The Everyday Woman - Part 5
Everyday Woman – Part 5
Show Notes
Introduction:
The Teachable Woman podcast welcomes back listeners to another insightful episode with Rev. Owes and Rev. Cherry. Despite being in different locations, they continue their mission to glorify God and share valuable insights with their audience.
Discussion Highlights:
1. Self-Respect and Standards: Rev. Owes and Rev. Cherry emphasize the importance of self-respect, maintaining standards, and avoiding the need for external validation.
2. Choosing Friends Wisely: They discuss the significance of selecting friends who align with one's values and beliefs, regardless of their Christian affiliation.
3. Embracing Righteousness: Rev. Owes and Rev. Cherry stress the value of righteousness over worldly desires and trends, highlighting its enduring benefits.
4. Lessons from Personal Experience: Rev. Owes shares a personal anecdote about buying trendy jackets for her children, reflecting on the transient nature of worldly desires compared to the enduring value of righteousness.
5. The Everlasting Wisdom of the Bible: They underscore the timeless relevance of biblical principles in navigating life's challenges and decisions, emphasizing God's unchanging nature.
6. Building Wisely: Rev. Cherry encourages listeners to emulate the wise woman of Proverbs by building their lives, homes, and relationships on righteousness.
7. Closing Thoughts: Rev. Owes and Rev. Cherry express gratitude to their audience, affirming their commitment to sharing God's love and wisdom, and eagerly anticipate the next podcast episode.
Conclusion: The podcast episode concludes with warm regards from Rev. Owes and Rev. Cherry, thanking listeners for their time and expressing love and appreciation for their support.
Transcript Final
Everyday Woman – Part 5
[00:00:00] Rev. Michele Owes: Well, welcome back! Welcome back to the Teachable Woman podcast. I am excited to return and be able to share with you. I am Reverend Michele Owes. And
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I'm Reverend Diana P. Cherry, and we are…
Rev. Michele Owes: Teachers of Good Things.
Rev. Michele Owes: If you're wondering why we can't seem to be in sync, it is because we are in two different locations. Rev. Cherry is on one side of the earth and I'm in the middle of the U. S. We are still working and laboring to make sure that God is glorified and we're able to bring you this podcast.
We want you to know it is our joy and it is our honor to serve you to be able to share the deposit that has been placed in our hearts. Amen.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes. We’re excited about it.
[00:01:00] Rev. Michele Owes: All right, so we are now discussing the everyday woman and we're just looking at things that as women we should ponder and consider. Do think about improving or changing? What can help us to be better, to do better, to even feel better? Mrs. Cherry has some tips and some points that she's going to share with us right now. And I'll do the piggyback, take it away.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Last time we talked about respect for oneself, having standards, and not compromising. I think that it would be good for us to know that we should never, ever seek approval or validation. No one can validate you. God's already done that.
Rev. Michele Owes: Amen.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I believe anytime we try to seek approval from a human being or to change ourselves to fit in, it's a road to failure.
Rev. Michele Owes: Amen.
[00:02:00] Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Know who you are. Be who God made you to be and don't change to fit in. Don't seek approval or validation from a mere man. Man cannot validate you. The other thing that I always like to share with young children and with women is to choose your friends wisely.
Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Who you fellowship with will determine what you do, where you go, and what you think. Even though somebody might be a Christian, you still must choose your friends wisely. Every Christian is not taught like every other Christian. There are a lot of compromises in the body of Christ these days.
Rev. Michele Owes: It's true.
[00:03:00] Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Be who you are, know what your standards are, set your standards, don't change to fit in. Then choose your friends very wisely and prayerfully. And this is something that my son shared with our church. Choose righteousness. Righteousness works. Righteousness works, and it is best for you. It will always work for you. Choose to be righteous. It's a choice. We don't have to but choose to be righteous.
We can choose Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and still not choose to live a righteous life. Listen, I always like to share, there is nothing that the Bible forbids that is good for us.
