Pastor Dalkeith Bennett continues the series of five messages on “Faith in Action – Five Unlikely Heroes”. The objective of this series is to help us embrace the idea that anyone can be a “Hero of Faith” if we make ourselves available for God to use us.
For Heritage Month, I have chosen to examine the lives of five individuals found in the “Hall of Faith” in Hebrews chapter 11, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah.
Our hero of faith for today is Barak, found in Judges 4-5. Through Deborah, God gave instructions to Barak to engage the army of Jabin. God promised Barak that He himself would lure the army and give them into Barak’s hand. However, Barak laid down his own conditions. As a result, although he won the battle, God gave the honour of defeating Sisera to an ordinary housewife, Jael. Judges chapter 5 is a poem commemorating this.
Let’s press on in faith even as we consider how God used Barak’s imperfect faith to accomplish a great task.