Awake, Awake, Deborah!

[6] In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
[7]The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

[11]They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
[12] Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

Judges 5:6-7, 11-12 (KJV)

(This epistle is for all Christians, but intended more specifically for women.)

As a woman myself I find it quite interesting that we women are easily distracted by a lot of things in life and can forget or completely fail to discover what our purpose is, in the grand scheme of things.

This is therefore a wake up call for you and me to snap out of that slumber and take our rightful place(s) to be exactly where God wants us to be.

What exactly is your role as a woman?

When the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is definitely inevitable. You can hardly hope tp attain any point of relevance if you do not know where to stand in life.

[1] And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
[2] And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
[3] And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
[4] And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
[5] And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
[10] And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Revelation 12:1-6 (KJV)

This scripture paints a picture of the role of a woman, which is to travail and be instrumental in the preservation of the seed that will bring salvation and enable the kingdom of our God to thrive on the earth realm.

As much as the role of a woman encompasses bearing children, this travail to bring forth does not only speak of physical children but everything that God has placed in the hands of women.

However, it is quite sad that as conscious as the devil is in deceiving women (as he has been doing from the beginning), we nowadays are getting more ignorant and are drifting into a deeper and deeper slumber as the days go by.

Instead of standing in the place of travail to birth the Kingdom of God, the devil has deceived women to be instrumental in wrecking even more havoc and pulling down destinies, rather than building them.

Women are no longer conscious of what they wear, say or do. Nowadays, it is quite popular that even the daughters of the Kingdom ‘dress to kill’ —and some are even better at it than the daughters of Babylon.

Wholesome conversations seasoned with grace is far from our lips, but worldly talks are now what we promote. Ladies now join units in churches or attend programs because they have ‘motives’ for doing this other than just to serve. How sad!

We are just like that woman in the Bible who was so deep in slumber she killed her own child in sleep, and the other woman equally so deep in slumber that her child was swapped with a dead child without her knowledge.

[19] And we were together; no one was with us in the house, except the two of us in the house.
[20] And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.
[21] So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3:19-21 (NKJV)

The devil does not even need to put up a fight nowadays, he has succeeded in making the supposed warriors aim their weapons at their own Kingdom, making them instruments of mass destruction.

The message I want to deliver is this: Heaven weeps at the predicament of her daughters who have chosen to be foolish rather than wise. Of daughters who have decided to roam about aimlessly and carelessly with daughters of Babylon—just like Dinah did, an action which caused her defilement and massive destruction of lives and properties.

[1] And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
[2] And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

[27] The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
[28] They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
[29] And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

Genesis 34:1-2, 27-29 (KJV)

Heaven is sad for the daughters who have failed to know their place like Deborah and have sold themselves out for nothing and have cast their pearls to the swine.

It is not too late however, the call to awake is still open to all women who are willing to incline their ears to heaven’s urgent request to awake and rescue this generation from the rottenness that has crept silently into our bones, such that it has almost consumed us.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Isaiah 51:9 (KJV)

So dear woman, your role is not to be just another beautiful face or ‘hourglass figure carrier’, wrecking havoc everywhere you go. Esther was beautiful, and this was instrumental in making her find her way to the palace, but her sensitivity to God’s need for her there was what defined her relevance and place in history.

[1] Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
[2] Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
[3] For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

Isaiah 52:1-3 (KJV)

As I close this with the above scripture, I pray for all daughters of Zion; that the call to spiritual reawakening becomes real to us all.
It started with Deborah in her time, and just like Esther, who knows if you were sent to the Kingdom for such a time as this?

Therefore; awake, awake, Deborah!!!