Jael Breaker | Awakened Night | Christa Smith

And when you watch your friends go through hard seasons, it's hard. But she's walked it so beautifully and so well and vulnerably and healthy and all the things. And she's just let God be her source and her anchor. And that, friends, is priceless, right? To watch someone just continue to lean into Jesus.

And so I just want to say, Terri, you're amazing and you're inspiring and you're anointed and you're called by God. And just to call you friend is a privilege, truly. So I can't wait for this Sunday for them to hear from you, because it's going to be incredible. But I also know the woman speaking here is going to be amazing, too. Pastor Mel, we just love you and Pastor J. I mean, you are family to us.

This covenant relationship we have with you all and your whole family for that matter, we claim all of you as ours. So to be here is truly a joy. And it's just been too long. It's just been too long. Literally.

When it finally worked out with schedules and all the things, I was like, oh, my gosh, thank you, Jesus. Because I was like, I haven't gathered. Our local gathering tomorrow night is momentum. Sean and I are believing for a move of God in the Bay Area, and we've started these momentum and there's one tomorrow night. And I was like, I don't care.

I'm flying to North Carolina. I am preaching. I'm flying home tomorrow night and we're doing the service. I'm like, I'm not saying no anymore. We're making it happen.

Because I just have loved my time with you and I literally missed you. I missed you guys. And so I should say, I missed you ladies. I missed you ladies. And so I am expectant for what God's gonna do and worship.

I just wanna say thank you for going to send. Thank you for just clearing out debris. Right? Because that's what worship does. It clears out debris so that we have a landing pad for the Holy Spirit just to hit us.

And I don't know about you who needs a fresh touch from the Holy Spirit tonight. I'm with you every time I come into the presence. I mean, I might be the one preaching, but I am always believing for an encounter for every single person in the room. From the platform to the very back to all the sides. I just believe God has a portion for every single one of us.

And so we're just gonna pray just close. Because I just believe Holy Spirit wants to do something really special tonight. So, Lord, I thank you that your daughters have said yes and they've gathered on a Thursday night when there's a lot vying for time and attention. Lord, they just moved everything out of the way. And they said, I'm going to get to the house of the Lord.

Because they came expectant, they came hungry, and they came wanting a fresh encounter with you. And so, Jesus, even right now, Lord, I prayed earlier and I felt the Holy Spirit move in this room, but I just prayed that angels that are on assignment get dispatched in the room tonight. And, Lord, that there is angelic activity and visitation in this room, that every single woman has an experience of your spirit and your presence. And any woman in this room that has felt numb, that has felt weary, that has felt tired, that has felt like, disconnected from you, Lord, that tonight is a night of connection. And tonight is a night of breakthrough and encounter.

Because, Lord, we need a fresh encounter every single day of our lives. Because we cannot live off of yesterday's bread, Lord. We need a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So, Lord, will you just minister in this room tonight? And we just say, lord, have your way.

We don't want just a nice service. We want a fresh encounter with you in Jesus name. Anyone agree with that? Amen. Amen.

I want to speak to the moment in the room tonight as I was flying across from San Francisco, and I know my husband was with you just this past Sunday. I had been ministering in Dallas, but I caught one of the services online. And I just saw what God is doing in this house. And even as I'm watching online, I felt like, the Lord says, refuge, I'm doing a new thing. I feel like you're in a new season.

And I felt like as I watched on Sunday morning, I saw a page in the spirit turning. And I just felt like, the Lord says, the last chapter has been completed and there's a new page for the next chapter that has been turned. And so I wanna declare over you the new chapter of God. And I feel like the word that I'm bringing tonight is gonna call some of you women specifically into that next chapter. Because sometimes we need that fresh impartation.

Because tonight is a night of impartation. Someone say impartation. I believe we've gathered here tonight. And I know that all over this room there's different races, different ethnicities, different ages, generations, different journeys, different stories. Every one of us represents something different.

