Sunday 27 November 2011

Beauty Within By Prudence Conteh Treasurer Womens Power Hour

Women spend a lot of money and time to take care of our outer beauty which is very important. We even get into debt to buy hair pieces, make up, shoes, latest clothing, designer wares, and so on to beautify the outer looks. Having a great image is good and no woman should joke around with that. How you present your self is how you will be received. There is another part of the woman’s beauty that I’m encouraging you to look into with all seriousness - the inner beauty; that radiates from within.

I’ll be dealing with a very sensitive issue that you will not hear from the pulpit, but the church is suffering the consequences of not dealing with these issues. We are women learning how to deal with our own problems and help each other function better in life to learn from mistakes of the past and encourage the next generation of women not to fall prey to this sin and lies from the devil. It might sound old fashion and a bit weird to encourage our upcoming women to maintain their chastity. Uhmm! Yes! It is time to talk about it. The world teaches safe sex, the church should preach abstinence until marriage –moving young women to glory and virtue.

Maintaining your chastity helps you to stay within the edge of Gods divine protective covering against the devil. Job’s account tells us that God builds an edge around us. When we break the edge it’s a time of mourning in the life of the woman. Isaiah 61:1-3 came alive to me, exposing things that I will not naturally think of. Bible scholars might interpret it differently. Through innocence, intentional actions, rape, or ill-advice from a family member from whom the woman is looking up to for guidance and protection, some young and older women have lost her chastity. As women of God, our bodies are the temple of God. Pre-marital sex disturbs our beauty within. It produces low self-esteem, lack of confidence and self-pity which can result in emotional and psychological disturbances including poor marital relationship. It also leads to Infertility, abortion, suicidal tendencies, sexually transmitted diseases and marital delays. This brings in deeper spiritual problems like spiritual husbands.

Precious women of God take heed to what God says about this issue. Satan has been using the same tricks from the Garden of Eden attacking Gods authority over our lives. His first point of attack is on your integrity, followed by your character lastly he attacks your charisma. When people are in a relationship outside of marriage with no sexual relations involved and they decide to call it off, the pain is not as deep. You feel intact- whole, having good self-esteem and a confident character. When there is a sexual relationship and you break up, there is so much damage to your inner beauty which would have been subject to the attack of the devil which produces fruits such as rebellion, low self-esteem, having suicidal tendencies self-harm and it could be the beginning of false self-projection. The sadness of this loss is that it can be carried over into Godly marriages, if not dealt with in a prayerful way, and can end up in divorce. If you have lost this part of your beauty please don’t give up on yourself, there is forgiveness and restoration in the Lord. He will cloth you with His garment of righteousness and make you a new creature in Him, when you give your life to Christ sincerely.
Encourage one another to understand and seek support where needed. There is a great need to protect our young inexperienced Christian girls and teach them to avoid the long term sad effects of entertaining the devil and rather grasp the long term blessings of obeying God’s will for their lives and reveal their God given Beauty Within!

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