Stories of how God meets women

A personal highlight during my training courses is creating a story set. A story set consists of 4-10 stories, which are either told one after the other or build on each other visit after visit. A group of women once compiled the following stories with my methodical support. I later added various other things and added a panorama/summary.

Abraham, Sarah and Hagar Gen 16:1-16

Hagar and Ishmael must leave Gen 21:1-21

Ruth

Hannah's desire to have children 1 Samuel 1+2,18-21

David and Bathsheba 2 Samuel 11:1-27

David and Nathan 2 Samuel 12:1-25, the two stories belong together

Job's wife

A song of praise for the energetic woman Proverbs 31:10-31

Mary and Martha and the resurrection of Lazarus Luke 10:38-42; John 10, you can also focus only on the first story, emphasis on Martha is not focused.

The woman at the well John 4:5-19:25-30:42

The woman who anointed Jesus Luke 7:36-50

Miracle for a woman and a daughter Luke 8:40-53, you can also leave out the part about the raising of the daughter

The unshakeable faith of a foreign woman Matthew 15:21-28

Women as witnesses of Jesus' death and resurrection Luke 23:26-56, Mark 16:1-7, Luke 24:36-47

Priscilla

Panorama of how women encounter God

Ideas:

Isaac & Rebecca's relationships influencing Esau & Jacob Genesis 25:19-34; 27; 28

Rachel & Leah's struggle for the love of a man Genesis 29; 30:1-24;

Jacob's preferential treatment of his children Genesis 38

In future blog posts, I will also present a story set from time to time. You can find all the material with formulated stories in my handbook "Stories and Oral Bibles" under https://www.fivefingerfood.org/en_us/download/. As my handbook continues to grow, I can only give the current page, page 233, but this will change. Otherwise, check the table of contents under "Marriage and Family Focus: How God meets women" The photo was taken by https://www.freebibleimages.org, a free super resource for Bible photos or drawings.

Panorama of how women encounter God

In the beginning, God created man and woman in his image and likeness. They had a perfect personal relationship with God until they disobeyed God, the relationship broke down and disobedience and sin entered the world. Despite our imperfect and sinful lives, God wants to restore this relationship with us. He desires a personal relationship with you and wants to meet you in every phase of your life. He sees you and loves you. We see this so often in Scripture, where true stories show God's true love for us.

Let me give you a few examples. Hagar, a maidservant of Sarah and Abraham, gave birth to Abraham when Sarah was unable to have a child. That is why she was sent to a foreign land, and it was very difficult for her. God heard her cries and saw her pain and blessed her and her child.

We also see in the story of Hannah how she wept year after year and begged God to bless her with a son because she had no children. Although she and her husband were very religious, they remained childless. One day, Hannah promised God in prayer that she would give him a son if he gave her one. God answered her prayer and blessed her with a son.

Then God sent Jesus as our Savior to show us the true way to God. He was born of the Virgin Mary. God sent angels to tell Mary and her fiancé Joseph who Jesus was. Although she was afraid, she trusted that God would take care of her. After Jesus' birth, many people came to see him, but the king at the time wanted to kill him, but God protected Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus.

Jesus came and performed many miracles and forgave sins to point us to God. There was a woman with a hemorrhage whom no doctor had been able to help for 12 years. But when she heard that Jesus was in town, she pushed her way through the crowd, touched the hem of his garment and was instantly healed.

In another story, a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery was brought before Jesus. The religious leaders were determined to condemn the woman and stone her to death. Although according to the law both the man and the woman were to be condemned, only the woman was brought to be stoned. Jesus said to the group: "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone. None of them could throw the first stone, so each of them went, starting with the oldest. Jesus said to the woman, "None of your accusers has remained, and I do not condemn you; go in peace and sin no more."

In another situation, when Jesus was in the house of a religious leader and everyone felt uncomfortable, a sinful woman came to Jesus. The woman had a bottle of expensive perfume with her and poured it on Jesus because it was traditional to anoint and honor him with it. The woman wept at Jesus' feet because she had so much sin in her life and only Jesus could forgive her. The crowd was amazed at her behavior, but Jesus said to her: "Your sins are forgiven. Your faith has saved you.

I like these true stories because Jesus came to give the unseen the feeling of being seen and the unheard the feeling of being heard. He came to heal us physically, emotionally and spiritually by taking away the burdens and sins that separate us from God. He is the Savior who had to die for our sins, rose from the dead and can establish a personal relationship with God in his name. He invites us.