In this month’s video blog, Pastor Bill shares the importance of applying ourselves to excellence and gives the example of how God used Gideon to display His value for excellence and commitment.
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i was just in cleveland
ohio with the steve witt stephen cindy
witt
at bethel cleveland and had such a
wonderful time
and i was giving this example that just
seemed to impact the crowd quite a bit
and it was basically it came down to
this god doesn’t use idiots
and uh i let me explain it to you gideon
is this great hero
of this scripture he started with 32 000
men and the lord says send everyone home
that’s afraid
and 22 000 people left which to me says
we got 10 000 left that might now
have issues of fear that they didn’t
have when they were 32 000
strong but there’s 10 000 and the lord
said take him to the water
show them how to uh or watch them drink
and so it takes them to the water
they kneel down to drink and the ones
that knelt and brought the water to
their mouths
with their eyes open they were alert as
military people should be
there was only 300 of them and the lord
sent 9 700 people home
and and fought a war and won with 300
people
the lord’s not trying to teach us that
he can win a war with idiots he’s trying
to show us
he values excellence he values proper
training
he it values the sense of devotion and
commitment
the numbers of people that are involved
with that kind of value system
doesn’t matter because because he can
win with any hand
but the point he’s making with this is
that
he likes to take the best of the best of
the best the values that we have
that are uh entrenched in our soul they
they
they affect how we think how we see
when we apply ourselves to excellence we
become the group of people that he loves
to bring about
the great great victory so the way i
like to put it is
god doesn’t use idiots
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we thank you for the cross