And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him, and said unto him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.
4 sermons cite this verse
… Judges chapter 6 beginning with the 11th verse. Now, the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abizrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to Gideon, The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior. Gideon answered him, But sir, if the Lord is with us, then why has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian. Then the Lord turned to Gideon and said, Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. I hereby commission you. Gideon responded, but sir, how can I deliver Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I'm the least in my family. …
… And how many of us know that we're believing God to work within our life in 2026? From the book of Judges, chapter 6, verse 11 through 14, the Bible says, Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree, which was in Aphra, which belonged to Joash, 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. Gideon said to him, O my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his miracles which our fathers told us about saying, did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. Then the Lord turned to him and said, go in this might of yours and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you? So just a quick breakdown, you see Israel here was facing oppression from the Midianites for seven years. You see the children of Israel were doing evil things in the sight of the Lord and God delivered them into the hands of their enemies. …
… God hears and God acts. The angel of the Lord came to a man named Gideon and said to him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. The divine irony of this statement was never more clear to anyone than it was to this farmer. All of his brothers had been killed in valiant attempts to throw off the Midianite yoke. Now all that was left was a collection of the crushed and cowardly, of whom he himself was a first-class example. Indeed, at the moment, he was occupied with threshing the little bit of wheat left to him for fear that he would be seen by the Midianites. Gideon was an honest, if not a brave, man. He did not take the Lord too seriously. With peasant bluntness, he set the divine spokesman right. If the Lord be with us, he said, why then has all this befallen us? Where be all these miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? …
… Judges chapter 6, beginning in verse 12. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. And Gideon said unto him, O my Lord, if the Lord be with us, then why is all of this befallen us? And where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord hath forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. And the Lord looked upon him and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent thee? Here was a man captured by a vision. He had an encounter, I say, with the living God, a challenge from the living God, a call from the living God. My preacher, brother, that's what you need, a vision. We have so many preachers today who, to quote another, are living lives of quiet desperation. …