# Gideon’s Might

May 18, 2026

End of word prayer, please, brother. 384, 384, this blessed old book, 384.

And praise the Lord for the Bible. Turn in your Bibles tonight to Judges, chapter number six, Judges chapter number six in God’s Word tonight. And good to see Oscar here tonight. We don’t see him here on a Sunday night. We’re awful good to see him tonight, and it’s a blessing. Judges chapter number six. Once you find that, let me just kind of get us all on board where we’re at.

In the book of Judges. Judges chapter number six. And once you find that, would you say, “Praise the Lord”? Good. Judges is really a series of Israel backsliding, God letting an enemy nation oppress them, and then God raising up a judge that would deliver them. Thirteen different judges in the book of Judges. It’s kind of like a slow decline throughout this cycle. And boy, towards the end of the book of Judges, it just gets dark. Wow, messed up.

The theme of the book: every man did that which is right in his own eyes. And when you let mankind decide what’s right or wrong instead of God, it just goes downhill. And by the end of the book, it’s just some of those stories. I think I mentioned not too long ago, but the story where his wife was already dead, but he cut her up into 12 pieces and sent out. That’s just like, you don’t even want to tell that story in church. It’s just, wow, that’s a crazy story.

And just kind of where it gets when you take God out of the picture. That’s the beginning Wednesday night, that’s the beginning of wisdom, the fear of the Lord, and you lose all that. Anyway, right in the middle of this, Gideon is the sixth judge, and Israel backslidden, and God let the Midianites come in there. Amalekites were working with them too, but for the most part, the Midianites, and really they just oppressed Israel. When it became harvest time, the Midianites would come in there and they would take all their food, their cattle, everything.

And the Bible talks about them like grasshoppers. I think a little bit of that, not just the number, but like the grasshoppers will come in there and eat you. How many ever have a garden and grasshoppers or things or the Japanese beetle or whatever eating up your stuff? Kind of like that. The Midianites would come in there and eat all their stuff up, and they didn’t really have anything left.

And they were doing that. And then Israel cried out, “Lord, you’ve got to help us.” And I cry out to the Lord. And the first thing the Lord sent—this is interesting, we’ll get to you here in just a minute—the first thing the Lord sent, not necessarily Gideon quite yet, but He sent a prophet. And the prophet preaches to them. And Gideon, I believe, was there listening to that prophet. We’ll look at that here in a minute.

And then we pick up the story where the angel of the Lord comes to Gideon. So we’re in Judges 6. We’re going to start reading in verse number 11. Verse number 11. Would you please stand as we’ll read God’s Word together if you’re able to? Judges 6 and verse number 11. By the way, praise the Lord you’re here on a Sunday night. That’s awesome. And that’s right where you ought to be. God’s so pleased with that. And just a good spirit here tonight. Thank you for being in God’s house and such a great, great spirit.

Verse number 11: “Now there came an angel of the Lord and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash, the Abi-ezrite.” Now that’s Gideon’s dad. “And his son, Gideon, threshed wheat by the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.”

“And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him and said unto him, ‘The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.’”

A lot is said about that phrase. I heard someone recently say this: They said, “You are what God declares you to be, even if you’re not quite there yet. God declares you to be something, you will be it.” Interesting thought. We’re not focusing on that yet tonight.

Look at verse number 13, and Gideon said unto him, “O my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? And where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

Here’s our text verse. And the Lord looked upon him and said, “Go in this thy might.”

You know the rest of the story: the 32,000, and then the 10,000, the 300, you know, the story of the Lord of Gideon, and they won the great victory. And all that’s true. But before any of that, Gideon’s just said really one verse. And he says, that verse number 14, he says, “Go in this thy might.” You ever stop and think what he’s talking about? Gideon’s might?

Gideon hadn’t led 300. All that hadn’t happened yet. Just a little conversation. And I think the Lord Jesus Christ—we’ll talk about it just briefly—but the angel of the Lord saying, “Hey, go in this.” What was his might? Just a little bit tonight. What’s Gideon’s might? He said, “Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have not I sent thee?”

