In a time where war was raging thick, and trade had ceased, the highways deserted and pain ravaging the tribes of Israel, a mother in Israel arose. A mother who was both judge and prophetess. A woman who heard, who spoke and who called. Under her leadership, half the tribes of Israel were united in...
Blindly as women, we have not always known why we are so attacked, oppressed and hated. A simple look at the earth, and the statistics around women abuse, human trafficking, gendercide, child brides, rape and more, reveal that there is a war being fought against women. Believe it or not, women are the most oppressed...
Luke in his gospel takes us beyond the crowds into the inner circle of Yeshua’s most faithful followers, into the company of His most trusted disciples. Luke names the 12, and then he names 3. Three women are in the inner circle, and among these women is Joanna. A woman of nobility and wealth, a...
It’s the story preachers love to preach about. A harlot woman forgiven through selflessness and included in to the lineage of the Messiah. The ultimate picture of redemption, books have been written about it and many a lesson taught and inspiration drawn from this Canaanite woman in the doomed city of Jericho, but is it...
The book of Judges echoes out with a loud refrain, “and everyone did what seemed right in their own eyes.” This reality set the stage for multiple deliverers to rise up and be used by YHWH to deliver His people from enemy oppression. One deliver was Jephtah, an outcast with a tragic past. In a...
Trials, they come. Battles, we will wage them in different degrees as we journey through this life. In this teaching, Aliyah takes us along in to the moment following Esther’s victory over the Jewish foe Haman. While some would call this the moment of victory, when Haman’s body hang on his own gallows, YHWH had...
Esther’s journey to free her people from genocide, started when she entered the palace and then stood in the hallway of a king. But her journey did not end there, it continued. When Esther stood before the king, it was just the beginning. Esther moved with discernment, wisdom and sensitivity. She moved the battle from...
This week we encounter Esther, weary and heavy burdened. The fate of a people resting on her shoulders, the weight of burden and destiny collide as she stands in the hallway of a king, ready to request salvation. Her plight is so much like our own, as her destiny and true identity in God remained...
