MAY 8, 2022
WOMEN OF POSITIVE INFLUENCE
Acts 16:13-15
Proverbs 31:30 – Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Four Keys To Women Of Influence
1. You need to be open to God.
Acts 16:14 – The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
II Timothy 1:5 – I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, and I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
2. Share your life with your family.
Acts 16:15 – She and the members of her household were baptized.
How Do You Share:
Take time to teach the scriptures.
Deut. 4:10 – Teach them to their children.
Joshua 24:14 – Serve Him in sincerity and truth.
Regular attendance at worship.
Acts 16:14 – Lydia, who was a worshipper of God.
Verse 15 – When she and the members of her household were baptized.
I Samuel 1:7 – Hannah went up to the house of the Lord.
By being a good example.
Acts 16:15 – She invited us to her home.
Psalm 101:2 – I will walk in my house with blameless heart.
3. By establishing perseverance.
Acts 16:15 – She invited us to her home. If you consider me a believer in the Lord, she said, come and stay at my house.
II Cor. 1:3-4 – The God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles.
I Cor. 10:13 – No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful, He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
4. The response of her family.
Acts 16:15 – The members of her household were baptized.
Prov. 31:28 – Her children arise and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her.