We all have our own Midianites to face. By studying Gideon's strategy we can learn how we too can defeat the Midianites.
As this earth fades more and more from the desires of our heart, we begin to look forward and upward for a city to come. Are you going to that city? Are you prepared to go if the Lord was to call?
This verse deals with building and battling (“keep the city”). These two actions describe much of our life and they certainly describe the Christian life.
Are you saved? How can you know that you are saved? God wants you to know for sure.
Not a message about one person like Gideon, but about a condition of this life. It is called despair meaning all hope is gone. The Lord has left us on our own. Throughout scripture, God gives us examples of those who seemed to be left by the Lord and thought they had been deserted by Him but later found that He hadn't left them at all.
