God Ain't Done Yet || Part 9
God Ain't Done Yet || Part 9, Day 5
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 last thing they did to see an unusual victory - they blew their trumpets, they carried their fire, and lastly, they stood in THEIR PLACE! Church, if there was a word that needed to be preached right now to the people of God in America, it is this, stand in your place!
Don’t allow anything that comes our way to cause us to leave OUR place. Trials may come. Persecution may come. Tribulation may come. Threats may come. Regardless of what may come, stand in your place! The apostle Paul said when I have done all to stand, stand therefore!
Beloved, God has not placed the church here on this earth to be door mats. He has not placed us here to be pushovers. He didn’t place us here to be silent passive weaklings. He placed us in the earth, cleansed by the blood of Jesus, and filled with the Holy Ghost to occupy until He comes again. To advance His kingdom in the earth until Jesus comes back.
As the church of Jesus Christ, we are to stand in our place. What is our place? Our place is to preach and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in the earth without apology or hypocrisy. Our place is to destroy the works of the devil in every place. Our place is to lift up holiness and tear down wickedness. Our place is to give hope to the hopeless, life to the lifeless, and healing to the broken.
Our place is to be light in a dark place. Our place is to be a city set on a hill. Our place is to be salt in a tasteless culture. Our place is to be truth in a generation of deception. Our place is to be love in a world of hate. Our place is to push back the powers of hell so the true sons and daughters of the kingdom can stand up. Our place is to restrain the agenda of the Antichrist until the eastern sky splits and the trumpet of God sounds.
What place has God called us to?
The place of humility and not thinking of yourselves more than you ought to. Be humble and submissive.
The place, the land God had given you.
The place of authority as a child of God.
The place of faith.
The just shall live by faith!
Let's pray together...