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Messages for Married Sisters - September 25 - October 4, 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio - How can you better help your husband? What is your role as a wife in the church? What does it really mean to be under the proper "headship" in your family life and in the church life? | ||
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The Positive Function of the Sisters in the Church Life - February 18th - April 16th, 1980 in Willoughby, Ohio - Sisters, find out how crucial and significant you are in the church life. Also, learn the spiritual significance of the "virtuous woman" in Proverbs chapter 31. | ||
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The Healthy Pattern of the Sisters in the Church Life - October 4-6, 1985 in Toledo, Ohio - Stop pressuring yourself ! Learn how to live according to a healthy pattern. This conference also includes five excellent question and answer sessions! | ||
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The Effective Operation of the Sisters in the Church Life - December 9-11, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan - What is a woman's purpose according to God's creation? How can you become a pillar in the church? | ||
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The Blessed Operation of the Sisters in Carrying Out God's Economy - February 21-23, 1992 in Detroit, Michigan - Take a look at the "types," pictures, and parables from both the Old and New Testaments which portray the sisters' blessed operation! | ||
| The Sisters - The Blessing of a Local Church Life - November 30 - December 1, 2001 in Cleveland, Ohio - Sisters, do you realize that you are such a blessing? No matter how long you have been in the church life, you should say to yourself, "Who am I? I'm a blessing! I'm a blessing to my local church!" | |||
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A Wife's Purpose on This Earth - As a wife you must realize that you were built in a detailed way to meet the needs of your husband. |
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How
to Help Your Husband in a Positive Way (1)
- The family life is part of the church life.
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How
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to not aim at any kind of spirituality,not to push your husband
to be spiritual, be very practical in helping the saints in the
church life, and the more practical, the better.
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Headship
in the Family Life and Church Life
- We must remember that the church is an organism with Christ as
the Head, not an organization.This principle can be related both
to the church life and the family life.
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Questions
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- Questions
concering quantity or quality in time spent with husbands, children,
or the Lord, children's spiritual seeking, church meetings, and
young people.
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 February 18th - April 16th, 1980 in Willoughby, Ohio |
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The
Crucial Role and Decisive Nature of the Sisters' Function
- When the function of the sisters is healthy, then the Lord's testimony
will be strong. Message includes sharing on the house in Bethany
(Mary, Martha, and Lazarus).
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The
Purpose and Source of the Woman's Existence Especially for married
sisters - You were built and designed as a unique, precious
sister to meet all of your husband's needs with your very person,
not your activities.
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The
Virtuous Woman - A rich interpretation of Prov. 31:10-31,
concerning the principles, basic exercise, and maturity of the virtuous
woman.
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Meeting
the Lord's Need in Special and Normal Situations - Biblical
examples showing how sisters function to meet the Lord's need in
the church life. Includes the "Mary's" from the New Testament.
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| Questions and Answers - Includes: the function of single sisters, budgeting our finances and offering to the Lord, and whether we should preach the gospel to the opposite sex. | |||
| The Weaker, Female Vessel and the Hidden Man of the Heart - What does it mean for sisters to be the "weaker vessel"? This message uses the examples of Rachel and Leah from the Old Testament to illuminate this topic. It also includes sharing on "fellow heirs of the grace of life," and other topics. | |||
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 October 4-6, 1985 in Toledo, Ohio |
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| Living According to a Healthy Pattern - What is the proper function of the sisters, and how should they operate in the ir local church? How to maintain a pattern of life and not legality. | |||
| The Content of the Healthy Pattern - The elements of a diving and spiritual pattern: struggling to be in the Lord's presence, exercising the church in our daily life, the need for companionship, and treasuring the corporate church life. | |||
| Question and Answer Session - Concerning Desires and Demands How to keep the desires in our hearts from becoming demands which bring us under accusation. | |||
| Spending Our Time for the Church Life - The importance of our time, how we should spend our time with other sisters, and our need to live in simplicity. | |||
| Question and Answer Session - Concerning the Christian Life Includes: how to respond to Satan's attack, the positive and negative results of suffering, and how a sister decides whether to serve the Lord full-time. | |||
