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Welcome to Women Of The Bible speak. Im Shannon Bream. Loyalty to god does not ensure a life of happiness. In fact, loyalty can often lead to bigger challenges. Television icon Kathie Lee Gifford exemplifies the hardships and blessings that come from a life of steadfast faith, loyalty to god means putting him first. Every morning i wake up before i have any other thought. I pray. Thank you, lord, for your faithfulness to watch over me during the night, and i thank him for a new day. If i have a pulse, i have a purpose to be loyal to him. The book of first samuel begins with a narrative that wi...

welcome to women of the bible speak. i'm shannon bream. loyalty to god does not ensure a life of happiness. in fact, loyalty can often lead to bigger challenges. television icon kathie lee gifford exemplifies the hardships and blessings that come from a life of steadfast faith, loyalty to god means putting him first. every morning i wake up before i have any other thought. i pray. thank you, lord, for your faithfulness to watch over me during the night, and i thank him for a new day. if i have a pulse, i have a purpose to be loyal to him. the book of first samuel begins with a narrat...

In the book of judges, israel once again turned away from god. so god allowed the king of canaan and his army commander cicero, to oppress the israelites. after years of abuse, israel cried out to god for help. god answered their plea through a judge, a woman named deborah. i really love the story of deborah, and i identify with her because of my legal background and working as a lawyer. i love that she was such a wise, esteemed individual that she was this female leader of israel, which was super unusual. deborah is extraordinary because she is the only evidence we have of a female judge. and...

There's a sense of unity going on in the period of deborah that we don't see with some of the other judges, which is unusual, both because unity rarely happens and also because it's under the leadership of deborah. we rarely see a woman as political and military leader in the scriptures or when we do. often it's negative. deborah showed no hesitation when god commanded her to go into battle against this army that badly outmanned, outgunned the israelites in every way. they didn't have any of the chariots. they didn't have any of the weapons. they had nothing. and these people had been oppressi...

Among them being the king of hazar and his chief generals, cicero. and they are sort of being ground under this hammer of oppression. deborah decides to fight back, and deborah is the one who goes and finds the military commander who's going to lead the armies of israel in the field. god had called deborah to take them into battle, and she'd gone to their military commander, barak, to say, hey, god's told us to go do this. he said, i don't want to do it unless you go with me. deborah answered and said, okay, we're going to do this. but because of your hesitance, god is going to deliver cicero,...