Understanding the Purpose and Power of Woman

Understanding Ing: The Purpose and Power of Woman by Dr. Myles Munroe

Editorial Note

• Grammatical rules are violated by not capitalizing "satan" and related names.

• Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), unless otherwise indicated.

  • Other versions used: New King James Version (NKJV), King James Version (KJV).

Dedication

• To Ruth, his wife, for embodying the principles in the book.

• To Charisa, his daughter, hoping she becomes a woman of noble worth.

• To his sisters, Sheila, Verde, Suzan, Christine, Deborah, Venessa, and Adine, from whom he learned the essence of the female factor.

• To women of developing third-world nations, hoping they discover dignity, equality, and fulfillment.

Acknowledgments

• Gratitude to Ruth, Louise Munroe, Charisa, Chairo, Lois Smith Puglisi, and the women at Bahamas Faith International Fellowship.

Contents (Key Chapters)

• A Woman's Place

• God's Purpose in Creation

• The Purpose and Mature of Humanity

• God's Design: Equal and Different

• The Uniqueness of Woman

• The Woman as Enhancer

• The Woman as Ref lector

• The Woman as Li f e-Giver

• Understanding the Woman's Communication Style

• Understanding the Woman's Emotional Needs and Sexuality

• Should Women Be in Leadership?

• Conclusion: The Proverbs 31 Woman

Introduction

• Women face identity dilemmas in the 21st century due to changing roles and conflicting societal expectations.

• Confusion exists regarding a woman's status and equal rights globally.

• Changing roles in industrial nations bring vocational opportunities alongside personal and social issues, like unequal pay and continued burden of childrearing.

• Confusion over male/female roles leads to relationship instability.

• Cultures have contradictory ideas about a woman's identity and role.

• Developing countries often devalue women, making them vulnerable to abuse and poverty.

• The root cause of women's problems is being overlooked: lost truths about women's inherent makeup.

• Acknowledging some progress, resolutions admit discrimination against women still exists.

• The UN Convention targets culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles.

• Lost truths about a woman's nature, potential, role, and contribution have been replaced with distorted views, leading to misunderstanding and abuse.

• Women and men must know a woman's true nature and purpose.

• Misunderstanding function leads to misuse or abuse.

• We need to lay new groundwork for understanding who a woman is and how she should be viewed and treated.

• The fundamental question is not what a woman does but who she is.

• Dismissing or treating men in an adversarial way harms a woman's potential and advancement.

A Woman's Place

• The controversial issue of a woman's role, position, and rights has been debated extensively.

• Historically, women have been regarded as inferior in nearly every nation and culture.

• Negative perceptions of women persist due to ingrained attitudes.

• The devaluing of women is widespread, pointing to a deep cause.

• It's difficult to change mindsets about a woman's place.

• Prevailing attitudes explain why advances can become burdens.

• The devaluing of women is not right, as argued by women's movements.

• Legislation cannot change men's hearts.

• Negative perceptions of the woman must be transformed.

• The cause is that we have lost what it means to be human, male, and female.

• Culture and tradition have perpetuated distortions.

• Equal rights advocates say there is no difference between women and men. Yet while women and men were created equal, they were also created different.

• The historical devaluing of women can be resolved by recognizing affirming their complementary differences.

• Conflict occurs when God-given differences are not understood and appreciated.

• People approach marriage like buying a car, unprepared for the operation and maintenance.

• Don't give a car what you need. Find out what it needs, and then give it what it needs. Then it will work for you.

• To address this, we need to understand a woman's unique design.

• The best way to make progress is to go back to the beginning, to see the Creator's mind and heart.

• The nature of something determines its needs.

• The controversy centers around competing views of what a woman's place is.

• A woman's place is, before anything else, in God.

God's Purpose in Creation

• Problems arise from losing understanding of what it means to be human as God created us.

• Discovering and living in the original plan is essential.

• Seven principles of purpose:

  • God is a God of purpose.

  • God created everything with a purpose.

  • Not every purpose is known to us because we have lost our understanding of God's original intent for us.

  • Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.

  • To discover the purpose of something, never ask the creation; ask the creator.

  • We find our purpose only in the mind of our Maker.

  • God's purpose is the key to our fulfillment.

• Purpose motivates the action of creation, resulting in precision production.

• Everything is the way it is because of why it was created, because of its purpose.

• The purpose of a thing determines its nature, its design, and its features.

• The Manual is given to us by the Designer and Manufacturer (God).

• Humanity has lost its knowledge of God's purposes and that if that purpose is abandoned, we will never function properly as human beings.

• When purpose is either ignored or unknown, the exchange of natural for unnatural takes place.

• Without God, our mind isn't going to get any better; it will only get worse.

• We shouldn't attempt to use anything until we find out why it exists.

• If you don't know the purpose for your existence, then no matter how earnest or sincere you are, all you can do is abuse your life.

The Purpose and Nature of Humanity

• When God created humanity, He had two overarching purposes in mind: relation and vocation.

• Primary motivation: love.

• God created man in His image to love.

• Man is the only being on the face of the planet that is created in God's image, that includes Angels.

• God created the spiritman without a gender. He placed him in two physical forms: male and female.

• Most approach the manifestation of male or female, when we should be focusing on the spiritman.

• The fact that the same spirit of man resides in both the female and male has been forgotten by humanity, so that men and women end up battling one another for supremacy.

• Man was created to have dominion over the earth, to rule over it.

