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.”
“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.”