And yet we've all gathered for one reason and one reason only. And it's to encounter Jesus. And I heard the Lord say to prophesy to all of you because I believe there's an impartation with the prophetic. Whenever the prophetic is released, I believe it's always looking for a place of landing. But the landing happens when there's agreement.

When you hear the prophetic word and you're like, yes, God, do that in my life. You know what it does? It opens you up like a landing place for the Holy Spirit. And so I want you to be able to respond to the prophetic word simply by your heart saying, yes. And some of you might feel compelled to raise your hand or stand or.

Or just close your eyes and put your hands on it. It really doesn't matter, but it's just simply you just saying, jesus, I receive this word. For me. It is for the person on my left or my right. But I don't want you to hear this word for the person on your left or your right.

I want you to hear this word for you. Tonight we're great as ladies saying, I know who needs to hear this word, but I believe God wants you to hear this word. That's why you're in the room. Tonight, I heard the Lord say, God is raising up relentless daughters to wage war against the assault of the enemy. Come on, we're talking about a new chapter.

No longer will we sit on the sidelines intimidated or apathetic. We will not allow tiredness. Come on, ladies. Or busyness. To take us out.

We will not be distracted, and we will not miss the assignment in this hour. We will see things for what they are, and we will see the enemy for who he is. He is a coward, therefore we will not be afraid. He is a liar, therefore we will not believe what he says. He's a thief, so we will take back what is rightfully ours.

Because God is our protector, so we trust in Him. God is our defender, so we rest in Him. God is our deliverer, so we run to Him. We wage war through our worship. We wage war through our declaration.

We wage war through our surrender. Come on, ladies. We wage war through our obedience. And we wage war with our boldness. Hands extended, pegs inserted.

Hands extended, pegs inserted. Because he's raising up a JL generation. And I heard the Lord say, warrior women, arise. The tent peg is in your hand and victory is yours. I believe a prophetic utterance and a call has gone out to the women of God in this hour.

It's not to bypass, exclude, or to dominate men. It's simply for us to Take our place, our rightful spiritual inheritance, alongside men of God, running together shoulder to shoulder, not in comparison and not in competition, but in who God has created us to be. Unapologetically. That is the hour in which we are in. And I believe many of you have felt the clarion call in the spirit.

And some of you have understood exactly what it is, and some of you have not understood. But you still know there's been a clarion call because you're like, something's different. Something feels different. There's a dissatisfaction within me. There's a holy restlessness within me that I'm just not okay with doing life the way I've done it before.

I'm not okay just encountering God how I've been encountering him. But I recognize that I must have something of deeper depth in the presence of God, because the chapter has shifted. Has anyone felt that in this room tonight? I want you to know there is a clarion call that has been released across the nations for women in this hour. And I come to you humbly tonight just saying, don't miss the clarion call, because the hour is now.

We can call it an Esther moment, but it's actually a JL anointing. Because there's a boldness that God is gonna release tonight that's gonna mark us, that's gonna transform us, that's gonna change everything up until this point. And the Lord says, I'm gonna use the previous season, but you're no longer gonna be dictated by it. You're gonna be released to run from with it. And I just feel like the Lord says, the shackles that have been holding you back in the past season are coming off your legs tonight.

And you're gonna run in the spirit like you haven't run before. Because the Lord says, refuge, get ready. Because there's freedom in the house tonight. In a whole other level, I just felt like the Lord says, the grieving clothes are coming off. And the Lord says, victory is yours.

There's a prophetic word as we read the story of Jael, There's a prophetic word that the prophet Deborah in the land releases. But I want us to talk about this word because it's actually an incredibly imperative moment that happens for the nation. One person who was actually supposed to lead the movement, his name was Barack. Someone say Barack. He was the military leader at the time, and he was seeking counsel from the prophet.

That's a wise thing to do. She prophesies to him, and we'll read the scripture, but she prophesies to him that he's to lead the charge, but he doesn't want to lead the charge because he's afraid to go in alone. There's a moment where God invites you to actually lead the charge in which he's anointing you to lead. But there's a yes in your spirit that has to happen and take place. And I just want to lovingly say, if you don't say yes, he will raise up another, because God's plans and purposes will come to pass.

