What the Bible Actually Says About Women in Leadership | Elizabeth Occhipinti LIVE

And then there's the one song from Revelation that we're all gonna corporately sing together. Right? So, again, there's these seven major songs. And if you know, I'm not a I'm not a pastor or a theologian, but I do know this. Seven is a big deal number in the Bible. It's a number of perfection. And so I find it to be fascinating that God has seven songs that he wants us to focus on, seven major songs, and that guess what, ladies? Half of them belong to us. [00:12:47] (27 seconds)  #WomenSingToo

God will use those broken things. He will use those broken things. He does. He yeah. I say he doesn't waste. God doesn't waste to hurt. God, multiplies. So anything that he's taken from you, anything that has has been used and harmed you, he will bless. If you allow him, he will bless you back. And usually, it's like threefold. He does this amazing god thing of taking our broken pieces and making something beautiful. [00:42:43] (48 seconds)  #GodUsesBrokenness

But the most interesting thing I found when looking at these three women, Mary, Miriam, and Deborah, is that two of the three of them are never recorded to have had children. And I do think that in the church, sometimes, especially on days like this, we forget to honor women, period. Right? God honors women, period, throughout scripture. I don't know why we not we here at one church because I actually think we do a good job of it here. [00:19:03] (31 seconds)  #HonorWomenNotJustMothers

And there's something to be said for in those moments of blowing it or in those moments where you don't feel it or you've, you know, you've lost it with your child or you've gone cold, and you've just, like, you just feel like you have nothing to give. To have the exercise outside of the feelings, the exercise of, you know, busting out into worship and throwing on, you know, some eighties hip hop or something and just jumping around the living room together, there's some there's something to be said for the the the contentment that it takes to to sing and to dance. [00:34:23] (33 seconds)  #WorshipBeyondFeelings

Try to have that exercise of finding even that song that you put on when you're not feeling it, and just have that exercise of just, you know, making making you know, just recalibrating your heart toward god. Yeah. Awesome. [00:35:32] (55 seconds)  #FindYourWorshipSong

dictates the mood of the entire household, and it's it's hard. It it's an honor, and it's hard. My husband will say, if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. Right? Like and it's true, but it's hard. You know, we we sometimes have to be emotionally mature when we don't we're you know, not not to generalize women, but we are you know, there is grounded and seeded in us this emotional aspect, which I think is it strengthens us. Right? Like, it it brings it brings a flavor to society, [00:31:09] (31 seconds)  #EmotionalLaborIsReal

You know how sometimes you sort of well, if you're like me, sometimes you say things, and you're not really always thinking when you say them. And so this day for me came about because me and my friend Jen were kicking around some topics on motherhood and talking here. I think we were rehearsing or something. We were talking about how motherhood and the definition of insanity are the same, and we were kicking around, a little bit about, you know, just mom topics. And jokingly, I said, oh, we should do this on Mother's Day. And they wrote that down, and they put it on the calendar. And I didn't know that until last week. So [00:08:09] (46 seconds)  #MotherhoodConversations

I know there are people hurting today, that there there's a hope deferred. I know that maybe there are people here that that would love to be a mother and and haven't been able to conceive. And maybe there are people who have lost a child, and maybe today just carries a lot of weight. And I I came in here knowing that, and I I want you to know I came in carrying some weights too. Proverbs thirteen twelve says a hope deferred makes the heart sick, [00:21:31] (26 seconds)  #HopeDeferredHurts