Daughter Of The Most High

The beautiful title a woman can have at any time of her life is ‘daughter’. She can rise up to any level with any impressive titles in her whole life. But ‘daughter’ is the title that assures her security, comfort, hope and belonging.

When you are confident that you are not only called but are treated compassionately by someone in that title, you have all the assurance there!

We read in the gospels (Matthew 9/Mark 5/Luke 8) of an unknown woman who had lived with continual bleeding in her body for 12 years. She had gone to one doctor after another - and they had fleeced her of all her savings. Her sickness was an embarrassing one, classified as "Haemorrhage". She must have been weak and anaemic from all the blood loss. Many a night she had wet her pillow with her tears pleading and asking God to heal her. She had been waiting eagerly for the Messiah to come to deliver Israel from all its sorrows. But for twelve years there had been no answer.

But one day, her life changed. There was someone who compassionately called her. “Daughter, your faith has made you well”.

She was living in shame

She was living in loss

She was living in rejection

She was living in disappointment

She was living in no hope

ARISE FROM WHAT HELD YOU DOWN

Every woman has gone through battles—some visible, some silent.

Disappointments- various reasons, not having what was expected

Betrayals- deceived, ignored, cornered

Delays- have been on waiting with no end

Comparison- others have so much

Emotional wounds- emotional pains that was caused by others

Seasons where you didn’t feel valued or seen

But God declares: “Arise.”

To arise means:

• Get up from where life tried to keep you

• Step out of the labels people put on you

• Shake off shame, guilt, and fear

• Stand in the strength God gives

A woman who decides to rise cannot be stopped by her past.

Remember Hannah—years of tears, yet she arose to pray, and God turned her sorrow into testimony. (1 Samuel 1)

Remember Esther—an orphan who arose into royalty and saved a nation.

When a woman rises, hell trembles.

ARISE IN YOUR IDENTITY

One of the enemy’s greatest attacks against women is identity confusion.

He wants you to believe:

You are not enough- far below than others

You are too broken- messed up life/ wounded

You are too late- wasted a long years

You are too flawed- fundamentally weak or imperfect

But God speaks differently:

“You are chosen, anointed, appointed, set apart, and called for such a time as this.”

You are not defined by—

your mistakes- failures of the past

the opinions of people- what others say about you.

your upbringing- the way you were brought up

your trauma- deeply disturbing experiences

your age- many years gone by/ or too younger to think about

your marital status

You are defined by God’s Word.

When the Samaritan woman met Jesus, she came to the well filled with shame. But after encountering Him, she arose as an evangelist. Her identity shifted. She understood who she was in God’s eyes.

Sisters, your identity is not in what you have done.

Your identity is in what He has already done.

In Luke 13, we read of an invalid woman. This one had been afflicted by some strange ailment for 18 years, that bent her body downwards, so that she could not walk erect. But she ignored the pain and the disability and went faithfully to the meetings every week.

It was good that she did not miss the meeting this sabbath day, because this was the day that God had planned for her healing. She had been bound by Satan for many long years. Her utterly hopeless condition made her walk like an animal. That is what the devil makes of his victims (Luke 13:11-13). All those 18 years, she must have wept as she walked down the streets, bearing the taunts of children who made fun of her. She was unable to look up. But her heart waited for her God to deliver her. She may have been an object of pity to others.

But even this can make one weep. Some children may have been frightened by her warped, wrinkled appearance. She must have cried out to God on many a night, asking for freedom from the evil curse that the devil had put on her. Then Jesus came and set her free.

Jesus saw her in the synagogue and called her out to the front and spoke those wonderful, liberating words, "Woman you are freed." Now she could look straight up to heaven and praise her Father Who had set her free.

Those words have now come down to you through twenty centuries: "WOMAN YOU ARE FREED" (Luke 13:12).