God Ain't Done Yet || Part 9
God Ain't Done Yet || Part 9, Day 2
Judges 7:9-25 NKJV
It happened on the same night that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, and you shall hear what they say; and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men who were in the camp. Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude. And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.” Then his companion answered and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole camp.” And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.” Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet into every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers. And he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, ‘The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!’ ” So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” And every man stood in his place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. And the men of Israel gathered together from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites. Then Gideon sent messengers throughout all the mountains of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites, and seize from them the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan.” Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and seized the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan. And they captured two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.
The anointing, the grace, that is falling upon the church right now is the anointing to win uncommon battles in uncommon ways.
When Gideon and his men show up on the battlefield, they don’t have swords and shields in their hands. They don’t have bows and arrows in their hands. They don’t have spears or other weapons in their hands. The Bible tells us that they have torches in their left hands and trumpets in their right hands and they shouted out, ”The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.”
Church, I am no military expert, but even I know you don’t show up to a battle with torches and trumpets. However, Gideon and his men had inside information that their enemy didn’t have. That information was from the Lord and let them know if you will believe and obey, the victory will be given to you by the hand of God. He will use those torches and trumpets to defeat the enemy by His great power.
What I have found in my time serving the Lord is that God truly does move in unconventional ways, ways that seem strange or even crazy in the minds of men. God chooses to move in these ways because He will always get the glory for it. Man didn’t think of it and even if he did, he would not have chosen that way to do it. Those are the ways that God chooses to manifest His victory in the earth.
Isaiah 55:8-9, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
1 Corinthians 1:25, “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
1 Corinthians 1:27, “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.”
Church, I believe what God is saying to the church of this land is, “For those who will stand in My holiness and righteousness, for those who will walk by faith and not by sight, for those who will depend upon Me and not themselves - I will show up for them and give them uncommon victories in uncommon ways.”
Right now, if you can’t think of a way out on your own, then you are in a great place for God to move. If you can’t turn it around yourself, you are in a great place for God to move in an unusual way. If you don’t have the strength or power to do it on your own, then you are in a great place for God to move in an unconventional way.
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