OVERCOMING the Obstacles to Women in Ministry

Obstacle # 2: The idea that "women can be easily deceived."

This was another obstacle that surfaced as I desired to grow in my calling. As a female, I had no one to train me in ministry. Someone warned me to be careful because "women can be easily deceived." I became concerned that maybe I could get into error.

Yet day after day people came to my home for ministry, deliverance, healing and teaching. My prayer life grew, and many times I would pray all day long at home.

I asked the Holy Spirit about my lack of a mentor, and He led me to 1 John 2: 20-21, 27: "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth...But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him" (NKJV).

Wow! The Holy Spirit would be my Teacher and Trainer! The very next day the Holy Spirit led me to several books on prayer in a Christian bookstore. Through these books I realized He could equip me for ministry without a man's help. The Holy Spirit Himself kept me from error as I developed in my call.