But I believe there's some women in here that before tonight have been silenced, have been quieted by the enemy. You've been intimidated in the last season, but I'm here tonight to say the shackles of intimidation are coming off. The women of God in this hour gonna begin to run with the charge that God has anointed for you to run with. So Barack didn't wanna go, and then all of a sudden, things shifted. Because when someone says no to the assignment, God always raises up someone who will say yes.

Judges 4, 8, 9. This is the conversation between Barak and Deborah. And Barak said to her, if you go with me, I will go. But if you don't go, will not go. Certainly I will go with you, said Deborah.

But because of the course you are taking, meaning, he was supposed to go in and lead the charge, but he wanted her with him. And I know we like to do things together, but there are things, ladies, you've got to do because God called you to do it. And if you keep looking for someone to carry your mantle with you, you will not walk in the fullness of what God has anointed you to do. It doesn't mean leave people behind, but it does mean move boldly in what God has anointed you to do. And Deborah says, certainly I will go with you, said Deborah.

But because of the course you're taking, the honor will not be yours. For the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman. Deborah, in that moment, as she prophesied it, it literally set in motion the fulfillment of the prophetic word it called J Jael into a destiny she didn't even know God had for her. I want you to know I felt it so strongly when I was praying for this gathering that the Lord says there has been prophetic words over your family line, over your city, over your region, that God says you are the JL of the story where you're gonna rise up and fulfill a prophetic word that you haven't even heard. There is words and promises that God and heaven have declared that he is looking for women to partner with and say yes to someone.

Say amen. Jael does not know she's going to be the fulfillment of the prophetic word. Some of you don't even know you're going to be the fulfillment of the prophetic word. But the Lord is positioning you even in this moment. Because the Lord says, I'm breaking intimidation off.

You're lying. There have been words that have been prophesied over you that the Lord says you haven't even remembered. You might have even forgotten. But the Lord is even going to remember. As I'm ministering tonight.

He's going to remind you of old prophetic words, of encounters, of altar moments, of whispers from the Lord. And things that were forgotten are now going to be remembered. And the Lord says, watch me fulfill what I have prophesied over you. When God's word goes forth, it's like an arrow. And you and I are the target for those arrows.

And I heard the lord say, tonight I say, bullseye, get ready, because some of those arrows are gonna hit us in the spirit. So let's read the story of Jael. And we read what Deborah prophesied. And here we're gonna read about a woman who has no idea what the Lord is about to unfold in her life. But she is gonna fulfill what Deborah the prop prophesied.

Reading in Judges 4, starting in verse 16, it says, Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth, and all Sisera's troops fell by the sword. Not a man was left. Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of heber the kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king Jabin, king of Hazar, and the family of Heber the kenite. Jael went out to meet sisera and said to him, come, my lord. Come right in.

Don't be afraid. So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. I'm thirsty. He said, please give me some water. So she opened up a skin of milk, gave him a drink, covered him up.

Stand in the doorway of the tent. He told her, if someone comes by and asks you, is anyone there? Say, no. But Jael, Heber's wife instead. She picked up a tent peg and a hammer, and she went quietly to him.

While he lay fasted, exhausted, she drove the tip peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. Just then, Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. Come, she Said, I will show you the man you're looking for. So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tip peg through the temple dead. Verse 23.

On that day, God subdued king Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites. And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin, king of Canaan, until they destroyed him. Now, let me simply paraphrase this. I know I read you a lot of texts, but it's an important portion of scripture. If we're gonna unpack what I believe the Lord has for us tonight, in this portion of scripture, we're reading about people that have been harassing the Canaanites.

Have been harassing the Israelites for over 20 years. There's been two decades of harassing and tormenting. They are so tired of it, and yet no one's standing up to them. They just keep running away from them. But we all know you have to engage with the enemy in order to defeat them.

