Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 27, Day 3
Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
TOPIC: FATHER, LOCATE ME FOR AN ENCOUNTER 3: Reveal Your Ability In Me
Memory Verse: Psalms 18:19
“He brought me out to a wide-open place. He rescued me because he was pleased with me.”
Bible Reading: Judges 6:11-16
“11 Now the Angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites.
12 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
13 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.”
14 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?”
15 So he said to Him, “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.”
Every man has God’s ability in them to make them who they are meant to be but because we, being hidden from the challenges around us, couldn’t see that ability in us. Every problem has an answer, is either we don’t know it or we didn’t accept the answer, and the answer lies within us.
Gideon was a man of valour but never knew he was. He was born into the habit of storing food away from the Midianites. He believed that was his best contribution to his nation not knowing he could do much more than that. As usual, he was stocking the food stuff when God located him and revealed the real Gideon to him. He couldn’t believe he was a man of valour. The angel said,
“The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
Check Gideon’s response;
13 Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us?
God was speaking to Gideon directly but he was generalizing it. Many of us has been located by God but refuse to take His instructions personally. We keep believing the words are not meant for us individually.
And the angel repeated the second time,
14 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?”
Gideon gave another excuse being the smallest in every area with a prove,
“15 So he said to Him, “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.”
We all have reasons to prove God wrong concerning our lives but they’re all facts and not the truth. What God said is the truth and what you believe about your self may be a fact. God doesn’t work with fact He works with the truth, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free” not the fact setting us free. Gideon have the fact but God was giving him the truth. Accept the truth of God concerning your life.
1. Father, locate me in my human wisdom and reveal the real me to me.
2. Help me overcome every forms of littleness weighing me down.
3. Give me the idea that will liberate me forever in Jesus mighty name.
4. Help me overcome all fact about myself and hold unto your truth about me, in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.
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