Rev. Michele Owes: Amen.
[00:04:00] Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Sin is the only thing that the Bible forbids. You can do whatever you want to do, but the Bible forbids sin because it's not good for us. So, choose to be righteous. Righteousness works for us. You can take it away from there and discuss these few things. Let’s see what else the Lord's going to say to us.
Rev. Michele Owes: Well, thank you so very much for that. It is so amazing how those points can speak volumes to us wherever we are, in whatever season we are in.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Rev. Michele Owes: Understand that God has already determined our value.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Rev. Michele Owes: He created us, He determined our value and we're valued. We're priceless to Him.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah, far above rubies!
[00:05:00] Rev. Michele Owes: Yes, yes, we are priceless to Him. To try to fit into something else when he's already valued us, or to allow someone else to determine our value when he has already valued us, makes me wonder sometimes how God feels.
I'll never forget the Christmas when my children wanted Fat Albert jackets. When I looked at the price of those Fat Albert jackets, it was exceeding and abundantly in my mind ridiculous. And I was not going to pay for it, not for three.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.
Rev. Michele Owes: Then I remember the next year they went on sale, and I found them. They wanted these jackets. So, I'm thinking I'm doing a good thing, right? I bought three of them. Well, by this time they are out of style, right? They never wore the jackets.
[00:06:00] The jackets ended up at a yard sale, all three with the tags still on them. That's a prime example of what we can want or think we need to fit in that in just a few short months, it's not even in style. It's not even, you know, it's not, but if we stick with those things that we know are right to do, it's always in style.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Rev. Michele Owes: And one of the things that you taught us. At the women's retreat is not to buy according to the quote style and fashion of the day, but to buy those things that I want to say are classic. When I say that, I don't mean old, but I mean quality items.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right.
Rev. Michele Owes: They will never go out of style, and you will always need them. They can come up again and again because they're always going to be necessary.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.
[00:07:00] Rev. Michele Owes: There's so much that changes with the world and to choose righteousness means that we're choosing to be in the right standing with God.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.
Rev. Michele Owes: Righteousness is so different from self-righteousness.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Rev. Michele Owes: It is so different from the world's righteousness. It is being in right standing with God, which means that the little or the lot that we know of His word, we do because it's right.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes. Yes.
Rev. Michele Owes: And that we've moved from this place of a mere only to a doer.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.
[00:08:00] Rev. Michele Owes: I know how I felt investing in these jackets. I know how I felt thinking I was finally bringing home a gift they might like. If there are some parents out there, and you struck out like I did, then, you know. Understand that you are not alone.
I think that's why gift cards have become so popular. We just give up trying to find the right thing and the reasonable thing. I wonder how God feels about the fact that he has left us the Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth, which is the Bible,
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: The Bible.
Rev. Michele Owes: so that we might know how to respond and stay in a right standing with Him.
[00:09:00] But we choose something that's always changing, which is the world. We choose something that is never satisfied, which is the world. We choose to try to be in lockstep with the world and He's a holy God sitting there saying, but I left you,
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.
Rev. Michele Owes: in your care everything that you need for life and godliness, and to be in right standing with me.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.
Rev. Michele Owes: They did not like the jackets. I was disappointed. It was a very big lesson for me.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: But it is still ministering.
Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Because it’s an object lesson for you to teach from now.
Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Mm-Hmm.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: What a powerful message to let us know that the things that we want, popular things, the things that we cry for, beg for, they're not what's best for us, but righteousness,
Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: is good for us. God wants us to choose righteousness, and to be in right standing with Him. Righteousness brings the reward.
[00:10:00] Rev. Michele Owes: Yep, it does. Mm-Hmm.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: You know, we talk about obedience bringing the reward, but the reward of obedience is righteousness.
Rev. Michele Owes: It is.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yep,
Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah. Absolutely right.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: It is what you learned, and it is allowing you to teach even now. That experience allows God to get glory out of it. Some of the younger parents might need to know, you can't satisfy those little ones.
