Using the Unexpected

Deborah, Esther, Rahab, Ruth, Jonah, Noah, Moses, and Paul. These eight people were people that God ended up using at one point and they weren’t exactly people that you would expect to be used. 

1) Debroah ~ Judges 4:1-5:31

⚖️ She was a prophet and a judge of the Israelities

⚖️ She sent for a man named Barak because the Lord commanded him to “Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands” (Judges 4:6-7).

⚖️ Barak ended up not wanting to go unless Debroah went with him because he didn’t believe that he could do what God wanted if she wasn’t there with him. 

⚖️She ended up going with him and sure enough Barak went to battle on the day that she told him and the Lord routed the enemy like Debroah said would happen.

⚖️She stayed the course and deviate from it and in the end Sisera was killed by a woman whose name was Jael.

2) Esther ~ Esther 

👑 She was a Jew who later became Queen to King Xerxes 

👑She was brought into the palace of the king with a bunch of other young woman, all virgins, to basically be put through a test in order to be chosen to become the new Queen.

👑 Nobody knew that she was a Jew because her cousin Mordecai told her not to tell anyone