Embrace Your New Season, Ruth’s Story

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Hey friends, it's a brand new year.

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Welcome to the Her God Story podcast where you will always hear a good story to encourage

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I'm your host Jodie Chiricosta, ministry leader at Somebody Cares America and international

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At the beginning of each new year in January or new year of school or new season of life,

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it's common to assess where we've been and consider what changes we want to make going

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forward.

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Some call them resolutions, others call them goals, whatever you call them, they are decisions

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you make on how you will live your life.

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If you decide on a new course but do not take first or continuing steps in that direction,

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that decision has been more a dream than a commitment to change.

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Throughout our lives, we all move through many different seasons.

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Some of those seasons are exciting and we look forward to them like graduating from

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high school and venturing into the world of adulthood.

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Some seasons are unexpected and very unwanted, like the sudden loss of a spouse or other

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loved one.

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Some are predictable in the natural course of life.

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Others are instigated by God for His bigger purpose.

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All of them will have distinct crossroads that force us to choose which path we will take

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in that season.

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And those choices have consequences for our future.

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Isaiah was a prophet to the people of Judah during the reign of four mostly good kings.

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Even still, he prophesied about the downfall of both the northern kingdom of Israel and

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Judah but also of God's faithfulness to them in their times of trouble.

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Isaiah 43, some commentators say, was written to a people who were stuck between the past

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and the future.

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They were entering a new season and did not know how to move forward.

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Do you feel stuck in any way or in a never-ending waiting room?

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Well, Isaiah 43:18 -19 give some very clear instruction.

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The NIV reads, Forget the former things.

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Do not dwell on the past.

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See I, that's God, am doing a new thing.

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Now it springs up.

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Do you not perceive it?

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I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

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I think we're all entering a new season, a time when God is up to something new.

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How will we move forward to ensure that we stay on the way he's making in the wilderness

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so we can access the streams he is making in the wasteland?

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Well we can learn a lot from the story of Ruth.

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Ruth had to navigate a new season in her life, one she did not want, but the choices she

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made put her squarely in the stream of God's blessing.

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You can read all about it in the four chapters of the book of Ruth, but let's take a deeper

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look.

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Ruth was from Moab, a nation that worshipped the false god of Chemosh, who, according to

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2 Kings 3.27, required human sacrifice, a very brutal practice.

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She lived during the time of the Israelite judges, which was filled with war between

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the various tribal groups in the region.

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Ruth married an Israelite who came to live in Moab during a severe famine.

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Within ten years, though, her husband, brother-in-law, and father-in-law had all died, leaving only

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the women of the family alive.

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At that point she did not have any children, which was a vital role for women in her day

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because producing an heir heightened a woman's value in the eyes of those around her.

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Widowed at a young age, Ruth had some choices to make.

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Israelite tradition dictated that the brother of a childish widow marry her so she could

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produce an heir to carry on the name of her dead husband.

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Since her only brother-in-law had also died, that would not be an option.

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With no male relatives in Moab to take her in, her mother-in-law, Naomi, began the journey

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back to her homeland of Bethlehem.

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Daughters-in-law Ruth and Orpah in tow out of duty.

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But not far into the journey, Naomi stopped and released them.

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She even urged them to go back to their mother's home.

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Naomi thought there was no future for them with her.

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She would never have another son for them to marry, and they were too young to remain

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widows for the rest of their lives if they returned to their mother's home she thought

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their parents could find them husbands.

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In Israel, she didn't think their choices were very good.

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Orpah jumped at the chance and headed home.

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We never heard of her again.

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Ruth, however, did not want to return to her old life.

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As part of an Israelite family, she had heard about the one true God and experienced living

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according to His laws, which are all based on and flow out of His love.

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In the natural, her future in Israel seemed like it would be bleak.

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But Ruth put her trust in God and His love over the bloodthirsty God, Chemosh.

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So Ruth clung to Naomi, and in Ruth 1, verses 16 and 17, she declared,

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Don't urge me to leave you or turn back from you.

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Where you go, I will go.

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Where you stay, I will stay.

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Your people will be my people, and your God, my God.

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Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried.

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May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.

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Ruth chose wisely.

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But what did she choose?

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Well first of all, she chose to follow the one true, living God.

