Original post 7/7/2015
Titus 2:3-5English Standard Version (ESV)
3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Has God ever spoken something to you that you questioned His timing or said the words, “Um, I think you’ve got the wrong person?” Now, for those of you who just answered “No,” I will be praying for you because I believe we’ve all done it at one time or another. My time was about two months ago. God began to speak to me five words…”rise up, daughter of God!”
My very first thought was, “rise up? I thought I did the rising up when I left my family and moved to South Africa to do the work of the ministry?”
God’s response? “Yes, you did. Now, I want you to rise up further.”
“This is getting ready to get even harder, isn’t it?”
“Yes, my daughter, but it’s nothing that you can not handle as long as you choose to stay rooted in Me and allow the Holy Spirit to lead you. You can do this!”
“How do You know?” YES! I just asked God that question…stop laughing!
“Because I created it in you. I created you for good works!“
“Ok, then. Let’s do this!”
In the beginning, this was awesome, and I was ready to do it, and then…yep, then life happened. I had the opportunity to start walking out exactly what God was calling me to. I had the opportunity to rise up and honestly, I. Did. Not. Like. It!
Growing up, I remember my granddaddy, a great man of God, saying, “This is what the enemy of our soul desires to do, steal the Word that has been spoken to us, because he knows that if it takes root in us, we will draw our swords and do battle. Rising up to be who God intended for us to be.
Make no mistake, battle lines were drawn.
The enemy of my soul is on one side, ready to steal the word, with me on the other, sword drawn, ready to rise up.
The difference between the sides is this: God, my God, is on my side! God had spoken a word to me that I grabbed onto and planted deep within my spirit.
Yes, God is calling me deeper. God is calling me to be a complete Titus woman.
Be reverent.
Rise up!
Don’t gossip. Even with prayer requests!
Rise up!
Teach what is good. Which means I must know what the Word says!
Rise up!
Train the young women.
Rise up!
Even when I want to yell and scream.
Rise up!
Be pure.
Rise up!
Submit to Brett.
Please know that I have not yet arrived; however, I am trying my best to fulfill the role God has entrusted to me.
Rise up!
Rise up, daughter of God.
Rise up!
March 20, 2024, God gave me this mandate again in March of 2022 and the fruit of that Rise Up moment will be fulfilled on April 26, 2024, when I receive my BS in Ministerial Leadership: Pastoral Care and Counseling! And after that date, I’m pretty sure God will have other Rise Up moments for this daughter!
Wendy Roseman 