You can't just keep running in hopes that he leaves you alone. You actually have to stand your ground, defend your territory, and engage with the enemy. But because this wasn't happening, they kept playing this cat and mouse game for over 20 years. And the Canaanites are harassing the children of Israel. But that day, someone say that day the prophet prophesied.

And when the word of the Lord comes forth, all of a sudden, what has been 20 years of harassment is about to be changed. In what moment where the enemy has been evading you, trying to hide, when you actually get bold and you can't find him in that moment, this is the moment where all of a sudden the Lord says, this is the day that the enemy's gonna be defeated. And he brings him to the door of Jael. I don't know about you. I believe that the things that have been harassing and tormenting us for the last 20, 30, 40.

Put in whatever timeline, if there has been any harassing or tormenting spirit over who you are in God, over the plans and purposes of God in your life. I believe I have such faith tonight that there is breakthrough that's in the house tonight.

What has God declared over your life that the enemy has been fighting you for? What is the thing that you're intimidated to walk in that God has prophesied over you? What is the thing that the enemy keeps trying to nickel and dime and take from you that God's like, but, daughter, I told you this was your promise. What's the thing that you feel like? I'm just Gonna lay it down.

Because that feels too impossible. And having faith actually feels too painful. Come on. Because it takes courage to actually have faith in the face of 20 years of harassing and tormenting. It actually takes more courage to keep standing and believing.

It actually is easier to retreat. But I want you to know we're done retreating. We're actually going to take back ground because we're going to walk out who God has called us to be. We are in the day that if God has prophesied it, oh, it's going to happen. So we've heard again and again that we are in a third great awakening in America.

I want to declare over you ladies, we are in a third great awakening in America. There is a tipping point that we have never quite seen that's happening all over the nation right now. We are seeing salvations like never before in the state of California. Just the other weekend, we had over 8,000 people baptized in one day in the oceans all along the state of California. And that's just one state.

There's moves of God in every single state right now. Why is that important? Because what God has declared is coming to pass. We will see the billion soul harvest. We will see the declaration of the enemy overturned once and for all in our lives.

But the question we have to ask when reading this story is why did Sisera, the enemy commander, feel it was okay to come to Jael's tent? And it's because her husband Heber had made an alliance. The reason, ladies, this is an issue, is because Heber and Jael are Israelites and King Jabin is the enemy commander they had made. And let me qualify that Heber had made an alliance with the enemy. And this is important because you got to understand who Heber is.

Heber is actually a descendant of Moses. He's from the line of a priest. But now he didn't want to be with his people. He had left his tribe, the Canaanites. He chose to be disconnected from his people.

He went as close as he could to the territory of the enemy, but he was still technically in the bounds of Israel. Come on. He hadn't abandoned Israel. But it was also clear he wasn't wanting to be closely associated with Israel. He had made an alliance with King Jabin, the people who'd been harassing the people of Israel for over two decades.

He doesn't want full association with Israelite people, but he doesn't have the courage to fully break away from Israel. He has the craftiness that he can get what he wants from Both sides. He's on the fence. He has one foot in each territory. Come on, somebody.

But he's not loyal to either. See? And here's the mistake of the enemy. Cause the enemy always overplays his hand. The enemy thought that because there was an alliance between Jael's husband, Heber, and King Jabin Sisera, then assumed someone, say, assumed that Jael was a part of the alliance and that it would be a safe place for him to hide.

What he didn't know and didn't expect was that Jael understood the difference between her husband's alliance and her personal allegiance.

And her allegiance was God first above all things. See, I want you to zero in on this because everything about the story is putting God first. My intention isn't to create division in marriages or to point the finger at the husband. It's a prophetic picture, right? That we are in a moment where we have to understand what our true allegiance is.

Because whatever your allegiance to is what will dictate your convictions. What your allegiance to is what you will bow your knee to. What you bow your knee to is what you worship.

So what are we bowing to? Right. See, the difference between an alliance and allegiance. Alliance refers to a formal agreement that has a mutual benefit. Everyone wins.

