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Hey, Taste and See Freedom.

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Happy Mother's Day.

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I brought you to the beach today on day eight, but here's my day seven post.

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I'm still getting caught up.

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Listen, this morning I was really contemplating Deborah in the book of Judges, the book of

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revivals I once heard it called, where the people turn from God, their hearts grow cold,

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they suffer great abuse and oppression and scattering and unspeakable evil, just as we've

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seen throughout the history of Israel, the history of really the world, and sort of like

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we're seeing in our own country.

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But what I want to point out is that when Deborah, I love Psalm 63 verses 11 and 12,

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it says God sends forth his word and the women who publish his word, the women who speak

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his word are a mighty army.

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The kings of the enemy's armies flee, the kings flee, and she who stays at home divides

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the spoiled.

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Deborah was at home, Deborah cultivated a heart for God, and God brought the people

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of Israel to her, she sat under her palm tree and would bring the issues of Israel and would

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cry out for Israel, would cry out for revival, would cry out for God, for God's wisdom, for

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God's life, and people honored that and they would come and they would do what she said.

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And one day God spoke to her about a man named Barak and she had Barak brought to him and

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she said, the Lord said, gather yourself, collect 10,000 men from, I think it was Zebulun

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and Aftali, and go out after King Jabin and his commander, Cezara, oh my gosh, anyway,

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the commander, and overtake them or God will give you the victory, God's going to deliver

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them into your hand.

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So he was giving Barak territory and Barak returned to the Lord, he was called by God

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to do this great thing, God had promised him the victory, but he hadn't developed and cultivated

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that intimacy with God, and so he said to Deborah, if you go, I'll go, if you do not

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go, I will not go, I won't obey if you don't go with me.

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So it's kind of like when the Israelites were brought out of Egypt, out from under slavery

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and oppression, and they were all called to come and draw near to God.

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And they said, no, you, you Moses, you listen to God, you tell us what to do, and then we'll

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obey you, but we don't want to come to God, we're too afraid of him.

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So Deborah said to Barak, okay, I'll go with you, but the glory for the victory will not

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be yours, it will become, the glory will go to a woman.

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So I just want to say like, you know, it is, faith is a scary, risky thing, but the reward

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is glory.

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The reward of taking a territory totally full of faith and trusting God is glory.

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So anyway, we know the story, he obeys, she's with him, the 10,000 are gathered, I'm sorry

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if I'm saying his name wrong, gathers his like, almost like 900 or almost 1000 ironclad

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chariots with his thousands of men, 40,000 men or something, and comes out, but God already

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goes ahead of Barak, sends confusion on the people.

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And by the time Barak's army gets there, they overtake them and kill everyone by the sword.

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But Sihar pleads, she finds Jaden's tent, and she welcomes him.

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She has the fruit of hospitality.

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She has developed herself as a woman to, even in the face of an enemy,

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to not be catty or selfish, but to have the presence of mind,

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to invite him in, to comfort him.

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He asks for water. She makes him warm.

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She makes him buttermilk, which, you know, helps him go to sleep.

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She hides him under a blanket.

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And when he has crashed, because of course he's exhausted,

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she takes up in her hands a spike, a tent spike, and a hammer,

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and she drives that thing through his head.

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He was a wicked man of a wicked people who terribly, for 20 years, oppressed the Israelites.

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And so her name we speak of today.

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We talk of there are like millions and millions throughout time who have spoken her name

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because she didn't say, no, not me.

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She didn't say, I can't. She didn't hide.

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She wasn't afraid. She didn't even kowtow to the enemy.

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She got near enough, fearlessly, to drive a stake through his head.

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That's putting our natural with God's supernatural, and we're able to overcome the enemy.

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So my prayer, our prayer today, if you'll join me, is that as the gospel is being released,

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as the Messiah is being released, revealed, as the truth is being revealed to the Israelites,

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that their hearts are being prepared.

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People are being made ready with God, before God, to take courage in their heart,

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to not cower, to not go back to what is, to not hide,

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but to step across the threshold of faith into salvation.

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So Father, we thank you so much for Jerusalem, for the peace of Jerusalem.

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Peace contends for righteousness.

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There is no peace with compromise.

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There is no peace with corruption.

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There is no peace in the absence of righteousness.

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And Jesus is made unto us righteousness from God.

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Wisdom, salvation, sanctification, redemption.

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You are our Redeemer.

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Lord, as you are the Messiah that has come through the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

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we pray for the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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The people through whom you made yourself a body, prepared yourself a body to bring us salvation.

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And we pray that right now you're stirring up people to be hungry for God,

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to really go down into the roots, to go down into the secret place,

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and hunger and thirst for God.

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We pray that people would stir one another up.

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We pray for mothers like Deborah, that would cry out for the nation,

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cry out for young men, cry out for victory, cry out for the end of oppression,

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cry out for protection and deliverance from enemies.

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We cry out for men to be able to hear their call and not be afraid,

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to not surrender the victory that you would place in their hands,

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but that men would take courage, and men would rise up, and men would say,

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yes, Lord, and they would also be prepared.

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They would also be prepared, wanting the voice of the Lord, developing the voice of the Lord,

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spending time in the word of the Lord.

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We thank you, Lord, for those who will not be afraid to work, not be afraid to recognize an enemy,

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and to remain close to the opportunity of a deliverance, of a slaying of the enemy,

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to not be afraid that they're going to be corrupted near an enemy.

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Don't be afraid what's going to happen to their life, but to sacrifice.

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We pray for heroes to rise up in Jerusalem, in Israel, across the nations,

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in here, in my own heart, Lord, that we would see an opportunity for you and stand up

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and take courage to stand for the light so that people can draw into the light

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and out from under the dominion of darkness, out from under oppression,

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out from under compromise and corruption.

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And we ask, Lord, that this be the greatest revival that the earth has ever seen.

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We ask, Lord, that this Pentecost, that these be the days, the days where the Spirit of

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God is seen across the earth being poured out over sons and daughters.

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And we thank you, Lord, that even our prayers, stirring up a most holy faith in us, is doing

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something to release what you've placed in us into this nation in the Middle East, your

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nation, your miracle nation, a miracle you brought forth, Lord, and into all the nations,

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that all the nations should be blessed in the seed of Abraham.

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And we thank you, Jesus, for what you're going to do, how you're going to change humanity,

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how you're going to change things, how you're going to overcome the destruction of humanity

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that we see, and you're going to rescue people, miraculously rescue people, families, men,

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women, children, generations, nations, industries.

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Bring us together, one body, one mind, one heart, one gospel, one Lord, one God and Father

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of us all, as you're going back to support me in Christ Jesus' name, we pray, amen.

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Okay, love you guys, thank you for praying with me, and I'll catch you later, love you,

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bye.