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The very idea of womanhood is being assailed on all fronts: sexualized by our culture, eliminated from language, and silenced by the church. For decades, both sexes have been systematically undermined and stripped of their strength. Male and female were originally created as a power union, but that turned into a power struggle.

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Lisa Bevere (born June 6th, 1960) is an American minister and New York Times bestselling-author [1] . She is the co-founder of Messenger International , a non-profit that translates and distributes Christian teaching in over 128 languages. [2]

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Early life and education [ edit ]

Lisa grew up in Lafayette, Indiana . She attended college at Arizona State University as well as Purdue University before meeting her husband John Bevere in June of 1981. The two married on October 2, 1982. They quickly encountered marriage problems, which they wrote about in the book they co-authored, The Story of Marriage . [3]

Ministry and career [ edit ]

Lisa Bevere began preaching in 1988 when she and her husband John worked as youth pastors at a church. She wrote her first book Out of Control and Loving It in 1991 [4] . Her book Without Rival , released in 2016, went on to become a New York Times best-seller [5] . In 2017, she released her first children’s book, Lizzy the Lioness . [6]

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Lisa currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee with her husband John.

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‘The Very Idea of Womanhood Is Under Attack Right Now’—Lisa Bevere Fights for Females in Her New Book

Lisa Bevere , New York Times best-selling author and wife of renowned minister John Bevere , fights for biblical womanhood in her new book “ The Fight For Female: Reclaiming Our Divine Identity ,” which was released earlier this week.

In the book, Bevere  argues that the “very idea of womanhood is under attack right now.”

“We have culture sexualizing what it means to be a woman, and on many fronts, the church silencing the voice of its daughters,” Bevere told ChurchLeaders, adding that “women act like men and men act like women, and the enemy is bent on the destruction of what it means to be female.”

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Bevere believes the church must offer “a way forward that transcends familiar talking points and drives us to find God-inspired answers.”

She encourages her readers not to “compromise” on womanhood because “our marriages, children, churches, communities, and futures depend on us to be up to the task. [Church], this is your clarion call. Female is worth fighting for.”

Bevere indicated her belief that the conversation surrounding gender identity isn’t “just a culture issue” but rather a “spiritual attack” on the identity of men and women. She said that she couldn’t remain quiet any longer “because when you attack male and female, you actually are attacking the image of God.”

“The enemy is after what women carry,” Bevere said. “And women are supposed to be the protectors and the carriers of life and the multipliers of life.”

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“But the enemy is like, ‘No, be the takers of life. No, be the destroyers of the life. Own your own life.’ And a lot of times, people don’t understand that self-focus is very Luciferian,” she added. “It’s very about me, mine, my comfort, my body, my choice, my pleasure, my fulfillment, and everything that we’re seeing, we think the people are the problem.”

Bevere dedicates an entire chapter in her new book to spiritual warfare. She believes that Christians can’t be “casual” about it.

“It’s time for the elect to return,” Bevere encouraged. “We have partnered with some demonic stuff. We have wrestled with people instead of with principalities and powers and rulers of wickedness in high places.”

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Every day, we hear hundreds of different messages about who we should be.

Whether it’s someone telling us how to act, a TikTok video telling us what to wear or a TV show influencing us more than we care to admit, it’s easy to let our identity be shaped by outside forces. But as author Lisa Bevere explains, there’s only one source we need to listen to in order to discover our true identity: God.

In her new book The Fight for Female: Reclaiming Divine Identity , Bever tackles the current struggle women — and by extension, men — are facing daily when it comes to their identity. We sat down with Bevere to find out why this was a topic she wanted to focus on, and what we can all do to live out our unique calling.

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RELEVANT: What do you hope readers take away from your new book, The Fight for Female: Reclaiming Divine Identity ?

Lisa Bevere: My hope is that women will realize they’ve compromised what it means to be a woman and recover the strength of that. In 2016, I had a dream where I saw women had unknowingly befriended an enemy. There’s this warfare between the serpent and one woman in the garden that translates to a dragon and the woman, the church corporate and women as a whole, in the book of Revelation. I wanted to speak to that battle and what’s at risk because I believe the attack is coming against the next generation.

What does biblical womanhood look like in your own words?

I love biblical womanhood. We try to make it too narrow. When you look at the Proverbs 31 woman, sometimes we want to slap her and say, “Of course she’s doing that much; she’s got all these servants.” But it gives us permission to do more rather than less. Biblical womanhood is being obedient to whatever God tells you to do.

