New Covenant Culture by Jonathan Welton

Author:Jonathan Welton [Welton, Dr. Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

CHAPTER SEVEN

WOMEN RISING

Oh, that the ministers of religion would search the original records of God’s Word in order to discover whether the general notions of society are not wrong on this subject, and whether God really intended woman to bury her gifts and talents, as she now does.

—CATHERINE BOOTH, Cofounder of the Salvation Army

MANY years before the time of King David, Israel was enslaved by the Canaanites. The Israelites had once again walked away from the Lord and as happened so many times during that era, they were enslaved again. Deborah the prophetess was the recognized national leader among the Hebrews during that time.

The Lord directed Deborah to bring Israel out of slavery. Deborah prophesied to a man named Barak that He was to gather a volunteer army of ten thousand men to fight for freedom. She also provided his battle strategy and assured him of victory. In that moment, Barak, if he were like most men, might have been pondering what being the hero of the entire nation would be like, but he had a different thought. Barak realized he was being given a tremendous honor by this prophetic word. Although Barak may have been tempted to keep the honor of this victory for himself and the men of the army, he chose instead to honor Deborah in return.

Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”

“Very well,” Deborah said. “I will go with you.” “But because of the way you are going about this, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will hand Sisera [the enemy general] over to a woman...” (Judges 4:8-9).

Barak had no obligation to honor Deborah; he could have kept the honor for himself and his men, but he chose to share the honor with Deborah. By doing so, he passed the honor to all women. Deborah did not keep the honor to herself; she went on to declare that Barak would not get the honor and neither would she; rather, the honor would go to a no-name woman. By the divine exchange that takes place between Deborah and Barak, we see a divine order of empowerment between the genders.

Presently, the Church is full of wonderful Deborah’s who have been honoring men for many years. It is time for a company of Barak’s to rise up—humble and confident men who are not willing to keep the honor of leadership to themselves, men who will empower women to step into their call and destiny.

Many have been asking the Lord, “Where are the Deborah’s?” A better prayer would be, “Lord, raise up men as a Barak company!”

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

From the very beginning of humanity there has always been a battle for dominance between the sexes. Let us go back and see where it all started.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You

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