"It's not a miracle. We just decided to go." 4 parts.
TPM aired June 2010. 

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I was listening to Judges 1-6 for the umpteenth time in the car, when I noticed something that seems to get overlooked all the times I’ve heard Chapter 4 taught in person, on-line or read it in print myself. Perhaps, because she sat in a particular spot and people went to her for wisdom, it’s stuck in our minds that Barak went to her on his own schedule. No. Judge Prophetess Deborah sent for Barak.

Judges 4 KJV
4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded,...”

Judge Deborah reminds Barak of what God told him to do. Barak didn't willingly go to her.
Now, we do generally want to wait for the person to see for themselves what we already know,  which is valid because a person has to go in their own awareness of God’s call and strength in them rather than in somebody  else’s strength that WILL wane when things get hard. Yet, apparently, Judge Prophetess Deborah was obedient to God’s instruction to send for Barak to tell him what she knew God had already told him, instead of waiting for him to get started or to approach her. We find out he was fearful, but that doesn’t negate that within the fear may have been a valid uncertainty of how to carry out the command and not knowing when to start the operation, rather than assuming he was just totally disobeying God out of plain old fear.  Judge Prophetess Deborah’s summoning him was the answer to all his internal questions (just like the ones we have about assignments). The summons let him know he heard God right, it was the right time to begin operations, and she gave him the steps to take.

God understands whether we’re not moving because we refuse to or because we are waiting for more directions from Him. God also knows whether He’s going to give us directions directly or will send someone to give us those directions.

Our prayer should be to follow what we hear from God and that whoever God has called to summon us in order to give us directions will do so, and for us to go when He sends us to give someone else directions they are waiting for or struggling with, in Jesus’ Name.

​Amen?
Amen.
 
Note: She called for him. He received it, not questioning whether she was good enough to be used by God to tell or talk to him about that particular subject, like some still question certain ones of God’s chosen, even knowing how long or how much or how they've been used by God before. Some in their flesh either don’t want to believe what they’ve seen or heard of God doing through certain of His chosen ones or because they want to impart doubt or they think it's their job to keep certain chosen ones from getting as confident in God using them as they are with being used by God or to think their faith in God works, too. ​

​I was listening to Judges 1-6 for the umpteenth time in the car, when I noticed something that seems to get overlooked all the times I’ve heard Chapter 4 taught in person, on-line or read it in print myself. Perhaps, because she sat in a particular spot and people went to her for wisdom, it’s stuck in our minds that Barak went to her on his own schedule. No. Judge Prophetess Deborah sent for Barak.

Judges 4 KJV
4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded,...”

Judge Deborah reminds Barak of what God told him to do. Barak didn't iniate the meeting with her.

Now, we generally want to wait for the person to know for themselves what we already know,  which is valid because a person has to go in their own awareness of God’s call and strength in them rather than in somebody  else’s strength that WILL wane when things get hard. Yet, apparently, Judge Prophetess Deborah was obedient to God’s instruction to send for Barak to tell him what she knew God had already told him, instead of waiting for him to get started or to approach her. We find out he was fearful, but that doesn’t negate that within the fear may have been a valid uncertainty of how to carry out the command and not knowing when to start the operation, rather than assuming he was just totally disobeying God out of plain old fear.  Judge Prophetess Deborah’s summoning him was the answer to all his internal questions (just like the ones we have about assignments). The summons let him know he heard God right, it was the right time to begin operations, and she gave him the steps to take.

God understands whether we’re not moving because we refuse to or because we are waiting for more directions from Him. God also knows whether He’s going to give us directions directly or will send someone to give us those directions.

Our prayer should be to follow what we hear from God and that whoever God has called to summon us in order to give us directions will do so, and for us to go when He sends us to give someone else directions they are waiting for or struggling with, in Jesus’ Name.

Amen?
Amen.
 
Note: She called for him. He received it, not questioning whether she was good enough to be used by God to tell or talk to him about that particular subject, like some still question certain ones of God’s chosen, even knowing how long or how much or how they've been used by God before. Some in their flesh either don’t want to believe what they’ve seen or heard of God doing through certain of His chosen ones or because they want to impart doubt or they think it's their job to keep certain chosen ones from getting as confident in God using them as they are with being used by God or to think their faith in God works, too. 


