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SAVE ISRAEL OUT OF MIDIAN'S HAND. Gideon had a specific mission.  And for this specific mission he had strength.  I've learned that we only have strength to do what we're supposed to do right here and now.  So we need to not only know the strength that we have right now, but also what we're supposed to be doing right now.  What do you KNOW you're supposed to be doing right now?  (Or after you read this blog!)  Whatever that is, you have strength from God to do it.  And this is the key to it all:  Is God sending you just as he sent Gideon? AM I NOT SENDING YOU? Whatever you know you're supposed to be doing right now is exactly what God is "sending" you to do.  Your personal "Midian" is your duty and responsibility for God's glory.  Whether you're a husband loving your wife, or a wife respecting your husband.  Or if you're a child honoring your parents, or a parent lovingly disciplining your child.  You may be at work.  Y...

"Go in the strength that you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand.  Am I not sending you?" ~God to Gideon I hate feeling weak.  More than that, I hate my when my weakness is witnessed.  Maybe you do too.  Or maybe you hide your weaknesses better than I do.  But what if you didn't have to hide or fear weaknesses?  What if you only spoke and acted with strength? You can! God, who made you, gave you at least one strength.  And I have good news for you:  He only expects you to do what you can do!  He only expects you to act not only in the strength that you have, but that you know that you have.  I'll show you what God showed me through His words to Gideon, the judge who delivered Israel from the Midianites.  I'll show you by breaking down God's words to Gideon. GO IN THE STRENGTH THAT YOU HAVE. First, go.  Take a specific course of action.  And when you take that specific course of action, do it only in the str...

To Matthew, my spiritual son, From the time you were 5, you believed in the Lord.  Your faith was real.  I've seen it grow as you are becoming a man.  You've always wanted to know how to follow the Lord perfectly, which is rare.  I only know one other believer, my spiritual brother, who wants what you and I want:  to be perfectly pleasing in the sight of God for the day of judgment, and to know that this is so in the present.  Because we want the same thing, though I'm your spiritual father, I'm encouraged and strengthened by you.  I want to encourage and strengthen you with what God showed me today in the scriptures. I've been reading about the kings of Israel.  It's sometimes discouraging because they seem inconsistent at best in their relationships with God.  Most of them were evil and did evil.  With each king, more evil is done.  From father to son, more evil is done against the Lord.  But every now and then in the scr...