Do you think your ministry is too small to make a difference? Are you looking at discouraging statistics? Then I have good news! Read the story of Gideon in Judges chapters 6 & 7.
This is one of the most exciting passages in the Bible! Let God speak to your heart, and He will encourage you to put your trust in Him. This is the key to success in ministry: doing God’s will!
Success isn’t having a huge number of followers. It isn’t becoming famous. Success is when God uses you to minister His love and truth to a hurting soul.
You may not know what God has done through your obedience this side of Heaven, but when we trust Him, He will use us to accomplish His will.
Judges 7:1-8 NIV
Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ 3 Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.
4 But the Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”
5 So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.” 6 Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.
7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.” 8 So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.”
First, God chose Gideon, who was from the weakest tribe and the least in his family, to lead Israel into battle against the Midianites. Then the Lord reduced Gideon’s army from 32,000 men to 300 men. Then God used them to rout the Midianites!
God will not use those who depend on their own strength. Let us humbly put our trust in the One who is able.
In His Love, Cindy
To learn more about Jesus, read Who Is Jesus? A message for the Skeptic
Did you know? The Lord appeared to Abram and said, … “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you…” Genesis 17:7 (emphasis mine)
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