13646-EN- J2 – Jochebed: The Courage to Confront Fate – KHAYIL2025 – Ps Lilliane SANOGO

Jochebed: The courage to refuse fatality

Who decreed your end? Who dared to write that your destiny stops here? Was it the system? A societal voice? Or even a malevolent spiritual decree that has loomed over your family for generations? Today, God asks you this question: what if you were Jochebed? What if, like her, you were called to say NO to fatality and manifest God’s glorious plan?

When everything seems written, when everything seems decided, God can still write. He is the One who wipes away death decrees to inscribe a destiny in letters of fire. In Exodus 2, the Word says:

The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.

She saw that he was fine — not just cute… She saw beyond the visible. She saw a living prophecy, she saw a promise in flesh and bone! Beloved, can you see like that? Do you have enough faith to discern the prophetic beauty hidden behind what others call “useless”, “ruined” or “doomed”?

True invincibility begins when you refuse to submit to what the world calls inevitable. The world said boys must die, but Jochebed said: “Not mine.” The world said no one can succeed without this diploma, without that marriage, without that validation, but an invincible woman rises and proclaims: my life is in the hands of Almighty God!

A season marked by fear… until Jochebed arrived

In Egypt at the time, a law had been instituted: every Hebrew boy had to be killed. A horrific reality. A death decree. And yet, in the midst of this oppressive atmosphere, a woman rose up — not with an army, not with weapons, not with a political title, but with an inner conviction, a working faith, and a burning love for life. Jochebed.

What if all the other women had given up? What if all the other mothers had accepted that bearing a son meant tears, mourning, and predestined loss? But one woman, just one, said: “My son will not die.” And what God is looking for today is that woman. That woman who looks at a decree, who sees a diagnosis, and responds: “No. Not me. Not my child. Not my house.”

Look closely: Jochebed did not simply cry. She didn’t just beg. She didn’t run. She ACTED. She took a basket. She coated it with tar. She thought. She devised a divine strategy. Because faith without works is dead. Believing in God is not enough. You must also rise, fight, take a stand, and act under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Divine wisdom is the secret weapon of the invincible woman.

Human decrees cannot nullify divine plans

Pharaoh thought that killing the boys would be enough. He didn’t see Jochebed coming. He thought the woman was the weaker sex, that she wouldn’t rise up. He was wrong! He didn’t know that by choosing to let the girls live, he opened a spiritual door. He didn’t know that what the world despises, God can elevate to humble the mighty. Your femininity is a strength, your gentleness is a strategy, your faith is a weapon, your motherhood is prophetic.

And every day, even today, Pharaoh — this system of death — lives on. It no longer hides behind the Egyptian banner. It is called TikTok, distraction, discouragement, self-loathing, imposed sexual identity in schools, loss of spiritual foundations. Pharaoh is still legislating over our children. But where is Jochebed? Who will say, “Enough is enough”?

Do you want to change things? Then look at what Jochebed used. She had neither a title, nor money, nor position. But she had three things:

  • Prayer
  • Wisdom
  • Faith

Wisdom built the basket. Faith dared to place the baby on the water. And prayer? It guided the ark to the right place, at the right time, into the hands of Pharaoh’s daughter. What God is looking for today is not superheroines. He is looking for women who can pray, who can receive His instructions, who can say: “Lord, I align myself with Your plan. If You need an instrument, take me.”

Behind every accepted fatality, there’s a forgotten promise

As Hebrews, the women knew! A prophecy had been given. After 400 years, a deliverer would rise. Moses is that deliverer. But they forgot the Word. They forgot the promise. And forgetting the promise makes you vulnerable to fatality. If you don’t know what God has said, you’ll believe what the world says. If you don’t hold His promises in your heart, you will even unconsciously submit to frameworks that are not divine.

And sometimes you believe, but don’t move. An inactive faith, a silent faith, a dead faith. SAY NO! True faith is a faith that acts. Jochebed acted. She took a risk. She confronted fear. And listen to this: she dared to use the place of death — the Nile — as the channel of life. Every time babies were drowned, their cries echoed among the reeds. But Jochebed cast a baby full of hope into it. Where the world sees a cemetery, heaven prepares a deliverance.

A fatality is only a prison if you accept its bars

A fatality begins in the mind. As long as you believe something is inevitable, you will never rise. The Bible says:

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs 23:7)

If you think you are doomed to fail, you will fail. But if, like Jochebed, you say within yourself: “There is a promise over my pregnancy, there is a destiny in me,” then nothing can stop you! Not even a royal decree.

My sister, the world is waiting for a woman like you. Heaven is searching for Jochebeds. Your family, your neighborhood, your business, your nation needs someone who refuses fatality. Who refuses to see her children swept away by the river of discouragement, of wrong gender identification, of spiritual barrenness. If God could do it with Jochebed, why couldn’t He do it with you?

This world needs invincible women. Not through human glory. Not through physical strength. But through faith, wisdom, and total consecration. Women who say: even if everything is written against me, God is still writing. Women who look at the place where everything seems dead and declare: “I will build a basket. I will place the impossible in God’s hands. And I will believe that He will do the rest.”

Let us pray together

Eternal Father, today I stand like Jochebed. I don’t want to suffer through things. I don’t want to accept the unacceptable. I rise up in faith to say no to every form of fatality in my life. I reject social, familial, spiritual, or emotional decrees that seek to smother Your plan in my life. Awaken wisdom within me. Let my faith become active. Let every idea, every strategy that comes from You explode within me. I want to partner with You in my life. Spirit of God, come equip me, fill me, set me ablaze so that through me, Moseses may be born and Your glory be manifested on this earth. In the mighty name of Jesus, I have prayed. Amen!

Lord Jesus, I give You my life. You are my Savior. You are my Hope. Transform me, raise Your banner over my life. I receive You today as my Lord and Savior. Deliver me from every fatality. I want to live Your will. Amen!

At the heart of the Bible

  • Exodus 2:1-10 (Jochebed hides Moses)
  • Hebrews 11:23 (By faith, Moses was hidden)
  • Romans 8:37 (We are more than conquerors)
  • Psalm 91:2 (He is my refuge and my fortress)

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