Church of the Children of the Lord Jesus Christ

Study: 35

Is It Lawful Before Jesus Christ That Our Beloved Sisters Pray To Him in the Hearing of the Brethren, both during Holy Assemblies and out of Them?

   The Lord APPROVES that Our Beloved Sisters Raise their voices To Pray Him both during Holy Assemblies -or Services- and out of Them as well, for instance at their Homes. Nevertheless He Commanded HOW they Must Do It (*): Women Must Have a Symbol of Authority on their heads (1 Cor 11.8-10); besides during Assemblies they Ought to Wait for each one’s TURN which is Established by Jesus Christ through the Brother (or Brethren) who Presides in Jesus Christ that Holy Assembly.

   In the former Context, We-Elders should also take into Consideration that through the Grace of the Holy Spirit-Jesus Christ-any Sister Might Prophesy

 (Remember 1 Co 11.5;  Acts 2.17-18;  Joel 2.28-29) which she Should Do It - without Doubting – AUDIBLY. Both in the New and Old Testament there are NO Inspired Scriptures in which The Lord Has Forbidden His Daughters TO SPEAK AUDIBLY with Him.

   In Acts 1.14, it is worth Noticing : “Continued WITH ONE ACCORD…”; if Our Sister had NOT Prayed in the hearing of the Apostles and other Brethren, Could We be SURE concerning their UNANIMITY?  If we DO NOT Hear Our Beloved Sister’s Prayers, We presume about UNANIMITY, but can We Prove It?.

   We May Find within Inspired Scriptures PRECIOUS Examples, such as: Elizabeth (Luke 1.41-45); Mary (Luke 1.46-55); Anna (Luke 2.36-38); Hannah (1 Sam 2.1-10)… , They Gave Thanks, Praised and Magnified The Everlasting Living God. Those or other Words like Them Might also be Expressed by Our Beloved Sisters in their AUDIBLY Prayers (but if We DO NOT Hear them) either Speaking or Singing to The Lord, as for Example Psalms (See Ps 42.8; 4.1; 6.9…) Which are usually Prayers with Sacring Music. Therefore, in every Holy Assembly whose Members Sing to The Lord during Meetings or Services, also Our Beloved Sisters Pray to The Lord as they are Singing in UNISON with the Brethren. 

   Through Our Sung or Spoken Prayers: Are We saying to The Lord Those Things as We were Taught by The Holy Spirit?  

   We (men and women) Must Essentially Pay Attention at both WHAT We are Saying to Jesus Christ and HOW We are Doing It. As regards, let Us See what happened with Hanna (Samuel’s mother) when she Expressed a Feelingly long and Sincere Prayer (1 Sam 1.8-16), Asking from The Lord a male child whom she Should Dedicate to The Lord all the days of his life.

   Hanna within herself Expressed very Nice Things in The Lord’s Hearing; however she did not Speak within hearing of Eli The Lord´s Priest, therefore he Thought she was drunk. So Hanna Had to Explain to Eli that she was not a wicked woman nor was drunk…, because Eli only had seen she moved her lips but he did not hear any Word at all. Let Us Pay much Attention: The Lord Approved Hanna’s Prayer AFTER she Explained the matter to Eli (1 Sam 1.17-18).

   Hannah Accomplished, without Doubting, very well what she Expressed to The Lord, but she did NOT Accomplish HOW. All these things Proceeded from The Lord To Teach Us -His Sons and Daughters-TO DAY.

   We as Elders Brethren Must Assure Ourselves that Our Beloved Sisters Express through their Prayers those Things they Learnt in Silence and all Submission from Us who by Jesus Christ’s Grace Preside the Assembly, Leading the Meetings or Services both Teaching and Revealing Everything concerning Sound Doctrine (Holy Food or Nourishment). Jesus Christ Promotes through His Sound Doctrine men and women spiritual Growing, which is Manifested by the Good Works of Faith that are the Index about How all the Body’s Members Assimilate the Holy Food.

   As regards, let Us Discern Luke 11.27: As The Lord Taught His Sound Doctrine to the multitude, a woman raised her voice and said Audibly to The Lord: “Blessed is the womb that Bore You, and the breast that Nursed You!”

