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Judges 6:11-40, 7

The land that the Lord gave the children of Israel became a raiding ground for their enemies to thrive because of their sin. As a result of their situation, they went back and cried to God for deliverance from the forces of enemies that had made them captive on their God-given land. Among many men in the land that could have been used by God to bring forth deliverance, it was Gideon who God called on.  GideonÕs father was a Baal worshiper, but yet God called on Gideon for the assignment of delivering His people. When God decides to bring forth deliverance, He will choose the least expected, the list qualified or the last among the least in the eyes of man for His assignment. When God is at work in your life, neither you nor any force will be able to work against His work in your life. Has the Lord been laying a call on you? God will not give you a vision that is not heavier than you, but the one that is heavier than you will have to commit every move unto GodÕs hand. When Gideon was approached for the assignment of delivering his people unto salvation, he responded to God, ÒO my Lord how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fatherÕs house.Ó 16 And the LORD said to him, ÔSurely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.Õ 17 Then he said to Him, ÔIf now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me.ÕÓ(Judges 6:15-17) Gideon wanted confirmation that God had called him for the assignment. He did not just ask for confirmation, but he repeatedly asked God in various ways for the confirmation of the assignment. God assigned a son of a Baal worshiper for the deliverance of His people from bondage. Has the Lord been calling you, but you are yet to accept because of your past or your background history? He is God and He can move and unmove as He chooses. God called Gideon and He backed Him up with power demonstration because when He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and He will go before you. Gideon, with great fear, attempted not to answer the call, but God positioned him on the ground where every plan was presented unto him. God led him to hear with his ear how the enemies were going to fall in his hand. GideonÕs plan of fighting with great numbers was declined by God. Although they were up against thousands of enemies, God reduced the numbers of Gideon soldiers to just three hundred because Gideon was able to gain a position of victory before numbers fought the battle. Ask God today to position you for victory against everything that is representing enemies in your life. 

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Judges 11

It is not over. It will not be over and it cannot be over until God Himself pronounces it over. He alone is the Almighty God; the Great I Am that I Am; the only One who inhabits eternity. He is God that works in His own timing; not the timing of man. 1Timothy 6:15-16 describes Him, ÒÉHe who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in an unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.Ó  Does this sound convincing enough to you that although it may be cloudy now, the sun will shine again at the timing of God? Can you actually get it now that indeed nothing is impossible for Him to do? All the work of His hands and the testimonies in His Word as documented in the Scripture are enough for every acclaimed believer to hold on to. Jephthah, the Gileadite, was referred to as a mighty man of valor, but before he became a mighty man of valor, he was a castaway among his brothers because he was the son of another woman. Jephthah was driven out by his brothers and, Òthen Jephthah fled from his brothers and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless men banded together with Jephthah and went out raiding with him.Ó (Judges 11:3) To his brothers, he was worthless and none of them wanted to have him as part of the family. He was rejected and condemned as a non-entity but to God there is always hope in life. When the people of Ammon made war against the children of Israel, the same Jephthah who was driven out of the city became the one to be sought after for his help. Judges11:4-6, ÒIt came to pass after a time that the people of Ammon made war against Israel. 5 And so it was, when the people of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. 6 Then they said to Jephthah, ÔCome and be our commander, that we may fight against the people of Ammon.ÕÓ How sweet can it be for someone who was driven out of his fatherÕs land by his people and later be sought for by the whole nation for help? JephthahÕs case was discouraging and depressing at the beginning, but the latter part was strengthening and encouraging. Has it ever been in your situation that all hope is lost? In your turning left and right you have encountered nothing but roadblock. All who are closest to you have become farer away. Jephthah, by the hand of God, turned out to be the light in darkness for the people of the very land where he was driven out by leading and delivering the people out of the hand of their enemies. With God, you never can tell when or where He will show up concerning your case. Hold unto God and He will hold you up unto Himself in Jesus Name.

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Judges 6:1-10

The fear of God causes a departure from evil while the lack of fearing Him causes one to enter into evil. Being evil or doing that which is evil does not offer anything but rather takes away all things and destroys. Do you really fear Him? Fearing Him in the mouth and not also in the heart is not true fear of Him. When there is a failure to fear Him in the land where He has positioned you to be, you will eventually lose that land. The children of IsraelÕs failure to fear Him passed them into the evil hand in the very land God gave them. ÒThen the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, 2 and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds, which are in the mountains.Ó (Judges 6:1-2) The children of Israel departed from fearing God and entered into evil. The children of Israel left behind a God-given land and made for themselves a hiding place in dens, caves, and strongholds. This was not supposed to be for the children of Israel. They had a God-given land and could not retain it because they had attended and attained what is not of God. When God gives, He does not give sparingly so do not spare yourself from serving Him indeed and in truth. Anytime there is a move from God-made to self-made because of evil accommodation, there will be a lost of control because of GodÕs withdrawal from sin and a sinning land. Judges 6:3-4, ÒSo it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them. 4 Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey.Ó They suffered greatly because they withdrew from the One who is great and greatly to be praised. Are you experiencing a sudden attack that will not stop on any of your land? Any situation could have been the cause of your looking for a place in the cave, hideouts or strongholds. Will you search and see if there is any wicked way in you? No man is perfect except God and He alone knows every manÕs heart. David stated in Psalm 139:23-24, ÒSearch me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and see my anxieties; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me the way everlastingÓ. Just as David asked, will you ask yourself the same? Ask God to search you, try you, fix you, and lead you from all kinds of wicked ways into the way everlasting. He is faithful and He answers prayer.

