Kenneth Copeland — Sensitivity to SacrificePosted by admin on July 2nd, 2009
We are at war. Sacrifices are made during war times that are not made at any other time. Sensitive wives give up husbands for battle. Sensitive parents give up their sons and daughters.
World War II was fought when I was just a boy. I remember paper drives and rubber drives. We got involved any way that we could. I was disappointed because I was too young to go fight. I wanted to give it everything I had. Everybody did. Wives, mothers and fathers willingly sacrificed kinsfolk in that war. It was a privilege because we had a good cause to defend and a job that had to be done.
There will have to be many sacrifices made in this war. Some young people will announce to their parents that they won’t be going to law school or even to the seminary. They will have hearts sensitive enough to receive God’s call to go to war. They will dedicate their lives to taking the delivering power of the gospel to their buddies who are still on dope. They will give up their own plans and the plans of their parents, because we are at war.
Some pastors will have to give up their local respectability to be known as a “holy roller.” Some will have to be sensitive enough to go where the sinners are, instead of expecting them to come to church. Wives will tell their husbands that God has called them into a life of intercession. It will take some sacrifices on everyone’s part.
To enter into the spirit life of God, all areas will have to be touched with sensitivity. We will all have to be sensitive to women in the ministry. The book of Joel says that in the time of the outpouring, everything that the devil has taken will be replaced. The devil has stolen the ministry of our women away from us.
Those ministries will be regenerated. Our sons and our daughters will prophesy. Before this outpouring is concluded, we will sit at the feet of some of the most powerful women of the ages. I am married to one of them, and I am glad of it.
A woman, handling herself properly, can minister to the Body of Christ like no man can. A man cannot preach from the viewpoint of a mother. God is as much a mother as He is a father. Adam was made in the image of God. He was as much female as he was male. He was exactly like God. Then God separated him and removed the female part. Woman means “man with the womb.” Eve had as much authority as Adam did, as long as they stayed together.
There is a dignity in a godly woman that is not in man. A man fathers a child, but God builds a depth of character into a woman that causes her to nurture and love the child she brings into this world. A woman has the dignity of God that no other thing, created by God, can portray.
Because of the fall of man, woman was made to crawl under a curse. But, she has been redeemed from that curse (Galatians 3:13). Jesus has lifted womanhood to a place where the Bible says, “Obey your parents.” It didn’t say, “Children obey your father.” The position of authority in a home is a man and a woman, together in agreement, being sensitive to one another, not making independent decisions.
There is not space to go into all of the explanation: but there are approximately 300 scriptures in the Bible proving that women have an equal place with men in the ministry of the gospel. Become sensitive to the needs of the women in your life. Become sensitive to your daughter, your wife, your mother, and the other women around you.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries