WEBVTT - Let Go Of What You Think You Need 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.280 Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base, and 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.440 this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.440 for you to break it down a little more, to 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.000 take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:25.279 overflow message. Let me know, let's go. Sometimes you can 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:32.239 tell how significant your calling is by how much the 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:37.639 enemy is intimidated by you, And you can tell how 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:42.000 much he's intimidated by you by how much he's talking 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.440 to you. God said, I've tried to talk to you 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.639 through an angel that didn't work. But now I want 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.080 you to go listen to your enemy. And Gideon goes 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:57.600 down to the outpost verse eleven. I almost missed it again. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.320 This is the big verse, verse eleven. And you shall 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:06.200 hear what they say, and afterwards your hand will be 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.119 strengthened to go down against the camp. Did you catch 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.440 that God didn't say your hand will be strengthened when 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.319 you hear what God says about you. Because the angel's 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.760 been telling Gideon you're a mighty warrior. The angel's been 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.679 telling Gideon that God is with you. The angel has 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.440 been saying God is going to deliver the people through you. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.160 Giddem doesn't believe any of it. He said, So if 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:36.039 you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the enemy. Go 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.960 down and listen to the enemy for a minute, and 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.720 after you hear what your enemy is saying, your hand 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.280 will be strengthened to go down against the camp. And 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.280 then he went down with pure his servant to the 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.840 outposts of the ur Men who are in the camp, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:54.080 and the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.000 of the east lay along the valley like locust in abundance. Ooh, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:01.320 there's a lot of them. And they're camels were without number, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.240 So there's a lot of them, as the sand is 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.080 on the seashore, in abundance. There's a lot of them. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.440 Everybody say, there's a lot of them. Look, there's a 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.360 lot of reasons to be afraid. There's a lot of 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.079 reasons to fear. If you start listening to them, you 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:17.000 go crazy. But watch when Gideon came verse thirteen, Behold, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.040 a man was telling a dream to his comrade, and 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.280 he said, behold, I dreamed a dream, And behold a 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.840 cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian ooh, 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:33.800 barley bread, not very threatening, huh. And it came to 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.840 the tent and struck it so that it fell and 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.240 turned upside down, so that the tent lay flat. And 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.880 his comrade answered, this is no other than the sword 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.880 of Gideon, the son of joe Ash, a man of Israel. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:54.320 God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:00.799 You got Gideon's hand, which is trembling. He's afraid. You've 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:05.320 got Midian's hand, which has them trapped, and you got 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:11.280 God's hand, which is trustworthy. And God says, I am 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:15.200 giving them into your hand. I don't know who this 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.480 is for today, but God is saying, I want you 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.080 to let go of what you think you need. I 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.839 want you to let go of what you thought you were. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.760 I want you to let go of what you can't 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.560 get over. I want you to let go of it. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.280 I want you to go down toward the next thing 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.320 I've called you to do. And watch what Gideon gets 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.800 encouraged eaters out. He's like, wait a minute, they're talking 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:48.480 about me. I'm the barley. Yeah that's not very impressive. No, no, no, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.360 it's not what the barley is. It's what the barley does. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:58.040 And he goes from trembling to tumbling. God said, let's go. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:05.280 That's the table's go. Let's go, Let's go, Let's go. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.920 As soon as Gideon heard the telling, I'm in verse fifteen. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.960 As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.120 and its interpretation, he worshiped Ah, threw both of his 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.679 hands up, and he returned to the camp of Israel 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.120 and said, arise for the Lord. Watch his pastense has 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.200 given the host of Midian into your hand. Whose hand 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.279 the hands of the ones who took the trumpet, the 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.400 hands of the ones who didn't turn back, the hands 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.640 of the ones who were still trembling. My hand's trembling. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.839 But I got a trumpet. Oh, these trumpets are about 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.560 to be significant, the trumpets that the rest of the 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.120 nation left when they left. I got a trumpet, and 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.640 I got a god I can trust. And watch this. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.159 He divided the three hundred men into three companies and 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.120 put trumpets into the trembling hands of all of them, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.320 and empty jars with torches insight the jars. I got 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.840 something in my hands. I got something in my hands. