Mobile Daily Devotional Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel Week 31, Day 7, Saturday, 7 August 2021. TOPIC: WHILE WAITING ON THE LORD 6:

“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”.”

God is always willing and ready to speak to us in our present situations. While waiting on Him, His word is the only response that can help us. He is available to speak to us but most times, we are carried away by our present situations that we couldn’t hear Him speaking to us. We are more focus on what we are going through than preparing to hear Him speak. May I tell you today, His Voice is all you need to hear, just be attentive to Him.

During the days of Gideon, the Israelites went through a lot in the hands of the Midianite.  They were all waiting for a new judge to deliver them from their enemy. Gideon thought all he could do was to hide the produce of their farms not knowing God has been waiting on him for a long time, but one day, he was so attentive to hear God speak to him and the waiting of the whole Israel came to an end. God did spoke to him, convinced him of whom he is and what he can do. More so, that he is with him in all his decisions.

Many of us are so busy to hear God speak to us. Some believe the Lord should speak to them in a particular way, others thought He should use someone else rather than who He is using. We can’t decide for God how He’ll speak to us, when He’ll speaks or who He is sending to us, all we need is to hear Him speak to us. His voice should be our earnest expectation. It should be what we are craving for. When we hear Him we find a way out of our waiting. When Gideon heard Him, waiting for a judge came to an end. I pray this morning, may we be able to hear and recognise His voice when He does speak to us is Jesus Mighty Name, Amen. 

An end will come for our waiting period in Jesus Precious Name. Be ready to hear His voice.