She Is Strong - Proverbs 31:10 - 31

Contemporary Service

Opening Worship - Jesus Does

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Welcome

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Worship - Who You Say I am

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                How He Loves

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                How Deep The Father’s Love For Us

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Teaching - She Is Strong - Proverbs 31:10 - 31

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Closing Song - Pass It On

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Traditional Service

Prelude

 

Call To Worship - Choir - He Is Exalted - 36

 

Blessing Of Tithes And Offerings, Doxology

 

Welcome And Announcements - Bob Coffman - Worship Leader

 

Joys And Concerns

 

Hymn - The Longer I Serve Him - 520

 

Special - Jesus Does - Lexi Weeks

 

Sermon - She Is Strong - Proverbs 31:10-31

 

Closing Hymn - Sanctuary - 655

 

Carrying The Light To The World

 

Benediction

Sermon Outline

She Is Strong 

Proverbs 31:10–31

I. What We've Done to Proverbs 31

a. Every Mother's Day, someone reads Proverbs 31.

b. And every Mother's Day, half the women in the room feel quietly exhausted by it.

c. Because the way we've preached it, Proverbs 31 is a job description. A checklist.

d. A standard that no one quite meets.

e. She rises before dawn.

f. She manages the household.

g. She's an entrepreneur, a nutritionist, a seamstress, a real estate investor, and a theologian — all before breakfast.

h. And we read it over the mothers in our lives and say, essentially: 'More of this, please.’

i. I want to suggest this morning that we've been reading it wrong.

j. Not wrong about what it says. Wrong about what it means.

k. Proverbs 31 isn't a checklist. It's a battle hymn.

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II. The Word That Changes Everything

a. “Eshet chayil”— Bigger than 'excellent'. It means valor. It means strength.

b. Chayil. That word appears over 240 times in the Old Testament.

c. In Judges 11, Jephthah is called a gibbowr chayil — a mighty warrior.

d. In 1 Samuel 14, Saul's army is called chayil.

e. In 2 Samuel 23, David's elite fighters are called his chayil.

f. Her Strength Is Active, Not Passive

g. Her Strength Is Outward, Not Self-Protective

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III. The Dignity She Extends

a. Her strength is also verbal. She speaks. She teaches.

b. That is not small work. That is legacy work.

c. Her Strength Is Rooted, Not Performed

d. Here is the ground of everything. This poem is not about a woman who is strong because she is naturally capable or well-organized or gifted.

e. It is about a woman whose strength flows from her fear of the LORD.

f. Her chayil comes from her relationship to God. Not from her willpower. Not from her discipline. Not from the right morning routine. From her fear of the LORD.

g. Charm and Beauty Fail. Fear of the LORD Holds.

h. She is not anxious about the future because she is rooted in something that the future cannot take from her. That is not naïve optimism. That is grounded confidence. Warrior confidence.