My Month Of Impact! Mt5:16

We’ll be looking at a man in the holy scriptures this morning.
History teaches us that the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord and God had abandoned them into the hands of Midian for seven years.
All the while, the enemy was oppressing, traumatizing the Israelis who had cried out to God.
And God was looking for a man to deliver this land from the hand of the Egyptians.
And he stopped in the family of Abiezer, he chose Gédeon for the mission.
Gédeon is surprised when the angel announces to him that he is the choice of God, the one who will bring Israel out of bondage and informs him that he is a valiant hero.
But Gideon doubts the Angel’s word, he looks at all their difficulties, at all the shocks his people were facing, he remembered what they went through and he concluded that the Lord has abandoned them, they are delivered to themselves and the Lord did not intervene.
The bible says that the Angel was trying to convince Gédeon who found himself incapable, without strength, without relationship, without opportunity, without diploma, without wealth, without reputation, without inheritance, without future …
He does not understand how the Angel could assimilate a great project to him, he who was nobody, he lived in the lack and in addition, he was a slave.
How will it be my Angel?
You yourself explain.
And the angel tells him not to worry, he is more than what his eyes see, he may be the smallest in his father’s house, his family is the poorest but it is in this nothing that the Lord came to draw.
Until then, Gideon is full of doubt, unbelief is filled in his heart and he keeps questioning the word that hangs over his life.
This is how we underestimate ourselves every day.
God has commissioned us for great things, he has placed in us gifts, talents, capacities to be liberators, warriors, winners but we shrink from all situations, we find the sizes of trials too great.
We find that we do not have the strength, nor the grip to fulfill the mandate that God has given us.
Underestimating means low self-esteem, lack of confidence and security.
Whenever we suffer from insecurity, it is a problem that has its source in the family nest, the words that people used to talk about us, what they called us, what they called us.
It is in the family that we build self-image, that we have a profound impact.
In Gédeon’s family, he was the last, therefore the one to whom no one asked his opinion, he was the one who carried out the decisions, he was surely the one who did not speak in front of the elders, he only had to thresh the wheat in the press. to keep him safe from Midian when God had other plans for him. Gédeon suffered from a complex, he had a spirit of inferiority.
We all have the disease that Gédeon has, we minimize ourselves, we don’t find ourselves worthy.
We think we are anyone.
The Lord invites us to discover our identity in him and to take our place as children of God.
Let’s stop seeing ourselves small, poor or empty, we have something that can change a life, a family, a country.
The failures of yesterday should in no way prevent us from seeing beyond our vision and looking to the future.
Let us trust in God, he leads us to the right destination.
Do not be confused anymore, we have value in the eyes of God.
It all depends on us to accept or refuse the mission entrusted to us.
Jeremiah also underestimated himself, he looked at his age, he did not understand this call from the Lord which was to push him to speak to kings and leaders.
He didn’t feel up to the task.
Moses also refused to go talk to Pharaoh, he knew this authority was too powerful to approach him anyhow.
And it was when God made him God over Pharaoh that he understood that he could equal him.
Beloved, God knows us more than we ourselves, he is not mistaken in calling us, he sees what we do not see.
No matter how young or where we are, let’s just know that God is with us.
And that we are the light of the world, nothing and no one should prevent us from shining.
We are on earth to influence nations, we are worshipers to impact, we are giants,
We are champions
We are heroes
And that’s the lesson this morning.
James, 3: 4 – Behold, even the ships, which are so large and blown by rushing winds, are steered by a very small rudder, at the will of the pilot.
Fast and pray never to underestimate yourself.
Regardless of the size of the rudder, it is the pilot who decides the direction even if the wind is strong and the vessels large.
Let us pay attention to our statements, let us have a pious and genuine heart.
We are more than conquerors and the power of death or life is above our tongues.
Hello people of God
Have a good day