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today's devotional. Hey, what is up, everybody? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive. My name is

Bro. And yesterday, we started to dive into a story about an underdog, the kind of

riveting story where the odds are completely stacked against somebody. The story is found in the

Old Testament book of judges. And the context is this. The nation of Israel has been rebellious

against God for a long, long time. And as a result of their free will choices, they had been captured and oppressed by the powerful

nation of Midian.

After seven years of this, they finally cry out to God for help.

And even though they have rebelled against him and had multiple affairs with phony gods,

his love is unfailing. And God responds. And that's where episode two of our story begins. Let's pick

it up where we are introduced to the main character, a guy called Gideon, beginning in verse

11 of Judges chapter 6. The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Oprah

Oprah man that girl's everywhere sorry that the oak belonged to Joash the

Azizirite where his son Gideon there's our boy was threshing wheat in a wine

press to keep it from the Midianites when the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said,

The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.

And so Gideon starts looking around.

He says to the visitor, mighty warrior.

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