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Judges 5:7 (4/16/15)

Motherly Spirit

April 16, 2015 • Benham Brothers

After Joshua died a new generation of kids grew up who did not know God.
Jesus said the greatest commandment was to love the Lord YOUR God.
This is an intimate knowledge both intellectually and experientially.
vs 11 - because they didn’t know God they did evil in His sight.
God uses people to punish and to deliver:
vs 14 - God’s anger was kindled and He handed them over to their enemies.
vs 16 - God then raised up judges to deliver the people.
The period between Joshua’s death and Saul’s kingship was when God used “judges.”
Judges were deliverers - they acted as "fathers" and "mothers" in Israel.
Our nation needs a “Father’s heart revival.”
The last verse of the OT ends with fathers and the first chapter of the NT opens with a list of fathers.
A father’s love looks like something - it won’t sit back and let evil take his kids.
Often times God uses mothers to awaken the fathers.
This is why God made them male and female - we need women!
Deborah was not just a woman or a prophetess, but a mother.
A mother groans for her kids - just like Jesus said in Luke 13:34.
The mother in her aroused the father in Barak.
The spirit in her aroused the soldier in Barak.
My own testimony of Jake sleep walking - I was looking for the bad guy while she was looking for her son.
She “awakened” me to what I really needed to do.
Mom got dad moving in the right direction.