Jael: Kill Him

The Power of Blessings and Destiny: A Tribute to Jael

In this episode of Relationship Rock, host Shirah Chante, Relationship Artist, shares her mission to help build lasting, loving, and peaceful relationships through arts and faith. She discusses the significance of blessings and curses, dives into the importance of enduring trials with faith, and emphasizes how we each have a unique destiny. Shirah performs her original song about Jael, a courageous woman from the Bible, highlighting Jael's pivotal role in winning a battle. She encourages listeners to seek and fulfill their God-given destinies, assuring them of God's guidance and support.

00:00 Introduction and Purpose

02:19 The Power of Blessings

02:56 Biblical Examples of Blessings and Curses

06:56 Faith Through Trials

12:52 The Story of Jael

23:18 Encouragement to Fulfill Your Destiny

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 Hi everyone, it's Shirah Chanté, relationship artist, healing hearts, through the arts, and helping God's people with relationships, here with Relationship Rock. We are building relationships that last, and I am your host, Shirah Chanté. Here with my guitar tonight, we're going to hear a little song I wrote, just a little bit of a song.

That's what I do on this show. We are building relationships that last, relationships that are loving and peaceful. I'm going to share a little snippet of a song I wrote, an original song, and we're going to just, Think about the words and talk about the words of the song and see how they might help us to build our relationships on the rock.

Jesus Christ, our Lord, the rock of our salvation. Thank you so much for joining me tonight. I'm so happy to be here as always, I thank the Lord that I'm able to come and sing and share and bless you. That's what he told me to do in 2023 when I was at church one Sunday morning and I walked to the altar for an altar call, I wanted to just go to the altar and pray and seek the Lord.

And the Lord sought me out and he said, bless my people. And I said, okay, I wasn't as shocked as I usually am. I'm getting more and more used to his voice. And he said, bless my people, but he did repeat it like he always does. And to me anyway. And I said, okay, I'm going to bless your people. So I set out to figure out what exactly does that mean?

There's a lot when it means to bless someone it's making good sayings over them. It's more than just saying, bless you. When someone sneezes, it's actually a power. That is used to determine even destinies when fathers pray over their children that has a hand in how they will turn out.

Yes we see in the Bible. When Jacob blessed his 12 sons and the blessings he gave them stood, and we see in the Bible, their blessing played out throughout their lifetime, dependent upon how they lived, whether or not they honored God. But we see these things play out. With Esau who's blessing who missed out on his blessing because he sold his birthright for a, some lentil soup for a cup of soup, or a bowl of soup, and he was crying and he couldn't get his.

He couldn't get his birthright back. He couldn't get his blessing back. And he was mad at his brother Jacob and not Jacob. He was mad at his brother was it Jacob? Jacob and Esau. Yeah. He was mad at Jacob. So I'm thinking of Isaac. Isaac was blessing Jacob and Esau, Isaac is their father, Isaac and Rebecca.

Is their mom. So blessings have a big deal to do with a person's destiny. I would probably say more than I would ever know or could ever think. I know we've heard curses and blessings, how people can say a curse over someone and these things could potentially play out, not in every case, but in certain cases if someone was not protected by God or the blood of Jesus, thank the Lord that sometimes these.

Curses could be spoken over a person in the same way a blessing can be spoken over a person, and a person can be blessed, and a person can be uplifted, and a person can be encouraged, but these blessings, God honors the blessing of the fathers, and so it's so important for, to have a father. Speak blessings into your life.

And we are so fortunate as believers in Yeshua, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, to have been grafted into the family of God. Hallelujah. Oh, I thank you. Yes. I would love to be grafted in. I, yes. Graft me in.

And because we. Have been grafted into the family. God is our father. Thank you, Jesus, because we believe in his son, the only begotten son of the father, a father, God, Jesus Christ. And so we are blessed and we can take hold of the blessings in the Bible. And so that is a major life determined, determiner, as I keep saying, there's a whole book of blessings and curses.

I believe it's in Deuteronomy. Chapter, maybe chapter 2028, I want to say, but that could be off that number could be off. But but there's like a whole book of blessings that God says, if you obey me and if you follow me, all of these blessings shall overtake you. But if you don't, if you. If you worship false gods, or if you worship idols, or if you bow down to false gods, commit idolatry, then the curses will come upon you.

