Should women go to war? I don’t believe that mothers with children should leave their precious children and their homes to go to war. This is the opposite to God’s plan.

God shows us something of His heart about this in Psalm 68:11, 12 (HCSB): “The Lord gave the command; a great company of women brought the good news: The kings of the armies flee—they flee!” She who stays at home divides the spoil.”

What is happening here? The enemy has come to attack and therefore the soldiers (the men) prepare and go out to war. They are the army in the field.

But there is another army at home—the women. They are also called an army. The word “company” means “those who are part of an army, a military, a war.” My KJV Bible gives the word “army” in the margin. It’s the same word that is used of God who is THE LORD OF HOSTS! The One who is the mighty, powerful Warrior, ready to intervene for His people.

Where is this army of women? They are not fighting the enemy out in the field. They are at home. Do you notice it says: “SHE who stays at home”? It is not the men who stay home, but the women. Some fathers stay home to look after their children while their wives go to work. This is opposite to the Scriptures.

While the men fight to save their homes and families out on the field, the women fight to protect their families and “hold the fort” in the absence of their husbands.

And when they win the battle, they go forth as a conquering force to proclaim the good news! Back in Bible days they danced and sang. And when the men brought back the “spoil,” the gold, silver, and beautiful garments, they didn’t give a portion to the women. They gave it all to them. They gave them the authority to divide it and share it among their daughters, handmaidens, the poor, and all around them.

They were all in the fight together, each one doing the task God intended for them!

French and Skinner’s Translation states:

“The Lord giveth the word!

A great company of women announce the glad tidings!

Kings with their armies flee—they flee!

And those who dwell within the house, divide the spoil!”

Dear mother, you are part of a mighty army of women. Your place to fight against the enemy is in the home! You keep the home fires burning. You strengthen your home, your marriage, your family. You keep pushing back the enemy who wants to subtly come into your home with his deceptions and destruction. If you are not there to watch, the enemy will take over! Remember Jael? She was the heroine of the great battle between the king of Canaan and the Israelites. She was the one who captured Captain Sisera and lopped off his head, and therefore won the final victory. And where did she do this mighty deed? Right in her own home! Read Judges, chapters five and six.

You support your husband in his work. You release him to do his career, and you embrace your role of motherhood with all your heart. You seek after truth and teach it to your children. You proclaim the good news of the Gospel and your love for family wherever you go. You are a proclaimer of truths!

Oh, for a great army of women to understand the power of their homes, to come back to their homes and raise godly sons and daughters. Oh, for a great army of women to proclaim God’s truth in society instead of being deceived by the humanistic values of today which are opposite to God’s living Word.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

www.aboverubies.org

PRAYER:

“Dear Father, thank You for showing me that we are all enlisted in Your great army against the flesh and the devil and the evils of this world. Thank you for showing me that You need an army on the home front as much as you need an army out in the field. Please help me to rise up as a warrior in my home, never allowing the enemy to take the upper hand. Help me to be like Jael who won the victory for the Israelite army right in her own home! Amen.”

AFFIRMATION:

I am a home protector, a home guarder, and a home warrior, pushing out all evil from my home in the name of Jesus. And in the power or God’s might I am “casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself  against the knowledge of God” in my life and in my home!