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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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