Victory with a biscuit.

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Hello my Lovelies,

I was praying earlier today and Holy Spirit remind me of Judges chapter 7. As I read through it and refreshed my memory of this wonderful story of Gideon and God’s victory, I marveled how the Lord used something completely ridiculous to accomplish the miraculous.

In Judges chapter 7 we learn that Gideon was camped outside roundabout the Midianites with the host of Israel. Gideon came well equipped for battle. He had 32,000 men ready for war. Although Gideon seem to have everything covered the Lord said, “This is too many.” “If I let you go into battle with this many men, then Israel will take the credit for the victory, and will not give me glory.” The Lord told Gideon to let the men go home who were afraid. An amazing 22,000 of them left. There was remaining 10,000 soldiers ready for battle. The Lord spoke to Gideon and said, That’s still too many.” “Take them down to the river and whoever gets down on their knees and drinks the water up like a dog send them home.” All but 300 remained out of 10,000 men. Then, the Lord spoke yet again to Gideon and told him to go listen to the conversation outside of the Midian camp.

Gideon got to the camp in time to hear a Midianite telling of a dream that he had of a roll (a biscuit) coming down to through amidst the midianite camp and destroying it. The midianites reasoned amongst themselves and realized that God was going to give Israel victory in the battle.

Gideon fell down and worshiped God. He went back to the 300 men and gave him trumpets, torches and glass jars. And told Israel, the Lord had delivered the Midianites into our hands. Ha! Here we see this tiny fractal of Israel, comparable to this small little fraction of bread (revealed in the dream), standing on a hill outside of the Midian camp, sounding their trumpets, lighting their torches and breaking their jars. The thousands upon thousands of Midianites scattered and in fear running for their lives. The Lord delivered victory into the hands of Gideon and Israel!

I can’t help but laugh out loud at the marvelous things God does with the little bit that we feel is impossible to work with. Situations and circumstances become so big in our lives at times that we can either feel intimidated by our enemies, or overly confident because we assume we know how victory will come.

It’s hard to distinguish how and what the Lord has in mind. One would think that victory would need an army of thousands to overcome the midianites. That does seem rational after all. And also according to popular Christian teachings the more blessed you are the more victory you have. ( I personally question that teaching) When, in actuality this scripture proves that the Lord is not into sharing his glory. We are facing great battles and huge circumstances in the world today. The awareness that change is upon us and revolution is here is inevitable. We sense it in our spirit. The Bible tells us what’s coming next. Every victory ahead of us will be won by the Lord. God is not going to do things our way, he’s going to accomplish the miraculous with the ridiculous. He’s going to conquer our enemies with a biscuit!

Remember, as we go forward. Little is much when God is in it, labor not for wealth and fame. There’s a crown and you can win it. If you’ll go in Jesus name. We do not fight against flesh and blood. Our battle is with principalities and powers of darkness. We fight against spiritual wickedness in high places. There is no throne higher or kingdom greater than the kingdom of our God. The Lord has his people in his hands.

He can be trusted. His Words Are Like Candy, Jennifer