Limitations = Miracles

Our greatest limitations provide a recipe for the greatest miracles. Wherever we are without, God is all the more with us. Feel no discouragement in sparsity. God wants to show His glory to you in the same way he showed it to Gideon.

Judges 7:1-7
Jerub-Baal (Gideon) got up early the next morning, all his troops right there with him. They set up camp at Harod's Spring. The camp of Midian was in the plain, north of them near the Hill of Moreh. God said to Gideon, "You have too large an army with you. I can't turn Midian over to them like this—they'll take all the credit, saying, 'I did it all myself,' and forget about me. Make a public announcement: 'Anyone afraid, anyone who has any qualms at all, may leave Mount Gilead now and go home.'" Twenty-two companies headed for home. Ten companies were left. God said to Gideon: "There are still too many. Take them down to the stream and I'll make a final cut. When I say, 'This one goes with you,' he'll go. When I say, 'This one doesn't go,' he won't go." So Gideon took the troops down to the stream. God said to Gideon: "Everyone who laps with his tongue, the way a dog laps, set on one side. And everyone who kneels to drink, drinking with his face to the water, set to the other side." Three hundred lapped with their tongues from their cupped hands. All the rest knelt to drink. God said to Gideon: "I'll use the three hundred men who lapped at the stream to save you and give Midian into your hands. All the rest may go home." 

God cut Gideon's army down from 32,000 to 10,000 then to 300 men. God was creating a recipe for miracles so everyone could see that He was God and all credit and honor belonged to him. Are there areas of you life today where you feel discouraged because there is just not enough? Hold on tight and stay focused because God is getting ready to do something that you can't even imagine!!

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Thank you for the much needed reminder of how our Mighty God can use us in a mighty way!