What is God up to behind the scene when we pray?
Gideon reduced his force to only three hundred men, as commanded by God, and they were facing a formidable enemy against Israel.
The enemy Midianites camped in the valley just below them.
At night the Lord said to Gideon, “Get up! Take your troops and attack the Midianites, for I will cause you to defeat them! But if you are afraid, first go down to the camp alone—take along your servant Purah if you like— and listen to what they are saying down there! You will be greatly encouraged and become eager to attack!”
So he took Purah and crept down through the darkness to the outposts of the enemy camp. The vast armies of the other nations of the Mideast covered the valley like locusts—or, like the sand upon the seashore—with too many camels to count!
Gideon secretly crept up to a tent. Inside, a soldier had wakened from a nightmare and was telling his fellow soldier friend about it.
“I had this strange dream,” he was saying, “where there was a huge loaf of barley bread that came tumbling down into our camp. It hit our tent and knocked it flat!”
The other soldier replied, “Your dream can mean only one thing! Gideon, the son of Joash, the Israeli, is going to come and massacre all the allied forces of Midian!”
When Gideon heard the dream and the interpretation, he thanked God!
Gideon returned to his own men in their camp and shouted, “Get up! For the Lord is going to use us to conquer all the vast armies of the enemy!”
More to come:
Joseph
Daniel
2 Kings 8:1-6, Elisha
Elijah
Nehemiah
Rahab
Ruth
Esther
Job
David
Saul