Mission Impossible
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· 4 viewsWe walk through the story of Gideon to learn what God is up to today. God brings us on scary journeys to obliterate our doubts about God and ourselves.
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Last weeks challenge:
Ask Father for His hand to be on you and for Him to strengthen your hands.
Ask God how to apply your word to building.
- Did God highlight a gate, weapon or trumpet to you?
- Share what God told yo
Remember what God did last year in your life.
If you dont know what He did, ask Him what did you do in my life last year?
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
This year is not going to be easy, but what God will do through and for you will far outweigh the hardship.
Gideon
The people of Isreal cried out for help.
Gideon stepped up by preparing wheat when everyone else was afraid.
Gideon rallied people to join him to take out the enemy.
Remember what God has said to you and given you.
12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior.”
The good news is if you have forgotten what God has said He will send angels, enemies and more to remind you of His truth.
Things God said to Gideon:
“The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior.”
“Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”
“Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.”
“Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.”
Things Gideon said to God:
“why then has all this happened to us?”
“ And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about?”
- “But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
“how shall I deliver Israel?”
- “I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
Gideon gathered an army
32,000 men.
22,000 left because Gideon said if you are afraid you can go.
God said still too many.
They drank water at a spring and only those who kept their weapons and stayed alert where permitted to stay.
300 men was the new army.
This is now Mission Impossible.
God said if Gideon has doubts then go down to the camp and hear what God was already doing.
Gideon took Purah with him to go listen to the enemy.
Sometimes those who are not seeking God and are seeking self interest hear God better than we can.
Why? Because our past experience deceives us that God is not with us. Or that we must have not hear God right.
Impossible is God’s favorite hand.
This entire journey is for you to know who He is and who you are in Him.
Winning is not God’s only goal, His goal is for us to settle all the doubt about Him and yourself.
2021 is about obliterating doubts about God and yourself.
Purah = bough, branch, sprig, shoot...
Take with you the little things God has done.
Take with you the beginning of things God has done
Closing:
What did God give you last year?
What has God said that you are to bring about?
If you feel the suffering, look to the glory and great things God is bringing about through your life.
We walk through the story of Gideon to learn what God is up to today.
God brings us on scary journeys to obliterate our doubts about God and ourselves.
This weeks challenge:
What did God give you in 2020?
What has God told you that you will do?
Other resources:
Things Gideon said to God:
13 Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
15 He said to Him, “O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
Things God said to Gideon:
14 The Lord looked at him and said, “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”
16 But the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.”
23 The Lord said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.”
Purah:
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 6513 פֻּרָה
6513 פֻּרָה [Purah /poo·raw/] n pr m. For 6288; GK 7242; Two occurrences; AV translates as “Phurah” twice. 1 the servant of Gideon, probably his armour-bearer. Additional Information: Phurah = “bough”.
Branch, shoot, sprig...
9 Now the same night it came about that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands. 10 “But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp, 11 and you will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened that you may go down against the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant down to the outposts of the army that was in the camp. 12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 13 When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I had a dream; a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat.” 14 His friend replied, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.” 15 When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the camp of Midian into your hands.” 16 He divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers. 17 He said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do. 18 “When I and all who are with me blow the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets all around the camp and say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’ ”
14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 1397 δουλεία
1397 δουλεία [douleia /doo·li·ah/] n f. From 1398; TDNT 2:261; TDNTA 182; GK 1525; Five occurrences; AV translates as “bondage” five times. 1 slavery, bondage, the condition of a slave.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 1398 δουλεύω
1398 δουλεύω [douleuo /dool·yoo·o/] v. From 1401; TDNT 2:261; TDNTA 182; GK 1526; 25 occurrences; AV translates as “serve” 18 times, “be in bondage” four times, and “do service” three times. 1 to be a slave, serve, do service. 1A of a nation in subjection to other nations. 2 metaph. to obey, submit to. 2A in a good sense, to yield obedience. 2B in a bad sense, of those who become slaves to some base power, to yield to, give one’s self up to.