God Ain't Done Yet || Part 9
God Ain't Done Yet || Part 9, Day 4
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 second thing they put in their hands to manifest victory was a torch. We all know that a torch is a mobile fire. In other words, it is fire that can travel throughout the land and light up any dark place you come into. It is a fire which causes you to be seen and causes you to see your way.
Jesus tells His disciples in the first chapter of Acts, “Go and tarry in Jerusalem, until you have been endued with power from on high.” And we know in Acts chapter 2, that when the power showed up, it showed up as tongues of fire upon each of their heads. In other words, every believer in that upper room was baptized with the Holy Ghost, spoke in other tongues, and carried a fire everywhere they went. That fire did not stay in the upper room.
Do you want to know what will change this nation? Do you want to know what will change your home? Do you want to know what will change your city? Do you want to know what will change your life today? Do you want to know what will bring unusual victories in unusual ways? It is putting a trumpet in one hand and fire in the other hand. In other words, it is being filled with the fire of the Holy Ghost!
Hebrews 12:29, “For our God is a consuming fire.”
1 Kings 18:38, “Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.”
Elijah knew when he climbed up Mount Carmel to face the 400 prophets of Baal, he knew he had to have a trumpet in one hand. And that trumpet was announcing, “It is time for revival in the land. It is time for the false idols to be smashed. It is time to rebuild the altar of the Lord. It is time for rain to fall back on the land again.” But he also knew he had to have fire! Therefore, he called to the God who answers by fire.
Elijah needed the fire of God! Jesus needed the fire of the Holy Ghost! The disciples needed the fire of the Holy Ghost! Church the anointing that is falling on us right now is the anointing to carry the fire of the Holy Ghost. It is the anointing to make us as bold as lions in the land.
Church, if we were to listen to some preach and speak today, we would think there is no fire of God. If you listened to some preachers today, you would think all the fire that the church once had no longer exists. If you were to read some books today, you would think God doesn’t send a fire in His people anymore. I have one announcement to all of the naysayers. GOD AIN’T DONE YET!
Uncommon battles require uncommon victories. Uncommon victories require uncommon strategies. Right now, the anointing falling on the church is to manifest uncommon victories in uncommon ways.
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