Characteristics of a Chayil Woman -- Awe

She Awakened to the Awe of God

Bob Proctor,  from the series, The Secret, say that we hear with our ears, but we listen with our emotions. It is like the difference between respect and reverence. We respect with the mind, but reverence is woven into the emotions leaving you with a sense of personal wonder and awe. It overwhelms, swallows and engulfs you. Reverence creates AWE. And AWE takes our breath away.

Awe is born out of a divine encounter which morphs what you are. It is not a change. It is a complete reworking of your inner being. 

Proverbs 31:30, says that Chayil was a woman that feared the Lord. She had come alive to the knowledge of her own insignificance; yet she was aware that she was infinitely loved by God. 

The first characteristic of a true Chayil woman is realizing her value to God. It is the awareness that she has a place in the universe by God’s own doing. She knows that regardless of what circumstances she might face in life, the solution has already been crafted.

The flip side of the coin of reverence is  Godly fear. Not fear as in being afraid, but a fear rooted in being accountable for what you have been given and an extreme fear of the one who gave it to you.

It is a fear that knows one day you will have to give an account of how you spent your TALENTS. We are all expected to produce something out of what has been placed in us. God wants fruit out of our lives. He will come looking for how we manifested our PURPOSE / WITH / PURITY / AND POWER.

A Chayil Woman is alive to the AWE of GOD. She Fears with HONOR her LORD and responds with HOLINESS in HEART. And she is inclined to manifest it in her life.

AWAKENING to the AWE of GOD is the topic of the next episode of Better Life With Stella.