Oh, When a Woman Says ‘Yes’!

Oh, When a Woman Says ‘Yes’!

The beginning of the Old Testament and that of the New Testament introduce man, woman, and marriage.

 

This is no simple coincidence!

 

God is always intentional. He knows exactly what He is doing and why He did it.

 

As my Father was going to correct and restore the friction between humanity and Himself, He made sure also to include marriage in the process! Ayaa!

 

There is something similar between the women in both marriages: the Word of God.

 

Eve received the Word of God and Mary also received the Word of God. But a comparative look at both women reveals what both did with the Word of God!

 

To one, it birthed rebellion and separation from God, and to the other, it birthed favour and the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit.

 

In Genesis, we see that Eve heard the Word of God. She knew what God had said, what He had told her family. They were to eat of anything in the garden, BUT of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were not to eat it.

 

The serpent came and, in a matter of a few words, convinced her that the forbidden fruit was beneficial to her and that God was hiding what was beneficial from her. 

Ah!

She fell for the deceit, believed the lie, and lost God’s face.

 

She, whom the Lord had called ‘very good’ became the one who brought the world into darkness!

 

What she was deceived to do was not just to eat the forbidden fruit. What truly happened was that Eve believed the serpent over God. In doing so, she treated God’s Word as untrue and His command as withholding good from her. 

 

She said NO to God!

 

Eve was deceived away from depending on God.

 

She was deceived away from looking to God for answers.

 

She was deceived away from having oneness with her husband.

 

She was deceived away from fulfilling her role as Adam’s helpmeet.

 

Eve was deceived away from the opportunity to bear children for in the ‘kind’ of God.

 

Eve was deceived into an exchange of God’s glorious covering for rags.

 

Eve lost everything!

 

Then came Matthew.

 

Matthew reveals a woman called Mary, betrothed to Joseph, soon to be married.

 

In Luke’s gospel, we are told what really transpired and led to her being pregnant by the Holy Spirit. She had an angelic visit. She had found God’s favour. She was to carry God in her virgin womb, and there was no profit, no stated gain other than being called favoured. The process was that the Holy Spirit would overshadow her, and that was it.

 

That was all.

 

To Mary, it meant losing Joseph.

 

It meant losing her virtuous standing before all Israel.

 

It meant being rejected by her family and community.

 

It meant being stoned to death.

 

If she lived, it meant a painful and gruesome childbirth since she was a virgin and would be alone without Joseph.

 

It meant that she would raise a son in a system that looked down on the kind of woman she would become in society.

 

Yet, in a simple word, in just a short moment, without having to go seek counsels, she said yes to the angel, without delay and without deliberation, “Let it be to me just as you have said.”

Mary said YES to God!

 

Mary said yes to God-dependence.

 

She chose to give her life to Him to use as He pleased.

 

She had little understanding of the intentions of God’s heart, yet Mary said yes.

 

What about what others cared about?

 

Mary said yes to God’s plans for her life.

 

Mary said yes to the reproach that could follow.

 

Mary said yes to heaven’s will over her life, even if it meant death.

Wow!!!!

And because Mary took God at His Word, because Mary judged the Lord faithful and TRUE; because she called the plan of God better than all her own plans put together, she became the vessel through which Life entered the world.

 

Eve’s reception of God’s Word was no different from Mary’s.

 

God did not speak to them directly.

 

To Eve, He sent Adam.

 

To Mary, He sent an angel.

 

Yet they received the Word differently.

 

It was the posture of their hearts!!!

 

One heart despised God and the other trembled before Him.

 

One was submissive to God and the other was haughty toward Him.

 

Mary received the Word with trembling because she had prepared her will before God’s Word ever came. Eve did not have the will to tremble at the Word that had been spoken to her, so she yielded to deception and forfeited it.

 

This is the same reason many women today are in church, yet their hearts are far from Him, because they have not resolved in their hearts to submit to God and let Him lead their lives.

 

The Word of God in them has not produced anything fruitful because it never had the chance to produce God’s life in them.

 

It remains knowledge, and because they resist the truth in that knowledge, it produces death in them.

 

The Scriptures say, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).

 

Rejecting the Word of God is rejecting life itself. The Holy Spirit is that life being rejected!

