Deborah And Jael - Mother’s Day

Deborah and Jael - Mother’s Day

Today is Mother’s day so today we honor all of you mothers today! I hope everyone, even the guys have a happy mother's day (If mom ain't happy ain't nobody happy, lol).

Abraham Lincoln: No one is poor who has a Godly mother.

How do you become a godly mother? By being a godly mother!

Kids are watching. Your relationships tell who you are.

Are you hateful and vindictive? Or are you loving and kind?

Your kids learn how to be from you! Scary isn't it!

Love God and love your spouse love your family. Your kids are watching!

It’s wonderful to see faithful women in the Bible. Today we are going to talk about Deborah who was very interesting, faithful, and loyal! She was a Wife, a Mother, a Prophetess, a Judge, and a Warrior! Wow! She was the only female judge mentioned in the Bible and one of the few prophetesses in the Bible.

Mothers are great influencers!

They Influence their children. Children will rise up and call her blessed! They Influence their husband. They Influence their family. And, like in Deborah’s case, she Influenced a whole nation! There are several cases in the Bible where moms and even grandmas influenced great men of the Bible. Such as Lois and Eunice who influenced Timothy and Hanna who influenced Samuel and did so much good!

Now Israel had a problem. The problem is known as “The Sin Cycle”. Things would go well for Israel and so they would forget and turn away from God. God would sort of say, you like those other gods, well you can have them, and things would go really badly for Israel. The people would then be in such dire straits that they would repent and cry out to God. Then God would restore them. So the cycle goes: rebellion, retribution, repentance, and restoration. This is similar to the worldly quote: “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” God appointed judges to try to help the people stay focused on God but eventually the people would stray and thus the sin cycle would begin again.

Judges 4:1-3 Foreword

1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. 2 So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. 3 Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.

In this chapter we see that times had been going well for 80 years under Ehud, but Ehud the previous judge, had passed away and so the people were starting to stray again. Because they had strayed, enemies had come back to haunt Israel. God will sometimes use enemies to bring His people back to Him. Deborah had begun leading as a judge and Barak was commander of the Israelite army. The Cananites had been pestering the Israelites and the commander of the Cananites, Sisera, was unbeatable with his 900 chariots. Chariots in those days were like the tanks of the day and the troops had no chance against these tanks. But the people were crying out to God and God had a plan to stop the Cananites.

When you stray from God, what brings you back? They say there are no atheists in a fox hole. Sometimes, hard times, make you remember that you need to go back and stick close to God. When we wonder where God went, it’s often not that He went away but that we went away and we need to get back to Him! Nearer my God to Thee!

Judges 4:4-7 About Debora

4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. 6 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. 7 I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’”

Deborah, being a judge, would hear disputes of the Isrealite people and she would do it underneath a palm tree. This palm tree became known as Deborah’s palm and she must have been very wise because she became famous in the land as a prophetess and judge.