Welcome back home with Havila listeners. We're so glad you're here for another week.

This week is part three of our nurturing powerhouse series. If you don't know what I'm talking

about, go back two weeks and start there with part one. Havila has been sharing this powerful

word all about the nurturing power of a woman. And she is finishing up that today. And

she's talking about how women have a unique gift to connect people to their identity in

Christ. So tune in again, make sure you go back and listen to the first two if you have it.

And I will see you at the end.

So Deborah and Barack, Barack gathered. I don't know why that thing is stuck in my head.

I always say, you give each child a fourth of your brain. So I'm lucky to be using sentences.

Deborah and Barack gathered an army and then listen, this is important. He says, if you go with me,

I'll go. If you don't go, I won't go. What he was inviting her was a five mile walk.

Historically, they would have walked five miles. And so I could see to her saying, you know,

I'm not going to go unless you go and she goes, get my nikes. We're going. And she grabs her

step and she's like, I'm going to walk with you. And she walks with him for five miles.

She walks with them. She's like, no problem. You don't believe the word of the Lord. You don't have the courage to do it.

No problem. I'll be at your side. And I'll remind you over and over and over who you're called to be.

What I see in you, what God sees in you. And I will be a vessel of the prophetic voice over your life.

And I could just imagine what the journey was like. I love this. You know, she, many of us,

I don't think that they were just walking in silence. Like we're just going to pray in the spirit quietly.

We're going to soak for five hours. Like, no, no, it shouldn't take five hours to walk five miles. But you know, I'm saying,

I think what I imagine, you see,

Barack's name in Hebrew meant lightning. When he was born, he was named. And in biblical times,

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