The Courageous Women That Praised God. Judges 5:1-31 Deborah and Barak praise the Lord for all that He did for His people. He gave unity to the leaders so that Barak could assemble an army of 10,000 men who had no weapons against an Army of Canaanites armed with 900 chariots.The same God who gave Israel victory in the past would give them victory again.Israel had entered into a covenant with the Lord at Mount Sinai, and He would fulfill His promises to His people the Jews.Since conditions were so terrible in the land that something had to be done, God raised up Deborah to be a mother in Israel .The enemy took over because the people had turned from Jehovah to worship false gods. Deborah was concerned about the spiritual life of the people as well as their physical and political welfare.God commanded Deborah to wake up and sing and Barak to wake up and attack the enemy. Because of her faith, Deborah could sing before the battle started as well as after the battle ended.The singer moves from describing Sisera’s death to portraying Sisera’s mother watching for her son’s return. What a pathetic picture of hope where there is no hope! How many people today are looking out the window of false assumptions and expecting something to happen that will never happen. Sisera was dead; he would never come home to his mother’s love again. His mother and her attendants kept telling themselves and each other that everything was fine, but it wasn’t.The battle at Megiddo was more than just a conflict between opposing armies. It was a conflict between the forces of darkness and the forces of light. We either love Christ and walk in the light, or we are His enemy and perish in the darkness.