"At church, younger women look right past me like I have nothing to offer."
How it sounds in your head: They want the trendy speakers, the Instagram-ready mentors. I have decades of wisdom, but they're not asking. I sit in services feeling like a relic, like my season of influence is over.
"The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed."
-- Titus 2:3-5Source: Culture of youth-worship infiltrating the church, making experience seem irrelevant instead of invaluable.
Leadership opportunities go to women half her age, her offers to mentor get polite nods but no follow-through, and small groups discuss parenting toddlers while she's raising grandkids.
Anna was 84, widowed for decades, seemingly invisible in the temple routine. The INSTANT Messiah appeared, God gave HER the assignment to proclaim Him to all Jerusalem—not the priests, not the scholars, but the elderly widow everyone overlooked.
I REFUSE the lie that my age makes me irrelevant. IT IS WRITTEN that older women are COMMANDED to teach, making me mandatory, not optional. The culture worships youth, but Kingdom operates on WISDOM. IT IS WRITTEN that grey hair is a crown of glory, found in the way of righteousness. I carry Anna's mantle—positioned by God to recognize and proclaim what younger eyes miss. The BARAK rests on my voice, and I declare divine appointments with hungry hearts who need what only decades can teach.
Your Father is right now preparing younger women who are STARVING for what you carry. He's about to collide your path with theirs so undeniably that they'll weep with gratitude that you said yes to pouring out what religion tried to silence.