Lydia was from another city, Thyatira.  She was an entrepreneur – she sold purple fabric for a living.  She was a spiritual woman for she worshiped God.  She was an attentive woman to what others said – she listened to what Paul had to say on a Sabbath day about faith in the living Lord Jesus Christ.

Lydia was a woman to whom the Lord opened her heart to His truths about Jesus as Paul talked to that group of women.  (Acts 16:14)

Lydia was a woman of worth to God.
All women have worth in the sight of God.
Women can be entrepreneurs and be successful business women.
Women are not to depend on men or women in order to worship God.
Women – how are you responding to the leading of the living God in your thinking and life?

If you are a woman reading this devotional…you are important to God.
If you are a man reading this devotional…women are as important as you are to God.

Think about this:
Throughout Scripture women are elevated by God.  They are not to be used or enslaved.

From the genealogy of Jesus Christ, there are five women named!  Important as they are, most Jewish genealogies do not mention women.  But in the book of Matthew five women are named.  Five women are singled out whose faith was in the living God:
Matthew 1:3 Tamar
Matthew 1:5 Rahab and Ruth
Matthew 1:6 Bathsheba
Matthew 1:16 Mary

Other women were not named who also believed in the living God.  Perhaps you are like those women who were not mentioned but whose faith is firmly in the living Lord Jesus.

Women have worth and are of great value.  They are to be given respect because God does!
Lydia was a woman of great worth and she responded to the living God by placing her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Whether you are a man or a woman…you also have the choice to make, place your faith in the living God…or not.  As your heart is stirred by God…I plead with you…respond to God as He opens your heart to Him.

(NASB) Acts 4:12 “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”