Women's Empowerment — a figure standing on a ridge in full daylight, looking out over open country

Deborah leadsJudges 4:1-14Length: Standard

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • What roles does Deborah hold in this passage, and what does Barak say he will and will not do?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • How do you actually respond when the person with the clearest word from God is a woman?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • Whose leadership will you back this week, publicly?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who in your community has the gift to lead and has never been asked?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

God, Deborah judged Israel and Barak would not go without her. Raise up women who lead well, and men who are glad to follow them.