Fairy Dust and a Wand or Power and Great Strength

I have written on Deborah before: the Judge in Israel:
She was the strong! According to the Hebrew calendar, she lead Israel in 2654-2694. She went into battle written in Judges 4:6-9. See Blog: Appointed by God: Deborah, the Prophetess (published 9.19.14)  Then we read of Queen Salome Alexandra who reigned in Judea from 76 B.C to 67 B.C. Who was considered a political leader and skillful mediator.

And then we come to hear of this woman God makes mention of in the book of Acts. Her name was Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians. Well, I had started work on this today and was intrigued how God works. I happen to turn on TBN and Pastor T.D. Jakes was on. And who was he mentioning: Queen Candace of the Ethiopians!

Upon rising early this morning rain drenched morning, I was thinking the importance of praying the way Deborah, the Judge in Israel prayed for her people. The "mother" was praying for all the people in Israel. Well I had some information and some teaching before hand on these women, but it continued to grow. And while meditating on the Word of God, I wrote down about 2 1/2 pages of notes for the blog today. (3.11)

In regard to women in the Bible and those who held a great position intrigue me!
People truly like those who can work those great "exploits" while serving a people and God, and I always wondered how they could do what they did and LIVE!  I am certain many women will question as one gets to that place, and I am one as well who has thought on these matters, too! From the Bible, those exploits for God count for an eternity! It comes from knowing God!
Looking into those from the Bible, at the time of Queen Candace and the Ethiopian being mentioned, I remember that she regarded Israel highly and  had much respect for their God!


Acts 8:26-41..............26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desert. 27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go near and overtake this chariot." 30 So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" 31 And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 The place in the Scripture which he read was this:

"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
33 In His humiliation His justice was taken away,
And who will declare His generation?
For His life is taken from the earth."

34 So the eunuch answered Philip and said, "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?" 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. 36 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?" 37 Then Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." 38 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. 39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.  NKJV

Now I had you read this passage, but what we look on is that which has to do with the eunuch.

From this verse 27 ............Philip was told to rise and go to an area... and....it was on this particular roadway from Jerusalem to Gaza. And in this verse he (Philip) finds a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians. This man had authority (charge) over all her treasury and he had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Yes, the Gospel had reached the ends of the earth.....and that the nation was being pointed toward God and salvation through Jesus Christ.

In thinking of their skin color, they were the darkest.........but they had been given Jesus. They had been given God's grace. And many thought it was wrong for salvation to come to them. But God is no respecter of persons. He loves all people and all lives matter in His sight!

Looking further into their backgrounds and how the Queen took her stand next to the king.........I like what T.D. Jake said today on his teaching:"She was no Barbie doll." And I had wondered what kind of queen could stand in those days with a true king! The women who go to battle with the men in this country of Ethiopia would be regarded for their strategy and experience in the "front line" if you will. In some cases that chosen 'queen' could be one who could lose an eye because of the up close and personal fight! Still, one in the lineage much like "Pharaoh", a Candace would come and stand with a "king". These women were known as the "warrior queens".

When Alexander wanted to take all of Europe...( you know he wanted to have authority over the whole earth)!.......Alexander the Great met with Queen Candace and he decided when he saw her riding on an elephant.........that he would NOT try to take Ethiopia. He backed down when he saw her on the big creature!

No, she was no "doll" of any kind. But she was a one of kind who is mentioned..........and did they not receive the good news?   In what I had put down for notes early this morning, my thoughts were on last night at church, praying for the activities this spring and summer to reach the youths and teens, and praying for the youth who will be adults in the future. They are our future!

We, as a group gathered and prayed............for the young children and those we are destined to have contact with and in that I thought of Deborah and those who played parts in praying over countries and leading others to Jesus. She was called the "Mother in Israel".

As in the culture of the day, most movies today will include some kind of supernatural. They have "magic". They have the sparkling blue dress, the crown on blond hair, and fairy dust sprinkling all around in the air............falling to the floor beneath their feet. Then, alas, I think of the eye shadow I had gotten to wear on my eyelids...........just a little color, if you please. Aah, but the glitter in the shadow........and then it is in my eyes and then I rub them. AND then the pain sets in, my eyes are bloodshot. PLEASE NO FAIRY DUST HERE!

