Defeat What’s Defeating You | Part 1 – Overcoming Essentials!

1 Corinthians 10:11 (NLT)

These things happened to them (people in the Old Testament) as examples for us.

Judges 6:11-16 (NLT)

The angel of the LORD came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites. ¹² The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, “Mighty hero, the LORD is with you!”

¹³ “Sir,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn’t they say, ‘The LORD brought us up out of Egypt’? But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.”

¹⁴ Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!”

¹⁵ “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!”

¹⁶ The LORD said to him, “I will be with you. And you will destroy/defeat the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man.”

Overcoming Essential #1:

We Need A New View Of !

Revelation 2:17 (NLT)
And I will give to each one a white stone, and on the stone will be engraved a new name that no one understands except the one who receives it.

Overcoming Essential #2:

We Need A New View Of

“Whatever comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us!”

A.W. Tozer

God is a relentless !

Judges 6:11 (TLB)
The Angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the oak tree at Ophrah … Gideon, had been threshing wheat by hand in the bottom of a pit where grapes were pressed to make wine—for he was hiding from the Midianites.

Luke 19:10 (MSG)

For the Son of Man came to find and restore the lost.

God is incredibly !

Judges 6:17-19 (CEV)

Gideon said, “It’s hard to believe that I’m actually talking to the LORD. Please do something so I’ll know that you really are the LORD … ¹⁸ wait here until I bring you an offering.”

“All right, I’ll wait,” the LORD answered.

¹⁹ Gideon went home and killed a young goat, then started boiling the meat. Next, he opened a big sack of flour and made it into thin bread. When the meat was done, he put it in a basket and poured the broth into a clay cooking pot. He took the meat, the broth, and the bread and placed them under the big tree.

2 Peter 3:9 (MSG)
God gives … everyone space and time to change.

God is the –giver!

Judges 6:20-24 (NLT)

The angel of God said to him, “Place the meat and the unleavened bread on this rock, and pour the broth over it.” And Gideon did as he was told. ²¹ Then the angel of the LORD touched the meat and bread with the tip of the staff in his hand, and fire flamed up from the rock and consumed all he had brought. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.

²² When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he cried out, “Oh, Sovereign LORD, I’m doomed! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”

²³ “It is all right,” the LORD replied. “Do not be afraid. You will not die.” ²⁴ And Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and named it Yahweh-Shalom (which means “the LORD my peace”).

Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

² Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Know God, know peace!

No God, no peace!