GOD SEES YOU DIFFERENTLY

Judges 6:14 Then the Lord turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have...."

Gideon was hiding down inside a winepress threshing wheat so their enemies wouldn't find and steal it when the Angel of the Lord came to him and called him a Mighty hero!  He didn't look like one or feel like one but God saw him as a mighty man of valour or as we would say today a mighty man of courage!

However, Gideon did not see himself that way. He saw himself as the least in his clan as the weakest in his tribe but God saw him differently. 

How often do we look at ourselves and see ourselves as maybe the weakest or the least, of no importance, maybe as someone nobody listens to very much and yet God sees each one of us a mighty man or woman of courage, a person who carries His authority.  How can He do that? It's because God has placed inside us the Greater One and with Him inside no power of darkness can stand against us, with Him inside us He has placed greatness in us and we become more than conquerors.

Gideon found lots of excuses and tried to blame God Himself for their defeats but God ignored all that and just told him to "go with the strength you have..." and in verse 16 He adds "I will be with you."  That's the key He will be with us.

Can I encourage each one of us today to go out into the day with the strength you have knowing that the Spirit of the Living God is living in you, (Who is more than enough).  See yourself the way God sees you and know He has equipped you and empowered you to deal with today in a spirit of victory and an overcoming ability. 

Let's thank God today for the strength we have got and believe by faith that as the need arises God will supply more and more as we need it. And if He asks you to do something beyond your natural ability know that He will enable you to do it because He is in you.

And remember God sees you as a mighty man or woman of courage especially in battle! Declare it by faith "I am a mighty person of courage because the Greater One lives in me. I can do whatever He calls me to do.  I am an Over-Comer in the Holy Spirit today and everyday."  In Jesus' Name Amen.