FAITH CAPSULE: When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and He will go before you.
Judges 6:11-40, 7
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 to make foolish wisdom. He alone can turn weak to strength.
The story Gideon is a testimony when Gideon’s father a Baal worshiper, but yet God called on Gideon for the assignment of delivering His people. When God decides to bring forth deliverance, He will choose the least expected, the list qualified or the last among the least in the eyes of man for His assignment. When God is at work in our life, neither us nor any force will be able to work against His work in our life.
Have you been called by God?
When Gideon was approached for the assignment of deliverance unto salvation, 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. He did not just ask for confirmation, but he repeatedly asked God in various ways for the confirmation of the assignment.
God indeed assigned Gideon a son of a Baal worshiper for the deliverance of His people from bondage.
Has the Lord been calling you, but you are yet to accept because of your past or your background history? God called Gideon and He backed Him up with power. When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and He will 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 God today for boldness and power to move in the calling over your life.