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T amar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary were five women who boldly followed their destiny and lived fulfilled and purposeful lives. Each of their daring accounts is told in Scripture, and their stories reveal steps you can take to live your own destiny. Allow these faithful Destiny chasers to serve as your role models as you journey through life wondering where and how you fit in. Use their lives as examples of howthrough courage, faith, and persistenceyou, too, can reach your destiny and live the life you were created to live.

As you read their stories and glean from the accounts of these five women, remember that not one of them had an easy and pain-free path toward their destiny. In fact, all five of these women had to overcome obstacles and activate faith to reach their destiny. They are the only five women noted in the genealogy in Matthew that lists forty-two generations that led to the birth of Christ. While we know it took both a man and a woman to make each child in the ancestry of Jesus, Bible writers include only the names of these few women among the forty-two men named. What made them stand out? What were their stories? How did their actions contribute to their destinyto play their part in bringing about Gods plan to redeem the world?

Read the daily insights we learn from the five women of the Bible in this book along with my book Destiny: Step into Purpose to fully recognize how to live your destiny and enjoy a fulfilling life.

Are you ready to meet your destiny? Are you ready to activate your faith and set out on the path God designed just for you? Are you ready to live on purpose like these women in the lineage of Jesus? Come along for the journey, and prepare to meet your destiny. You can change the world.

T.D. Jakes

Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar

Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Live as a widow in your fathers household until my son Shelah grows up. For he thought, He may die too, just like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her fathers household.

After a long time Judahs wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.

When Tamar was told, Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep, she took off her widows clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, Come now, let me sleep with you.

And what will you give me to sleep with you? she asked.

Ill send you a young goat from my flock, he said.

Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it? she asked.

He said, What pledge should I give you?

Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand, she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widows clothes again.

Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her. He asked the men who lived there, Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?

There hasnt been any shrine prostitute here, they said.

So he went back to Judah and said, I didnt find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, There hasnt been any shrine prostitute here.

Then Judah said, Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didnt find her.

About three months later Judah was told, Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.

Judah said, Bring her out and have her burned to death!

As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. I am pregnant by the man who owns these, she said. And she added, See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.

Judah recognized them and said, She is more righteous than I, since I wouldnt give her to my son Shelah. And he did not sleep with her again.

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, This one came out first. But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, So this is how you have broken out! And he was named Perez. Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah.