I use the Quick Bible app. It’s very simple, just the Bible in any of 100 + translations & languages, you chose what you prefer. You can highlight and bookmark verses, passages, and make notes for your self. If you want to highlight you chose from 12 + colors! It’s a very simple but useful app.
One thing I love about this app is it’s devotional. There’s only one. Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening. The more I read from this devotional, I begin to feel my opinion of other devotionals slip. Mr. Spurgeon most have been a man after God’s heart.
Charles Spurgeon lived in England, 1834 to 1892. Inside note: He died around the time my grandparents were born. He was a Baptist Preacher.
I’m not sure when this devotional was printed. But today’s morning devotional must have been written for our past week!
The scripture is from the book of Judges.
Judges 7:20 (ACV) And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow. And they cried out, The sword of LORD and of Gideon!
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I’m not going to repeat the whole passage from the devotional. You’ll have to find a copy of Mornings and Evenings or download the Quick Bible app.
This is the part that got my attention: Take the gospel to them; carry it to their door; put it in their way; do not suffer them to escape it; blow the trumpet right against their ears. Remember that the true war-cry of the Church is Gideon’s watchword, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!” God must do it, it is his own work.
Spurgeon’s message connects the physical battle of Gideon’s small army to our spiritual battles today, reminding us to rely on God’s power rather than our own.
Further down he writes: We can do nothing of ourselves, but we can do everything by the help of our God; let us, therefore, in his name determine to go out personally and serve with our flaming torch of holy example, and with our trumpet tones of earnest declaration and testimony, and God shall be with us, and Midian shall be put to confusion, and the Lord of hosts shall reign forever and ever.
Reading it again, I feel like the battle cry is echoing thru the ages and is just as meaningful today as it was almost 200 years ago.
Be encouraged weary one, God will win the battle for you. You need only hold the torch, break the vessel, then Shout!
Just like God fought for Gideon, he also fought for Moses and the Israelites. Want proof? Read Exodus 14:13-14
Exodus 14:13-14 (KJV) And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
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