WOMEN FOR CHRIST

    When you study the women of the New Testament, you will meet some of the bravest and boldest women in human history, and you will learn that their faith in God was unchanging.
   The mother of Jesus believed that her son could turn water into wine at a wedding supper, and Jesus did.
   One woman believed that Jesus would heal her sickness, even if she merely touched the hem of His garment, and Jesus did.
   Another woman met Jesus at a well in Samaria, then ran to town to tell everybody about this man named Jesus.
   Two women of Bethany believed that Jesus could raise their brother from death, and Jesus did.
   A woman anointed the head of Jesus before His crucifixion.
   Many women gathered when Jesus was on the cross, and there they watched and wept as Jesus died.
   The first witness for the resurrection of Christ was a woman.
   It was also women who ran to tell the disciples that Jesus was alive.
   Claudia Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilate, became a disciple of Christ.
   On the day of Pentecost, many women were also there with the disciples in the upper room.
   The apostle Paul salutes many women in his writings of the New Testament and he records their names:  Phebe, Priscilla, Junia, Tabitha, Euodia, Syntyche, and others.
   Philip the evangelist had four daughters who were prophetesses. 
   Women for Christ were not popular.  They were supposed to kneel to Caesar, but they did not.
   Women for Christ suffered for their faith.  They were killed and wounded, then left to die on the side of the road.  They were buried in unmarked graves.  History has mostly forgotten them.
   But God remembers them!---and writes their stories in His Book that we may learn from them.
      Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:  but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.  (Proverbs 31: 30)