Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the master for

devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. We are picking up with day three of

our wisdom from Old Testament stories devotion in the Bible app. There's a link to that in the

description you guys want to follow along and I'm actually not going to read all

the scripture because it's three chapters it is judges six seven and eight

because the devotion actually kind of paraphrases what they're trying to focus in on.

So I'm just going to go and jump on in.

It's titled Gideon, and it says this, today's story also comes from the book of judges. It's pretty common for us to want to see the

underdogs or the unlikely heroes when. And that's what happened with Gideon against the

Midianites.

As we learned in day two, the Israelites lived in a terribly toxic cycle.

At this time, Gideon was Israel's judge, and they'd been oppressed by the Midianites for seven years.

The Midianites were so cruel to the Israelites that they were starving.

That's when they called on the Lord again. God sent a prophet to his people and scold to them for

worshiping false and foreign idols. After this an angel of the Lord

appeared to Gideon and called Gideon a mighty warrior judges 6 verse 12 clearly

surprised at this Gideon then asked why God has abandoned them God tells Gideon to save

Israel from Midian's hand.

Gideon doubts God several times,

but God tells him that he'll be with him

and that he'll deliver him.

Finally, Gideon moves forward in the role God has called him to.

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