If
you have not read books by Nancy Wilson, I encourage you to begin reading them.
I had never heard of the Dangerous Women Conference before but it sounds
amazing. These words of hers from this conference will encourage, challenge, and convict you!
All women are dangerous women. We are either building our house
or tearing it down. You want to be dangerous to the enemy, not to your
children. There is no neutral option.
You need to know who your people are {your people are God’s
people}, where you fit in the story, and make choices based on long-term
perspective, not based on anxiety or fretfulness. You need grace and you need
to be a woman of the Word.
The Bible teaches that women are prone to deception; deception
is our weakness, where the enemy {our sin, the world, and the devil} is most
likely to attack us. We need to be aware of the thoughts playing in our head.
If a lie or foolish thought pops into our head, it is a temptation that we need
to reject, not consider, not converse with, just ignore and walk away from —
replace it with a true thought.
This is why we need to spend time in the Word — so we know the
truth. A dangerous woman knows and believes God’s promises, and knows she can’t
coast.
A dangerous woman has a strong sense of purpose, she’s paying
attention and always reminding herself of the truth, she knows when she needs
to hit the refresh button, to regroup and remember where she is and why she’s
there.
She thinks long-term; she knows that God works patiently and
He’s not in a big hurry, so she is not either.
She’s not afraid of work. She knows a clean house is not the
victory line at the end of the day, it is only a means toward the end of loving
her people and her God. The end is serving God and cheerfully and heartily
doing the work He places in front of you.
She keeps her eyes open, she has a backbone, and she is not an
easy target for unbelief and deception.
Dangerous women not only build, but beautify and glorify what
they touch — the woman’s touch. We are a glory, and we glorify. We are about
the business of transformation, in tangible, real, daily ways.
We love fruitfulness — not only children, but all abundance,
taking something and making more of it, taking the fruit of the Spirit and
manifesting it.
Home is where the action is. The enemy works to destroy homes.
The home is where culture is born and bred and kept. All work outside the home
comes back home daily. The home is a weapon and defense, a refuge and oasis.
The table is the center of our home: who sits at our table? are
people refreshed at our table? are souls as well as bodies fed? Remember that
feeding is more than nutrition and bodily necessity; eating around a table is
inherently symbolic. It is practice for heaven. Make it a priority.
The table is potent and it is how we will rebuild culture.
Do not be threatened by rude comments people make about you or
your family. They make such comments because they are threatened by your family
and by your joy {which can only come from Christ, it is a light that shines}.
Let them feel threatened; don’t feel threatened yourself. Your security is in
Christ.
Protect yourself from deception. How the serpent attacked Eve
warns us about how we might be tempted. He blew the restriction out of
proportion and closed her eyes to her blessings, he changed the command into a
question and entangled her in a conversation, he questioned God’s motives and
lied to sow doubt {a question can find an answer, a doubt is “what if” or a
questioning that doesn’t want to find the answer}, he minimized the
consequences of disobedience and made her think it wasn’t a big deal to
disobey, he got Eve to act unilaterally without her husband’s authority, he
displaces authority. Thus she became a traitor and ate at Satan’s table.
Pay attention to the thoughts in your head and flee temptation
rather than debate with it. Keep your wits about you.
If you want to be blessed, you must obey. God will not bless
disobedience. {We don’t earn that blessing, but God’s not going to bless us no
matter what what we do.}. God gives us the means and the strength to obey; we
need to be asking for His grace constantly.
God reclaimed Eve, put enmity between her and the
serpent, and he’s reclaimed us. Know how to get back on your game {know
how to repent and move on} when you fall — gaining wisdom all the while.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his might.
Ephesians 6:10
*You can buy the audio of the conference HERE.
