159 – The Bible is full of women who speak with wisdom and have positions of authority.

Several years ago in my Bible class at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, CT, I put together a class on all the women in the Bible.

It was fascinating to look at the Bible from the perspective of what women were doing and what was being done to them. 

One of the first things I realized in preparing for and teaching this class was that the Bible is full of examples when women were in charge, had great authority, were sought out by men for advice, and were chosen for important roles. 

These women were not subservient to men. They owned their power and fulfilled their God-given purpose by being true to themselves and to God.

In this week’s episode, we’re going to look at a few of these women and see what we can learn from them. This not just for you if you’re a woman. Guys, there are lots of lessons we can learn from what God does with women in the Bible.

Here are the women I talk about in this week's episode:

• Sarah: God commanded Abraham to obey wife and do everything she told him, in regards to sending Hagar and Ishmael away
  • Abraham obeyed his wife
  • Husbands who think their wives should always obey them need to remember what God told Abraham
• Deborah was a prophet and a judge in Israel, before there were kings
  • The people came to Deborah as a judge and prophet because they truested her. 
  • Her reputation spoke for her. They did not discredit her because she was a woman.
  • Deborah commanded Barak to gather 10,000 troops and he obeyed
  • Barak wanted Deborah to go with him into battle. He valued what she had to offer.
  • Barak was willing not to take credit for the victory because he knew Deborah was the one who brought the victory
• Huldah was a prophet during the reign of King Josiah
  • When the book of the Law was found in the Temple and read to the Josiah, he sent the priest and others to Huldah, a prophetess, to inquire what God wanted him to do
  • The king, the mightiest man in the kingdom, asked for advice from a woman

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