FAITH CAPSULE: God alone is perfect and makes foolish wisdom.
Judges 6:11-40, 7
When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and go before you.
God is perfect to perform, and He is the perfect creator.
God oversees the affairs of all.
God is wisdom.
None is wiser than God.
1 Corinthians 1:20-25 recorded, “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” (1 Corinthians 1:20-25)
God alone is perfect and makes foolish wisdom.
He alone will turn weak to strength.
The story of Gideon is a testimony that God is not limited to calling whoever He chooses to use.
The father of Gideon is a Baal worshiper, but God called on Gideon to go and fight for the deliverance of His people.
When God moves to deliver, He will choose the least expected, the least qualified, or the least among the least to use for His deliverance assignment.
When God is at work in the life of the called one, nothing is possible to derail the work of God.
God called Gideon for the assignment of deliverance unto salvation, but he responded to God, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” 16 And the LORD said to him, ‘Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.’ 17 Then he said to Him, ‘If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me.’” (Judges 6:15-17)
Gideon wanted confirmation that God had called him for the assignment. Gideon repeatedly asked God in various ways to confirm the calling over his life.
God indeed assigned Gideon, a son of a Baal worshiper, to go and deliver His people from bondage.
Has the Lord been calling you?
What is holding you from answering His calling?
Your history is not enough to deny your calling.
God called Gideon, and He backed Him up with power.
When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and go before you.
Gideon, with great fear, attempted not to answer the call, but God positioned him on the ground where he received every plan to go forward and be victorious to the glory of God.
Prayer for today: Ask for boldness and power to move in the calling over your life.