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​​(Details  of the situations DMd  only to followers  10.11.2023) 
(Pics are screenshots of audio text messages I send to myself while listening to the Bible as I drive. Imperfect transcription but decent.)
Some Christians despise drug addicts, alcoholics, unwed parents, kids born out of wedlock, laid-off workers, and the slow-moving disabled UNTIL it happens to them or their family member or friends.  Suddenly, they see the light of the love of Jesus, and decide to love instead of bash.  Most don't need the experience to understand the lesson of love and understanding what they understand about Christ. Others do.

Do you really believe what you say you believe? Think before you speak.
God can make your situation so unique that people will question their beliefs and realize they weren't necessarily based in God in the first place OR were but the person may not have the definite stance they thought they had (see IG post for exact wording).
 
Take this couple, for instance, both attending the same church in the 90s. One was told by God that the other would leave but was not supposed to. The One didn’t totally understand what was coming but knew the Other One was not supposed to leave. Incidences in the church happened, the pastor was dismissed in a situation involving criminal illegalities in the handling of paperwork. The Other One left with the pastor and joined him at a newly formed, but short-lived church. The One stayed where they had been because the Lord had already given instructions about that situation. Some at the church didn’t trust One. Some told One they needed to be with their spouse BUT they didn’t want and actually advised One to not go to the newly formed church. What? Yes. Basically, “I’m suspicious of you being here so I think you need to go with your spouse, but not over there because they’re the enemy.” Where One stayed was the right place to be. 

So what did that so-called advisor actually believe? Did she actually believe spouses are supposed to always be at the same church together or not? It seemed like “Don’t go over there. Stay here. But, I’m not going to do anything to get The One over here with you and really don’t want The One over here and don’t want One over there.
YET, that situation made some re-think their beliefs that one is always to follow the other and realize one can obey God while the other doesn’t EVEN when both agree to do the same thing.
People want to fix things that don’t look like what they believe or what they’ve been taught that is not exactly spelled out in the Bible. Some situations are not supposed to be fixed because God knows what God is doing with groups, families, couples, and individuals.  No matter who we are attached to and why, we are still individuals with individual destinies in Christ, that may not be the same, but will not hinder the other. 

We EACH have a path to walk in Christ and God's instructions to obey for God’s particular purposes. God knows each person’s down-sitting and uprising and thoughts from afar and has a plan, a race, a life with and/or without someone else. Your needs to be met to satisfy God are not always tied to whoever you are tied to. They have their own needs that will be worked out in and through Christ in different situations than the other person.

We all say that God wants all the Glory, yet we’re always trying to run other people’s lives.  God does things in ways that humans can't touch and can't take credit for it. God does things in ways that makes people shut up about your situation that they see is working for your good even though it doesn’t fit
t-h-e-i-r theology.

I remember of a man who came off the street and desperately wanted to be saved. He was told, ridiculously, that he couldn’t be saved unless he went back to his first wife. He had a long-time girlfriend who visited with him and his ex-wife had a man. The leader insisted. The man was desperate.  After a few weeks, he actually brought his ex-wife to church to personally tell the pastor she didn’t want him back and wouldn’t take him back.  The leader finally ‘gave him permission’ to get saved. It was weird.  The man left and didn’t return.  (Sarcasm) So now leaders can decide you can't be saved or they can give you a pass for God (so you still look like you were wrong but have been forgiven, and the leader doesn’t look like their demand was bad in the first place).
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***Something that goes along with that is that where God is trying to get us, together and separately (because we each have our own race and one’s race is not just running behind the other), we have our own tests and storms to be made and tried through because we're individuals and we need different situations to get in or out of us what needs to gotten in or out of us.
 
By the way, similar situations happened to this couple three times over the years. They were blessed In all three situations because of obedience.  

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 loving the wife like Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.
Love means (scriptures): 
Gave himself (scriptures) is more than just working alot and paying bills. 
Some men think "gave himself for it" to mean working and paying the bills.
What about this, though:
Do you listen to her every time she wants to talk?
Do you go everywhere with her that she wants you to go?
Are you even available to go anywhere with her?
Are you available to be asked or informed of where she wants to go and what she wants to accomplish?
Do you answer her calls...as quickly as you answer other calls or at all?
Do you answer her texts...as quickly as you answer other's texts or at all?
Do you read her emails...as quickly as you read emails from others or at all?
Do you respond to her calls, voicemails, texts, emails, ...
But you call yourself loving her like Christ loved the church.
 
Sure, now! You’re old and friends/colleagues aren’t available, able or are bogged down with old folk issues.
 
But what about then, aaannnddd now and always meaning since you married her?
 
Huh?