| Question and Answer Session - Concerning Relationships with Sisters Includes: what to do when one sister constantly rejects another sister, and how sisters should spend their time together. | |||
| God's Governmental Protection of the Sisters - The need for sisters to take God's governmental protection in the church life, resulting in both freedom and limitation. | |||
| Question and Answer Session - Concerning Our Family Life Includes: how to stand with a husband who is overly occupied with the church life, how to exercise spirituality when a husband is not so clear, and how to raise up our children. | |||
| Question and Answer Session - Concerning the Church Life Includes: what to do when sisters are critical of one another, and how to shepherd people who are still attracted to the world without condemning them. | |||
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 December 9-11, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan |
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| The Purpose of Woman According to God's Creation - Sisters should be peaceful and restful. They are who they are because the Lord built them that way. Sharing from Genesis Ch. 2. | |||
| Operating as a Sister, Wife, and Mother - The marvelous commitment the Lord has given the sisters. Includes the examples of Naomi from the book of Ruth, and Maroah's wife, the mother of Samson. | |||
| How the Sisters Operate as Pillars in the Church Life - The decisive factor in whether a local church is prevailing is the operation of the sisters. Biblical examples from Rom. 16: Phoebe, Priscilla, Mary and Rufus' mother. | |||
| Questions and Answers - Includes: functioning as a single sister by avoiding legality, how a sister should follow the Lord when her husband does not have the same desire, and caring for the saints with a spiritual exercise. | |||
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 February 21-23, 1992 in Detroit, Michigan |
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| The All-Inclusive Types in the Old Testament - Four major items in the Bible -- life, the covenant, salvation and the kingdom -- are all represented by sisters. | |||
| The Four Marvelous Parables in the New Testament - The four parables covered in this message show us what is happening in the church today begins with the purity in life and continues with the producing of food and the laboring in the church to bring the Lord back. | |||
| The Operation of the Sisters in Relation to Jesus Christ and His Accomplishments - In the beginning, during, and at the end of the Lord's process, there were many sisters operating to support Him. | |||
| The Operation of the Sisters in the Practical Church Life - The healthy operations of the households are unto a prevailing church life. This is illustratated by a healthy church life, a spiritual family life in the case of Timothy, and a healthy household in Bethany. | |||
| Questions and Answers (1) - Includes: A husband will not allow a sister make any meetings, a wife's involvement in the decision-making process, meeting in a denomination, living with a husband who is not spiritual, dealing with a husband who seems over-spiritual, a full-timer is out usually six nights a week, separation acceptable if there is abuse, prayer for marriage, and child raising. | |||
| Questions and Answers (2) - Includes: The proper way to fellowship, strong sisters in the church life, difference between the function of single sisters and married sisters in the church life, sificance of head covering, sisters breaking of the bread, learning to "grind at the mill", negative things rising up in our souls, speaking out ideas, wearing of make-up, sisters working, submission, and the church life and the meeting life. | |||
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| The Sisters - The Crucial Element of a Blessed Church Life - We can see that every aspect of the Lord's work is related to the sisters in the following examples of the sisters from the Old Testament: Eve's weaknesses, the diligence of Noah's wife, the submission of Sarah, the willingness of Rebekah, all of Jacob wives, the mother of Moses, Ruth's faithful submission, and Esther's risking of her own life. These sisters can all be considered virtuous women (women of worth) - Proverbs 31. |
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| The Divine Blessing through the Virtuous Woman who Focuses on Life and the Growth in Life - We need to focus on life and the growth in life. When we are short of life or of the growth in life, then the Lord will not be able to gain a testimony among us. As the virtuous woman matures, her growth in life affects the whole church. |
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| The Divine Blessing through the Virtuous Woman who Focuses on Truth and the Enrichment of the Living Truth - We continue with a few matters regarding the virtuous woman's focus on life and the growth in life. Also, we want to be equipped with truth. First, the virtuous woman is like the merchants' ships for bringing food (truth) from afar. Second, she girds her loins with strength, and perceives that her merchandise is good. Third, she has the ability to make the truth applicable. And fourth, she is able to produce garments, and delivers girdles to the merchant. This shows that she is able to teach those who are able to teach others. |
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| The Divine Blessing through the Virtuous Woman who Focuses on Operations - For a sister to be a blessing to the church life she needs to focus on three things: life, truth, and operation. Now we will consider the virtuous woman's operation in the church life. Her operation includes eleven points of experience, and ten points of application. |
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