Now we know Gideon had some excuses, and Gideon needed a lot. God was so compassionate. We talk about the fleeces. It was more than fleeces. I mean, God, first of all, really showed him through the offering. It just went up in fire. The angel of the Lord disappeared, and then the fleece where it was wet, everything else dried, and the opposite of that. Then after that, you know, you’re still afraid. We’ll go down there in the camp, him and his servant there, and the story of the Lord of Gideon to heard that. I mean, God just over and over again really was very compassionate, confirming to Gideon. And then eventually the great victory. But before all that, in the very beginning, the angel of the Lord says, “Go in this thy might.” What was he referring to there? Just for a bit tonight. Let’s focus on that.

Would you pray with me that God would work in our hearts on this saying Gideon’s might? Father, help me to rightly divide. Lord, I may have missed something. Lord, I don’t want to say something that’s not really true from Your Word. Guide me in it, and then Lord, I preach You to apply it and encourage our faith, Lord. Encourage us. Thank You for Gideon and letting us learn from him. Father, help us to grasp tonight what You meant when You said, “Go in this thy might.” And Lord, we’ll thank You for what You do, and we’re asking for this, Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

You’ve probably heard, if you’ve been around for a bit, you’ve probably heard all kind of things about Gideon hiding by—notice what he says in the King James Bible—by the winepress.

If you’re like me, you’ll probably heard Gideon was a big wimp and was afraid and all these other things. He’s hiding by the winepress and all, you know, some will say that is a cave, which I really don’t think is true. You’ll hear all kinds of things about that, and I’m going to give you a little bit of my thought on this. Just think about it here: they’re oppressed. When they have a harvest, the enemies just come in there and just take everything.

And the Bible doesn’t talk about anybody else threshing wheat besides just one man. I’m sure there were people complaining, “Wow, we ain’t got any food. We’re going to starve to death. They need to straighten that out and they’re straight to hormones or else.” You know, I’m kind of joking there, changing gears a little bit. You know, just to complain, “Well, you know, our king or our judge or somebody needs to do something about this thing.” And I’m sure that was going on. But Gideon was doing something.

As far as I can read the whole story, that’s the only man that I read about. Actually, he’s putting his hands on the plow. He was willing to get some wheat. And he’s over by the winepress. Yes, he’s hiding. The Bible’s clear on that. But he’s doing something. I mean, I’d rather have a guy out there doing something.

You know, it’s amazing how many armchair quarterbacks we have in America. You know, it’s always easier to tell someone how to do it than to do it. I mean, I understand Gideon may not be perfect, but he’s the only guy I see from the Word of God that’s actually out there doing something.

He’s got the wheat out there. And really, for it to be useful, you’ve got to thresh it. He’s putting himself a little bit in danger. He’s out there threshing the wheat. Is that true or not? Do you all know of anybody else in that time period that’s doing something to anybody? He’s the only one to know.

By the way, later on in the story, when he cuts his dad’s false idol of Baal in their high place, he burns it up. Look over in verse number 27. Look at this, verse number 27: “Then Gideon took 10 men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him,” and so on and so on. He had servants, but over here at the beginning, he’s not putting his servants in danger. He’s getting his own hands and is getting them dirty, and he’s putting himself in danger. He didn’t tell anybody else to do it. He had servants that could have done it, but he didn’t do that. He himself is getting out there and doing what he could, getting his hands dirty, rolling up his sleeves, and threshing wheat.

Is that true or not? All the years, all the sermons I’ve heard, to be honest. And I’m thinking, wait a second, the guy’s doing something.

So the Lord comes to me and said, “Hey, go in this thy might.” I would tend to think some of what the Lord’s talking about. His might is, “Hey, Gideon was doing something with what he had.” He wasn’t just sitting over in the sea of scornful complaining and talking about it and criticizing. He was actually out there doing something with what he had to do.

And can I say, sometimes there’s a lot of strength, there’s a lot of might, in us doing what we can do. You can’t say, “I can’t solve all the problems.” I didn’t say if you can solve all the problems. Are you doing what you can do? Gideon couldn’t feed all of Israel. Gideon could take that little bit of wheat, have him thresh that wheat, and he was doing that. And the Lord came to me and said, “Hey, go in this thy might.”

You know, it’s amazing. Some people are just complaining, complaining, complaining, complain about America, and they don’t even vote. And you want to say, “Hey, hey, bud, you ain’t got no right to vote because you’re not doing what you can do.”

