We all have storms in life. We wonder where God is during these storms without realizing He is right there with us. He is still working, providing signs and giving us the power to stand.
5. Judges 6:11 – 14
The angel of the Lord came and sat down under
the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the
Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing
wheat in a winepress to keep it from the
Midianites. When the angel of the Lord
appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with
you, mighty warrior.”
6. Judges 6:11 – 14
“But sir,” Gideon replied, “if the Lord is with
us, why has all this happened to us? Where are
all his wonders that our fathers told us about
when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up
out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned
us and put us into the hand of Midian.”
7. Judges 6:11 – 14
The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the
strength you have and save Israel out of
Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
9. Psalm 46:1 – 3 God is our refuge and
strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
10. Psalm 46:1 – 3 Therefore we will not fear,
though the earth give way and the
mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam and the
mountains quake with their surging.
12. Judges 6:36 – 40
Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by
my hand as you have promised— look, I will
place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If
there is dew only on the fleece and all the
ground is dry, then I will know that you will
save Israel by my hand, as you said.” And
that is what happened. Gideon rose early the
next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung
out the dew—a bowlful of water.
13. Judges 6:36 – 40
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry
with me. Let me make just one more request.
Allow me one more test with the fleece. This
time make the fleece dry and the ground
covered with dew.” That night God did so.
Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was
covered with dew.
16. Judges 7:2-7
The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many
men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or
Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength
has saved me.’
17. Judges 7:2-7
Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles
with fear may turn back and leave Mount
Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand men left, while
ten thousand remained.
19. Judges 7:2-7
The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three
hundred men that lapped I will save you and give
the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others
go home.”
20. Lesson 3:
God will give us the power to
stand. (Judges 7:2-7)
(Eph. 3:20-21)
21. Eph. 3:20-21
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably
more than all we ask or imagine, according to
His power that is at work within us, to him be the
glory
church and in Christ Jesus
throughout all
generations, for
ever and ever!
Amen.
in the
22. Three lessons in developing a
tested faith
Lesson 1: In difficult times, God is still
working. (Judges 6:11-14)
Lesson 2: When we need a sign, God will
provide. (Judges 6:36-40)
Lesson 3: God will give us the power to
stand. (Judges 7:2-7)
