098: Cultivating and Celebrating Strong Womanhood with Lisa Bevere

<p>Lisa Bevere is a wife, mother, grandmother, founder (along with her husband, John) of Messenger International, and the New York Times Bestselling author of quite a few books. She comes on the show today to talk about her latest book, entitled Strong: Devotions to Live a Powerful and Passionate Life, and the truths behind God's design for strong womanhood.</p> <p>What We Chat about in Today's Episode:</p> <p>~What the Lord is teaching us through this pandemic</p> <p>~The weakening effects of legalism</p> <p>~Weaving the wonder of and connection with God into the personal, practical, and throughout the everyday, all day moments of our lives</p> <p>~Talking to our kids about this season of quarantine in a way that shows them God's truths regarding seed time, harvest, and the purpose of different seasons of life</p> <p>~The gift of repentance</p> <p>~What true strong, Biblical womanhood looks like; God's design for women</p> <p>~The problem with looking to social media for the validation of strangers rather than plugging into your in-real-life iron-that-sharpens-iron relationships</p> <p>~Understanding true Biblical strong womanhood as being  passionate, fervent, principled, God-fearing, servant-hearted, and loving, vs. the world's definition of strong as being rebellious, divisive, aggressive, combative, harsh, or domineering</p> <p>~Our own personal journeys out of legalism and into understanding God's love for us and celebration of our strengths</p> <p>~How we got to this point in the church where there are those who believe strength is wrong for women</p> <p>~The common problem in the church today of women being viewed as problems to be controlled</p> <p>~The folly of using our strengths against each other as men and women, when we are called and designed to use them together against the enemy</p> <p>~The importance of both truth and love</p> <p>~Strength as a part of a woman's DNA</p> <p>~Understanding the term "helpmeet" and how this word is used to refer to women and to God</p> <p>~Women in the Bible whose God-given stories and tasks required great strength</p> <p>~Where feminism gets it right and where feminism gets it wrong</p> <p>~Understanding that we have been called to be meek, but not weak and that quiet does not mean silent; what the difference is</p> <p>~A woman's strength of influence</p> <p>~The examples of Abigail and Sapphira and what they each do to our wrong understanding of submission and a woman's role</p> <p>~And more!</p> <p>Head to <a class="linkified" href="http://www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast" target="_blank">www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast</a> for full show notes.</p> <br /><br />Get full access to Beyond the Boxes at <a href="https://rebekahhargraves.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">rebekahhargraves.substack.com/subscribe</a>