Rev. Michele Owes: You cannot.
[00:11:00] Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I was talking to a young lady today, and her daughter's all grown now. She was saying that her daughters are beginning to make just wonderful choices now because she limited their choices when they were younger. They didn't go to the movies, and they didn't do this, and they didn't do that, and now these young women are coming to her, telling her what's best for them. They're in college, things that they're faced with, but they choose, choose like mommy has taught them to choose.
Rev. Michele Owes: Excellent.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: What a testimony.
Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Certainly, it was not easy. Yes.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Those jackets were not for naught because we're learning from them even now.
Rev. Michele Owes: I can still remember the face of the woman who bought them from the yard sale, who said, the tags are still on them. I shared this story with her. There's nothing that we can provide that the world says is right. God's already left us those instructions.
[00:12:00] How amazing is it that the authors of the Bible, by the orchestration of the Holy Spirit, God moved upon their hearts to be the pin of the ready writer so that you and I might be able to refer to it to get the answers for the issues of our lives. It's already there, and there's nothing new under the sun.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: There really isn't. I think we learn that the longer we live.
Rev. Michele Owes: Yes, yes. We think that the Bible was written back in the old days and some think that God cannot know what is happening today. He has no idea about technology. He has no idea. Anything that man has made is because God allowed him to have the wisdom to do so.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right.
Rev. Michele Owes: All knowledge comes from God.
[00:13:00] Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes, I shared in one of the earlier podcasts, the biggest dilemma, one of the biggest dilemmas that we have is that we live in an ever-changing world, and we serve a never-changing God. And for us. It's so hard because we think he's changed. He hasn't. We think this about God, but God hasn't changed. He's a never changing God.
Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: That gives us such a conflict. Surely God understands. He doesn't. He's a never changing God. He's a God of righteousness.
Rev. Michele Owes: That's right.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: He'll give us prosperity. He'll give us protection. He'll give us a promotion. He'll make our lives productive, but He'll never change.
Rev. Michele Owes: That is so true. I cannot believe that we are at that hour again. We got there quickly. What I'm going to say is you’ve got 30 seconds.
[00:14:00] Rev. Diana P. Cherry: What shall I share today in 30 seconds? I think I'll share from Proverbs 9 verse 1, which says the wise woman buildeth her house. And I would like to encourage you to be wise women in all that you do. Build up, never tear down because that is your life, your home, your children, your marriage. So be a wise woman. Always be a builder of righteousness.
Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. I love that so much that we're going to expound on it in our very next podcast. So, you want to be there. You want to find out what it means to build and who God is giving you the responsibility to build in the earth. In my 30 seconds, I want to say that we've learned that we're fearfully and wonderfully made.
[00:15:00] We've learned that we have value to a holy God. And we are in a position where we have an opportunity to glorify God. Not many people get an opportunity and not many people make the right choice when the opportunity comes. But every day is a good day to change, to become the righteous person that God wants you to be.
It’s not self-righteous, having your own righteousness based on what you want to do. It’s not the world's righteousness because the world is very unstable.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: yes,
Rev. Michele Owes: It is the righteousness that is in the word of God, which expresses the will of God. If we stay in right standing with him, and if we don't know what's right, we can simply say, God, what is right to you? What would you have me to do?
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Rev. Michele Owes: He is not shy to answer.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: No, He's not.
Rev. Michele Owes: You probably don't want to hear the answer, but He will certainly give it to you.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: He will.
[00:16:00] Rev. Michele Owes: We are excited about you being with us. We thank you. This is our time for this session. We love you. We are humbled and honored that you are listening to this podcast. We pray that God is ministering to your heart and mind and making things just a little bit better, just a little bit better. And we hope that you're feeling the love of God from us because we love you and we love the fact that God is trusting us to share with you. All right, that's our time. We'll see you on our next podcast. Love you. Bye.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Our time is up. We thank you for yours.
Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Bye-bye.
Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Bye-bye.
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