MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
October 28, 2026
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
GOD’S PURPOSES FOR HIS PEOPLE REVEALED BY HIS PROPHETS – Part 3
Again, this first part of this series we are learning from direct from the Bible that having dreams and visions from God does not, in and of itself alone, make one a prophet of God’s order.
Now see Judges 7: 9-15. To obtain a broader and proper context, read both chapters 6 and 7 on your own Bibles. You will understand and appreciate even more the truth of this subject.
When, by God’s order to Gideon, the number of fighting men—whittled-down from originally twenty-two thousand, down to ten thousand, and finally only three hundred men—Gideon was ordered to go fight the combined host of the war-like Amalekites and Midianites.
But even after the earlier miracle God performed in answer to Gideon’s specified proof for his divine appointment to deliver Israel from the Midianite oppression, and God ordering him with the 300 to go to war, he was not yet fully convinced to take on the mighty host of the enemy who were “like grasshoppers for multitude.”
Then, knowing Gideon was still fearful, God ordered him to go with his servant to where the enemies were arrayed. And right here a certain unnamed non-Israelite, had a dream, which he revealed to an unidentified friend as well. Later, when Gideon “heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation thereof,” that Gideon “worshipped God, and returned to the host of Israel, saying, Arise, for the Lord has delivered into your
hand the host of Midian.”
Ah! God revealed a specific dream to an unidentified man of their ENEMY (thus, not a prophet!) in order to finally bolster the faith and courage of His OWN man to fight and defeat his enemy!
This is the God whom I am learning to implicitly trust and willingly obey for “He changed not;” He is “the same yesterday, today, and forever,” according to inspiration, history, and prophecy!
How about you dear friend?
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.