Becoming Mighty I

Wednesday 22 February
READ: Judges 6:11-16
MORE LESSONS: Gen.26:12-16

It is a wonderful thing to be called a mighty man. To be mighty is to be endowed with an extra ability beyond the normal. Might is a function of strength. When you talk about might you talk about being able, by an extra ability, to do what is not ordinary. God produced many mighty men in the Scripture and I pray for you today that you will go beyond the ordinary, in the name of Jesus. The strength of a man determines the extent of what he can carry. When people run away from challenges, the truth of the matter is that they lack the strength. There is nothing that God does that fails. That's why we call Him the Almighty God; the God that has strength in every area. That strength is deposited in man because man is created in God’s image; God has endowed men with divine capability.
One of such men is Gideon who God raised to counter the oppression Israel suffered at that time in the hands of the Medianites who exercised might over the weak Israelites. One day, an angel of God called Gideon a mighty man of valour; Gideon’s argument was irrelevant to the angel. If the Almighty God says you are a mighty man, you are, indeed! If a man is experiencing defeat but is called a mighty man by God, what is God saying? When a man who cannot beat his chest in the
presence of his enemies is referred to as a mighty man by the Almighty God who cannot lie, then there is something inside that man that makes God say so. It simply means that God Himself is with the man. Once God is with a man, that man cannot be defeated by his enemies and that is why he is a mighty man. He may not know it, but that is who he is.
Regardless of what your experiences are today, as long as a conviction exists inside you that with God on your side all things are possible, you are already a mighty man. Your strength begins from knowledge because your ability to know is the beginning of your strength. So work harder on what you know if you want to be a mighty man; get to know more. If you want to know more, read more, ask questions from them that know more; acquire knowledge because it is the beginning of might. Gideon eventually realised that when God is with a man the man cannot be defeated. So Gideon led Israel into victory over the Medianites. God is with you, you cannot be defeated.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, I declare that I am who You say I am, in Jesus’ name.
* I receive the in depth knowledge of myself in the Lord, in Jesus’ name.
* I shall do mighty things in the name of Jesus.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
In the name of Jesus, the light of the gospel of salvation shall not be limited to me alone in my generation and family, it shall spread to all, in the name of Jesus.