I am going to share a 10.5 Amazing things about Sister Harriet Tubman and how when you are an Open Vessel for the Lord he will make a way for you to be All Used Up!
She had Faith in God as the Deliver and Protector for the Way - "I always told God, 'I'm going to hold steady on you, and you've got to see me through.'"
She was known as Black Moses as she lead Black Folks through the Underground Railroad - "I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory over everything, the sun came like gold through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”
She was not satisfied with her own Freedom she reached - She made 19 return trips to the South and helped deliver at least 300 fellow slaves, boasting "I never lost a passenger.”
Infuriated slaveholders had a bounty on her head for $40,000 dollars for her capture she was never apprehended - "I can't die but once" became her motto, and with that philosophy she went about her mission of deliverance.
She was born in 1820 this rang sweet in my heart as my Grandmother was born in 1920 100 years later
She always made her rescue attempts in the winter but avoided actually going into plantations. Instead she waited for escaping slaves (to whom she had sent a messages) to meet her eight or ten miles away. Slaves would leave plantations on Saturday nights so they wouldn’t be missed until Monday morning, at the Sabbath.
Because her rescue missions were fraught with danger, Tubman demanded strict Obedience from her fugitives. - Are you being Obedient to what the Lord is telling you?
Tubman said she would listen carefully to the voice of God as she led slaves north, and she would ONLY go where she felt God was leading her. Fellow abolitionist Thomas Garrett said of her, “I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God.”
She became a friend to many of the best known abolitionist and their sympathizers John Brown referred to her in his letters as “One of the best and Bravest persons on this continent - General Tubman as we call her.”
It took 30 years after the war for her to be granted a government pension in recognition of her work for the Federal Army. 10.5 She Loved The Lord the one True Living God!