A Little with God is a Lot!

Tues. Devo -
Read Judges 7:1-25
In verse 1 they camped by the well of Harod. Interestingly "Harod" means fountain of trembling. It was here that God told Gideon to tell the ones that were afraid to go home. Out of 32,000; there remained 10,000. God then told Gideon to come down to the water and He was going to weed out more. God only wanted 300 which is probably just enough to encircle the Midianite camp. God knew none of these men were going to have to fight, but they were going to need great courage to trust God to do what God was going to ask them to do.
I can't imagine what was going through Gideon's mind at this time... 300 against millions!!! How was God going to do this? God was so merciful to Gideon and knew he needed another "word" to encourage him. He told him to go down to the Midianite camp that night and just listen to what was being said. He did and heard a man talking about a dream he had dreamed. A piece of bread tumbled down into the Midianite camp and destroyed the camp. They knew that this was Gideon, to whom God was going to give victory over them. That piece of bread was the word of God, the bread of life that God sent down to defeat them.
Gideon went back, full of God's strength and called an attack. He gave each man a trumpet, a clay jar and a torch to go inside the clay jar. They surrounded the camp. Gideon blew his trumpet which probably woke them up then the rest of them blew there trumpets. What a sound!!! I bet they were scared spitless! Then they heard a huge bang as all the men broke their pitchers then a huge blast of light. I bet they thought aliens had landed. They jumped out of bed and ran around killing themselves. Gideon's army pursued them and the rest of the soldiers that were not with Gideon chased them and killed them.