Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, October 30th.

Today's podcast revisits the story of Gideon,

highlighting how resting in God's presence is essential for overcoming overwhelming odds.

Let me ask you this, how many of you've ever thrown out a fleece to God?

And said, Lord, if this happens, here's what I'm going to do.

If that happens, here's what I'm going to do.

How many of you've done that?

You know why you're laughing?

Because you have.

We've all in some fashion,

or the other, thrown out some kind of fleets,

say, okay, God, I'm willing to do thus and so.

Or you flip a coin,

listen, coin flipping is not the way you find the will of God.

That's not the way you find the will of God. That's not his way, or throwing out fleece.

Because you see the truth is we're all smart enough. If we want to do a certain thing,

we can throw the fleece exactly the way we want to land.

But you see, that's not God's will.

But here's God's will.

But here's God asking Gideon to do what appeared to be an impossible task.

So what did he do? Scripture says in verse 36, then

Gideon said to God, if you will deliver Israel through me as you have spoken.

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