Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his love,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with Gideon's fleece before the Lord as as we pick up in judges, chapter 6, verse 36.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

And Gideon said unto God, if you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, if you will save Israel by my hand,

as you have said.

Now again, Gideon is still questioning

this call of God, wants to make sure.

So I tell you what, I'm gonna put a fleece of wool out on the ground tonight, and in the morning let the ground be dry and the fleece wet.

And then I'll know.

In the morning when Gideon woke up, he wrung a cup of water out of the fleece and the ground was dry.

And he thought, well, maybe that was just a,

you know, who knows, maybe fleece gathers moisture at night

when the ground doesn't.

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