I went to a preacher’s meeting a couple years back, an evangelist from West Virginia. My dad’s from West Virginia and almost heaven, you know, all that stuff. But I remember that evangelist. He said this. He said a lot of times he will ask in preachers meetings, he said—he didn’t do it at the end. He said, “But I’ll ask, how many of you sincerely… every day for the most part, you may miss, but for the most part, every day you pray for revival?” And he said, in a meeting like this, a bunch of preachers, typically I have about one or two raise their head. Now, here’s what I’m saying: we can complain about America and say, “Oh, we need revival,” but are you doing what you can do? Are you praying for it? I mean, Gideon at least—Gideon is rolling his sleeves up and doing something about it.

I haven’t even heard people, “Well, the churches across America, there’s a whole problem.” And every once in a while you want to say, “Are you involved in a church somewhere? Are you ushering in a church somewhere? Are you playing the piano, the organ? Are you singing in the choir? Are you changing dirty diapers in the choir? Are you working a bus route? Are you doing something?” What did I say? Oh, my goodness. I may even have to go back and listen to that one myself. Brother Adam, that would be a new one. Ms. Melissa says, “Uh-uh, uh-uh. We have a nursery for the babies now, amen.”

You ever have someone? Oh, they want to complain. “Oh, it’s so bad.” I mean, financially. I mean, gas is up, and houses cost so much, and my boss won’t pay anymore, and all and on and on. And you want to say, “Hey, let me ask you, what are you doing with what you got?” Why, you’re blowing on this out of the other. Okay, but what are you doing with what you have?

Gideon is—at least he’s rolling up his sleeves, he’s getting involved, he’s doing what he can do. He’s the only one out there threshing wheat.

There’s so many people that are lost in America. We need more people saved. And praise the Lord for that. And while there’s lost people everywhere in 2026, can I ask you, when’s the last time you’ve given a gospel tract out? When’s the last time you went to a neighbor trying to win him to the Lord? I’m just saying, Gideon was out there rolling his sleeves up, getting involved, doing what he… I don’t find anybody else doing that.

You know, there’s this parable over there in the New Testament. And at the end of it, he had some extra talents to give out. And, you know, he gave it to the guy that was using what he had. The guy that didn’t use what he had, he took it from him. Yeah, that’s the biblical principle. Paul planted, Apollos watered, and that’s when God gave the increase. When they were doing what they could do, that’s when God gave the increase.

The Jordan River—children of Israel had to cross over to get the promised land, and the Lord said, “Hey, when those priests carrying the ark, when they put their feet in the water, you get busy crossing as much as you can. Put your feet in the water.” When they did that, God said, “Boom! All right, I’ll bless them.”

I’m just saying, Gideon’s doing something. Yes, Moses, “I’ll deliver the children of Israel. I’ll bring these ten plagues on them.” But you’ve got to go over there and talk to Pharaoh first and just, if you will, try on your own.

I’m saying, I’m saying, praise your Lord for Gideon, he’s doing something. I love this. Teddy Roosevelt gave us in a speech in 1910 in France. And he said this: “It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who faces… is marred by dust, sweat, and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. But who does actually strive to do the deeds? Who knows great enthusiasm, great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows at the end the triumph of high achievement, or at the worst he fails, and at least fails while daring greatly. So that is his place shall never be with those cold, timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Praise your Lord. Gideon was out there trying. “Go in this thy might.” What’s his might? Well, I think, first of all, he’s doing what he could. Doing what he could. Let’s look at this.

Something else about what was Gideon’s might. Look back in verse number 13, if you would please. The Lord just said, “The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.” Verse number 13: “And Gideon said unto him, O my Lord.” Now let me just stop for a minute here. The King James Bible, there’s so much there. When it is a capital L and a lowercase O-R-D, there’s this Hebrew word Adonai. And it means master or Lord. It’s kind of a servant-owner term. And he says right off the bat, he says, “Oh, my Lord…”

Watch this. Where are we at? I’d read it if I could write there. Is verse number 13: “And Gideon said unto him, O my Adonai, my master, my Lord.” If the Lord—now notice that, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D—in the King James Bible, by the way, there’s so much there in the King James Bible, that’s why they don’t need to mess with it, amen. They start messing with it, they’ll mess it up.

That there, that means Jehovah. And he’s saying, “Oh, my master, if Jehovah, the Lord, be with us, why then is all this befallen us?” And on and on. Here’s the second point. Right off the bat, you’ll know. He says, “Oh, my master.”

