098: Cultivating and Celebrating Strong Womanhood with Lisa Bevere

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. What We Chat about in Today's Episode: ~What the Lord is teaching us through this pandemic ~The weakening effects of legalism ~Weaving the wonder of and connection with God into the personal, practical, and throughout the everyday, all day moments of our lives ~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 ~The gift of repentance ~What true strong, Biblical womanhood looks like; God's design for women ~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 ~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 ~Our own personal journeys out of legalism and into understanding God's love for us and celebration of our strengths ~How we got to this point in the church where there are those who believe strength is wrong for women ~The common problem in the church today of women being viewed as problems to be controlled ~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 ~The importance of both truth and love ~Strength as a part of a woman's DNA ~Understanding the term "helpmeet" and how this word is used to refer to women and to God ~Women in the Bible whose God-given stories and tasks required great strength ~Where feminism gets it right and where feminism gets it wrong ~Understanding that we have been called to be meek, but not weak and that quiet does not mean silent; what the difference is ~A woman's strength of influence ~The examples of Abigail and Sapphira and what they each do to our wrong understanding of submission and a woman's role ~And more! Head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast for full show notes.