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No matter the cost to her, no matter where he led, she committed herself fully, no looking

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back.

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You can never go wrong choosing to follow the Lord.

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Second, she chose to associate with people who followed God, starting with her godly

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mentor Naomi.

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Remember what 1 Corinthians 15-22 says, bad company corrupts good character.

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The company you keep impacts your life.

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If you associate with godly people who are seeking the Lord and walking in his ways,

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it will strengthen your faith and resolve to do likewise.

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But if you consistently associate with those who are living life to please themselves,

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it will be imminently more difficult to stay true to the Lord.

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In this new season, I encourage you to consider carefully who you are spending the most time

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with and make changes if you need to.

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When Ruth and Naomi arrived in Bethlehem, the town was abuzz.

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It was a fairly small community and many people were related to one another because the land

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had been assigned by tribes.

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Ruth and Naomi were the talk of the town.

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Some we know was fine and encouraging because we find out later in her story that Boaz had

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heard good things about Ruth, but I imagine some of the talk, especially in the early

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days, was hurtful.

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Ruth had to choose to remain positive and hopeful in spite of what she heard around

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her.

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When seasons change in our lives, when things look different and feel different, we must

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choose to believe God has good plans for us.

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Satan will try to bring discouragement and doubt, but 2 Corinthians 10-5 in the NIV tells

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us to demolish arguments and every pretense that sets itself up against the knowledge

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of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

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I do that on a regular basis.

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When I realize my mind has wandered into doubt and defeatist thoughts, I stop and verbally

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declare, aloud or under my breath, depending on the circumstance, that I demolish every

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argument and pretense that sets itself up against the knowledge of God in my life, and

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I take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ.

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Sometimes I must persist a bit, training myself to think on the goodness of God and His many

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amazing characteristics, on His love for me, His faithfulness, but it works.

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Because Ruth believed the good, she embraced her new life in her new land.

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She embraced God's laws and way of doing things.

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Of course, with no male protector or provider, it fell to Ruth to work and provide for herself

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and for Naomi.

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Since theirs was an agrarian society and it was harvest season, she had to go to work.

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One of the ways God provided for the poor was by directing the people of Israel to allow

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the poor to glean the fields after the first wave of harvesting so that they could work

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to provide for themselves, and that is what Ruth did.

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God led her to the field of Boaz, an honorable man who, unbeknownst to her, was a close relative

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of Naomi.

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He was one of their kinsmen-redeemers.

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Another provision of the Lord for taking care of widows.

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Boaz protection was on her as she worked to provide food for herself and Naomi.

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It was long hours of back-breaking labor, but she was faithful.

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Sticking with it through the barley season and into the wheat season too, she chose to

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be faithful.

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At any time she could have thrown in the towel and headed back to Moab, but she was steadfast

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and immovable, learning more about God and His ways and becoming more a part of this

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new community every day.

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As she was working in the field that first day, Boaz noticed her, found out who she was,

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and then invited her to glean in his fields every day during the harvest so she would

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be safe.

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Ruth's lot in life had changed significantly over the months, but as she responds to Boab,

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it's not out of bitterness or indignation at her lot in life.

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She could have picked up a spirit of bitterness or defeatism, living with Naomi, who was calling

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herself Mara, which means bitter, because of what had happened to them.

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But Ruth did not.

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She kept a grateful and humble attitude in the face of her adversity and in the face

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of Naomi's despair.

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You can hear it in her response to Boab's offer.

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In Ruth 2, she says,

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Why have I found favor in your eyes that you've noticed me, a foreigner?

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Boab revealed that he'd heard good things about her, which means her interactions with

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others were also winsome.

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She goes on to say, May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord?

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You have put my mind at ease by speaking kindly to your servant, though I do not have the

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standing of one of your servants.

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Her humility, gratitude, and faithfulness opened new doors for her.

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She was invited to eat with the harvesters and even given grain in excess of what she'd

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been able to glean.

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God multiplied her efforts beyond anything she could have done herself because she trusted

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him and walked in his ways in her new season.

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When Naomi saw how God had prospered Ruth in her work, she began to hope again, too.

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She eventually remembered God's plan for a kinsman-redeemer.

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Later, after the harvests were all completed, Naomi told Ruth about it.