• God has entrusted the earth to the care of man, which means that man is to be the proprietor of the physical earth, including all the other living things in the world.

• Humanity is to reflect God and His purposes in the spiritual realm as well as the earthly realm.

• God took man and placed him in two separate physical "houses" so that He could fulfill His purposes for humanity and for the world. The first house God made was the male; the second house God made was the female.

• To fulfill His eternal purposes, God used two physical forms, called male and female, to express the one entity of man. Therefore, the essence of both the male and the female is the resident spirit within them, called "man".

• The woman was created as a result of something beautiful, and the primary purpose of the female was to be loved by the male.

God's Design: Equal and Different

• Men and women are equal, based on their shared creation in God's image.

• Purpose determines design, and design determines needs.

• Males and females are different because of their design in creation rather than because influenced by legislative and societal changes as they are by ingrained attitudes in the hearts and minds of men and women.

• One is made to do its job, and no other.

• Males and females were designed to exercise dominion, to rule over the earth, each execute this overall purpose in a different manner.

• Therefore, women and men are different because of their purpose and design.

• We must continually keep in mind that God created men and women equal, yet still different.

• Different does not mean inferior or superior; different simply means different.

• When did human to break apart from God's original purpose? The third chapter of Genesis of tells the source of the conflict between men and women.

• By acting on their wills, men and women rejected God's plan.

• The first result of the Fall was that humanity's fellowship with God was broken.

• The second resulted to the Fall was that Adam and Eve experienced death.

• Third, Adam and Eve suffered the loss of their perfectly balanced relationship.

• When purpose is unknown or rejected, abuse is inevitable.

• Humanity has always been doomed to live in the effects of the Fallen State and God original plan to restore a new partnership will restored all those from the fallen states.

The Uniqueness of Woman

• The uniqueness of the woman is a reflection of God's purposes and design for her.

• Her uniqueness is a reflection of God's purposes and design for her in five significant ways.

  • The woman is God's idea.

  • The woman has a spirit inside.

  • The woman was taken out of man.

  • The woman is physically different.

  • The woman was placed in the Garden.

• The Woman, a spirit free within, as long as man handles her must handle God's Ideas and Plan.

• The Woman must be treated with sensitivity and if is not God will not honor prayers.

• To men (or leaders) the most dangerous position is man without submission and answering to nobody because heaven would lack resources.

• To those in a position that demands help, in general the help lies within all God has created and given.

• Because if a male do not has his purpose correct this should not interfere the relationship with the maker and only the correct understanding, with the creator intent as the best to seek. This would permit it not to threat the correct way a person is been created to follow and believe to a live and to enrich their lifes, their families, and the communities where life take. This would be the result that the seriousness of what the design and needs it will bring more fruit in their actions as humans.

The Woman as Enhancer

• Dominion to make others great and more beautiful if one finds to perform it in those that make them unique and feel love within.

• The Woman is the Man's Good, therefore God has called the woman is a spirit lead from the source.

• For it's why there are the need to support the Woman and Man for if anyone of those fails than that goes off the plan of why it should be from the initial design of the Word creation.

• To support the dominion is about to share the same vision where each others can understand the purpose to help their selves succeed it doesn't matter where it does and how is make.

• There are steps for a Female to bless, support and honor for the Man to respect and guide him.

• To fully understand the essence of it there are inborn needs that demand for balance and they would be achieved over time, over learning both and understanding for each other that brings their union.

The Woman as Reflector

• Because the Woman comes from LOVE she reflects it.

• To get the best relationship it must a need for the both to learn the essence within both.

• It all results to the day period in actions over time that it would demonstrate the value, the purpose and how to show the relationship as long as it can be a beautiful representation between men and the Creator.

• It results in what brings the good about every creation as been from God and made from his very image.

• It represents one can create to impact the world on his wisdom and to his potential for everyone through life.

• In human there will be the wisdom of a creator influence to represent them when everyone see that person that the can believe how God as the greatest is.

The Woman as Life-Giver

• God created the woman as a life-giver, with gestational abilities, permeating all areas of her life.

• Physical Transformation, the Woman will adapt her physical body to develop and be made for a new life inside.

• Because woman can transform the creation should be never create any thing that affect other, because everything will show in each one essence.

• But be caution over how you use that gift. To be able to do no do harm or to pervert your power and talent. The most important way to perform and deliver is to learn for others as it has the creator intended.

• Remember! Do not create in others harm or any way to live an improper moment. Everything and action that is negative won't deliver a success over anything.

Understanding the woman's communication style

• Because the woman have a way to connect to any, any, they should be considerate before you ever can deliver an information.

• One shall recognize the design of what the person means before talking is one the right was to create the bridge for proper function and communication.

• There's also a design where both can't understand each other and should work so their union can succeed, the most important is to remember God, as everything.

• Men are what they are suppose to help and balance in those the're made the females must be and to know and find to serve the most.

• The only the imitation the females can perform is follow the example of Christ.

• In all relationship just try to get those all must come the balance to make the design better as God created them.

Understanding the Woman's Emotional Needs and Sexuality

• Just try not to ignore how everything and every situation comes in you life to create a better action, and reaction.

• Make sure to learn for you know will understand as that all that you need to give and take depends of how and why in respect what the body demands for what the soul expects from the creator.

• It won't all be easy But take and give the best to express and follow the reason and the season and time that all its components in their life will understand that all what do for all what creates to get them where God intended.