The Power of a Woman

THE POWER OF A WOMAN

THE POWER OF A WOMAN

YOU ARE NOT ORDINARY

AMILLIAH KENYA

The Power of a Woman: You Are Not Ordinary

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Copyright, © 2016 Amilliah Kenya

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All scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Public Domain).

ENDORSEMENTS

As Amilliah Kenya’s pastor, I want to recommend this book, The Power of a Woman. This book is a must read. Every chapter is biblically based and will encourage and instruct ladies to fulfill what God has designed them to be. Allow the Lord to speak to your heart as you read

—Davy Shelton, Pastor of Gateway Baptist Church,

Boiling springs, SC

Amilliah has demonstrated a profound gift of explaining the role of the woman today. Following extensive research, she shares God’s word with simplicity. This book explores how a godly woman can influence family, community and the Nation.

She uses soul searching questions and great applications. I highly recommend this book for self-enrichment, small group study and as a resource for deeper scholarship. This volume focuses on the unique power of women in giving Hope and making a difference in communities.

—Hottensiah Kimori, Co-Founder, Streams of Hope

International Missions (SOHIM), & former Training

Secretary of The Campus Ministry, FOCUS

Do you have a desire to be God’s servant but don’t know exactly how to tailor your uniqueness as a woman to accomplish this task? Learn how to channel your God given womaness for the upbuilding of His Kingdom.

As a young woman desiring to grow in the Lord, sometimes I find it challenging to know how to be an effective woman of God. This book will teach you how to channel your God given womaness for the upbuilding of His Kingdom. It is also filled with great encouragement of how God has uniquely made and molded you for such a time as this! Be greatly encouraged while learning how you fit in the puzzle as a woman!—God’s chosen vessel for the time

—Hope Kenya, Electrical and Computer Engineer,

Carnegie Melon University

Amilliah Kenya has written a beautiful book about God’s purpose in making woman as a helpmate for man. She shows us how our differences from men are vital in the total picture of human kind. She seeks to paint for us the importance of our differences. In reading this book, I believe you will learn to appreciate that God made you special—He made you a woman

—Gloria Penwell, Acquisitions Editor, Bold Vision Books

God has given Amilliah Kenya the ability and insight to pierce thinking and touch hearts. Amilliah clearly shows that a woman doesn’t have to choose between following Jesus and being respected, encouraged, and valued. Instead, she uses God’s Word to transform misconceptions about a woman’s worth into practical application and joy in being a woman of God.

—Jane Randall, Bible Study Fellowship Teaching Leader

Amilliah writes from her heart’s desire to challenge women to know who they are in God and to harness the power that God has given them to make an impact wherever they are, whether at home, work or church. She writes from her experience; a woman who has walked with the Lord for many years, raising three beautiful children and standing by her beloved husband. The insights and wisdom she shares in her book are biblical, practical, and authentic, and will remain relevant to today’s women and for generations of women to come.

—Susan Cherop-Kaai, PhD, Research Scientist

On one hand, the world rallies for feminism and for women to dominate over men. On the other, it rallies for submissive women who should never speak up. This is not the role of a woman. The Power of a Woman demonstrates the magnitude of the role of women and equips women to use their talents to glorify God in the manner in which God intended. Women are strong, beautiful, and serve a huge purpose in the lives of those around them.

—Lisa Uy, Clemson, college student

Are you a Christian woman? Then, here is your opportunity to take an active role in making a difference in society. Know that God has forgiven your wrongs. Forgive yourself and let God live in your heart. Trust Him. Don’t be afraid that you are not good enough. Talk to God like a friend and know that He loves you. Take the opportunity and learn all over again, how to love like a child. Take the opportunity to let go of your past and let the new spring and flourish. Learn how to stay close to your new friend—Jesus Christ. Take the challenge and burn with a new desire to make a difference in society and family

—Laura Hipps, hair salonist and beautician

I am a soldier, fighting to keep my family out of the clutches of the world, flesh, and the devil. I can’t quit no matter my feelings, pressure, or the cost. I am an example, and God’s open letter. I have an opportunity to show Christ to the world, to be His hands, heart, and feet. I am God’s chosen vessel to show compassion, to be an open book, and to stand with a struggling woman at her wit’s end. I am God’s chosen ambassador every day. Pick up this book and learn how to refocus your ability, renew your passion and unlock the potential that will influence the world for God’s glory.

—April Wilson, Missionary and Homeschooling mom.

Amilliah Kenya encourages Christian women to recognize and fulfill their unique vital roles in God’s plan for families, communities, and the world. Exhorting women to make the most of their attributes as well as their divinely chosen time and place in the world, The Power of a Woman calls forth the courage and compassion of women to cement relationships, determine actions, give direction, and change destinies every single day.

—Dr. Dalene Parker, Teacher and author of Christian Teachers

in Public Schools and co-author of Words to Live By

I thank Dr. Amilliah Kenya for allowing our Abba Father to touch her heart to write this book and I pray that the Holy Spirit will give each reader the revelation needed to walk in obedience to God’s design for their lives.

—Dr. Charmaine A. Herman, Abundant Life International

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to these wonderful people who helped make this book a reality:

Marjorie Earwood, my chief proofreader, editor, and great encourager. Yes! You are a trooper for the Lord! Very timely! Thorough! Efficient! Thank you for your contribution, insight, honesty, friendship, and help.

