A mighty man of valor...!

Judges 6:11-12, 22-23 NKJV

Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord  is  with you, you mighty man of valor!” Now Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord . So Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God ! For I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face.” Then the Lord said to him, “Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.”

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Shalom! Day #137. Do you know that God is able to use even a coward person to do His will? Let's pray. Father, we acknowledged that it not by our might or power that we are able to do Your will, but it's by Your Spirit that's at work in us and through us. In Jesus name we ask and pray, amen!

God doesn't really need a man who is skillful in swords to do His will neither a brave man. When you are called, God makes sure that He provides everything that a person needs. He makes sure that the chosen person is well prepared for the works. Gideon, he's a coward actually, but then God approached him by saying,“The Lord  is  with you, you mighty man of valor!” The Lord knows it, yet He did not see what Gideon's current situation but He looked into his future of what would Gideon become. Why I say Gideon was coward, because he was hiding from the Midianites in the winepress. God saw Gideon was hidig there, and He saw what would Gideon become! The mighty man of valor!

Many of us are in this cowardly situation where we most of the time doubt whether God is able to use us or not. As I mentioned earlier, when God calls you, He make sure that you are molded according to what he wants. He choses you, then He breaks you, then He create a new you. New courageous and bold character, new spirit, everything new about you. There are many "Gideons" who are in the same situation as Gideon was and they are slipping away because they doubt whether God is able to use them or not. You are one of them. Hey, don't look into what you are now, but look at what you would become when you are in the Lord and doing His will. God has the blueprint of you life and He very well knows what you would become if you choose to believe in God and allow Him to use you. Gideon was a man just like you and me, he was mending his own business,  doing his daily routine - threshing wheat in the winepress,  but that one day little did he knew that God will come to visit him. He wasn't prepared for the visitation of God. Then he went and prepare the best meal for God. God will call you at any point of your life, be ready to heed the calling and not doubt. Doubt kills faith and destroys your calling.

Let this day be the day of the Lord!

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In His Majestic service,

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