A Wrestle in a Winepress, Part 1 – your Lion Bites word for today
Many of you
have been like Gideon in the winepress threshing wheat – doing the wrong thing
in the wrong place, filled with worry and fear about the future. But God is
coming to you now to wrestle fear out of your heart and to call you to do great
and mighty things with what He has put into your hands.
God is
unravelling the fear that has been wrapped around you as false armour and
removing every spirit of anxiety that makes you feel ‘less than’. He’s coming
down into your own personal winepress – the place of your hiding – and He’s
starting to speak great and mighty words over you. These words carry
deliverance and courage and as you hear them you will receive freedom and
strength for the task ahead.
Judges
6:11-12
The
angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to
Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to
keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he
said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”
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A Wrestle in a Winepress, Part 2 – your Lion Bites word for today
Judges
6:15
“Pardon
me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in
Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
With fear
gone, many of you are looking in your hands and feeling like Gideon did – ‘I
don’t have enough to do anything of significance!’. But God speaks to you like
He did to Gideon, He calls you a mighty warrior and gives to you a miracle of
doing much with little.
God is
stretching what is in your hands – for some, there are miracles of
multiplication coming to you. He’s enabling you to do way more than is humanly
possible with the resources He has given you, whether that be money, skills,
products or ideas. Don’t run around like Gideon did trying to build the biggest
army. Instead, let God refine you down to the size and capacity He needs you to
be and leave a huge God-gap in your life for Him to pull through with the
miraculous.
Receive the
miracle of doing much with little, the miracles of stretching and
multiplication. Look at your hands from God’s perspective and see the enormous
amount of transformation the little is about to create.
Judges
7:7
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.”
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A Wrestle in a Winepress, Part 3 – your Lion Bites word for today
As God
starts to send you out to do much with your little, many of you feel as though
you lack revelation and reassurance of the path ahead. Rest assured, just as
God gave a dream through a man to strengthen Gideon, so there is revelation
coming to you in many different forms to help kickstart your new adventure.
God is
meeting you as you sleep and as you rise – whether it be a gentle whisper in
your ear, an ‘aha!’ moment or an all-consuming vision, He’s coming to speak to
your heart. This revelation will bring not just strategy for the road ahead,
but the strength to press on and do what God is telling you to do. These
revelations carry edification and direction, courage and vision and as you
receive them, know that God’s got your back and He’ll have it the whole way as
you follow His voice.
Pay
attention to the voice of God in the many different ways it’ll come to you –
let scripture jump off the page, dreams stir your heart, God-thoughts
strengthen your inner man and visions bring direction. Turn your ear to hear
the God that is already communicating with you.
Judges 7:13-15
When
Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said,
“Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the
camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it
upside down, so that the tent lay flat.” And his comrade answered, “This is no
other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has
given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”
As soon
as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And
he returned to the camp of Israel
and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand.”
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