11/03/2023
CMCI PONGGO KANANAYAN'S 1ST BONDING this 2023 Gawagan River & White Rock Formation
Women are given special gifts of revelation:
John 4:25-26 “The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.”
I find it instructive to me that while the Jewish hierarchy had started plotting against him, Christ explicitly identifies himself as the Messiah for the first time to a Samaritan woman (who incidentally, may have been on the low end of the socio-economic ladder). Similarly, it is instructive that Christ’s birth was first revealed to a woman, mother Mary; and His resurrection was first revealed to a woman, Mary Magdalene. These 3 key events: birth, Messianic ministry and resurrection were all first revealed to a woman. I have been very fortunate to learn quickly to trust my wife’s unique gifts of revelation. In the Lamanite Society of the Book of Mormon, at one point, the sole faithful convert among them was a woman:
“Abish, she having been converted unto the Lord for many years,… and never having made it known, therefore, when she saw that all the servants of Lamoni had fallen to the earth, and also her mistress, the queen, and the king, and Ammon lay prostrate upon the earth, she knew that it was the power of God;” Alma 19