If we give our youth, and teens fairy dust, blue gowns, and magic wands, and they think their lives will look like that, then when will you speak truth and tell them, "they may not be the queen with the crown", they will not have magic wands to make everything better when all hell is breaking loose against them. For giving them those things and so early, I saw pain on our grand-daughter's face when I asked why she did not want to be the brunette in the fairy dust movie and she said" because the blond wore the crown" and "she wore the pretty sparkling and fancy gown"!

Matthew 6:19-21..........19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. NKJV

From the scripture above we see that which is built on having a shallow beauty of the outside of one being revealed. 

Those kind of things are built on the promises given by a broken and fallen world. They will only break more hearts, bring about those broken dreams with no castles and no hope!
But our hope is to be in Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:1-5

5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.  NIV

For where do we place our children to stand, "in the world" under the leadership of the adversary we know as the devil? Yes, those things can be "oh so cute" and fancy fun, but what about those kids who now think they have to be blond to have the great beautiful gown?
And I think of all those young boys...........that their vision is on "the far away galaxy"...........Wow! So what about the here and now, the present time, are we placing anything in them to move forward other than with a "light saber" or a "space ship" to leave the 3rd Rock from the Sun? Some of those things are just for a moment's time, but what have we placed in them that will take them into the exploits for God and into eternity?

I am then drawn back to the prayer Thursday night, and where do we place our children and those who are "our future". Lord, help us to pray for them, and then show us how to give life to them that presents the Queens like Esther, the prophets like Deborah who desired the good for them, for the future of a strong nation without fairy dust, and without "light sabers"!
In prayer today, I am calling out those "warrior queens" who stand with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords! I am calling those out who have the strategy of the great queen in battles. For our children are at stake right now. The devil desires their souls.

We read about Deborah in Judges 4.

Judges 4:4-24

4 Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came to her to have their disputes decided. 6 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: 'Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead the way to Mount Tabor. 7 I will lure Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.'" 

8 Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go." 

9 "Very well," Deborah said, "I will go with you. But because of the way you are going about this, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will hand Sisera over to a woman." So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh, 10 where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him. 

11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses' brother-in-law, and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh. 

12 When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, 13 Sisera gathered together his nine hundred iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River. 

14 Then Deborah said to Barak, "Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?" So Barak went down Mount Tabor, followed by ten thousand men. 15 At Barak's advance, the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot. 16 But Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim. All the troops of Sisera fell by the sword; not a man was left. 

17 Sisera, however, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there were friendly relations between Jabin king of Hazor and the clan of Heber the Kenite. 

18 Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid." So he entered her tent, and she put a covering over him. 

19 "I'm thirsty," he said. "Please give me some water." She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up. 

20 "Stand in the doorway of the tent," he told her. "If someone comes by and asks you, 'Is anyone here?' say 'No.'" 

21 But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. 

22 Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. "Come," she said, "I will show you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple-dead. 

23 On that day God subdued Jabin, the Canaanite king, before the Israelites.   24 And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin, the Canaanite king, until they destroyed him. 

NIV

In Judges 4:4-7.....Deborah gives him the strategy.  In detail she gives him the step by step. But verse 8 tells us that he would not go unless she went.

And of course, the rest is now history. For this all came into the hands of a woman. The honor went to another.

She sings in Judges 5 a praise to God. She praises those who willingly went into battle. She sings from her heart of those who offered themselves willingly among the people. And in 4:12, we find this:

Judges 5:1-3...........1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying: 

2 "Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes, I , even I will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel." KJV

"THEN SANG DEBORAH AND BARAK . . ."When leaders lead in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, Bless the LORD" (Judges 5:1, 2).

This verse 2 is revealing praise to be given to the Lord.

An area such as this with such dark oppression, do we not see it today?

Then we find that reason for giving such praise:   The Lord had avenged Israel. In looking at the  Hebrew word for avenge, we can find it meant "to break or set loose by delivering from oppression." Deliverance from the oppression and bondage of the enemy is always cause for praise to the Lord. Right?

