WELCOME!

My name is Kim Lazarus and I am the creator of TheVOICEof...AGodlyWoman. I would like to thank you for taking this opportunity to read and learn more about A Godly Woman, Inc. and how we might be a blessing to you.

Brief Background

While going through some transition in my life, I decided that it was time for me to grow in my spiritual walk and in my knowledge of the Lord. I knew I was saved and trying to live Holy but I was doing it all as a babe. It was time for me to grow up if I was going to become a productive part of the kingdom. To me that meant I had to study God's word so that I might be able to have confidence in knowing that I would be equipped to share the good news of Christ with others so that they could come to know him as I do. After all that is what we are here for.

So, here I am reading more, collecting books, taking notes, etc. Okay great. Now I don't want to fool anyone into thinking that God came out of nowhere and appeared to me and said "Kim, I want you to build a website." Sorry, it wasn't like that at all.

The vision was put before my eyes doing what it is that I do everyday! I am a graphic designer and I build websites for a living. That is a gift that God has given me. While I was practicing some of my Photoshop techniques I thought it would be helpful for me to have a product or name to put on my practice design. Well while working, I was meditating on the things that I was learning in my studies so I just applied the concept of A Godly Woman to the design that is sitting on my computer screen. And "Voilla". There it is. So to further develop the site I use the notes from my studies and."Voilla" again. I'm on my way. It was about a week before I realized that the information I had been studying, presented in the format it was now in, could be used as a ministry tool to help others who might be studying in the same areas as me. So the vision was conceived.

This newsletter is just an extension of that vision.

Moving Forward

It's been about six months in the making now, and I'm still working through the details, but I have been given the blessing of my husband and pastor to move forward. I really believe that this is more than a good thing, but that it’s a God thing. I have been truly blessed by the information and I am confident that you will be too. I invite you to take the opportunity to review the website, let it be a tool to assist you in your own personal studies and share what God reveals to you with a friend.

Be Blessed!

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The mission of the website AGodlyWoman.com is to have a medium in which to share with as many women as possible the concept of what it really means to be "A Godly Woman" and the impact that working towards such a title can have on our everyday lives. The goal is to inspire women to be all that they can be IN THE LORD because having success in this one area spreads success throughout all that you do. God's word says in Joshua 1:8, "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success."

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One of the challenges in my faith walk, and I don’t think I’m alone, has been how to know when I have a vision from God for an area of my life. I often asked myself, how do I see God’s vision for me.

Time and study have taught me that to see the vision that God has for your life, you must set aside your way of seeing and ascribe to God's way of seeing. Most people at some point in their lives tell themselves, "I know what I'm doing." Guess what? If God isn't in it, you don't have a clue.

Proverbs 14:12 reads, "The ways of a man seemeth right but it leads to a path of destruction" and we should all know that destruction is NOT the vision!
Now once we recognize that our ideas that did not come from God are not the vision for our lives, how do we open ours eyes to the true vision? Well simply stated: Turn on the light. God's word says that Jesus is the light. Accept Jesus as your personal Savior and you've just taken the first step to seeing the real vision for your life!

Now as we are on this journey called life, the Lord presents several things to us. Most times the problem is that we either don't see them at all because we are too busy looking at other things OR we see it and we don't believe that it is for us. (or we don't want to accept it as our own) Then you may ask, How do we begin to clear up this picture? Well I say we put it to the test.

My pastor calls the following three principles the “Rules to God's Vision Game”.

1. If I can't see Christ in what I do - It is not the Vision!
2. If I can't worship God in what I do - It is not the Vision!
3. Following God's ORDER gives me Authority in the Vision game!

I translate #3 like this: If you know that you are living by the principles and guidelines that God has established, you will have confidence in acting on the vision that God has set before you. That is the authority!

Some real life applications to give you an idea of what we are really talking about. I'll use relationships in my examples since that is something that should be able to hit home with most women.

Example #1 - Do you have a vision to be married but it just doesn't seem to be happening? Maybe you've been dating the same guy for a few years now and he just doesn't seem to be ready to settle down. Well answer this: Before dating this man did you present yourself as "A Godly Woman" that desires to be in the Godly union of marriage? Does this relationship line up with God’s order for your life? If not, your husband might be right around the corner waiting for you to get out of this disorderly relationship because it is NOT the vision!

Example #2 - Maybe you are dating Mr. Right and he has asked you to marry him but you aren't ready because you are fearful that he is going to hurt you or cheat on you like your high school sweetheart did. The vision is right there in front of you but you don't have enough faith to step out on because you are stuck in the things that you’ve seen in the past and aren't willing to forgive. It’s easy to get stuck in hindsight, or past vision, and not be able to receive the vision that God has for your present and your future. If this is you then it is time to let go and move on.

If you fall into either one of the scenarios or maybe something else, it sounds like it is time to apply some of the principles of being A Godly Woman to your life so that the vision can be clarified for you.

Jesus says in John 9:39 that we must be blind so that we might see, and those that think they already see (without Him) will be blind. It is time to concede that you don't have all the answers and be renewed in your mind by the word of God. Through him and his word the vision will be made plain. It is then that you will be able to act on it and have the victory!

Written by Kim Lazarus