Weakness is brought about by the fear of God’s people and the result is the fragmentation of God’s people.

Instead of looking to your circumstances our yourself, look to the Lord.

In our weakness God is strong. You are exhausted with life because you think you can handle what only God can handle.

God’s power is most fully displayed when His people respond in their weakness.

The reality is that for a lot of us it isn’t that we lack faith…as in we are absent from faith. If that were the case we wouldn’t struggle with how we are or are not obeying. Our struggle is that our faith wavers but our hope is in the fact that God’s faithfulness doesn’t

We need to trust the Lord more than at the altar. Trusting God is more than a momentary decision but a lifestyle.

Sometimes stories of past deliverance are irrelevant in light of their current crisis. When it comes to God and His provision in our lives we tend the run on our short term memory not our long term memory. And when adversity comes we usually want God to do a removing job when He wants to do an improving job.

There is nothing amazing about grace if there is nothing life changing about an encounter with the holiness of God.

The impact of grandparents in history is impossible to calculate. Because of the powerful influence of grandparents there is always hope! Even if one generation goes astray, the next generation can be brought back through the influence of grandparents. Grandparents can bridge the gap between parents and children. They can make major differences in the course of history.

Israel thinks that their biggest problem is the Midianites. Their love for the Canaanite culture was their biggest problem. This isn’t their first time on this track either. It’s almost as though they love their love of the world around them was bigger than their disdain for the hardships of life.