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.080 I got something in my heart. I gotta get that. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.800 Got a skill, I got a weapon, I got an instrument. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.120 I got an instrument. God said, I'm gonna put it 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.560 in your hands. I'm gonna put something in your hands 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.320 in this season I watch. It's not gonna make sense. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.760 A trumpet versus an army, or even a torch against 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.080 an army doesn't make sense. But it doesn't need to 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.320 make sense. What it needs to do in your hands 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.680 is be surrendered and submitted to God, so you can 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:38.440 go forward in the strength that you have. Oh, this 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.400 is annoying. I can't wait to preach this Sunday. He 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.600 put a trumpet in their trembling hands. He put a 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.240 torch in the other hand. He said, I need you 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.960 to have something in your hands that you can use. Now, 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:55.520 what has God put in your hands? And what have 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.359 you put in his hands? You can put it in 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.279 his hands. The battle belongs to the Lord. You could 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.800 put it in his hands. It is not by might, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.440 it is not by power. He is speaking today, He 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.480 is strengthening today. That's why the enemy has been fighting you. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.520 He's tried to keep you in his grip. But we 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.200 came to break the grip of the enemy, just like 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.120 Gideon did. God said, I'm breaking the grip of the 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.360 enemy over your life. Today. I'm breaking the grip of addiction. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.000 I'm breaking the grip of depression. It can't hold you anymore. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.680 Put it in his hands. And when you put it 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.480 in his hands, he puts it in your hands. I 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.159 got my trumpet, I got my torch. What's the torch. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.719 That's the light of the word that God has spoken. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.920 What's the trumpet. That's the sound of your praise, That's 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.560 the sound of His word that you speak out, My God, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.800 this will preach. He divided the three hundred men who 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.359 he had left into three companies and put trumpets in 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.760 the hands of all of them. Not the thirty two thousand, No, 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.640 the three hundred that will go forward. God is looking 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.560 for three hundred today. Who will say, I'll take the trumpet, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.720 and I will go toward what God has called me 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.040 to do. And i will take the torch, and i 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.200 will march toward what God has called me to be. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.680 And I'll do it shaking, and I'll do it unsure, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.360 and I'll do it in faith, and I'll do it 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:24.000 step by step. And He gave him a trumpet and 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.600 an empty jar. So there's something that goes into both 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:32.080 of those. Right. The breath goes in the trumpet and 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.840 inside the jar. Is going to go the light to 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.920 turn the empty jar into the torch. WHOOA God's gonna 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.240 put something in you that's going to transform it from 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:50.760 a silly instrument to an instrument a victory. And he 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.680 said to them Verse seventeen, look at me, and do likewise. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.680 When I come to the outskirts of the camp, Do 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.400 as I do. When I blow the trumpet, When I 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.720 take what's in my hand and breathe into it, I 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.920 and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets. Also. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:13.680 When I do it, you do it. And on every 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.679 side of the camp. I want you to blow those trumpets, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.960 and I want you to shout for the Lord and 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.400 for Gideon. So Gideon and the hundred men who were 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:29.840 with them, he takes a third of a small army, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.360 a third of three hundred. That's all you need. You 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.640 don't need what you think you need. You just need 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.000 to give him the instrument. Here's what I want to do. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.360 At this point in the sermon. Gideon took the three hundred, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.680 came to the outskirts, give me the middle watch. When 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.679 they had just set the watches like two in the morning, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.560 and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.800 were in their hands. They used what they had. Then 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.559 the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.800 Blow the trumpet, break the jar. They held in their 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.120 left hands the torches, and in their right hands the 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:11.240 trumpets to blow, And they cried out a sword for 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:21.720 the Lord, and for get in. They held in their 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.920 left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpet. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.080 What do you have in your hand right now? And 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.960 whose hand are you in? Why are you so stressed 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.240 and scared of an enemy that is so intimidated by you? 