It's a win win. Right? It's like, if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. That's an alliance. It's so we all feel good.

But an allegiance refers to loyalty, commitment, and for us, as the body of Christ, covenant. It's when covenant comes into play. And it's not about what you get. It's because you have committed for the cause of the gospel and the cause of Christ. So Jael's allegiance to God and the people of Israel was greater than her husband's alliance with the enemy.

Okay, and I want you to catch this. We read that she took down the enemy, but this didn't mean. And this will be so encouraging to some of you that are feeling like, krista, I can't do anymore, and you're telling me to, like, fight? She was not fasting more. She was not praying more.

She was not doing more things. She was not manufacturing her victory. She was doing what she always did in keeping God first, and he gave her victory. The only thing you and I are responsible to do in this season of our lives, and for that matter, every season of our lives, is to keep Jesus first. When you keep God first, he will bring the enemies to your door.

You don't have to try harder. You don't have to strive. You don't have to, like, make it happen. You don't have to stress. You can just simply do what you've been doing and have confidence that God's your first.

Therefore, you're my defender. God, you're first. You fight on my behalf. God, you're first. So you've got me, You've got my back.

See, if we keep God first, then we are confident that God, we have victory in God. Jael was ready. Isn't that interesting? When the. When he knocked on her door, it's like she wasn't surprised.

It was like all of a sudden, the enemy commander who's been harassing her people for over two decades with his army, knocks on her door that day, and she just goes, okay, come on in. You're safe here. She was instantly, in a moment where she understood there was an assignment knocking at her door. Right? During this time, historically, jael.

With jael, there were some very clear cultural expectations of women, right? So when sisera knocked on the door, even though heber wasn't there because it was a woman that answered the door, he instantly had some expectations of the treatment that he would receive because a woman was the only one home. And here was his expectation that she would provide for him, she would take care of him, she would nurture him, she would show him a hospitality, and she would do whatever he told her to do. Those were the expectations on a society level that he came with. As soon as she opened the door, he's like, oh, I'm good.

It's just a woman. And isn't that just the enemy? He might look at some of us. He might look at you, and he might look at me and go, oh, it's just a woman. But I want you to know, when you read scripture, we see women that have taken out the enemy, that have defeated demonic powers and adversities, adversaries.

And I want you to understand that God has put a weapon in you, called the holy spirit and the blood of jesus, and you have all of heaven backing you, and you, and you bring victory wherever you go. See, jael seemed compliant, but he would soon discover she was not what he expected. To sisera, he's like, yeah, he didn't realize that she was not her husband, that there was not the same alliance that they had with heber. She was her own woman, and a woman of God at that. Jael was doing everything sisera told her to do, and therefore he thought he was safe.

She let. And I want you to catch this. She let the Expectations of society work to disarm the enemy.

I want you to understand. The enemy has expectations of us as women. Society has expectations of us as women. The church has expectations of us as women. But the word of God has expectations of us as women.

Ladies, I'm here tonight to tell you it's time to be unconventional. I'm not preaching about Jael because it's a feisty story, and she's powerful, although she is. And it is a feisty story. I'm not preaching at it for that. I'm preaching at it because it's what you and I are called to walk in in this hour.

It's what the invitation is, I believe the heaven has for us.

This is not a time for conventional behavior or even conventional thinking. This is a time for biblical behavior and biblical thinking, right? This is the time to be unconventional. Jael was being conventional because she brought him into her home. She gave him milk, not water, right?

I'm like, oh, she's already in strategy mode. Who knows that when you need to go to sleep and kind of get a little sleepy, you don't go, just have some water. What do you do? You go get some milk. Warm milk.

Kind of makes you naturally tired. So what did she do? He's like, just give me some water. She's like, I'll just give you some.

He didn't ask for a blanket. She's like, here, just go ahead and get tucked in. She's like, putting him to bed. She is in full strategy mode. Ladies, this is a picture that even when you don't expect it, when God is first, you're prepared.