   The Lord Answered her, in the hearing of all, Correcting her Prayer-Blessing (Luke 11.28) that All -even Us To Day- should Understand  and Keep Sound Doctrine and DO NOT GO AWAY after IDOLATRY by putting human being (creature) above The Creator and Savior (let you Meditate: Mat 12.48-50;  John 4.23-24;  2 Cor 5.16; …);  wherefore, The Lord Jesus Christ Answered the woman: “More than that Blessed are those who Hear The Word of God and Keep It! (Luke 11.28).

  Let Us Meditate: If that woman had not raised her voice and would only have Thought It, this Scriptural Passage would NOT Exist. Would that woman Have Been Corrected by The Holy Spirit -Jesus Christ- that she Should Learn To Praise-Bless Him as she Ought? (Rom 8.26) and, Might We Discern All These Things on Behalf of Sound Doctrine To Day? 

   Our Beloved Sisters, According To The Holy Scriptures, Spoke To The Lord Audibly

   They Praised-Blessed Him, as well as were Corrected and Taught by Him in His Holy Will, Learning The Sound Doctrine that wise. Let you Meditate John 4.5-30; afterward Consider that Our Samaritan Sister had NO husband… however, was it a Cause that The Holy Spirit Should Not Teach her The Word of Eternal Life?; it was Not a Cause at all, rather The Holy Spirit-Jesus Christ Instructed and Revealed her His Sound Doctrine’s “CORE”, as she Asked Him about her Doubts Talking with Him Audibly.

Let Us Look For a Greater and Better Edification of The Blessed One’s Whole People By Perfecting Holiness 

   Beloved Brother, an Elder in any Holy Assembly, who do Know The Mystery of Godliness (1 Tim 3.16;   Acts 2.38); let Us Meditate in The Love of Jesus Christ: Perhaps, Does The Lord Living God (Jesus Christ) Who Is The Holy Spirit (John 14.17-18; Matt 28.20) Not Dwell in Us?; Does He Not Speak in Us through His Perfect Gifts?; does He Not give Us Understanding to Teach Our Beloved Sisters To Pray as Ought, likewise He Himself Teach Us? (Matt 6.5-15); and How do you Know that they are Praying as Ought if you do Not Hear them?. Perhaps, do you Not Need Approve your Beloved Sisters´ Prayers?; do you only Say Amen to Our Beloved Brethren’s Prayers because you Hear them during Meetings?. What would you think if The Holy Spirit Should Reveal you that one among your Assembly’s Sisters often Expresses in her Prayers what Expressed to The Lord that Sister of Luke 11.27.28?; for The Lord Did Not Say Amen, instead  He Corrected her. But you May Not Correct Our Sisters Nor Teach them MORE about Sound Doctrine due you Not Hear them; so, Shall Our Sisters Be Able To Improve their Prayers?. For if they Improve their Prayers, will also Plentifully Improve Before Our Beloved Holy Father – Jesus Christ_ His Whole People’s Holiness wide world; and We do Know that without Holiness NO ONE will Eternally See The Lord (2 Cor 7.1; Heb 12.14).

   Let Us Not Suppose That Our Beloved Sisters Pray as They Ought If We Do Not Hear Them 

   Beloved Brother, an Elder in The Lord, Do Not Assume to yourself that Our Beloved Sisters are Correctly Praying if you Do Not Hear them, for Praying Is a Constant and Increasing Exercise which allows Us to Perfect everything We are Saying to Our Beloved Father (1 Thess 5.17; 5.25; Eph 6.18-20; Luke 18.1-7; Col 1.3;  Phil 1.3-11), and We, being Elders, have both special and unavoidable Responsibility for Teaching To Pray Our Beloved Sisters, Checking Up their Learning by Hearing them during Holy Meetings, and also at their Homes for instance through their Believing husbands or fathers or ….; because We (men) are The Head of Our Beloved Sisters whereas they are Our Glory (1 Cor 11.3;  11.5-9). Therefore, if they do Not Pray as Ought because We do Not Teach them, due DO NOT Hear their Prayers, They are Dishonoring Us (1 Cor 11.5) and, consequently, We-men Dishonor Jesus Christ Who Is Our Head (1 Cor 11.3) and He Shall Demand It at our hands, because We are Not Supplying His People’s women the FOOD in Due Season (Matt 24.45-46).

