Day 5: Girls Devo

Day 5 - Genesis 3:14-19

WORD: Consequences 

Female characters 

Eve

Genesis 3:14-19

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” 

Additional Reading:

Ephesians 5:22-24

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Observations

Oh the things that happen when we sin. I find in interesting that God gives judgement in the opposite order that they blamed one another. To the woman he increase her pain in childbirth, but also he gives us the ability to forget the pain.  My first child was not your ideal pregnancy.  She was premature and I had her by C-section.  By God's grace and love our lives were both saved.  Three years later I was ready to try for another child and 4 1/2 years after my daughter, my son was born as a V-back baby. He was only 9 days early.  Another consequence of Eve sin was her husband was to rule over her.  There is comfort in submitting to our husbands.  For one it means we have a husband,  if you doubt this ask a single girlfriend or the one that longs to be engaged to their boyfriend.  I am not saying everyone has to be married, I am just saying it is a blessing to be married.  God has a plan for all women single or married we are all loved in his sight.  Also there is comfort in submitting to a husband because they provide us with protection, kind of like an umbrella. Keep a pin in this second one because we will show examples of it in days ahead.  

Ponder this

How would your life change if you submitted to your husband?  Is your church submitting to Christ?  What if your church was submitting to Christ? 

Just for fun

Play a board game, either physical board or electronic.  

Day 4: Girls Devo

Day 4 - Genesis 3:12-13

WORD: BLAME

Female characters 

Eve

Genesis 3:12-13

The man said, “The woman you put here with me–she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Additional Reading:

2 Corinthians 11:1-3

I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that. I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Observations

I have to stop and control my laughter every time I read these two verses. Working with teenagers I see this scenario all the time. The his/she made me do it reasoning.  

Adam = it was the women you gave me

Eve = the serpent made me do it. 

And there was no reason to ask the serpent we all know why he did it. 

This has been going on sense the beginning of time. 

Ponder this

When you sin who do you blame? Do you admit to your wrong doing or blame the nearest person or thing? God is faithful and just and will forgive if only we can stop blaming other and just admit to our sins for what they are. 

Just for fun

Have a solo dance party

Day 3: Girls Devo

Day 3 - Genesis 3:7-11

WORD: HIDE

Female characters 

Eve

Genesis 3:7-11

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? ”

Additional Reading:

Genesis 2:25

The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Observations

I find it interesting that they realize they were naked. It was just Adam and Eve so why did it matter.  Did they think the animals cared? Or maybe God cared? Why was it so important for them to be clothed. It wasn't until they sinned and their eyes were open that they felt shame about their nakedness. 

And why did God ask where they were? He is God he knew. If you search scripture God asks these type of questions. He know the answers he just wants to hear it from us.  

Ponder this

Are you trying to hide from God?  Stop because there is no where to hid he is everywhere and know everything. There is no possible way to hide. 

Just for fun

Read a good book or at least start on.  

Day 2: Girl Devo

Day 2 - Genesis 3:1-6

WORD: Word

Female characters 

Eve

Genesis 3:1-6

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”“You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Additional Reading:

Genesis 2:16-17

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

Observations

The serpent was smart he know what to say to tempt Eve. He used a little truth and added more. We need to know the words of God to stand up to Satan and his lies. Even as I start uploading this devotional I realize that Satan know what to use against me.  He uses my fears to make me doubt what I am doing.  I have wanted to write a devotional for a long time.  I have even started several but the fear of doubt has stopped me for actually doing any thing with them.  This one I start this one in Oct 2018 and keep pushing off the launch date.  I need to be secure in Christ and his word and move pass my fears and trust in him to help me through my fears. 

In Matthew 4 is the temptation of Christ. 

Jesus was tempted 3 times and each time he used scripture to respond to Satan. 

Deuteronomy 8:3 - live on the word of God 

Deuteronomy 6:16 - don't tempt God

Deuteronomy 6:13 - only worship God

Ponder this

How well do you know the Word of God?  This is how we fend off Satan and the temptation of this world. We need to be intimate with His word. It should be the closest relationship we have in life. Reflect on your life where do you stand?

Just for fun

Call a friend up and go for a walk. 

Day 1 Girls Devo

Day 1 - Genesis 2:20-25

WORD: Rib

Female characters 

Eve

Genesis 2:20-25

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.  The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Additional Reading:

Ephesians 5:25-33

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church– for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery–but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Observations:

Eve was made from Adam. They were made to be together. God stated from the beginning the relationship of a marriage is one man and one woman who was made from Adam. We were made to complete one another. Our body complete one another. The reproduction system only works naturally together as man and women to produce a child. 

Ponder this:

Do males still have one less rib?   

Just for fun:

Set time every week to do something just for yourself.  I will be giving you  ideas each day of things you can do.