I tend to think this is a theophany or a Christophany. I think it’s an Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ myself. In fact, if you look down in verse number 14 there, it says, “And the Lord”—that’s Jehovah—“looked upon him and said,” so I think it’s pretty clear from scripture, the Lord’s talking to him and said, “Go in this thy might.” And on and on. Look down verse number 16: “And the Lord”—that’s Jehovah—“said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite as many as one man.” So it’s the Lord talking to him. And right off the bat, what is this thing going—“this thy might”? What’s the might of Gideon? Well, first of all, he was doing what he could. And number two, Jehovah was his master.

Now this master, this Adonai, I’ve already mentioned it, it is really almost—it says servant, it’s a little stronger, more like a slave. In Bible times, they would purchase them. By the way, I’ve been purchased by the blood of Jesus.

In Bible times, the responsibility was to do whatever their master said to do, do it the best they can. That was their job. They owed their life, if you will, to their master. They served him. They did whatever he wanted to do. He was their owner. But then there was also responsibility by Old Testament laws that the owner had to provide for his servants. The owner, his responsibility was to protect them. And by the way, if you’re going to work for somebody, I’d much rather work for the Lord than work for the master of money. Come on now. That’s a cruel master, old green paper, or the master of popularity. I don’t want to work for old popularity. I’d rather work for the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, my friend. He’s the best boss, best owner you’ll ever have. By the way, I’d rather be His servant, His slave, than a slave to my own flesh. Gideon said, “Oh, my master, You’re my Lord. I’m Yours.”

By the way, that was significant because not everyone in town was like that. Look if you will. Look if you will in verse number 25 here, verse number 25. And notice what he says here. The Lord already met with him and the Lord said, “Now I want you to take care of your dad’s false god of Baal.” And look in verse number 25: “And it came to pass the same night that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it.” Gideon did that. And the people around the town, they weren’t happy about it. Notice, look down if you go on verse number 30, verse number 30: “Then the men of the city said unto Joash”—that’s Gideon’s dad—“Bring out thy son, that he may die, because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.” Here’s what again: now the people around town, even his family, even his dad, they had not made Jehovah their master. So Gideon was standing out when he said, “Hey, that’s my master right there.” It was a clear choice.

He’s not just blending in with everybody outside saying, “Hey, that’s my master.” And it’s a good day when the world and our relatives and our coworkers and our neighbors and everybody else knows, “That’s my master right there. You can make fun about me. You can talk about me. You can say I’m giving too much money to the church. You can say whatever. But I’m marching to His drumbeat up there. I’ve given my life to Him right there.” That’s a good day. That’s a good day. And old Gideon said, “Oh, my master.” Hey, tonight be a good night, just sell out again to the Lord. You may say, “Well, I did that a while back.” Hey, well, if you did it back, why not do it again, amen?

“Therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your body as a living sacrifice.” That’s the best way to live. Just keep giving yourself to the Lord. I’m yours. I’m your servant. By the way, there’s more peace in being a servant of the Lord than anywhere else. We’ve got the best provider in all the world. We got the best protection in all the world.

It seems sometimes, you know, with all the new technology and AI and everything else, it can sometimes just put a little fear into God’s people. Can I just say something here? God is about 10 billion times mightier than all the military and AI and technology they’ll ever dream of having. And if He’s going to protect you, all hell can’t touch you, friends. It’s a good day to just be His servant. Just be a servant. Gideon, “Go in this thy might.” But what was his might? He was doing what he could. He’s the only one I can find out there threshing wheat. Right off the bat, he says, “Oh my Lord, Adonai, master.”

Let’s look at just a finger or two more, and we’ll go get some ice cream from McDonald’s, right? Someone leaving this morning, they said they’re going to get ice cream. And I don’t know if they did it or not. They said they were going to go to this place. I think Brother Marley and Stacey said, “If you want to meet them over there, they’ll pay tonight.” They were going to Indy’s, is where they were going to go to. And so we’ll meet you. We’ll meet you. I see you, Brother Josh. Let’s go. Amen. And Brother Marla Mastasi just left the church, you know.

