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Now, you might think the Lord God, being Almighty, doesn’t need your help.
He might need your prayer. John Wesley famously said God does nothing except in answer to prayer. He was saying that prayer is how we partner with the Lord in what he is doing.
But you might think that’s it. You don’t need to help God by actually doing anything. Let God do it all.
Well, in the book of judges, in chapter four and verse two, we read how the people of Israel were being oppressed by Jabin, a Canaanite king, and his army chief Sisera. We even read why. It was because:
Judges 4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD …
Lord raised up Deborah
The oppression went on for twenty years until the Lord raised up the prophetess Deborah. Now Deborah lived in the centre of ancient Israel, between Ramah and Bethel in the tribal settlement of Benjamin.
The oppression was occurring more to the north. We are told Sisera was based at Harosheth, which I think was near present-day Haifa, close to Mount Carmel and the Kishon river.
This is on the borders of the allotments of Western Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun and Issachar. The trouble was possibly also affecting Naphtali, further north.
Barak recruits an army
So Deborah called for Barak, from Naphtali, and sent him up to Mount Tabor, just south-west of Lake Galillee, east of Nazareth, to recruit an army.
He found support from the tribes of Ephraim, Benjamin, Zebulun, Issachar and Naphtali. The Lord blessed the Israelite army.
They defeated Sisera and he came to a sticky end. The song of Deborah and Barak in chapter five of judges tells the tale.
They single out two of the tribes for praise:
Jdg 5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
They complain that Dan and Asher carried on with their seafaring rather than join. While Reuben dithered:
Jdg 5:15b & 16b For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
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Cursed for refusing to fight
One city is singled out for divine condemnation. It was Meroz, in the conflict zone, whose people declined to join the fight. We read in verse twenty-three:
Jdg 5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
So when bad stuff is going on, the Lord expects you not to ignore it, or to dither, let alone refuse the call, but to get up and help him against the mighty, the elites, the oppressors.
It’s more than prayer, or if it’s prayer, it’s prayer for what you can do.
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The Lord is calling you to action
Today, the enemies of the Lord are in power in many nations, including in the United Kingdom, doing evil in the sight of the Lord. You are in a spiritual conflict zone.
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