The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”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 not I sent thee?And Jehovah looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent thee?
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… 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. The Lord said to him, but I will be with you, and you shall strike down the Midianites, every one of them. Then Gideon said to him, If now I've found favor with you, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me. …
… 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. …
… The Lord looked on Gideon and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Gideon protested, Who, me? My might? Who would follow me? I'm not a hero, and I'm not the stuff out of which heroes are made. The Lord replied quietly, Have not I sent thee? How can I save Israel, interrupted Gideon. Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am a nobody even in my father's house. Again the Lord replied, Surely I will be with you, and you will smite the Midianites as one man. Gideon was a farmer. He had to be shown. The Lord showed him. Sending fire to consume the meat and bread which Gideon had laid out on a rock, The Lord showed him, and Gideon believed. From that moment on, whenever Gideon listened to the Lord, people listened to him. Gideon could not explain it, and they could not explain it, but they listened. The first project to test the faith of the farmer was an assignment from the Lord to cut down the grove of Baal, the Philistine god whom Gideon's father, in desperation, had elected to worship. …
… 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. They're drawing the breath, drawing the salary, waiting for retirement. Friend, what you need to do is to get a fresh vision of Almighty God. Let me say something to you, my preacher brother. There has never been a greater day. There has never been a greater age, never a greater opportunity to preach the glorious gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ than this day and this age. …