FEAR GOD< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Psalm 34

To fear God is to hate evil. Evil is wickedness and wickedness is evil. The Bible repeatedly points out that fearing God is to hate evil. Proverbs 3:7 ÒDo not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and depart from evil.Ó Proverbs 8:13, ÒThe fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.Ó This page will not permit pointing out the fact that the lack of fearing God is the demonstration of every identifiable act of evil under heaven. To fear God is to trust in Him; trusting God is to seek Him and seeking Him is the demonstration of having faith in Him. Having faith, fearing God and trusting Him are all in all. Faith is all that generates fear. The source of faith is in the Word of God. We know God by His Word and through His Word in the pages of the Bible. God is also known through the power inhabited in His Word and that is where fearing Him is generated. Fearing God is not because we see Him in the physical, but rather because He can be seen in the might of His Word that is power. When there is no faith, you will fear in this world and when there is faith, you will live in the fear of His Word. What is the fear of the Lord? Who can teach His fear well than David who saw it all in his lifetime? David stated in Psalm 34:11, ÒCome you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.Ó David wanted to teach only some kinds of people as mentioned by him in Psalm 34:12, ÒWho is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?Ó  Does DavidÕs question sound in your direction? If the question is of any interest to you, then the fear of God is all that you need and David thought of it in Psalm 34:13-14, ÒKeep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. 14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.Ó Fear of God comes down to having hatred for every evil act that comes our way. Evil is all kinds of wickedness; it is living or acting contrary to what God has specifically commanded for us to live by. Evil is wickedness and wickedness is evil. Evil includes: lying, stealing, fornication, adultery, divorce, malice, manipulation, etc. It can take pages upon pages to identify all that is evil. The fearing of God will not survive in you just by determination, but it will survive by your desire to fear Him. The Lord will deposit what it takes to fear Him into your life. As you go in this new beginning of the day, pray for the fear of God to overtake you. Meditate in the desire for the fear of God in your life and it will become of you. Jeremiah 32:40, ÒAnd I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.Ó  God said it! The response is now for you stretch for it and He will do it. Ask, seek, knock and it shall become yours in Jesus name.

CRY OF BARTIMAEUSMark 10:46-52

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If anyone will close their eyes and see what it takes to be blind then there will be a clear understanding of what blindness is. Blindness is a grueling and painful situation; it can also be morally and emotionally agonizing. Can you imagine what it means to be spiritually blind? To be spiritually blind is a special stagnation where a believer does not know where and when to make a move. It can also be compared to sitting in the dark while surrounded by light. The light that is on can be for direction, preservation and all that it takes to move forward while the blind has taken a seat in all that it takes to remain stagnant. Looking into the picture of the blind Bartimaeus as recorded in the Bible relates to what it is to be spiritually blinded and not just physically blind. Mark 10:46, ÒNow they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging.Ó Bartimaeus remained seated and could not move outside of his location while the multitudes were following Jesus around. Bartimaeus could not see so he could not move. As a believer, when there is a lost of spiritual sight, there will also be a lost of spiritual gain. When God is moving before you or on your behalf but you are spiritually blind, you remain seated. Any believer who suffers from spiritual blindness does not have a choice to make but to accept every offering that comes their way. An old time adage says, ÒA beggar has no choice.Ó Indeed the privilege of choice will be reduced to almost none when spiritual blindness prevails like in physical blindness. Bartimaeus was stranded and did not know from where he was going nor did he know from where he was coming. He lived a life of no choice. One day, however, he decided to come out of blindness, ÒAnd when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, ÔJesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!ÕÓ (Mark 10:47) There was attempt to stop him from crying for His miracle, but he persisted and he received his miracle. Jesus is always passing by and you never know when He will be passing by your location. Are you in a position to cry out onto Him for deliverance and restoration of your spiritual eyesight? Many do not know of their blindness and as a result, it makes it difficult for them to cry out for help when help is passing by. Do you have a need for deliverance from any kind of blindness? It is time to cry the cry of Bartimaeus and the Lord Jesus will answer you. You will regain your sight and His direction will have its way in your life in Jesus Name.