Devotionals For Women: 31 Days To Deeper Faith

By Vida Li Sik

Are you deeply rooted in the scriptures? Dig into the Bible by taking a month-long devotional journey to deepen your faith. Find women in the Bible you can learn from by applying the lessons from their lives to your own today. You will have time to reflect, focus your prayers and decide on the practical action to draw you closer to God and to others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vida Li Sik
• Release date: Aug 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393045878

Vida Li Sik

Vida Li Sik is a wife, mother, award-winning journalist and multi-genre author. She grew up in a small town, Nigel, in sunny South Africa. Together with her family, she is actively involved in a youth and family ministry in Johannesburg, the City of Gold. She has no pets and has yet to find a weird and wonderful hobby. In the meantime, she loves to write about people, real ones and imagined.  For updates, contact Vida through her website: https://www.vidalisik.com/ or on social media. She would love to hear from you. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vidalswriter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidalisik Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidalisik

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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I’d like to thank the women who walk with me in our efforts to deepen our faith and relationship with God.

Thank you to the women who graciously posed for the cover pictures. You are awesome.

A special note of thanks goes out to Irene Renton for her inspirational example in life and for her editorial input; and to Karen Suchecki for her copy editing skills that helped shape numerous drafts. You are stars.

Thank you also to author Francine Beaton for her tireless support and encouragement. You are my hero.

FOREWORD

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The Bible is full of stories of men of great faith. But it is also brimming with stories of remarkable women. Few are mentioned by name, and only two have had books named after them. They were women just like us; wives, sisters, mothers, daughters, businesswomen or homemakers. They lived by faith, trusting God with the outcome of their actions. We have the benefit of time, more than 2000 years, to see how life turned out for them. Vida is a woman of God who has devoted herself to the study of these women. She has gleaned lessons from their stories that she has applied to her own life, and graciously shared with others as well. Vida is an excellent example of a woman who is striving to be all that she can be for God. My hope is that as you read the devotionals you will be inspired to be your best for God.

Irene Renton, Women’s Ministry Leader, Johannesburg Church of Christ, South Africa.

Anna – An uncommon faith

READING: Luke 2:36-38

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Take a moment and add 50 years to your current age. Think about what you would look like. Would you still have your own teeth and be able to see? How mobile would you be, where would you be living and what would you be doing? Anna became a widow when very young, after only seven years of marriage. She expressed her faith and love for God in uncommon worship (by living in the temple and worshipping day and night) for the rest of her life.

A modern example for me, is Mama K who has lived a long life and was baptised into Christ at the age of 102. She was in the group of 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1956 to protest against the pass laws. She’s lived a long life and has seen many things. Yet, nothing pleases her more than to listen to God’s word and to sing songs of praise. That is truly an uncommon life. And then, there is you. There is no-one else like you. You’re one-of-a-kind, an original. Your unique life experiences, strengths and weaknesses make you uncommon. Genesis 1:27 says you were made in the image of God.

He is an uncommon God who:

Wants to have a relationship with what he has created.

Chose an uncommon way to reconcile us to him. He had sent his only son, to die a horrible death for those who lived as his enemies.

He chose forgiveness over retribution, mercy rather than punishment and love rather than hate.

He made salvation