Kingdom Women

by Kathy Foor, CGWM Director

The 2024 Flourish Conference has come and gone, and I hope you were able to attend! If not, I am excited to let you know that it’s not too late to take advantage of the great content, lessons and encouragement we received. Each session was recorded and is available on our YouTube channel. We invite you to gather the women in your church who were not able to attend the conference and watch them together. We’ll provide some follow up questions and resources for you on our website as well, and we’d love to hear what God does as you gather together.

If you are a child of God and a woman, then you are a Kingdom woman, but what does that mean exactly? Throughout Jesus’ ministry on earth He proclaimed, “The Kingdom of God is near.”

When we pray the Lord’s prayer, we pray, “Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”

Wouldn’t it be awesome if God answered that prayer! Our world sure could use a little Heaven on earth right now, couldn’t it? Kingdom women know that this prayer is the right place to start. As women of God, we must be actively seeking God’s will and God’s ways in prayer and relationship with Him. Without prayer, there is no advancing the Kingdom.

Jesus’ final instruction to His followers was to go and make disciples of all nations. They were to spread the Good News of His Kingdom everywhere they went. That assignment has not changed. We are still called to advance the Kingdom of God by sharing the Good News wherever we are.

We have never lived in a time more ripe for the harvest than right now! The most powerful moves of God throughout history have come during times of hardship and darkness. People always need the Lord, but in hard times hearts seem to know that our help comes from the Lord. Wherever we look, we see people who are trapped in sin, filled with anger, hatred, fear, depression and hopelessness, and nothing this world has to offer can stop the spread of darkness.

We who have the Light of Christ have the answer! We push back darkness with the Light of Christ! It can be easy to believe the enemy’s lies that you and I cannot have an impact in our families, much less our communities and our world. Don’t believe it!

You have been born for such a time as this! God has put you on the planet right now as a Kingdom builder. Esther had her time. Deborah had her time. Mary had her time. And now—it is your time and my time. Don’t let that thought intimidate you, precious woman of God!

God knows who you are. He knows the assignment He has set aside just for you. Imagine that! He also knows what you need in order to complete that assignment. I can’t tell you what your assignment is, and you can’t tell me mine, but together we can help and encourage one another to be about our Father’s business. We each need to seek the Lord, asking for His wisdom and direction. He doesn’t expect us to figure it out ourselves. He doesn’t expect us to just go do it either, but right now God is calling all workers to the harvest field. The harvest is ripe and it’s going to take all hands on deck, all boots on the ground, to get the harvest in.

Woman of God, do you know how loved you are as a daughter of the King? Do you know your identity and standing as a daughter of the King? Do you know what your Kingdom assignment is or how to discover what God has assigned to you? Are you willing to learn?

We will be exploring together in 2024 what it means to be a Kingdom woman who is actively seeking her assignment and the strategies she needs to complete it. Look for resources on our website, Facebook page and YouTube channel at the links to the right.