A GOOD THING

[Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD. Proverbs 18:22

Stop waiting for someone to put a ring on it to obey God and do what he has told you!  If I could pass a bit of wisdom and experience to some of you, that would be the biggest piece of wisdom that I could give.  Often, we think that we have no value and cannot walk unless we have our hand in someone elses' hand to help us walk.  I don't know whose bible we've been reading out of, but as far as I know the Lord has commissioned us to go into all the world and preach the gospel, he has told us whatever we find our hands to do--do it, he has said if you love me "feed my sheep".  He has given so many commandments unto us to move forward, so I don't understand why we wait on someone else to give us permission to obey God?

Maybe I don't have the revelation of why we as women, shy away from our kingdom responsibility because God has not sent a mate yet.  There are many women of God fulfilling the call of God on their lives while they wait, but so many more who do not feel that they can operate in ministry, fulfill their purpose, or even be productive to the kingdom unless someone other than the Lord is guiding them.  Why do we do this? I always include myself in the equation, because I have been there.  I speak from experience.

I heard a woman of God teach during a conference recently who imparted some sound Godly wisdom to the women when she said a proverbs 31 woman does not stand around and wait, but when she was found, she was working.  She wasn't standing around or sitting on the pew doing nothing!  Take off those big hats, slide out of those 4" heels, and roll up your sleeves and get to work, that is, get to doing God's business and stop looking for somebody to find you. How is it that the man of God is going to know he has a good thing when all he can see is you sitting looking cute.  Trust me there are plenty of cute women sitting on the pew and you are not going to get him by wearing your fly clothes.  And as all of those other women who have been sitting on the pew year after year looking fly can attest to that fact, their flyness hasn't gotten them anything.

The man of God does want a wife, but he wants one that knows who she is and is heading in that direction, not trying to wait on him to show her which direction she is supposed to be walking.  I will tell you why the man of God wants a wife, because HE wants to obtain favor from the Lord, so when he finds you and sees that you are indeed a good thing, he knows that God will honor him for his connection with you.  So get up and get to moving.  You do yourself a great disservice by not doing the will of God in your singleness while the Father has extra time with you to impart things into your heart and spirit.


There is SO much satisfaction in knowing Jesus.  There is so much satisfaction in allowing him to be more than daddy. If we take the time to allow God to really minister to our hearts and stop putting so much focus on what we don't have and more on what we do, oh, how satisfied we will be right where we are.