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Speaker 2: Hello, thank you for listening to your Daily Bible Verse,

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Speaker 2: the podcast that examines one verse each day to learn

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Speaker 2: more about God and his will for us. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Jennifer Slattery, and after this short word from our sponsors,

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Speaker 2: we'll dive into today's Bible Verse Judges four twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Today's Bible Versus Judges for twenty one A jail Heber's

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Speaker 2: wife picked up a tent peg and a hammer and

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Speaker 2: went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep. Exhausted,

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Speaker 2: she drove the peg through his temple into the ground,

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Speaker 2: and he died. Our God can reach us in and

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Speaker 2: rescue us from the deepest pit, and often does so

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Speaker 2: in unexpected ways, reminding us that nothing is beyond his

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Speaker 2: power to redeem and say. For fourteen years, my friend

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Speaker 2: slipped further and further into alcoholism. Things became so bad

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Speaker 2: one night she begged God to take her life. The

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Speaker 2: next morning, she awoke angry that he hadn't answered her prayers. Later,

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Speaker 2: while driving to work, an elderly man frantically waved her down. Confused,

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Speaker 2: she stopped locking eyes with her.

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Speaker 1: He said, Hey, I don't know why I had to

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Speaker 1: stop you, but God told me to tell you he

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Speaker 1: loves you. She knew immediately that the Lord was reaching

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Speaker 1: out to her in her despair. He found me in

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Speaker 1: my darkest hour, she said, and restored my light. Her

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Speaker 1: story in the events surrounding today's Bible Verse highlight a

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Speaker 1: comforting truth. Our Father can use all things, including the

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Speaker 1: most unexpected means, to rescue his children. In doing so,

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Speaker 1: he teaches us to trust in him, not our resources

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Speaker 1: or solutions. In last Friday's Your Daily Bible Verse episode,

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Speaker 1: we discussed how God called Barak to confront Israelite's Canaanite oppressors.

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Speaker 1: Barack agreed if Deborah accompanied him. She did, but said

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Speaker 1: a woman would receive the honor for Sisra's defeat. Reading

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Speaker 1: these events, one might assume she was referring to herself.

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Speaker 1: No one expected Jail, whose husband had formed an alliance

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Speaker 1: with canaan to defeat their commander. Here's how it happened. Cisra,

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Speaker 1: the Canaanite commander, gathered his troops, including his nine hundred

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Speaker 1: iron fortified chariots, and marched to the Kisharon River, likely

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Speaker 1: anticipating an easy win, but the Lord intervened. According to

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Speaker 1: verse fifteen, quote at Barrock's advance. The Lord routed Sisra

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Speaker 1: and all his chariots in army by the sword, and

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Speaker 1: Siser got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

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Speaker 1: He sought refuge at Hebber's house to his demise, using

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Speaker 1: his exhaustion against him. Hebber's wife, Jail, invited him in,

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Speaker 1: gave him a blanket and a skin of milk, and

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Speaker 1: once he fell asleep, she drove a tent peg through

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Speaker 1: his temple, arising as the unlikely champion Deborah predicted in

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Speaker 1: verse nine. Notice everything Cisser relied on for strength and security,

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Speaker 1: fortified chariots, powerful soldiers, and the allied place in which

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Speaker 1: he hid and sought safety, all those things failed. They

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Speaker 1: proved no match to the power and sovereignty of the

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Speaker 1: Lord of Heaven's armies. Here's why I find this comforting.

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Speaker 1: When difficulties hit, I often look for rescue in expected ways.

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Speaker 1: When those outlets prove ineffective or nonexistent, I'm prone to panic.

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Speaker 1: I fall into the same mental fallacy conveyed in Psalm

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Speaker 1: seventy eight, verse twenty, which reads, speaking of God True,

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Speaker 1: he struck the rock and water gushed out Streams flowed abundantly,

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Speaker 1: But can he also give us bread? Can he supply

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Speaker 1: meat for his people? In other words, yes, the Lord

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Speaker 1: rescued me one way in one situation, but this problem

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Speaker 1: I'm facing now feels different. Can God still help me now?

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Speaker 1: To which Jail and Barack's story in essence replies absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Because ultimately the victory comes not from horses, chariots, strong armies,

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Speaker 1: or brilliantly strategic leaders, but through Christ. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what you're facing now or what challenges you might encounter tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: but I do know this. The same God who liberated

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Speaker 1: ancient Israel in their distress is more than capable of

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Speaker 1: rescuing you as well. Let's pray, Holy Father, as we

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Speaker 1: sit in the Book of Judges, we are awed by

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Speaker 1: your constant grace. You see all of our failures are weaknesses,

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Speaker 1: all the ways that we rebel and land in a mess.

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Speaker 1: And you meet us, You offer grace, You offer rescue

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Speaker 1: before we have even finished our prayer. You meet us.

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Speaker 1: You are not slow to keep your promises, You are

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Speaker 1: not slow to show your faithfulness. Your arm is not

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Speaker 1: to save. You are the God of Heaven's armies. You

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Speaker 1: are the God who sees us who sees our pain,

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Speaker 1: our fear, all of the problems standing before us, everything

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Speaker 1: that feels way too heavy, way too insurmountable. You see

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Speaker 1: it all, and you are moved by compassion, by mercy,

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Speaker 1: by love. You speak to our souls in a thousand

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Speaker 1: different ways. I am here, I am with you, I

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Speaker 1: see you, and I love you. Help us to recognize

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Speaker 1: your hand, your expressions of grace, whether that's through a

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Speaker 1: beautiful sunrise that displays your glory, a note from a friend,

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Speaker 1: a song we hear on the radio, a message spoken

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Speaker 1: through someone we trust. Help us to be receptive to you.

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Speaker 1: Increase our love for you. When the ground beneath us

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Speaker 1: feels unsteady, May we focus on our true rock, You.

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Speaker 1: We love you, and we praise you. And it is

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Speaker 1: in the name of your son, our Savior, Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: that we pray. A month

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