“So” can be one of the most important two-letter words in our life. There is always a “so” after we hear from God. So, after Gideon heard a word from God, he responded immediately in obedience. Heaven always waits to see our response to His divine summons.<\/p>\n
Some people choose to argue or enter into a prolonged debate with their Creator. Others agree with what they heard, but hesitate to take action.<\/p>\n
Gideon not only responded immediately, he also acted vigorously. There was no food in the land, yet he offered a princely sacrifice. He might have excused his niggardliness due to poverty or hard times, but once Gideon heard from the Lord, he offered up the best that he had.<\/p>\n
We often think of Gideon as being the “least” in his family. But God saw his heart and knew He had found a servant He could be pleased to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot; and he brought them out to Him under the terebinth tree and presented them. Judges 6:19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13975,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/13975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}