Here’s the third thing. This is interesting. Look back at verse number 13, if you would. Verse number 13: “And the Lord just said, ‘The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.’” And Gideon said unto him, “O my Lord, my master, my owner. If the Lord Jehovah be with us, why then is all this befallen us? And where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord hath forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

What’s the might? “Go in this thy might.” He believed God was able to do more than the situation he was in. Man, Jehovah’s mighty. He’s powerful. He can do anything. He can defeat any nation while we’re here, being oppressed by the Midianites. He just believed in God. He had some faith. God’s a mighty God. I don’t serve some little bit of God. I don’t serve a wooden statue or a statue of stone. I have an almighty, all-knowing, all-powerful God. And if He’s working, why are we in these conditions here?

He was honest about the situation. He didn’t flour-coated, sugar-coated, flour-coated—I don’t know about that. You know, y’all going to have fun listening to my flaws, you know. They still know you’re listening, amen, you know. He just said, the honest truth is we serve such a mighty God. Why are we stuck here? He believed in God.

And whatever happened to Ephesians 3:20? “None to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to Philippians 4:13? “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” What about old David, a little teenager David going against big old huge Goliath? And he said, “Hey, you come to me with your sword and your spear. But I come to you in the name of Jehovah of Israel.” Whatever happened to that kind of faith? I fear as we get older, as I get older and kind of used to everything, we lose—I don’t want to lose my faith in God. I don’t want to lose that childlike faith. Hey, I just believe God can. Hey, whatever happened to that faith? I just believe God can.

Gideon still had that: “If God’s mighty and He is a mighty God, why is all this happening to us?” Man, I like his faith. I like his faith.

Years and years ago, a pastor in Boston, A.C. Dixon, the church, they were short; they needed $2,000. Now that’s way, way back. $2,000 back then. I don’t know what it would be equivalent to, $20,000, $30,000, $40,000. I don’t know. But they needed $2,000 to pay their bills. And the pastor and the deacons got together and they prayed together.

Oh, they got on their knees and they prayed. “God, You got to take care of Your church.” And all they’re just sincerely praying to God. “We can’t pay our bills. We’re going to be a bad testimony. Lord, You’ve got to pay our bills.” And just asking, and all that. Pastor and the deacons were just praying. And one old good godly deacon stood up and he said, “Brethren, God’s heard our prayers. He said, I’m telling you, God’s going to bring what we need in the offerings next Sunday.”

Okay, well, isn’t this the way it goes? You know what happened? Come next Sunday, there should be showers of rain, not a blessing. I mean, it just—and back in the day when it poured, you know, nowadays we’ve got—we’ve got windshield wipers. You know, they got intermediate speed and slow speed and fast speed and super fast speed and supersonic fast speed. And we got carports and we got umbrellas and all. We got all that stuff nowadays. Well, they didn’t have it all back then. And boy, when it just came, came, you know, elephants and tigers falling out of the sky, you know, and just rain and poured down. And one of the deacons said, “It’s raining so much, maybe I’ll just—let’s don’t even take an offering. It’s going to be embarrassing.” And the one deacon said, “I didn’t trust in the weather. I trusted in God.”

And you know they took the offering that day. Attendance down. And you know how much they had in offerings that day, back in the day? $2,600. And they paid the bills. Hey, Gideon, he believed in God. Let’s don’t get to the point where we’re just losing our faith. You know, all the—all the techniques and experience and formulas and all the rest. Hey, let’s sometimes just hang all that. Let’s just believe God. We serve a mighty God. For Him, He’s a mighty God. “Go in this thy might.”

What was that? He was doing what he could with what he had. He said, “Oh, my master.” My master. He said, “You know, I heard this message that spoke to me about what God did in the past, and I just believe He can do it today.” He believed God.

Would you bow your heads and close your eyes? Our heads bowed, eyes are closed. I’m going to ask a couple questions. I tell you what, don’t have to raise your hand, but I want you raise your hand in your heart. Are you doing what you can? Are you doing what God’s called you to? Are you using what God’s given you?

Maybe in your heart you say, “Preacher, from the heart, I want to do what I can with what I have.” Maybe you’re here tonight, you say, “I need to give myself to Him again. I want Him to be my master. I want to sell out again, lock, stock, and barrel. I want to just—I’m Yours, Lord. Everything I have, everything I am, I’m Yours.” Not a church, not a preacher, none of that. Oh, no, no. Lord, You’re my master. I give everything to You. Are you listening for His voice? His message? Do you believe He can work in your situation?

