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Jochebed was a warring mother. When she gave birth to Moses, Pharoah had ordered the midwives to kill all Hebrew male children at birth. They were throwing the boy babies to the crocodiles. Jochebed said, "No crocodile will get my son." She began to war.

She hid Moses for a long time. It could have been in a storage room where she stored foods. When she could no longer hide him, she bravely made an ark of bulrushes out of the long stems of the papyrus bush. She carefully wove it, plastered it with clay on the inside and bitumen on the outside to make it smooth and watertight.

She and her daughter Miriam placed the baby in the water near where Pharaoh's daughter came daily to bathe. Jochebed and Miriam stood nearby, now warring in prayer. When Pharaoh's daughter saw the beautiful baby, she loved him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

Miriam who was standing guard said, "Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" Pharaoh's daughter said, "Yes. Get me someone who can nurse him and care for him for me." So Jochebed got to nurse her own child until he was seven, even though the Pharaoh's daughter adopted him. You can believe that it was Jochebed, a warring mother, who taught Moses how to war for a nation.

You, too, will need to learn to war for your children--their very lives, their safety, their grades in school, their relationships. Just as God gave Jochebed a plan for saving Moses' life, which saved a man for the deliverance of the children of Israel, He will give you a plan for your child. God has given many who will read this book a special child. Study carefully the chapter on Warring for Your Family.