What we need to come to remember this morning is that our one responsibility is bowing before God in worshipful reverence. The truth is that God’s plan for you might be remarkably different than those around you. Our faith needs to be willing to be unanswered.Our faith need to be willing to be teachable.The truth is that God’s plan for you might be remarkably different than those around you. Our faith needs to be willing to be unanswered.Our faith need to be willing to be teachable.
The Bible speaks to those who have faced significant life changing events. God cares about people who experience traumatic events. God loves and cares for our veterans who are suffering with PTSD.
When we allow God to be pushed aside or mixed with other religions we no longer have a true north on our moral compass. In other words...deistic plurality leads to moral anarchy.
God won the victory in the past and is the same power of our victory in the present and the future. We just need to humble ourselves and submit to His truth and His leading in our lives.
Israel turned their back on God because the human heart is prone to wander when the stormy seas of life come. Israel turned their back on God because they loved the idols more. They loved the idols more because they desired prosperity and safety.
There is no circumstance, person, nation, substance that is independent of the sovereignty of God.This is the reality because God is the only being that is uncaused.
Whether the threat is form within or without…God is still in control. Whether there is good leadership or poor leadership…God is in control. Where there is no leadership…God is still in control.
God promised and delivered and now what? From what we see in this passage is that it seems Gideon expects God to be done with the miraculous and go back to his rocking chair in the sky. It’s now up to Gideon to lead and rule in the day to day.
Gideon, who through faith, finds himself over his mocker and facing the choice of responding in mercy or or in contempt. We too find it hard to follow in faith when we face our mocker
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