Jesus Christ’s Light Concerning 1 Cor 14.34-35 

   Beloved Brother Elder, may be you strongly Grasp of what is Written in 1 Cor 14.34-35: “Let your women KEEP SILENT in the Churches (during Holy Meetings) … SUBMISSIVE…”

   Holy Discernment 

•    Every woman-Sister Must Learn in Silence (1 Tim 2.11) with all Submission (or Subjection) regardless she is or not married;  in addition, she has NO Authority at all To Teach or Rule over any man-Brother (1 Tim 2.11-12).

•    Every Sister, married or not, Must always be Subject to The Lord; the married one daily through her Believing husband (Eph 5.22;  Col 3.18;  1 Pet 3.1-6) who is her Head (1 Cor 11.3), therefore he Must also Teach her To Pray as Ought an Check Up her Learning by Hearing her Prayers. Every husband, at once, Submits himself to Jesus Christ (his Head 1 Cor 11.3) specially through the Elders, because he usually Does Not EXAMINE himself Properly.

•     If a Sister is unmarried or widow but has her father or other Believing relative man, she Submit herself to The Lord through them, to whom she May Ask at home To Learn whatever she does not Understand and To Pray in her father´s Hearing or ….. Believers.

•    If a Sister is unmarried or widow and she also is lacking in a man relative-Brother at home, she Must Submit herself to The Lord through the Elders and other Brethren; that is: She Must Learn during Holy Meetings or Services from Teaching Imparted by the Elders, or other Authorized Brethren, who Appoint a weekly Holy Homework for all Sisters -married or not- Preferably in writing that they May Redeem their time by Searching Meditating and Praying as they Ought;  Discerning everything through The Holy Spirit -Jesus Christ- Who Inspired and Strengthened the Elders To Prepare Holy Homework for them.

• The Elders MUST ALWAYS CHECK UP Our Sister’s Learning (Growing Up), regardless they are married or not, which WE SHALL NECESSARILY DO IT along Holy Meetings or Services, by Allowing Our Sisters (with all Submission) Speak about their Homework and, in addition, Pray Properly.

   The Elders Shall Approve and Correct whatever is Pertinent, in comparison with the Holy Scriptures. While this Holy Activity takes place along Meetings, this is SURE Our Beloved Sisters have something to Ask Us in order to Understand even better Sound Doctrine, as regards, Answer about any Question will often Issue from the Arranged Discernment of the Sharer Brethren. So, The Holy Spirit Jesus Christ-Saintly Builds Up the Whole Assembly.

   Our Local Experience According To Jesus Christ’s Guidance

    During two years Our Blessed Teacher Gave Us “Time for Praying”, thus in a weekly Specific Holy Meeting We did Search out everything Written in Holy Scriptures about Prayer and finally We Received from Jesus Christ the “Corollary of the Prayer”, which is Composed by twelve (12) Complementary Items, whose Biblical Support We were adding that Our Brethren and Sisters Might Explain Them each week, with the Elders Guidance, during Friday and Sunday Holy Meetings. We are all Enjoying these Blessing since about 2008.

   We as Elders are ALWAYS ATTACHED to Jesus Christ’s Blessed Guidance and,  consequently, each day CONSECRATED the best; so We did NOT PERCEIVE, at any time, that Our Beloved Sisters Ought not to Pray Audibly in the Holy Meetings. However, we through The Holy Spirit Understood It was Necessary Correct Them both some Expressions and Directions in their Prayers that They Should Take “their places” within Assembly and Should Not Manifest any Authority over the Brethren; thus We were all Growing in Jesus Christ’s Love …;

   We do Know There Is No Fear in LOVE…; therefore, We as Visible Guides of this very LITTLE FLOCK FELT at every Moment We were doing NO Wrong by Allowing Our Sisters Pray Audibly; contrariwise We also Considered it was Essential that Our Sisters were Instructed concerning their Prayers, because They DO NOT Receive the Instruction Directly from Jesus Christ as their Brethren-Elders who are the Holy Assembly’s Guides. So, From whom Should Our Sisters Receive Instruction to Pray both More and Better?

   Let Us Pay Attention!, because if We DO NOT Hear Our Sister’s Prayers they, being an Important Part of the Mystic Body, may Ask Wrong In Ignorance; To Whom Will The Lord Demand It?. Let Us all Continue Working by The Love and Let Us Him Correct Us to Grow Forward and Upward until the Final Victory!. Amen and Amen.

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