So we see that there is a dynamic here between blesses and curses that are real, that we indeed have a play, have a part in fulfilling our own destiny. Through our actions, so I thank the Lord God for giving us his word so that we could follow it and so that our actions could be godly actions, good things.

And even if there was some one who lied on us, like in the case of Joseph. Who was lied on by Potiphar's wife who said that he was trying to rape her when he was not. She was, it was the opposite. She was trying to rape him. And, but Potiphar believed his wife and Joseph got thrown into prison innocently.

Even in a case like that, sometimes we have to suffer. For the Lord. Sometimes we bring tested. Sometimes we go through trials. Look at Job, what kind of tests? Wow. That was a huge test of his faith that he lost everything. Job was the richest man of his time and he was stripped naked.

He was stripped bare was left with boils on his skin that, that hurt. He lost his. 10 children, they all died. And this is not, it says in one night, wow. Not only did he lose all of his children, but all at once and his wife. was very nasty toward him trying to get him to curse God and destroy the little faith that he had left after being attacked by the devil.

And yes, it was Satan who attacked him. That's it says it in the Bible that God allowed. Satan to attack Job and, but Job stood the test of time and his faith was strong and he did not stop believing in God. And so even through the tough times, we still believe otherwise, where's your faith? The Bible says, if your faith if your strength fails in the day of adversity, this is in the Proverbs.

If your strength. See these muscles? Yeah.

If your strength fails in the day of adversity, then or if you fail in a day of adversity, then your strength is small. It says that in Proverbs, you can look that up that, that your strength is small. If you fail in the day of adversity, things are going to happen good times and bad times.

Everybody's going to have them. So we just have to. Grace ourself and go through it with the Lord by our side, with the Lord with us. We know that we're going to overcome where we know that it's going to be all right. We know that everything is going to work out for our good. All things work out. For good for those who love God, those who are called according to his purpose.

So even if something bad is happening, that bad thing is going to end up being good, all things work together. So some bad things can work together and it's going to become good for you. Hallelujah. That's a promise in the Bible. So even though it looks bad. It really isn't. And I know that may be hard to accept as you live out life because it doesn't feel that great when you're in the throes, when you're in the midst of a battle, when you're, you got on the boxing gloves, when you're when you are being falsely accused, when you're being ridiculed, when you're being talked about and betrayed and deceived and just Done wrongly.

It doesn't feel great. It doesn't feel like, Oh, this is going to work out for my good. You might not feel like that. You might be like, no, I don't, but it is all things in due season. You shall reap if you faint, not if you faint, not if you just keep going, you're going to reap a harvest, you're going to reap.

The good seeds that you've been sowing in the ground. It's going to be so wonderful and so beautiful and so lovely if you don't give up. If you faint not. So I just want to encourage you today to keep going through your trials, through your tests. I have a brother in the Lord and he told me, he said, God told him we're going to be going through these tests and trials until the end.

Our life is, this is how it is. We must go through tests and trials. This is part of life. I'm not saying that it always has to be a battle. There will be times of peace, and we always have peace with the Lord. He keeps us in perfect peace when our minds stayed on Him. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard our heart and our mind in Christ Jesus.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus.

So the song I have for you tonight is called Jael, I thought in the spirit of women's day, we talked about Jael, one of the Bible heroes of the, one of the strong women of the Bible and Judges chapter four, Jai El was the, a woman who actually killed her The commander of an army for the Israelites, they were fighting the Canaanites and Jael.

She was of a tribe called the Cites, and they were allies with the Israelites, and she tricked the king of Canaan c Sarah. She lured him into her tent , and she allowed him to lay down and rest. And then something happened. We're going to get to that in just a moment. But before we do, I'm going to play a little verse for you that I wrote.

The song is called Jail. And Here we go. Jael, Jael,

Jael, Your destiny

was to kill him. Jael, Jael, Jael, Jael

feel his cup full to the brim. Jael, your destiny was to kill him. Jael Jael Jael Jael, feel his cup full. To the brim. Jael Jael Jael Jael. Your destiny was to kill him. Jael Jael Jael Jael. Fill his cup full to the brim.

