06/09/2023
WAIT FOR ME AT THE ALTAR.
"Can God still use women in this generation?" This was the question I asked for years.
I looked around me, and it was like God was using only men to display His power and glory. I saw and read about men that manifested the possibilities of God. I only saw ladies walking around half naked, twerking, or living immoral lives.
I wonder whether God is gender biased.
Has He given up on the ladies in this generation and no longer interested in using them? Can He still use women?
Then I went to church one evening. The message title was "Carrying the Presence".
I watched as my spiritual father called out two men and prayed for them. I kept watching. He called out another man and prayed for him. I started crying. I said, “I have always suspected that God want to use only men. God are you truly gender biased?”
Apostle walked towards us and pointed out at the man next to me and prayed for him. The more he called out men, the more I cried. He came to where I was sitting and skipped me again and pointed to yet another man beside me. At this point I broke down and screamed, “God, why only men? Why only them? Can't you use us too? Can't you use women too? If you are not gender biased, if you can use women, use me, even me too.”
Immediately my spiritual father looked at me, then he signalled me to come. I met him and he told me, "WAIT FOR ME AT THE ALTAR"
I went to the Altar and waited. I waited for quite some time because he went around praying for other people. When he returned to the altar, I was still waiting. He then laid his hands on my head and my life changed.
That day I got the answer to my question. Can God use women? The answer to that question is "WAIT AT THE ALTAR"
Yes! God can use women too. God is interested is using women as powerfully as He is using great men of God but women must be willing to "WAIT AT THE ALTAR"
The Altar here refers to the secret place.
Dear woman, God want to use you too but you must be willing to wait for Him in the secret place. The anointing of our spouses, spiritual father's and prayer worriors may carry us awhile but if we desire full measure, we too must pay the price of waiting.
Many women are not willing to wait. Some started waiting but they left before He came. When my spiritual father told me to wait at the altar, he didn't come to the altar immediately, he took a while. Imagine if I got tired and left? Unfortunately many ladies have left the altar, because they were expecting what they were waiting for to come immediately and it didn't.
God is still interested in raising mighty women. God is still interested in using women like he used Deborah, Esther, Kathryn Kuhlman, Aimee McPherson, Maria Etter and the likes. But women must wait. They must wait, wait in the place of prayer. They must tarry in prayers, wait in the place of fasting, and wait in the place of studying the word of God.
We women may wait for long hours in the salon for a hairstyle of our choice. If we can take pain to wait for the things that beautify the flesh, we can take even greater pain to wait for hours in the place of prayer, until an anointing comes on our heads that will make the world look at us and see God's grace. If we can patiently wait for a make-up when it becomes necessary just to change our appearance, we can wait more in the place of studying the Word of God and behold His face until our appearance is changed to look like Him. We can wait in the place of fasting and intercession, until we turn the souls of men from sin to Jesus.
Let's wait at the Altar. Let’s lay ourselves on the Altar and wait as a sacrifice until His fire comes and purify us. Then His glory and power will emit from us like a smoke and fill our world.
So "CAN GOD USE WOMEN TOO?" Yes! God can use women too, God can use us too but "WE MUST BE WILLING TO WAIT AT THE ALTAR"