Barbara Brotherton, Mary Blanton, and the prayer room ladies at Gateway. This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.

The women of God at Gateway Baptist Church. Thank you for living, testing, and exemplifying the truths in this book month after month. May we step out to be God’s vessels for our times.

My family: Charles, my husband, Hope, my daughter, and my sons Daniel and Harry. Thank you for standing strong with me and just being you.

PREFACE

Great truth is weaved in the saying, When you educate a woman, you educate the world.

Not many women will stand to be spectators to a hurting world when it is in their power to help. A nation that has strong, powerful, wise, discerning, God-fearing women, is a strong nation. A home that has a brilliant, determined, loving, prayerful, God-honoring woman, is a strong home. The hand that rocks the cradle still rules the world. This is because women have a great ability to bring positive change. A woman’s influence has the capacity to permeate long, deep, wide, and with effectiveness.

This century is plagued with much suffering. The world is harsh and its sting is real.

What will it take to affect the world around you? It is easy to look to outside and far-fetched sources which equate to mere fantasies. Have you taken time to look around and within? Could God be pointing to you?

It is for this very reason that God speaks directly to you, saying, Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. (John 15:16)

You are not ordinary. In fact, God has fashioned you specifically to live in this century. You are God’s choice for our world today. God wants to use you to bring about change. Within you are God’s stores of potential to affect the world for His greater purposes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1: The Influence of a Woman

Chapter 2: The Power of a Woman Through Servitude

Chapter 3: The Power of a Woman’s Love

Chapter 4: The Power of a Woman’s Commitment

Chapter 5: The Power of a Woman’s Determination

Chapter 6: The Power of a Woman’s Faith

Chapter 7: The Power of a Woman’s Wisdom

Chapter 8: The Power of a Woman’s Prayer

Chapter 9: The Power of a Woman’s Discernment and Perception

Chapter 10: The Power of a Woman’s Inner Strength

Chapter 11: The Power of a Woman’s Bravery

Chapter 12: How Do You Maintain Your Power in God?

Chapter 13: Preparing to Stand Before God

THE INFLUENCE OF A WOMAN

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Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Proverbs 31:10

Woman, you are not ordinary

Woman, you are virtuous for you are from God

Who can underrate the power of a woman?

Who will remain untouched by the influence of a woman?

Her influence echoes down the generations

Her servitude transcends mankind

Her love outlasts the fondest of all memories

Her commitment stands the tests of time

Her determination encircles and embeds the day

Her inner strength entangles and breathes change

Her inner strength grips to mold and to shape

Her bravery guards and changes destinies

Woman, oh woman! You are a friend, you are noble

Author: Amilliah Kenya

You are not ordinary

There is no ordinary woman in the world. Every woman holds a special place in the eyes and plans of God. God has used women to unfold His purposes for centuries. Women have been in the forefront in changing causes for homes, communities, churches, nations and generations. Women have God-given, built-in power to influence destinies. Few women do it while basking in the limelight, but many accomplish it by working behind the scenes.

Women influence quality, virtue, and direction. Women like precision and clear direction. They stand for the cause of many. Many men like and enjoy a one-man show. They may run for a cause but the driving force behind it is whom they will become, the pictures they will portray, and what people will think and say about them. This is not the case with most women. Beneath a woman’s actions is a heart that is burdened and beating for a child, the home, the parents, the destitute, the homeless, the hungry, the image of the school, the decapitation of a society, and the crumbling of a nation. At the core of their anguish is virtue, quality, character, love, fairness, compassion, and empathy.

A woman will groom a man and push him in the limelight, after which she retreats to the backstage to applaud him as he accomplishes enormous tasks.

A woman will toil to do what will honor a man, a home, or a community. She will gently point a man to what is ripe for the moment as she participates without taking the center stage.

A woman, out of her hearty desire, will formulate guidelines, lay down policies and envision sound principles to bring order and positive change. Quietly, and meekly, she will share and hand them to men who will implement and bring about desired change.

Women are in the forefront of beneficent ministries in our world today. Women are the character builders, virtue upholders, vision enhancers, and quality inspectors in many men’s lives. How true is the saying, Behind every successful man, there is a woman! A woman does not have to fight for a man’s position. It is one of the many wonderful qualities that are inherently knitted in the framework of every woman. Yes, the hand that rocks the cradle still rules the world even today!

Woman, you are at the heart of God

God intricately created the heavens, the earth, and all that is therein in a matter of days. On the sixth day, God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26)

God wanted a man who would take care of the complex God-made world. The result was Adam, but the truth is there was a woman on God’s heart, too.

God revealed in Genesis 2:20 that Adam needed help. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Man needs help. Man cannot rule the world alone. He cannot manage a home. A man will not rear children alone. Men are released to earth with a divine handicap, in need of a woman. This is a heavenly principle that is still true today. The world is complex, but God still puts people in strategic places of dominion to govern and rule over His creation. From the galaxy and astronomical world, to the plant, water, and animal world, man needs help.

Man’s suitable help is a woman. God did not find suitable help for Adam among the birds of the air, the wild animals, or the livestock. A woman could effectively play the double role that God had at creation. Have you heard of the joke that a man only uses one side of the brain while