The Hidden Power of a Woman by Mahesh Chavda; Bonnie Chavda

Author:Mahesh Chavda; Bonnie Chavda
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian Life, Women's Issues, General, Religion, Religious Life, Christian Women, Christianity
ISBN: 9780768423525
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2006-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Deborah: The "Stinging Bee"

Give unto the Lord, O you mighty ones, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the Glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.. .The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh. and in His Temple everyone says, “Glory!"1

The Presence filled the tent where Lapidoth's family slept. Between wake and sleep just before dawn, his wife sighed and mumbled, as if speaking to the images flashing behind her closed eyelids. Even as the rest of her family slumbered all around her, the rushing Spirit of God came upon her in the customary manner. His tabernacle settled into her very being until Lapidoth's wife was less herself and more a living spirit mingled with the omniscience and power of the Shepherd of Israel.

The Word of the Lord distilled out of his Presence and dropped down like dew, filling her with its weight, its fire budding tiny beads of sweat on her temples. It was bittersweet, this familiar mixture of His Voice and the message the Voice spoke. Not in words of human language so much as understanding and sometimes in images and visions of persons and advance events. At other times she would hear His words addressed to the elders of Israel concerning matters that would come to her for settlement between clans.

Sweet were the messages in the Presence of Him who had made Sarah laugh out loud and made Miriam dance on the shore of the Red Sea. Sweet in the Presence of He Who dwelt in the bush and gave rest to His inheritance under Moses. Sweet as He who opened Heaven's gate and sent down angels when Jacob lay outcast in the wilderness, with only a stone for a pillow. But sometimes they were bitter, as now, as knowledge of the words became clear in her spirit.

In the stillness of predawn this mother of two daughters and three sons lay in fitful half sleep beside her husband. But her visions were not still. Distress and trouble from both above and below swirled about her like the choking incense of strange fire. Amidst the shouts of men and the clash of iron, burning, distress, terror. the burden of Israel settled like a millstone about the neck of her praying soul. Half conscious awareness that Jabin's iron chariots were raiding in neighboring Benjamin crashed in brutal billows with the cries of her people, threatening to take her under for the last time.

"Awake, Deborah."

She knew the sound of His voice as well as she knew His name. In her slumber, it always seemed at first as though He was calling from afar. Her spirit rose to meet Him, opening her heart to hear and obey.

As His thick knowing settled into her spirit, this judge of Israel understood that it was time, at last, for war.

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