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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:41 am
'THE LORD IS WITH YOU, MIGHTY WARRIOR.' JUDGES 6:12 NIV
If you've been under attack lately, get ready; God's about to show you what the fight is all about! The level of warfare over your life tells you what God is going to build in and through you. Sometimes the devil is more aware of who we are, than we are. Gideon was hiding in a cave, afraid of the Midianites. Yet God calls him a 'mighty warrior.' God sees things in you others don't; that even you don't! Four God, who is 'the beginning and the end' sees things in their completed state - including your ultimate victory.
Somewhere in your life you should have a vision that humanly speaking makes no sense, something you know could never happen without God. When you first receive it something inside you will say, 'I will,' while everything around you is saying 'you can't.' It will take you beyond you own competency and make you realize that it's 'Not by [your] might nor by [your] power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord' (Zechariah 4:6). Quit asking people who they think you are. Ask God! When He endorses you what difference does their opinion make?
When God calls you He shows you what you've got, then empowers you to use it. When Gideon said, 'I don't have what it takes,' the Lord replied, 'Go in the strength you have' (Judges 6:14), and 'I will be with you and you will strike down all the Midianites' (Judges 6:16). There's an important truth here: you must start where you are and use what you have, then God will give you more. If you're unwilling to move until you get more, you may wait forever!
Read: Judges 6:11-16
-- The Word for Today - Caribbean Edition: December 19, 2007.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:48 am
Judges 6:11-16 NIV 11 The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior." 13 "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian." 14 The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?" 15 "But Lord , [a] " Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family." 16 The LORD answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together." The Message Bible 11-12 One day the angel of God came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, whose son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress, out of sight of the Midianites. The angel of God appeared to him and said, "God is with you, O mighty warrior!" 13 Gideon replied, "With me, my master? If God is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all the miracle-wonders our parents and grandparents told us about, telling us, 'Didn't God deliver us from Egypt?' The fact is, God has nothing to do with us—he has turned us over to Midian." 14 But God faced him directly: "Go in this strength that is yours. Save Israel from Midian. Haven't I just sent you?" 15 Gideon said to him, "Me, my master? How and with what could I ever save Israel? Look at me. My clan's the weakest in Manasseh and I'm the runt of the litter." 16 God said to him, "I'll be with you. Believe me, you'll defeat Midian as one man."
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