Young Maidens in God’s Hands
Young Maidens are unmarried young women. This is what they were called in the olden days. To actually intercede for these group of people, it would just be fair to visit the issues that some of them are facing, their challenges etc, before we look at one of the parables in the book of Mathew 25:1-13 (Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins). Most of the young women who fall into this category are either daughters of believers or unbelievers. Since we are looking at Maidens in the hands of the Lord, we would concentrate on maidens who are believers, those who have had a salvation experience, that is they have publicly declared that Jesus is their Lord and Saviour, even at that they still undergo peer pressure, either in university or at their work places or better still in the community and even in their local assembly. Some of them in the cause of waiting get entangled with the wrong set of friends, especially those who are from Christian homes but do n...