Would you please stand? Would you please stand? Would you come? Thank you, Father, for Gideon and his might. Thank you, Lord, for the statement: “Go in this thy might.” Lord, I pray that that would resonate in our hearts tonight. Well, thank you for what You do. I pray. Amen.

Would you just be obedient to the Lord? Come an old-fashioned altar. I believe you be obedient. Be obedient. Be obedient. Let it be wonderful that the Lord came to us tonight and said, “Go in this thy might.” In this might, can He find that might in us? Are we doing what we can with what we have? We believe in God. See our master, our Lord?

Tonight, we thank You for all that You’ve done throughout this process, Lord, from the very beginning until now. We’ve been able to point to You and say how great You are and see how You’ve worked. And Lord, we come and ask that You would do it once again. All these final details that need to be worked out, Lord, we pray that You would intervene and that You would let things go quickly, go smoothly. The decisions that need to be made as far as the possible sharing of the property, Lord, we pray that You would just work that all out. Lord, that it would be easy for us to work with them, them to work with us. Lord, that it would be a deal that we could make that would honor You and allow us to continue to serve You. Lord, we do pray. We thank You for the way that You’ve provided the money for us to be able to make this final payment. Lord, we do pray that You continue to bless there and continue to provide. New expenses, I’m sure, will come. Lord, we pray that You would, that You would again just miraculously provide that for us. Lord, we do thank You for the way that You’ve heard our prayers and that have answered them. And, Lord, we know that You will continue to do that. Lord, we do pray for that new building as it is put together, Lord, for the safety of all of those that are involved, for wisdom in the decisions that are being made. And Lord, we pray that it would be a lighthouse for You when it’s completed and that it would be a place where many lives would be changed, come to know You as Savior. And Lord, that You would even use a—use a small church to raise up good, godly young men and women for You. And Lord, we do, we pray for the school as well as it continues to grow and that You would continue to bless there and provide everything that’s needed. Lord, we do ask that You would be with us the rest of this evening, Lord, and take us safely home tonight in Your name. Amen.

Father, as we continue to pray, Lord, I just want to praise You and thank You for the example of Gideon we heard tonight, Lord. We thank You that You took care of him, Lord, and he did what he thought was best, and he did things that he was working and working with his hands and working for You. Help us not to forget that, Lord. Help us to continue to do our work around here. Help us to stay busy in Your work, Lord.

And Lord, we want to continue to pray for the building, Lord, the finances, Lord, the offer that we have. Lord, I pray that You work out all those details. Father, You’ve already brought us this far. It’s amazing to see the blessings that You’ve already done with this church, Father, a little church like us, giving. Oh, Lord, what a giving church we are. We just thank You for that. We thank You for the opportunity we have to give back to You. Lord, bless these offerings. Bless the—the money that we’ve already given back in the way of building our new building over there. And Lord, we know that we have a church already. The church is us. We thank You so much, Father, for our little church here. But we’re seeking to get that new building, that new property. Lord, You’ve already blessed with that. We’ve got the offer. Lord, we just ask now that You’d work out all those details, all the little details, Lord, the offer. Help those folks that are bringing in their offer, Lord, to have the money they say they have. All the details there with the contract, with the lawyers, Lord, give Pastor wisdom, give the other pastor wisdom, and Lord, just have Your hand in all of it. We already look back and see how You’ve had Your hand in leading us this far, and we want to look back two years, three years, five years from now and say, “Wow, what a great Lord we have.” Lord, brought us through all this, the new building. We lift it up to You in Your hands. Lord, we love You. We’re excited. We’re excited to have that new property. Lord, as Brother Adam mentioned, the opportunity we’ll have to change folks’ lives for You—men, marriages, Lord, salvation—the new property, Lord, we can do that over there. We’ll be seen.

But even so, we still have our church here. Continue to bless us, Lord, continue to grow us in You, draw our hearts to You, and Lord, we’ll give You all the praise. Lord, we love You. Bless tonight, Father, as we depart. Keep us safe. And Lord, we’ll again, we’ll give You all the praise how You answer all these prayers at 7 o’clock each night. It’s awesome, Lord, how You’ve done that already. And Lord, we love You in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Original File: 2026-05-18 - Pastor Paul Chisgar - Gideon’s Might - Sunday PM - 05⧸17⧸2026