Working with God's plan and giving Him praise gave the time of their being loosed.  The captives were set free when they "willingly offered themselves."

They were the "willing" without any manipulation. As His child, we should be oh so prompt to obey!

We are to live by faith and that faith must be rooted in God!

Those who do exploits will "know " their God. They will hear the plans of strategy and move in praise to Him that He is the leader, the ONE who rules over our hearts.

FROM APPOINTED BY GOD: DEBORAH, THE PROPHETESS:
I believe she was sent to protect the children of Israel from the violence of the Canaanite king, Jabin. He was a man of violence who was cruel to all he came in contact with during those harsh and formidable years in Israel.
In scripture we find located in the book of Proverbs 3:31...." to envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways."
The "oppressor" being the man of violence. In the world today, our children should be nurtured in a lifestyle of the pure, the peaceable, the gentle, easy to get along with, and yes full of mercy. From James 3:14-18 the description of wisdom spoken about is to be without hypocrisy, without any partiality and full of good fruits.
If we are introducing our children and yes, grand-children into an oppressed lifestyle, we NEED TO STOP IT NOW! I, too, have found I need to change the channel and get if off the show with guns ringing out, guns used to harm another person, guns that depict violence in this world. I for one must change the channel to something along the lines of peace for our grand-daughter to see and enjoy and not to be scared out of her wits.
Deborah, stood as wisdom to declare God will deliver the land from the oppressor.
He will deliver us from cruelty, oppressive people, and those who inflict brutality on another person.
But who of us will take the stand to do that? Or who will fight for our children and grand-children and see violence come to an end?
Psalm 73:6-8 says, "therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.....7 From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their minds know no limits.
8 They scoff, and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression. NIV

So from scripture it appears, that violence has many faces!

If a man, woman or child have the hardened heart, and are consumed with lying like verse 7 declares, then the man, woman or even the child will speak with the malice, and exhibit a brutality towards another person.
When a person speaks with malice, they speak to do evil, to take revenge on another, and they have this deep-seated meanness and hate. Those who have put on the garment of violence speak with arrogance, and they usually have the prideful self-importance in their behavior around others. They bully others to announce their unhappiness and to declare themselves to be number "1". It is in this arrogance of bullying they threaten to bring cruelty, brutality and destruction by physical force.

Sound familiar? Seen that lately on the evening news?

Deborah the Judge, became the "mother in Israel" the mother who watched over God's children in Israel at a time of injustice, of violence, and maltreatment. In the verses describing the sad condition of those in the country at the time, the oppression of the people and distress was due to their sin in idolatry.
We allow our children to watch violent movies, and play games that initiate violent force on another and then we wonder what is going on in our streets!
We are certainly not to make provision for the sinful, the oppressive things in our homes or even our schools and sport activities. We saw the oppressive king described in Judges. God sent Deborah to stand strong for her nation. Can we do as much? Are our children worth the price to see violence come to an end in our cities, and in our homes?

Let's lead our young girls and young boys into God's plan. Speak truth to them and deliver their souls. That is protect them from things they should not be watching and adhere to for their safety's sake. Let us be those "warrior queens" who will prevail in prayer for our kids in this nation that is to be the "the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. God created this nation and still has His plan for it! Let's stand together, rally around our youth, whether they are red, yellow, black or white, they are still the Precious in His Sight. "Awake, Awake",........"Awake, Awake, utter a song"............give worship and praise to God and walk toward leading those who have been captives. Stand with the King today, and give voice of praise in your home, in your neighborhood and in your city. Raise your voice for ears to be opened and eyes to see that have been blind, for our children to come out of bondage and be a fire for God in this generation and in this hour. Amen!

I dedicate this to my daughter Candace and all those who pray for the youth and seek their good. I dedicate to those who are the self-less like the Tina's who give of themselves to serve others. I dedicate this to the "pastors" who give of their time and energy to touch children's heart that shows in their day to day life without regard to themselves.
May this bring glory to God and to those who show themselves the willing to go in HIS NAME. AMEN!

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