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It was God's plan for a close relative of her husband to marry her so she could have

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a child to carry on the family name.

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Naomi instructed Ruth to get all dolled up and approach Boaz in private to ask him to

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be her kinsman-redeemer.

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That took a lot of guts and a lot of trust.

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But at the right time, still clothed in humility, Ruth was also bold.

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She was doing things according to God's plan, so she took action.

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She went to Boaz, lay at his feet, and asked him.

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Now Boaz was an honorable, godly man, so he set about to fulfill her request in the right

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way.

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There was another man who was a closer relative, who was given first right to the kinsman-redeemer

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role.

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But when he declined to do so, Boaz stepped in to marry Ruth.

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Because of her choices to follow the Lord, even when she did not know where it would

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take her, to associate with God's people, to be positive, hopeful, faithful, to do the

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work that was before her with humility and gratitude, and when the time came to be bold,

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because of those choices, she went from gleaning in the fields to owning them.

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From being a childless widow to being married with a child.

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It did not happen overnight.

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She worked hard and kept a right spirit.

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But God turned her season of mourning into a season of joy for both Ruth and for Naomi.

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And even though she did not see it here on earth, God included Ruth in the lineage of

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Jesus.

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She was part of carrying Christ, the Savior of the world.

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You may not be in a season of mourning, but just stuck in a place.

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God is up to something new.

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Choose to follow Him.

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Even if you don't see where He's leading.

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Associate with Godly people who are living according to God's ways.

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And when He shows you specific steps to take, be bold, but with humility.

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Choose to keep a right heart and attitude, even if you can't see what He's doing.

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God is always at work for our good.

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And remember that you too are carrying Christ in you, our Savior.

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Let Him shine through you so others will see your good deeds and glorify our Father who

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is in heaven.

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I am excited to see what God's up to.

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Things in the world are a mess, but Psalm 2, 12b tells us that we are blessed, happy

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when we take refuge in Him.

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Let's pray together.

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Lord, we love you because you first loved us.

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Even in our sinful state, you sent Jesus to die for us and rise again to redeem us from

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hell in the grave.

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Because you already did that, we can have confidence that you will also give us everything

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else we need.

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Father, I lift up my dear listening friends in this new season.

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I ask you to provide whatever they need today.

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Deliver them from the evils around them.

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I bind demonic activity that would try to hinder their walk with you or bring discouragement

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into their lives, and I release angelic hosts to minister to them even now, keeping their

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feet from slipping off the path of righteousness for your name's sake.

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Father, we know you are doing a new thing in our day, and we ask that your will be done

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in our lives, our communities, our nation, and around the world, even as it is done in

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heaven.

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Let us see in the natural what you are doing in the heavenly realms.

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In Jesus' name we pray.

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Amen.

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You know, friends, there are widows like Ruth, as well as orphans all over the world, who

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need to experience the tangible expression of God's love.

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Many have special needs that we as a company of women can meet together.

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Like the two young men who lost parents and then had their house damaged in a storm.

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Together we help provide appliances for them so they could once again live in their family

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home.

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We also help Rachel, a widow in Israel, and her two small children who had to flee their

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village near Gaza and relocate.

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Together we are helping them get into a new apartment with a bomb shelter so they are

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safe.

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Will you consider joining us with a special gift to help?

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Just go to hergodstory.org and click on the Widow and Orphan tab at the top of the page.

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And thank you for tuning in.

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In our show notes at hergodstory.org you'll find scriptures and the other information

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we talked about.

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You can also get a six-week devotional on Women of the Bible to download for free.

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Or purchase that 12-week devotional that we'll send you for just $12 knowing that all the

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proceeds go to our Widow and Orphan Fund.

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We'd love to pray with you on our 24-7 prayer and text line.

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Just give us a call or text anytime at 855-459-CARE or email us at prayer@somebodycares.org.

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And now I bless you from Psalm 139 : 5-6.

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May God go before you and follow you.

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May He place His hand of blessing on your head.

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May you know this knowledge is so wonderful.

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And may He give you revelation so that you understand His love for you.

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Happy New Year!

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Her God Story is a ministry of Somebody Cares America and International.

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To find out more about or support the ministry, go to somebodycares.org.