BardsFM

I sometimes feel it’s unfair too - things hurt! I’m not as young as I was! But then God opens my eyes to all the gifts I’m blessed with and I remember Jesus suffered more than any of us ever will, and I feel embarassed I even felt like complaining!

The Lord cleansed out those who were physically afraid to fight, reducing Gideon’s army by 22,000, down to 10,000. This trial represents God’s fire consuming at the body level. In the second ”trial”, God removed those who were more interested in the blessings of the water than in fighting

Those who got down on their knees to drink water represent those who have a desire to serve the Lord but who get easily caught up in enjoying natural blessings and forget that they are fighting a war. Those who drank from their hands and refused to get down on their knees represent those who realize that life is more than the satisfaction of natural needs and desires. They remained standing, meaning that they remembered their higher calling

The first trial was a consumption at the body level, removing those who were afraid of making physical sacrifices, while the second trial was a consumption at the soul level, removing those who were afraid to make soul sacrifices. Both trials, however, reduced the size of Gideon’s army to a small group of 300 men. Again, we see how God’s purifying judgments produce smallness, and that smallness leaves a pure heart that is willing to make physical and soul sacrifices for the Lord’s sake.

Highest order is love...be careful who you allow to define what love is...cannot allow anyone but Father God to show you what love is...it is not what most have clung to

We are all to walk in the fullness of Christ (anointing), all of us are Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher. We all have a natural endowment of one or more of those, and as we walk fully submitted unto God with our brother, he imparts his endowment onto us while we impart our endowment onto him...thereby being perfected in the fullness.