I will get you right where I want you.
Jesus
You just need to be hungry enough to receive it.
MIC Check
Today’s Most Important Challenge is…
- Inviting Jesus into my mess
- Not so much to clean it up
- As to heal our relationship
Immanuel Approach Memo
Continued from Worth So Much More
I am… exhausted.
Not so much physically
But from the emotional labor
Of trying to hold empathy
Simultaneously
For all my enemies turned friends
And allies turned rivals
When they have no empathy
For me or each other
I look for Jesus.
He says:
“I know you feel whipped
This is precisely when
You need to lay down
The cross I told you to bear…”
“And take up My easy yoke!”
To be continued
Reflection
I feel…
- Drained
- Torn
- Unmanned
- Invited
- Timid
Scripture
Totally exhausted, Gideon and his three hundred men crossed the river Jordan and continued to pursue the enemy.
Judges 8:4-21 TPT
When they arrived at Succoth, he said to the men of the town, “Please give my men some loaves of bread. They are exhausted, and I am still pursuing the two Midianite kings, Zebah and Zalmunna.” But the leaders of Succoth replied, “Why should we give any food to your army? You haven’t even captured Zebah and Zalmunna yet.” So Gideon said, “All right! Since you won’t help me, when Yahweh has handed them over to me, I’ll whip you with thorns and briars from the desert!”
Gideon went on to Penuel and made the same request of the people there, but the men of Penuel gave him the same reply as the men of Succoth. So he informed them, “I’ll come back victoriously, and when I do, I will tear your tower down!”
Zebah and Zalmunna were at Karkor with an army of fifteen thousand men who survived, for one hundred twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had already been killed. Gideon followed the desert trail of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah, surprised the enemy’s army, and ambushed them. The two Midianite kings, Zebah and Zalmunna, escaped, but Gideon pursued and captured them, and terrified what remained of the Midianite army.
While Gideon son of Joash was returning from the battle by way of Heres Pass, he captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for Gideon the names of the seventy-seven leading men of Succoth. Then Gideon went to the men of Succoth and said, “You mocked me, refused to help me, and said that you couldn’t give any food to my exhausted army because I had not yet captured Zebah and Zalmunna. Well, here they are!” As he had promised, Gideon took desert thorns and briars and whipped the leaders of Succoth. As for Penuel, Gideon tore down its tower and killed the men of that city.
Then Gideon asked the kings, Zebah and Zalmunna, “What can you tell me about the men you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They looked just like you. Every one of them looked like the son of a king.” Gideon said, “They were my brothers, my own mother’s sons. I swear, as surely as Yahweh lives, that if you had let them live, I would let you live.”
Then he turned to Jether, his firstborn son, and said, “Go ahead, kill them now!” But the boy wouldn’t do it. He didn’t draw his sword because he was still only a timid boy.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna taunted Gideon, “Come on, kill us yourself. It takes a man to do a man’s job.” So Gideon executed them and plundered the crescent ornaments that hung on the necks of their camels.
Inspired by Courage to Conquer

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