When the enemy comes knocking, you might have thought it was just another day. But when you keep God first and the enemy comes knocking, all of a sudden you're like, oh, it's you. Nice going. Come on in. Just go ahead and make yourself feel comfortable.

Would you like my fluffy blank? Did you want some slippers? Do you want some warm milk? Go ahead. Take it easy.

And then all of a sudden, what do you do? You go grab what's already been in your hand. And how do we know this? Because at this time, she took what was at her inner hand, and she took out the enemy. This is the moment where she stopped being conventional and she went unconventional.

When we look at wars, weapons of war, the conventional weapons of war are like missiles, right? Drones, all those kind of things, right? Gunfire. Those are conventional ways of warfare. But when they want to go unconventional, when it comes to war, you know what they do?

They go nuclear. I Don't know about you. I think Jael went nuclear when she grabbed the tip peg and she quietly went across the room and she took a tip peg to the enemy commander, and she drove it so far through his temple. It says in the word and we read it that it touched the ground on the other side. You know you're going nuclear when you don't stop till it's finished.

I believe we're in a moment where God says, follow it all the way through. Don't just go for one hit. Go till the enemy is taken out. My husband and I. I don't know if I've shared this story before, but my husband and I had been inherited a piece of property that was gonna be a real blessing to him and I. It was gonna be a rental property.

And as soon as we got it, it was like the enemy went after it. He was trying to rob us of our inheritance. For the next year and a half, we fought for our own resident in the state of California. We had two young men, brothers, that were both full blown meth addicts. And they had broken into our home and they'd set up a meth lab and everything.

Somehow they got false ID with our address on it. So in the state of California, they had legal right to be a squatter in our house. They caused over $30,000 worth of damage that came out of our pocket. I went through courts. Sean went through the courts.

I went, went through the courts. Finally, we got restraining orders served to them. It was a whole story. But I tell you what, there was a day in trying to get those restraining orders, the enemy kept hiding. I'm not trying to demonize these young men because they were in bondage and there was demonic activity.

But I knew it was the principality that I was going after for our inheritance. And I was weary and I was tired. And the only time they would break, we'd get them out of our house, and then they'd break back in. But, you know, when they broke back in, they would always break back in. When we had just flown to another city, we'd flown out, and we were stepping into a service, we get a call from the police, literally, and we'd be out of town for like, two, three days.

They broke down our front door. They broke our slider with an ax in the back. There was a huge boulder through our front bay window. And so we'd have to call our friends, and they would have to go, like, tape up our house and give us facetime on what was going on in our House. I mean, y', all, it was a nightmare.

And when we were gone one weekend, Sean and I were two different locations. Of course, this unfortunately happened again, and I was so tired. I was the first one home. I got home at probably, like, 12 in the morning due to flight delays. I was exhausted, and I knew I had to meet the police.

The next morning, I woke up and I wasn't feeling well. I decided to stay home from church. I was battling a bit of a cold, and honestly, I was just feeling bad for myself. I had my hair up on my head. I had my glasses on because I wear contacts.

I'm drinking my latte and I'm watching online church. And they're worshiping, but I'm not. I'm just sitting there sipping, and I'm in my bed, and I'm just, like, having a woe is me moment. And the Lord said to me, well, what are you doing? And I said, I'm worshiping.

I'm worshiping. It's been a tough night, Lord. I preached and I ministered all weekend, and this is what we get. Come on. We've been dealing with this for over a year because we couldn't find them to serve the restraining order because they literally were homeless and transient.

It was a nightmare. Nightmare. And so the Lord said, remind the enemy who you are. Get out of bed, put down your latte, and remind the enemy who your God is. See, I don't have anything to defeat the enemy, but the spirit of God in me will defeat the enemy.

So I got up all of a sudden, I felt that little fire, right? I flipped back those sheets. I put my latte down. I was like, yes. What am I doing?

We don't have time for pity. We're taking authority because this is our inheritance. And I'm tired of the enemy nickel and diming us. He's robbing our money, he's robbing our time, and he's harassing us. And all of a sudden, the Lord reminded me of the JL anointing.

