Hometown Hero

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"But when the people cried out to the LORD, He raised up for them a deliverer...who saved them." (Judges 3:9)

In the Old Testament book of Judges, God's people were living among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites when they took their daughters in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their false gods. 

Because the Israelites had done evil in the eyes of the LORD by forgetting the LORD their God and serving the Baals and the Asherahs, the anger of the LORD burned against them. God sold His people into the hands of the king of Aram Naharaim, where they served as slaves for eight years.

But then...

When God's people cried out to the LORD, He raised up a hometown hero—Othniel, Caleb's younger brother. Judges 3:10 tell us that the Spirit of the LORD came upon Othniel, and the LORD gave the king of Mesopotamia into his hands. Afterward, the land had rest forty years. 

God has raised up hometown heroes across the history of humanity.

Abraham Lincoln, as the 16th President of the United States, led our nation victoriously through her greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis in the Civil War.

Florence Nightingale of England founded modern nursing and served as a nurse during the Crimean War tending the wounded soldiers.

Dr. Jonas Salk developed one of the first successful polio vaccines to help conquer poliomyelitis, a disabling and life-threatening disease, which was the most frightening health problem around the world until 1955.

O Heavenly Father, we cry out to You today asking You to please raise up a hero against COVID-19. Please give scientists supernatural revelation for its prevention and cure. Please halt and eradicate this worldwide disease and bring healing and restoration in the countless lives affected by it.

We ask for this miracle in the powerful name of Jesus, the name that is above every name.

Amen and amen