There we go. I just put the chords together, so they're a little off tonight. But that's my song, Jael. I attempted to play it anyway. God bless me. I kept playing the wrong note at the end, but anyway the wrong chord. Jael Jael Jael Jael, Your destiny was to kill him. Jael Jael Jael Jael Jael, Fill his cup full to the brim.

Her destiny And life was to kill this man. It's like she was born to kill him. We, sometimes that happens. We all have this destiny and our destiny is something that only God knows, but hopefully our goal is to mature into that person who will fulfill that destiny. Jael's destiny was to allow this army commander to come into her tent, pretend to be his friend.

My god, she's so smart. Gain his trust during a time of war. She gave him peace. And oh, she gave him a cup full of warm milk. Jael Jael Jael Jael. Your destiny was to kill him. Jael.

Jael Jael Jael, fill his cup full to the brim. She filled his cup full to the brim with warm milk. I see it being steamed, had a little froth in it.

And she's here you go, my king, here's your cup of warm milk, my king. And he's loving that milk. He takes that. Mug of milk and he's drinking it. He's feeling so relaxed. He thinks he's safe. He thinks he's tricked the enemy that they'll never find him in Elle's tent.

He drinks his cup of milk and he says I'm just so worn out from this war. I'm just so tired. You mind if I lay down and rest a bit? And she's no, my king. Be my guest, he lies down there, she covers him up with a blanket, and then she grabs that tent peg and a hammer, she puts that peg in his forehead, BOOP, BOOP, BOOP

all the way to the ground, she hit that nail, she hit that. Nail on the head. What's that saying? The hammer on the nail and the nail went down to the ground, pinning Cicera to the ground and he died. He died! Your destiny

was to kill him. Jael! Fill

his cup full to the brim. Ah, that cup full of milk worked. She said, I will fulfill my destiny. And she banged that tent peg down. And the captain of the Army of the enemy of Israel die, and it was a woman who killed him, a woman who got the glory in this war. Not a man, but a woman. There's a scripture in the Bible that says in the end, a woman shall compass a man, meaning a woman may outdo a man, which is.

Very strange, right? Because men, biologically, have stronger bodies. They're the stronger of the two genders, female and male. The Bible says the woman has the weaker vessel, the weaker body. But in the end, There's going to be a day when a woman shall compass a man, or she shall outdo a man, or she shall outshine a man.

This is one day where a woman definitely out shined or out shown a man. Barack, the captain of the guard. Yes, they took the victory, but it was Jael who took the praise. Just as another woman, a prophetess, Deborah, or Deborah, she prophesied that a woman would win this war and her prophecy came true.

The Bible says, how do you know a person is truly a prophet if they're truly hearing from God? If what they say comes to pass. Now, this is not in every instance because there are some instances where God is giving a people. A chance to repent as in the case of Nineveh, when God sent Jonah with a message to Nineveh, that if they did not repent within 40 days, their entire nation would be destroyed.

That was the word of the Lord for Jonah to deliver to the children of Nineveh. And the Ninevites, they repented, they fasted. They put on sackcloth, they humbled themselves before God and repented. So God relented and did not destroy the nation. So there's sometimes when a prophet can't speak forth a word.

In warning as well, but this time it was not a warning. Deborah said a woman was going to win this war. And oh, Jael, she won this war. Hallelujah. Let's praise her. Jael Jael Jel Jael. Your destiny

was to kill him. Jael Jael Jael Jael, feel his cup full to the brim. Ah,

so lovely. That's all I have for you tonight. I hope you're encouraged. I hope you go out and fulfill your destiny, just like Jael did. Even though it was a tough one, yeah, that's a tough one. Killing a captain of an army, the captain of a nation, captain of a host of people. Yeah. What does God have for you to do?

Go out and do it. In Jesus name I pray that you will go out and fulfill the destiny. You will find out if you don't know. You will seek the Lord and ask Him, what is it Lord? That you have me to do on this earth. What's my duty? What's my job? What's my destiny here? What do you want me to do while I'm on this earth, Lord?

And he'll answer you. And when he does, be prepared to fulfill it. He will help you. The Holy Spirit is our helper and he is here on earth to help you. In Jesus name, remember to love God, love you, and love people.