagogue, healing her and raising her up as the first woman to be called, ‘daughter of Abraham.’
JESUS ALWAYS HAD AND ALWAYS WILL CALL UP A DESTINY IN YOU, AND IN WOMEN EVERYWHERE THAT AFFIRMS THEIR KINGDOM CALLING AND POSITIONING.
We are asking you, this Advent season, to receive the gift of Jesus-centred destiny that has been seeded in you.
YOU HAVE INHERENT VALUE BECAUSE YOU ARE CREATED BY GOD.
We are asking you, this Advent season to also invest in the God-given gifts that have been seeded in women in Canada, which are waiting to be called up, raised and released.
JESUS BELIEVED WOMEN WERE WORTH INVESTING IN. AND SO SHOULD YOU.
We are asking you to invest in the potential for kingdom service of every woman who is part of the now and next generation by seeding into:
Gather DevelopHer Interns – raising and releasing the now and next generation of female leaders for kingdom service.
Gather Voices Cohort Participants – equipping the female church to raise her voice – carrying gospel messages of good news into their spheres of influence.
Gather Collective Membership – monthly equipping and encouragement of women to grow their leadership influence.
You can find our December to RememberHer Catalogue HERE.
Please consider that if Jesus believed women were worth investing in, so can you.
I am asking you to continue to believe with us. I am asking you to consider investing in one or more women through the work of Gather Women. Giving Tuesday is tomorrow. I believe that Jesus would be found investing in and calling up women if He were alive in our midst today.
He believes in women. He believes in you. And I believe in you!