The name “Shamgar” is taken from a man to whom a total of 42 words is devoted to in the Bible. Shamgar’s story is told in only two verses; Judges 3:31 and Judges 5:6. From only a few words we learn that God used an unlikely source to impact an entire nation. We know that Shamgar lived about 3000 years ago in the land of Canaan which is called Palestine today. The Bible says that Shamgar “killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad and he also delivered Israel.” Judges 5:6 tells us that he liv
Historically speaking the Philistines would terrorize a people through raiding parties of ten and twenty soldiers. Israel had no military or viable judicial system at the time. Shamgar was a farmer with only a farm tool for a weapon. An ox goad was a wooden pole approximately six to ten feet long with a point on one end and a flat chisel-like iron blade on the other. The point was used to prod the oxen pulling a plow and the blade was used to clean the plow-share. The ox goad would be about six inches aroun
What does all of this have to do with our ministry? Jay Strack and Pat Williams wrote a book titled “The Three Success Secrets of Shamgar”. God used that book to impact our lives and move us to begin this ministry. “The Three Success Secrets of Shamgar” are