It should never cease to amaze you how God uses unlikely people. Today, we call them the heroes of the Bible. But that wasn't often how they saw themselves. They were average, ordinary people whose lives were transformed by a miracle working God.

Gideon was one such case. He was fearful and in hiding when the angel of the Lord came and pronounced him as a mighty man of valor. He hadn't done anything yet and certainly did not see himself in that light. But God did and his life was changed forever.

You could be next.

Judges 6

11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh 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.
14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?
15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

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