So what did I do? I grabbed my tent peg in the Spirit, and I walked up and down our hallway, and I reminded the enemy of who my God is. And I took that tent peg with every word and declaration and promise from the Word of God that he is our defender. He will fight on our behalf. And that way, he prophesied over that piece of property what it would be to us.

And every time I declared the Word of God, every time I declared the promises of God, it's the tip peg going into the temple of the enemy. Did you know that week the guy actually contacted us because he wanted a check that was sent to our mail and asked my husband if he could bring it to the homeless encampment that we had been looking at for him for three months. He calls the sheriff. My husband calls the sheriff and says, well, here's where he's at. Can you please finally go serve him the restraining order?

He went and found the gentleman. Did you know that was that week that everything shifted? We got the restrainer, we got our property back. Come on. We got our squatters evicted.

You can say amen to that because that was demonic.

And it's all because you gotta pick up the tent peg. Sometimes we just keep putting up with it and we feel bad about it and we're like, man, this is so hard. This is so difficult. But you have the authority. You got a JL anointing.

When the enemy comes knocking at your door, you don't have to let him in your house. Or if he does come in your house, some way, somehow, you can take that 10 peg while he's sleeping unexpectedly, because he doesn't think you're a threat. I want to challenge you. Ladies from 2025 and beyond become a threat to the dev. Become a threat to darkness.

That when you wake up, all of a sudden, hell goes, oh no, she's awake right now. I don't know about you. I want the enemy to know my name. But I want God to get all the fame. I want God to get the glory, But I want hell to be afraid of me.

Because I want us to understand we don't have to cower to the plans of the enemy anymore. See, there's a nuclear mentality that I believe God is inviting the body of Christ to. But that's when God is first. All of a sudden, all the man pleasing and the fear of the worrying about this, that or the other, all falls off because you're just like, no, God. I know who you are.

I'm keeping my eyes on you. See, Jael was not intimidated with the fiercest, most feared man sleeping on her couch. Think about that. Barak didn't even want to go fight. He was the military commander and he was afraid to engage with this military guy.

So imagine he was fierce. He was fierce. The Israelites weren't even empowered to go defeat them. But one woman. That's all it took.

It took one woman. Someone say one woman. What if you're that woman? What if you're the one woman? We keep thinking it's this big thing.

What if it's as simple as you just taking out what has taken place and residence that was never supposed to in your thought life, in your emotional life, the sickness is trying to invade your body. The identity is trying to sneak into your child's life, right? And you take authority over it. And you're like, not on my watch. I'm taking you out.

The enemy cannot just show up at your house and give you some commands. Isn't it annoying when the enemy comes to your house and starts bossing you around? And that's what Cicero did. He was like, if someone asks if I'm here, tell him. He's telling her what to do.

He's telling her how to act. And if you don't know who you are, you will find yourself cowering to someone who seems like they have power. But the enemy only has power through how he's stolen it. He only has stolen power. He only has power by what you give to him.

There was a boldness that came on JL That I believe God wants to impart tonight. JL Put everything on the line. She defied culture. She defied an ungodly alliance. She did it boldly.

She did it unpol, unapologetically. She was ready in and out of season, and she used what was in her hand. And here's why it's so powerful. Because this is a woman, and this was the culture. The women are the ones who set up the tent.

So she took what she had done probably a hundred times, set up the tent, tear down the tent. It was just her normal. It was her steaks and knives. It was her frying pan. I mean, it was just like what she did.

It was like the everyday tool in her hand. It wasn't something special. She knew how to handle that thing because she had handled it so many times. She took the thing that was so familiar, and it was that thing that actually took out the enemy. Maybe.

Can I just submit this to you ladies, As I was praying about this? God's, like, not necessarily doing something new. He's just using what's already there. So many times, we think it has to be this new thing, but what about just actually using what's already in you? Called the spirit of God?

What about actually the authority and the identity of who God created you to be is actually just coming fully alive in you. It's not a new thing. It's just the spirit of God being fully activated within you.