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.079 Blow your trumpet, break your jar. I want to use 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.199 the jar the torch to represent the light of what 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:54.200 you know. Go in what you know. Yeah, but I 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.800 don't have that figured out yet. Don't need to go 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:04.480 in what you no what you know is enough for now, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:09.160 and more will be revealed later. Break your jar, use 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:14.280 your torch, and blow your trumpet. Make a sound of 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.680 God's word, Make a sound of praise. I'm looking for 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.600 three hundred people right now who will make a sound. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.959 Look at this. They blew the trumpets and broke the jar. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.719 Isn't that beautiful? Verse twenty. You've got the instruments of victory. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.880 You are the instrument of victory. You're in God's hand. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.240 Held in their left hands of torches, right hands a trumpet, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.320 and they cried out, a sword for the Lord, get him. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.160 What I couldn't figure out is where was the sword? 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:44.840 Tell about the sword? All I got is a trumpet 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.400 and a torch. You feel like that I don't have 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.160 the weapons that I need. Well, I think that's going 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.160 to surprise you. Where the sword was. Verse twenty one 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.240 says every man stood in his place around the camp, 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.920 and all the army ran. They cried out and fled. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.880 This is the enemy army, they start running. Gideon got 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.760 this military genius and a supernatural backing, and those two 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.440 together are very powerful. He's like, we're gonna confuse the enemy. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.280 We're gonna make him think we're bigger than we are. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.040 And I want you to blow your trumpet. Let everything 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.600 that has breath praise the Lord. And I want you 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.400 to break your jar. I want you to begin to 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.880 make the sound of victory. I want you to begin 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.080 to walk by faith, not by sight. Take a step 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.760 of faith, the sound of praise and the step of faith, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:36.600 the step of faith. I'm calling that the torch and 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.560 the sound of victory. Now, if I get time, I'm 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.280 gonna come back and do more with this. I'm gonna 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.280 talk about the torch, the step of faith, the light. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.959 You know, I'm talking about an empty jar. We have 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.960 this treasure in earthen vessels. But remember, when you give 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:57.400 your instrument, your mind to the enemy, he plays, you 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:03.520 don't let him play. You take your instrument, break your jar, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.240 use your light, step of faith, torch the light that 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:12.080 you have, and the sound of praise the trumpet. And 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:13.680 when you do, when you take a step of faith 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.400 and make a sound of praise, when you move forward 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.840 in that, look what God does the Lord set Verse 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.880 twenty two, Ooh is annoying when they blew the three 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.160 hundred trumpets. The Lord set every man's sword against his 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:34.640 comrade and against the army, and the army fled. The 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.360 instrument of victory that God used to kill the enemy 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.920 was the one that the enemy was holding. Gideon didn't 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.360 stab him to death with the trumpet. He didn't beat 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.439 him to death with a jar, broke the Jews slaves 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.400 in their throats. No, he blew the trumpet the sound 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:04.840 of praise. He broke the jar, break the jar, take 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.360 the step of faith, blow the trumpet, make the sound 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:13.120 of praise, and what will God do? God will take 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:18.439 care of your enemy. Why because get in and the Israelite. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.800 We're in Midian's hand. God's hand is greater than all. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.200 And that's where I want to end this sermon. Give 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.560 it to him. You are his instrument. He has called 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:33.440 you for great things. He wants to use you to 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.120 speak and to be and to change so many things. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.920 I hope you can feel that. I know you've been 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.559 in a wine press, but you have weapons, you have instruments. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:50.160 You are an instrument in God's hand. And maybe right 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.360 here we sing do it again. I don't know something, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:59.040 just to put our lives in God's hands hands. Whose 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.000 hands are you in today? You're not in Midian's hands. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:08.360 Whose hands are you in? What's in your hand? You 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.520 got what it takes to win. But God has been 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.200 putting you through a season where he didn't want you 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.760 to think it was your hand, so he lets some 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.400 things leave. Be open handed about that. Let go. We 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:28.000 need to just let go today. Let go go down 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.360 to the camp, make a move towards the thing that 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:38.840 God is calling you to do. And then let's go. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.400 Let's go. Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.640 if you did, make sure to share it and subscribe 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.080 so we can get you all of these new messages 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.720 as soon as they're available. I also want to take 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.640 a moment and thank all of you who are a 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.520 part of Elevation. Whether you support us financially or serve 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.000 with a just share these messages. 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