I’m concerned because there’s a spiritual battle. It’s not culture oppressing women or men oppressing women, but a demonic battle going on. On one extreme, we have the trad wife movement, and on the other, the freeze your eggs and do whatever you want movement. I don’t like either. Everything in your life should be seasonal and according to who God is asking you to be in that season. There have been seasons where I stayed home and breastfed my babies, and seasons where I traveled and spoke. The right thing in the wrong season is the wrong thing.

I’m not okay with women being sexualized or silenced, or with men and women being pitted against each other. We’ve made it about politics, gender issues and race, and we’ve forgotten that there’s an enemy trying to divide and make everything binary. He constantly says, “You have to choose.” But you can stand in the middle and declare truth. That’s where Jesus always stood. He never chose sides.

I do a podcast called The Fight for Female  and decided to talk about spiritual warfare. It blew up. People are realizing they’re wrestling not with people, but with principalities and powers. If a generation is convinced their formation is a mistake, they’ll struggle to trust God with their transformation. That’s where the enemy is. If, as a young woman, you feel like you don’t have value if you’re not married and producing children, the enemy will get you to question God’s work in your life. We need to realize there’s one who will always undermine what God wants to do in your life by comparing it with others. We must not be ignorant of his devices.

So, how exactly do we push back against the enemy and reclaim our identity?

First, I think a lot of women haven’t realized they’ve been careless with their femininity. We’ve listened to messaging that said to be powerful, women need to act like men, go into the marketplace, and beat them at their game. When we do that, we grasp at the image of male instead of living in the fullness of the image of female. I’m talking about wisdom, kindness and investing. The Proverbs 31 woman is influential and has agency. It doesn’t say she asked her husband to buy a field; it says she buys a field.

The first step for me in any spiritual warfare is humility. Ask God where you’ve partnered with lies and entertained untruths. Drop the stones, stop blaming others, and ask where you are trapped or deceived. Then, resist the devil and he will flee. Fill the space he occupied with everything God created you to be. We all have hopes, dreams, and longings. God puts those in us to pull us towards who we really are and towards eternity. We miss moments in disappointment and discouragement when God is saying, “I need you in this moment.”

John and I recently spoke to some leaders, and people are having a hard time right now. God is shaking everything that can be shaken. I’d love to say it’s going to be a great year, but the best days aren’t always the easiest days. I’ve learned the most in my hard seasons. Smooth sailing doesn’t make skillful sailors. God is bringing the body of Christ through hardship to teach us that struggle is strengthening.

Right now, there’s a battle for women. Our divine imagery is being unmade into a sexualized costume, and we should be upset about that — not upset with the people seeking wholeness in brokenness, but that we’ve allowed it to be diminished. We don’t get to share what it means to be a woman. We want to say that to be a woman is to be entrusted with the heart of other people, even if you’re single. We are the guardians of the hearts of communities, friendships and family, and messengers of conversations that bring connections for people feeling disenfranchised and confused.

What impact does this have on our world, churches and communities if we reclaim our identity?

Right now, instead of just saying there’s a problem, we need answers. We have many experts on what’s wrong and few with a strategy to build what’s right. Women can be relational equity builders. Instead of focusing on disagreements, we need to rebuild what could be healthy. For example, what can you do to make a difference in your school community? Could you join the school board or volunteer? What can you do in your community? Can you run for office or be part of legislation? Instead of criticizing, get in the field and into the battle.

The attack on women is also an attack on men. Male and female together usually have a better perspective. We have a power union with male and female — not just in marriage, but in perspective. We’re part of a team, and we need to honor both contributions.

We’re in a season where we learn by doing. We need some doers. The first case of civil disobedience in the Bible is the midwives in Exodus who refused to kill the babies. We’ve got skillful women stepping in to preserve lives. A mother saw something special in her child and decided to act, even without a prophet or angel telling her what to do. She hid her child, placed him in the river, and Miriam, who would become a prophetess, watched as he was taken by Pharaoh’s daughter. All of the heroes in that part of Exodus are women. Right now, we need women to lead an exodus from the way things are to the way they should be.

We all have different roles, but we’re in a season where the best way to learn is to do. I want to see women equipped to rescue. This is the first time I’ve tackled our relationship as daughters of the most high God to our culture. We need to be part of a cultural rescue and restoration.

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Lisa Bevere has spent over three decades empowering women of all ages to find their identity and purpose. She is a New York Times bestselling author and internationally known minister. Her books, which include Without Rival, Godmothers, Girls with Swords, Lioness Arising, Strong, and her recent devo Fiercely Loved , are in the hands of millions worldwide. Lisa and her husband, John, co-founded Messenger International, an organization committed to developing uncompromising followers of Christ who transform their world. Messenger International has given away nearly 50 million resources in 116 languages.

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