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Unlikely Heroes Studies for families in Belonging, Becoming, and going Beyond Volume 17 Number 18 May 10, 2015 The ScrollsUNLIKELY HEROES "RIGHT WOMAN FOR THE JOB" JUDGES 4:1-5:13 This Week’s Core Competency sponsor a child's education. Three hundred dollars a Identity in Christ – I believe I am significant year would supply education, meals, spiritual because of my position as a child of God. John 1:12 instruction and medical care for one child. By the Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in end of 2008, Katie saw 150 children sponsored. His name, He gave the right to become children of God. Today over 700 children have sponsors. "I could never do that!" "I don't have what it Katie's work is amazingly robust now, with teams takes." "I'm not even qualified." "What would others helping her reach out to tribal groups with feeding think?" Have you ever had thoughts like these? programs, vocational training programs for mothers Often we are reluctant to do something God is and educational program-ming in the now-formal nudging us to do because we fear the unknown. Amazima School. Amazima also provides medical Fear of failure, objections, or the ridicule of others care to families and farming education for local often prevents us from stepping into God's plan. In Ugandan farmers. All this from the heart and hands order not to make waves, sometimes it's easier just of a young single woman! Learn more about her to stay out of the water. story from her bestselling book Kisses from Katie or Katie Davis, founder of Amazima Ministries, if she her website amazima.org. is anything, is decisively a wave-maker! In 2006 at As exciting as all this ministry sounds, what is age 18, Katie took a life changing short-term mission even more compelling about Katie's "wave-making" trip to the impoverished country of Uganda. She was is her personal commitment to the people of so touched by the people and their needs, she Uganda. Katie, early on in her time in Uganda, returned in 2007 to teach kindergarten at a Ugandan began to open her home to orphaned Ugandan orphanage. Beyond the scope of her daily teaching, girls. By the age of 22, she was a foster parent to she began to see and feel the effects of poverty upon 13 orphan girls. Katie has mothered these children in Uganda. Walking through the villages motherless children as a single mom for three years where her students lived, Katie found that many now. Just this January Katie married and now children of school age could not afford tuition. Some shares these 13 children with her young husband, families were too poor to send their children to any Benji. Who would have ever thought that 13 school. Other children had no homes and were living orphaned Ugandan girls would have a mother from on the street. Someone had to do something! So Tennessee and now a father as well! Katie started an educational sponsorship program for Critics are quick to point out the uniqueness of Ugandan____________________________________ children. Western donors were invited to Ms. Davis' story, cautioning others from following such an unorthodox path. Katie's story is often We are all manufacturers–some messy and unconventional. But what cannot be make good, others make trouble, and dismissed is Katie's dependence upon God and her obedience to do what God has put in front of her. still others make excuses. Katie has little room for excuses or conditions - Anonymous while loving the children of Uganda. _____________________________________ cont. pg. 2 Copyright © Pantego Bible Church. Material researched and written by Eric Wright, guest author, and Wendy Hollabaugh, Children’s Minister. Special thanks to Alison Dellenbaugh for her assistance in the production of this study. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. When asked if she would advise others to follow her example, Katie reveals the heart of a willing and excuse-deficient servant: "I think prayer is key. I would encourage people to follow and obey, and try to serve others one step at a time, whoever is in front of them . And as you meet the needs right in front of you, He can build something different than we ever would have thought or planned." (Christianity Today, Oct 25, 2011) What excuses or conditions are you holding on to that would keep you from serving Christ? day ENCOUNTER – read God’s word to put yourself in 1 touch with him. Judges 4:1-24 14 Then Deborah said to Barak, "Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the 1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, Lord gone ahead of you?" So Barak went down Mount now that Ehud was dead. 2 So the Lord sold them into Tabor, with ten thousand men following him. 15 At the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Barak's advance, the Lord routed Sisera and all his Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down in Harosheth Haggoyim. 3 Because he had nine from his chariot and fled on foot. hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly 16 Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera's troops fell by the the Lord for help. sword; not a man was left. 17 Sisera, meanwhile, fled on 4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, was leading[a] Israel at that time. 5 She held court because there was an alliance between Jabin king of under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite. in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, up to her to have their disputes decided. 6 She sent for "Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid." So he Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. said to him, "The Lord, the God of Israel, commands 19 "I'm thirsty," he said. "Please give me some water." you: 'Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. 7 I will covered him up. lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his 20 "Stand in the doorway of the tent," he told her. "If chariots and his troops to the Kishon Riverand give him someone comes by and asks you, 'Is anyone in there?' into your hands.'" say 'No.'" 8 Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but 21 But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a if you don't go with me, I won't go." hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast 9 "Certainly I will go with you," said Deborah. "But asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple because of the course you are taking, the honor will not into the ground, and he died. be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands 22 Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and of a woman." So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. Jael went out to meet him. "Come," she said, "I will show 10 There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his also went up with him. temple-dead. 11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, 23 On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan the descendants of Hobab, Moses' brother-in-law,[b] before the Israelites. 24 And the hand of the Israelites and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan near Kedesh. until they destroyed him. (NIV 2011) 12 When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, 13 Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron. 2 EXAMINE – what the passage says before you decide what it means. *Circle the word in 4:2 that shows the result of evil *Double underline the active subject of Judges 4:15a. described in 4:1. *Circle the word in 4:15b and 17 that stands in strong *Box the word in 4:3 that shows the cause of Israel's cry contrast to "chariot." for help. *Box the phrase in 4:17 that shows the reason why Sisera *Underline the words showing the actions of Deborah in went to Jael's tent. Judges 4:4-6. *Underline the words in 4:22 that show immediacy. *Circle the word "I" in Judges 4:7. Draw a line to who *Circle the acting subject of 4:23. this is as found in 4:6. *Box the acting subject of 4:24. *Draw a line between the word "hands" found in 4:7 and Draw a line between the similar words found in 4:2 and 4:9.
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