WOMEN FOLLOWERS! #4

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Followers can also mean Believers.
Today I’ll share scriptures about 
women who believed in the Lord. 







DEPICTION: DEBORAH

 
LIFE LESSON:


SOME WOMEN WERE FOLLOWERS & PROPHETS!



ACTS 21:8-9

8 On the next day we who were Paul’s companions departed and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. 


1 CORINITHIANS 11:5-6, 13, 16


5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 


13 Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.





JUDGES 4:4-5



4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

5 And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.










LIFE LESSON:

LYDIA, PURPLE SELLER WAS A FOLLOWER/BELIEVER

 

ACTS 16:14-16

14 Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. 15 And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.










LIFE LESSON:

SLAVE GIRL  BECOMES A BELIEVER





ACTS 16:16-19

16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.
17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”
18 And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.
19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.








DEPICTION: ST. PHOEBE, MARIA KHOURY 



LIFE LESSON:

PHOEBE IS FOLLOWER/BELIEVER 



ROMANS 16: 1-2



1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,
2  that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.



 




CHRIST WITH WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY, GUERCINO, 1621



LIFE LESSON




WOMEN IN ADULTERY BECOME FOLLOWER/BELIEVER
 

JOHN 8:3-5


 
3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,
4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught] in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”
 

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