“The Lord told Gideon, “You have too many soldiers with you for me to drop Midian into their hands, because Israel would become arrogant and say, ‘It was my own abilities that delivered me.’ Judges 7:2

 

Out of the 32, 000 soldiers with Gideon, God allowed only 300 to go with him to fight, and win the battle. Gideon could have resisted God’s instruction and trusted in his natural strength but he decided to obey and is named as one of the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11.
If David had matched Goliath strength for strength, armour for armour, stature for stature in their encounter, where would the glory of God be in the victory? (1 Samuel 17)
Ask yourself, are there too many soldiers in your life? Do you attribute what is good to your own effort or do you allow God’s strength to manifest in your weakness? God often works through the circumstances of life to make us depend not on natural help but on God alone.
Peter’s disappointment took him to his encounter with Jesus (Luke 5). Paul’s thorn kept his eyes on Jesus so that he understood the secret that there is strength in weakness when God is involved (2 Corinthians 12).
Are you in pain, are you in want, are you hurt or disappointed? Are you engaged in a phenomenal battle? Victory in Christ Jesus is already there for those who recognise this truth: God always meets us at the point of our weakness for it is there that His strength is made perfect. Therefore, allow God into your weakness today and He will turn it to strength, and when you look back at this time, you will realise why God removed the many soldiers in your life, so He alone can take the glory.

WHAT BELONGS TO GOD

This instruction of Jesus reminds us that whatever we do in this earth, whatever we encounter and whatever comes our way, nothing should take our heart from God. Different responsibilities, challenges and pressures may fight for our attention but nothing should take the place of God in our heart, because our heart belongs to Him.

ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO LEAD YOU

When we pay attention to the Word of God, seeing it not as an ordinary word but the Word of God, then our mind will be renewed and our heart will begin to desire the things from above. We must be spiritually inclined to discover spiritual things.

THE GARDEN OF DECISION

In the garden of Eden, a place of pleasure, a place of abundance, a place of intimacy with God, Adam disobeyed.
In the garden of Gethsemane, a place of pain, a place of sorrow, a place of suffering where before Him was the weight of the sins of the world and rejection from God, Jesus obeyed.