What I love is Jael did it without shame. As we read in Scripture. Barak came looking for Sisera. He's looking for the enemy commander. And what does Jael do?

She ran out and she's like, I know who you're looking for. Here he is. Come. Come right on inside. And she shows him proudly, unapologetically.

Why is this important? Because she understood the assignment. When you know your season and your moment, you're not looking for people to tell you, oh, good job. That was. You just go, oh, no, no.

Let me show you the victory. Come on in. Let me show you the spoil.

Jael didn't move in shame. She moved in boldness. What if a Jael generation got raised up in refuge church? That was shame free. That was unintimidated.

That was radically bold in the things of God. Imagine what would begin to happen in your personal life, in your family, in your children, in your workplace, in your neighborhood, in your church. Come on, somebody in your city, in your state, in your region. What if a radical group of jails, which is what I'm contending for tonight, got unleashed tonight to go nuclear on the enemy? Did you know that Jael's act of courage, one woman emboldened an entire nation to defeat the enemy.

We read it in scripture. For 20 years, they had been harassed by the enemy's camp, so to speak, by the military of the enemy. But in this moment, because jael had stepped out, defeated sisera, all of a sudden, of course, word traveled through all of Israel and the military men that had been defeated and harassed for over two decades. This had gone through the generations. This had gone through fathers and sons and brothers.

And all of a sudden, in this moment, can you imagine, all these men get word, sisera is dead. A woman killed him. What? And all of a sudden, they're like, if a woman killed him, we're taking out the king. And all of a sudden, this defeated army that had no hope or faith for victory, all of a sudden arose in unity with boldness, and went and defeated the enemy king.

That they had not been able to do for 20 years. Here's my point. Point. When you arise, you have no idea the ripple effect in which it sends through your family line. I want you to catch this tonight.

Jael could have easily said, I'm just going to make sure I'm safe and my family's safe. And she could have just focused on her safety and not even tried to take out the enemy. Her whole thing could have just been survived. But, ladies, I believe the lord is inviting us out of survival into victory. And you do that when all of a sudden, God becomes first.

And your greatest allegiance is not even to yourself. It's to the king of kings.

There's a jail movement that God wants to do in this house. Refuge Church was never created to just have a nice women's group. There's always been a fierceness in the spirit over the women in this house. It's a house that's honored women. It's a house that's made space for who we are in the spirit.

And because women have been honored in this house, there's an authority that's available for you that I believe God is saying, do you want it? Because you can have it. But you got to shake some things off. You got to shake off all the intimidation. You got to put God first.

You can't worry anymore about what anyone else is thinking. And the only way you can do that is if God is first. That's it. You can't logically manufacture that freedom. It has to be a moment of surrender where you're just like, Jesus, I'm all yours.

I'm gonna stop arguing. Come on. I'm gonna stop arguing when you prophesy over me. I'm gonna stop arguing when you whisper your plans and purposes over me and say things like, you got the wrong woman. Do you know who you're talking to?

I can't move like that. I can't pray like that. I can't do that. God's like, enough with the arguments. Do you believe who I say you are or not?

And if you do, there's a level of authority and freedom that is available ladies, that's gonna revolutionize your life. I believe God. I believe God is raising up fierce women in this hour. It's not pushing men aside. Come on.

Hear the this. But there's a fierceness of women. And I know for some of you, like Christa, I'm not like you. I'm not bold like that. I'm not loud like that.

He's not looking for you to have my personality. He's looking for you to be who God has called you to be in the personality that he's put in you. But I cannot challenge. Is your personality a sanctified version of who God has called you to be? Or is it learn behavior from pain and disappointment?

Can I just put that on the table? Table. Because so many of us claim our personality when it's actually an unhealed version. Oh, come on, somebody. Of who Jesus has called us to be.

I want you to be you, but I want you to be healed. Whole and healthy. I want you to be the sanctified, full version of who God's called you to be. Ladies, that's what's available.