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Deborah's Destiny
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| There's just not enough time to go into every ask. | |
| You really have to get the book, Women. | |
| You're going to love it. | |
| You're going to see yourself in it. | |
| You're going to see your daughters in it, your granddaughters, your friends, your mothers, your aunts. | |
| You're going to see the women in your life in this book in one way, shape, or another. | |
| And if you don't see them yet, you're going to know how to pray for them to become that woman of destiny, to become like a Deborah. | |
| And Deborah was your role model. | |
| She was. | |
| I read the book. | |
| That's it. | |
| And I love how you interweave your story in the book. | |
| It makes it so personable. | |
| I really got to know you, Jane, through this book. | |
| Thank you. | |
| And it's just incredible. | |
| Do you think every woman should have this role? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Because it is a book that you can keep going back and referencing to. | |
| She talks a lot about, I need to let her talk. | |
| I mean, I can preach your book right now. | |
| You're doing great. | |
| But it is so, I mean, I just turn to this one page right here. | |
| I have highlighted, you know, you talk about what the difference is between Deborah and Jezebel. | |
| Right. | |
| You know, for instance, while Deborah is bold, Jezebel is brave. | |
| And while Deborah is humble, you're right, Jezebel is proud. | |
| And while Deborah's teachable, Jezebel's unteachable. | |
| I mean, so you're just going, you go, that's just one little list, isn't it? | |
| Yeah, because that Jezebel's spirit changed the spirit. | |
| Yes. | |
| Change it. | |
| But tell us about Deborah. | |
| How did Deborah become your model? | |
| Yeah, so, you know, when we started coming up in ministry, there weren't a lot of husbands and wives. | |
| And there certainly weren't very many women that were just kind of bold and on the forefront of what God was doing. | |
| And so I looked around a little bit in the body of Christ, and I saw a few women that were doing some great things, but their story didn't really resonate with me. | |
| And then when I was reading the scripture one day, I found the story of Deborah in Judges chapter four and five. | |
| And this was a woman that was a national leader. | |
| She was basically the equivalent of the prime minister or the president of the land of Israel during a time when women were not really valued. | |
| It was a patriarchal society. | |
| So she was the leader. | |
| She was the judge, which was the chief executive office in the land. | |
| She was a prophet. | |
| And I resonated with that because I am a prophet and I have a very strong prophetic call on my life. | |
| But she was also a wife and a mother. | |
| And that was important to me as well. | |
| She was a warrior and she was a worshiper. | |
| And I felt like as I studied her life, it spoke to me about who I am. | |
| And each one of those aspects of who she is. | |
| She was raised up at a time when the nation was in crisis. | |
| There was terror in the streets, so people didn't even travel from city to city. | |
| They were kind of in lockdown, if you will. | |
| And God raised her up and she delivered a prophetic word that mobilized the general, that mobilized the army, and ultimately saved a nation and saved a generation. | |
| And when I read her story, I thought that is exactly who I feel like God has called me to be. | |
| And that is exactly the company of women that God is raising up. | |
| Whether they are mothers at home raising their families, whether they are women in the corporate world or women that are called to government or any other aspect of society, we need to understand that as women, number one, we're not second-class citizens in the kingdom of God, but we are empowered women of God that have an ability to make a difference wherever we go. | |