Bible Reading
Join us in June as we look to some of the godly leaders in the book of Judges as examples of men and women with persevering faith. When their society had drifted away from God, they overcame weakness and discouragement to rescue their people. How can we put our own faith into action and see God’s Kingdom life overflowing from every community, city and nation where we live to the next?
Judges 5:1-8
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:
"That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD!
"Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.
"LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.
The mountains quaked before the LORD, even Sinai before the LORD, the God of Israel.
"In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.
The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?