Trusting God

Written by Georgetta Head
​Photo by Sai DeSilva (unsplash)

Has there ever been a time in your life that you suffered through disappointment and discouragement or are you feeling this way now?  We learn from the Word of God of a nameless woman, known only as the wife of Manoah who knew many years of disappointment and discouragement. She lived during a time period in which women were considered cursed if they didn’t have children.  Well, this was the case of the wife of Manoah. We aren’t told how many years she was childless. Holy Spirit only reveals – “that she was barren.”  Let’s review the wife of Manoah’s story to discover how God resolved her disappointment and discouragement! God can make alive what we believe to be dead! God can save our children! God can change our disappointments and discouragement into joy and victory!
 

Judges 13:3 “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.”
 

Holy Spirit does not give us the name of Samson’s mother, He gently calls her the “wife of Manoah” (Judges 13:2).  Like Sarah, the wife of Manoah was barren, but she knew God and God knew her heart.  God knew that the wife of Manoah could be trusted to follow His instructions in raising the “next judge” for Israel. 
 

God sent an angel to tell the news to the wife of Manoah that He knew she was barren and that He was going to bless her with a child—a man child at that.  Just imagine, being barren for so long, then to be told you will give birth to a child.  The angel gives her instructions from God to remain pure during the pregnancy by not drinking strong drink and to stay away from unclean foods (Judges 13:4).  The angel of the Lord continued by prophetically telling her the child’s future “For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines” (Judges 13:5).  The wife of Manoah did conceive and gave birth to a son as the angel said, and she named him Samson. 
Just as the angel prophetically spoke, Samson was a special servant of the Lord, who was extremely strong physically and lead Israel for 20 years before his death.


The wife of Manoah was not a socialite or a celebrity in her community, she was a woman who loved and worshipped the Lord.  She was chosen by God to be the mother of an extraordinary leader because of her love and commitment to God.
 
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God is still choosing woman of today!  There are mothers who are not in the limelight, but raise their children the way God instructs them.  Do you have a heart for the things of God!  Can God trust you to be obedient when asked by Him to raise your children with godly principles?  A mother’s job can be difficult at times, especially in today’s culture, but if mothers remain faithful and “train up their children the way to go, and they will not depart,” God will be there every step of the way to help them.  One day, your children will rise up and call you blessed.  My friends, trust God to do something extraordinary in your life, the rewards are great when living our lives God’s way and not the way of the world!
 
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