Today you have many women who are so heavily burdened hiding behind smiles. Yes, they seem to have it all together on the outside but inside they are dying. They live each day creating false hopes in order to survive. They tired themselves out with work, exercising, activities, shopping and ministry - just to keep them from thinking, feeling and being alone with themselves.
There is this emptiness they cannot fill. Tears saturate their pillows night after night as they cry out "I can't do this anymore!" Their strength is spent and cannot lift their eyes up to Jesus because their burdens are so heavy.
For instance, there was a woman who was sitting in the synagogue (church) one Sabbath day. She was so overcome with her burdens that she could not lift herself up to see that she was in the presence of the ONE who is able to heal her and make her whole.
In Luke 13:10-11 it reads "Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. "
