You should cry out to God in your troubles.

We should look at what God wants to change in us in the situation.

The Lord is always with you and He loves you.

The Lord God is our strength and our supply.

Courage is not lacking fear but acting in spite of the fear.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

"Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the LORD of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. 11 "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the LORD of hosts; This is the only area of scripture where I can find the Lord saying test me in this.

Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. A strong wife, a valiant wife. The reason he was hiding is so this harvest would not be discovered by the Midianites. Some say God was using humor to joke with Gideon. I am not sure. He may have been calling Gideon as He saw him to be not as he was. God can see us in our finished state. He knows our end and what we can become. He calls us to be all that He has ordained and anointed us to be. Ladies, please encourage your husbands, do not tear down. If you say he is worthless around the house he will live up to your expectations. If you praise him for the small things he does he will want to do more. Watch his reaction if you brag on him to some one else. I want you to see something incredible.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. How many have heard or read this verse before raise your hands? He called, He justified, He glorified. It does not say He will justify but that He has glorified. It does not say He will glorify but that He has glorified. He sees the finished work. I refer ti myself and others in here sometimes as sinners because we still sin but please understand something. If you have asked for forgiveness that is not what God sees. He sees a saint. Saint David, Saint Margaret, Saint Gennarino,

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Poemia, sunset in Ca. God says you want to really see something look at my daughter over here, or my son over there, that is really something. v.13 Let’s remember the angel of the Lord represents Jesus. We see people worshipping the angel of the Lord and you will see a shift in the wording in just a moment. The angel said the Lord is with you. The man of valor said if the Lord is with me.

For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. Another example of His love is His message. The fact that we have intact, in our hands, God’s message of redemption is incredible. After all the attacks all the executions of those who either read it or possessed it and were martyred for it is incredible. It speaks of God’s undying and unwavering affection for His people and His desire at all cost to communicate that message to His people. Part of this is that God will not sit idly by and watch His children destroy themselves. It is worth noting that God said He was with Gideon not with Israel. Gideon said that God had forsaken Israel when it was Israel that had forsaken God

Then the LORD turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!"

Don’t complain about what strength you don’t have, serve the Lord with the strength you do have. How often we think about what gift we don’t have and what strength we don’t have. God is looking for us to use the gifts we do have, the strengths we do have to serve Him. You may feel inadequate for something the Lord is asking you to do. In part that is a good thing, as long as it doesn’t keep you from doing what He told you to do it. The Lord is the one who is adequate. Gideon is really asking, God do you know what you are doing? God always know what He is doing. Notice that God did not answer the questions but gave him something to do.

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Is anything too hard for the LORD?

For with God nothing will be impossible."

"I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

'Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.

But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible."

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.