ICS Daily Devotions
See God’s Glory in the Impossible
Judges 7:2 (NKJV) And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Although Gideon obeyed the calling to deliver the Israelites from the Midianites, God alone would get all the glory so nobody could boast. Gideon was only given 300 soldiers to overcome an enemy as numerous as locusts and whose camels were like the sand on the seashore. Moreover, God instructed Gideon and his soldiers to arm themselves with a trumpet, an empty pitcher and a torch. They then divided themselves into three companies to be stationed at different outposts of the camp in the middle of the night, but when they blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers and shouted, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon”, the whole army of the enemies cried out and fled! All these were done by faith! They wouldn’t have experienced the deliverance of the Lord if Gideon had not responded to his calling, spoken to the Lord, believed in how He looked at him and wanted to use him to do great things!
Judges 7:13-14 (NKJV) 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.”
Like Gideon, we also need to consecrate our lives to God and walk in His will even though we may be working in the corporate world. One important safeguard in seeking a confirmation from God regarding His will for our lives and how to deal with a situation is godly counsel. Because Gideon had a calling from God, God gave him a detailed strategy of how to take down the enemy, and then God gave one of Gideon’s men a dream which acted as a confirmation of how God was going to deliver them. Ultimately, God received all the glory because the strategy, the tools and the number of soldiers made no sense in the natural.
Similarly, our faith in God will allow us to experience how He will open streams in the desert, paths in the wilderness, favour with people, doors of opportunities, and cause strategic and creative ideas to flow. In fact, we will stand in awe and worship of God whenever it is an act of God in our lives because we will know that nobody is able to orchestrate and bring everything together unless God’s hand is in it!
Sermon Series: You Are in the Hall of Faith! (Part 1)
