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Day Seven: Widen Your Circle

Now that we reached the end of our journey, I want to offer one last important concept as encouragement. By this time, I pray our Heavenly Father has brought you either one special Sister in Christ to share life or you have asked for a group of individuals and formed a Sisters in Christ community. Whichever way you asked for our Heavenly Father to fill your sisterhood gap, I pray you have established your group’s guidelines to keep your relationship centered on Christ and biblical values.

That leaves me with the last important element of a true Sisters in Christ relationship that I want to share – the blessing of widening your circle. Titus 2 is a wonderful example of the benefits of taking the gifts you have learned with your Sister in Christ and choosing to share them with others. This passage in the Bible is a wonderful guideline for how older women can teach younger women. It’s not strictly referring to women older than others in age; it also applies to women who are further along on their spiritual journey compared to believers who have recently prayed the prayer of salvation. It says, “Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”

I want to encourage you. If you are a Christ-follower who chooses to live in a growing relationship with Jesus, then you are qualified. All it takes to widen your circle and encourage “younger women” is:

·Reading your Bible regularly

·Making prayer a priority (meaning choosing to talk to God daily)

·Being teachable

·Following and being willing to share the principles you learn from God’s Word during your everyday life

·Attending weekly services in a Bible-believing church

·Thanking God for the encouragement you receive from the mentor in your life.

To encourage a woman younger than you in age or spiritually means being willing to do life together. As you share about your life and what God’s doing in it, then she feels comfortable to share about her life. Doing life together will give plenty of opportunities, naturally, to encourage her to find the answer in God’s Word herself, support her by regularly praying with her and for her, and lead by example as you walk out the biblical principles you choose to live by. Doing life together helps us to grow our spiritual walk through relationships that honor God and help shine His love on those who need it most.

If you still haven’t found your Sister in Christ yet, don’t lose hope. It took a little while for God to fulfill that longing in my life. In the meantime, keep growing your relationship with God Himself so that you will be ready for the Sister in Christ He handpicks for you! Trust me, it will be worth the wait!

Was this plan helpful? We adapted this plan from Sisters in Christ: How to Defeat the Enemy One Powerful Prayer at a Time.