In Judges four, the Israelites have been enslaved by Jabin, King of Cannaan for twenty years. They cry out to The Lord for help and Deborah sets up a meeting and sens Barak with 20000 men to attack. While they were attacking, the commander of the army, Sisera, fled to the tent of Jael. He told her to stand by the door and that if anyone asked, she had not seen him. He then laid down and fell asleep. Jael took a tent peg and a hammer and killed Sisera. Then she showed the men who were looking for him his body.

 My favorite verse is verse 21, " But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died." This is my favorite verse because it kind of made me laugh. Like I was reading and totally didn't expect that that woman would do that. It kind makes me think like wow girl power, we can be strong too. 

Actually Jael inspired me to do what is right no matter what the costs. Like, I'm sure she knew that if she killed that man it would always be on her conscience because killing someone is not easy, obviously.  My friends swear a lot and I know it isn't right so even though I know they wouldn't like think I was weird if I didn't swear they will still think of me as different and I need to do what's right no matter what my friends are gonna think. 

Chapter 1: Moses has died so God tell Joshua that he is the new leader. He promise Joshua that everywhere the Israelites walk, the land will be theirs and all nations will fear them. God will be the same with Joshua as he was with Moses. They will meditate on God and be prosperous. God tells them to be strong and courageous. Joshua gives command to the people and they obey.

Chapter 2: Joshua sends two spies into the Promised land and they go to the house of a prostitute named Rahab. She hides them and tells the people who are looking for them that they left through the gates just before dark. She tells the spies that she knows that God has promised the land to them and that she believes in God. She makes them promise to save her and her family because she hid them. They promise and then tell her that when they come to fight, to let the scarlet cord hang out of their window so they know to kill anyone in that house. Then the spies depart.

Chapter 3: Joshua tells the people that as soon as they see the ark of the covenant being carried by the Levitical priests they should follow it but stay 2000 cubits away from it. Joshua tells them to consecrate themselves because the Lord would be doing great things the next day. God tells the people that when the priests come to the Jordan river and stand still, the waters would go in a heap and the Israelites would walk across on dry land.

Favorite verse: Joshua 2:9: and said to the men, "I know that The Lord has given you the land , and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you." This is my favorite verse because the prostitute Rahab who has never heard of God before, heard about him and immediately she believed. If I were her I would've laughed like the others and wouldn't have believed.

Application: Its almost embarrassing that I have known God my whole life and I still don't have as much faith as Rahab. I really want to have faith like Rahab did and I'm going to do that by getting an accountability partner to help me with consistent devotional times so that I can grow in my faith and be like her.