Women's Fellowship

Women's Fellowship is a teaching series in which the women learn from God's Word and enjoy biblical fellowship with one another. This year, we will be going through lessons centered around the theme, “Daily Choices for Godly Living.”

God has given us the freedom to make choices that glorify Him and thus, every decisions we make are important! Through His grace, we can make choices according to His Word that lead to living wholeheartedly for Him, and there is much joy in the decisions. We hope that through these lessons, women will learn to make choices based upon truth rather than emotions, experiences, or wants so that God would be most glorified!

Come join us once a month on Sundays at 11 AM after worship service for a sweet time learning together from God’s Word about how we can be women who make daily choices that honor God!

We continued our Women’s Fellowship series titled “Daily Choices for Godly Living” and had the joy of hearing Michelle teach a lesson titled “To Hinder the Spirit or To Let Him Work.” In our lives, we are either hindering the Holy Spirit or yielding to Him to work through us, and the choice to yield to the Spirit is one of the many important choices that we make in our daily lives. 

Michelle began the lesson by setting a foundation of who the Holy Spirit is and His role in the born-again believer, such as regeneration (Titus 3:5), indwelling (1 Corinthians 6:19-20), baptism (Luke 3:16), sealing (Ephesians 1:14-15), and filling. Among these functions, only the fifth requires our involvement which is to yield to the Holy Spirit’s control. 

Expositing Galatians 5:16-25, Michelle taught us there is a clear distinction when one is either living by the flesh or living by the Spirit, as they are diametrically opposed to each other. Although Christians have been born again into a new nature (2 Corinthians 5:17), the corpse of the old nature—the flesh—can still influence us if we allow it to. Michelle walked us through three key areas of our lives in which we can choose to live by the flesh or to live by the Spirit: the mind, the heart, and the will.

First, the mind of fleshliness is focused on the things that are hostile to God (Romans 8:5-9), which includes our priorities, worldview, and value system. However, the mind of the Spirit submits all of these things underneath God’s authority by genuinely loving what God loves. Second, the heart of fleshliness is set against the will of God (Galatians 5:17) and manifests in a rejection of Him not just in our outward actions, but also in our inward attitudes of independence and purposelessness. On the other hand, the heart of the Spirit earnestly and zealously desires God’s will, knowing it is the absolute best. Third, the will of fleshliness manifests out of a fleshly mind and heart and makes choices based on the flesh, whereas the will of the Spirit allows the Word of Christ to dwell richly within the mind and the heart (Colossians 3:16-17).

Praise God that He has given us His Spirit to empower us to be able to make good, godly choices and that we can make the simple choice to let the Spirit work in our lives rather than hindering His work! 

“I don’t feel like loving this person today.” Have you ever had this thought before? While the world around us and even many Christians may think that love is just a feeling, the reality is that to love is a choice! Choosing to be selfish or to love is a choice that matters in the eyes of God and has spiritual impact. How can we choose to love God and to love others in light of God’s choice to sacrifice His Son for us? Come learn how we can make the consistent choice to choose to love at our next Women’s Fellowship lesson titled “To Be Selfish or To Love.”

The lesson will be streamed live on Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 11 AM PST.