BREAKFAST WITH JESUS
BREAKFAST WITH JESUS
A daily devotional
Pastor Stanley
25th JULY 2024
THE HAPPENING DOESN'T DEFINE YOU
Judges 6:12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior." (NIV)
Don't let the happenings around you define you, if you do you will be subject to them and unable to change them. But define or change the happenings around you by recognizing and applying who you are in Christ.
When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior."
Gideon had become so subject the happenings around him and all his experiences. With this he belittle himself. He allowed the happenings to define him. He will understand this from his response to the angel, in Judges 6:13, "Pardon me, my lord," Gideon replied, "but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ’Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian."
Gideon interpreted God's presence with them through the circumstance that surrounded them. From the experiences of hard times and sufferings, he deduced "but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us?"
Don't interpret God's presence and love by the happenings around you. If things seems bad doesn't mean that God no longer loves, cares or with you. If could be that what you require to change your situation is within you, you just didn't know it.
The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?" -- Judges 6:14
All that Gideon required to save Israel was inside him. He didn't know that God had raised, empowered and sent him to deliver the Israelites out of the hand of the Midianites. He was beclouded by the situation that surrounded. Don't be beclouded by the situation that might have surrounded you, define the circumstances of your life.
PRAYER
Father may I recognize and walk in power and victory that you have given me in Christ, and effect changes in my life and my entire, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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