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<strong>Think</strong> Like Deborah<br />
generation, we are of her same lineage, and<br />
by faith, this promise still belongs to us.<br />
It’s a promise in its original full force and<br />
effect. We can put our trust in it in any hard<br />
place we find ourselves. “When thou are in<br />
tribulation, and all these things are come<br />
upon thee… if thou turn to the Lord thy God<br />
and shall be obedient to His voice, He will<br />
not forsake thee nor forget the covenant<br />
of thy fathers which He swore unto them”<br />
(Deuteronomy 4:30). This to me is a clear<br />
invitation to claim what’s been promised to<br />
us, by being obedient to His voice, whether<br />
in a whisper or in a jolt of revelation, as was<br />
the case with Deborah.<br />
The key to Deborah’s thought process is<br />
that she followed through on what she heard<br />
in her spirit, then lined it up with what she<br />
knew was a covenant promise. How often<br />
have we heard that voice calling us higher<br />
and have dismissed it for one reason or the<br />
other?<br />
Throughout our lives, we often find<br />
ourselves in many different places of “comfort”<br />
(which are actually places of discomfort) when<br />
we receive the call to action. A marriage<br />
goes bad. A job becomes unbearable. The<br />
place we’ve called home for years, possibly<br />
all our lives, suffocates us. The religion we<br />
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