Gideon Series

ii. Once again - I struggled with this call. I did not believe I had the strength to do what God wanted me to do at CHC!

4. Also - I really did not want to leave New Life in Amery. But the voice of the Lord was so strong and relentless. So, I asked for confirmation from God.

a. A Prophetic word came to me from Rick one of my elders who flowed in the Prophetic realm at New Life.

i. After praying he came to me in tears and told me that I would be leaving to go to Chicago because God had told him this would happen. I was called to return and deliver the people from the Spirit of Rebellion and arrogance!

b. Then the affirmations came from my family and friends, especially Kathy.

c. I started receiving many phone calls from other pastors in the FCA and from other ministerial friends. To consider Christian Hills!

d. But most important “I heard God’s voice instruct me to come and I know His voice!” So, I eventually said “YES!”.

i. But it was a struggle!

5. When I accepted the call to come, I knew it was God – so I am here because God confirmed my call to be your pastor.

vi. POINT: What is God calling you to do? Do you need affirmation that it is His voice then ask Him for a sign or confirmation. He will give it!

b. Gideon prepares an offering for the Lord – the Lord waits as he prepares it and then accepts it with the fire from his Staff. The fire consumes the offering then the Lord disappears, and Gideon realizes He has seen the face of the Lord.

i. Fear most likely gripped Gideon again because the teaching of the day was if you saw God face to face you would then die. So, the Lord speaks to Gideon again – “He is not to fear - he will not die for seeing the Lord’s face.”

ii. He then built an altar there to honor and remember his divine encounter with the Lord.

iii. Do you remember all the time you met with the Lord?

1. Have you written them down?

2. Have you forgotten about them?

3. Have you taken the time to revisit those divine encounters?

a. Why so as to reignite your faith and call?

T.S. – God confirmed His call to Gideon and walked him through a trust and faith building exercise and then Gideon stepped into battle for the Lord.

III. The first Mission- starts at home! Most calls of God start in your own home life!

a. The first step in the call to battle is start at home first – win the battle their first (Judges 6:25-34)

i. 25That same night the LORD said to him, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

26Then build a proper kind of altar to the LORD your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.”

27So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the men of the town, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.

28In the morning when the men of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!