 

The Tree of Life that Eve rejected was the Holy Spirit. But the humble submission to God’s Word brought Mary into an experience of the Spirit resting upon her, overshadowing her and forming a ‘holy Thing’ in her. 

 

The rate of rebellion in the church is alarming. Among women who profess Jesus as Lord and Saviour, many allow Him to work only as Saviour and not as Lord. This is seen in selective obedience to the Word of God. The Word does not govern their lives. Instead, they bend it to suit their desires.

 

The truth is that, as in Eve, the fear of God is missing, and rebellion has taken root. It is only the woman who fears the Lord who will tremble at His Word. It is the woman who is willing to yield who would have the Word birth life in her.

 

Therefore, any woman who would be biblical must first learn to tremble at the Word of God and choose submission over rebellion. This is the woman governed by the Spirit, who brings life and peace, not the desires of the flesh (Romans 8:6).

 

This woman is quickened in her mortal body to say yes to God at all times because the Word has become Spirit in her (Romans 8:11). He governs her, leads her, and she is fruitful by His power. She knows that the only truth that should guide her life is found in the spoken and written Word.

The deceiver will always come. But the Scriptures say those who belong to Christ recognize His voice. They will not follow a stranger but will run from him. When deception comes with ideas of rebellion, she discerns it and insists on God’s way. His ways lead to stealing, killing, and destroying (John 10:5–10).

 

Eve lent her womb to the serpent’s agenda by refusing God’s Word. 

 

Mary yielded her womb to the purposes of God by saying yes to the Word. 

 

One birthed darkness, the other light. 

 

One birthed death, the other life.

 

One was deceived by the serpent, the other became part of the fulfillment of the promise that crushed him.

 

One listened and yielded. The other heard and surrendered.

 

One opened the door to rebellion. The other made room for redemption.

 

One agreed with a voice that questioned God. The other aligned with a Word that revealed God.

 

A biblical woman sees this pattern and understands that if she must birth seeds that will crush the seed of the serpent, she must say yes to the Lord.

 

She understands that her womb is not merely a physical vessel but a place of spiritual stewardship. What she yields to will determine what she carries, what she nurtures, and what she releases into the earth.

 

If she yields to rebellion, she will reproduce it. If she yields to the Spirit, she will bring forth life.

 

This is why her greatest responsibility is not outward performance but inward surrender. Her yes to God is not casual. It is deliberate, it is costly, and it is continuous.

 

She guards her heart. She guards her ears. She guards the voices she entertains. Because she knows that every voice she agrees with is a seed.

 

And in time, every seed will find expression.

 

So she chooses carefully. She yields fully. She says yes quickly.

 

And in her, through her, and from her, life flows.

 

PRAY WITH ME

Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I come before You today and I lay my life upon Your altar. I refuse rebellion. I reject every voice that has contended with Your Word in my heart. I silence every whisper that has said, “Did God really say?” and I align myself fully with Your truth.

Father, let Your fear be planted deeply within me. Let my heart tremble at Your Word. Tear out every root of pride, every seed of independence, every hidden resistance to Your authority. Break me where I need to be broken and shape me according to Your will.

Holy Spirit, overshadow me. Take full possession of my life. Govern my mind, my desires, my body, and my will. Where there has been disorder, bring divine order. Where there has been death, release Your life. Let Your Word become Spirit within me, living, active, and powerful.

I refuse to yield my life, my body, or my destiny to the agenda of darkness. I will not birth rebellion. I will not carry what is contrary to Your will. I present myself to You as a vessel of righteousness. Let only what is of You be conceived, formed, and brought forth in me.

Lord, give me the grace to say yes quickly, yes completely, yes continually. Even when I do not understand, even when it costs me everything, my answer remains yes. Let my life echo that surrender daily.

Father, make me a carrier of life. Let Your Spirit rest upon me and work through me. Let everything that flows from me bring forth light, righteousness, and truth. Let my life stand as a testimony that submission to You produces life and peace.

I declare that I am governed by Your Spirit. I walk in obedience. I live by Your Word. I reject the voice of the stranger and I follow only the voice of my Shepherd.

My life is Yours, Lord. Completely Yours. In Jesus’ name. Amen.