When we surrender our rights to the Lord, there will be times when we are told to do things by Him that seem to be "out of season." He will have us say and do things that just don't make sense to us or to those whom we are ministering to. Joshua was instructed by God to march around a city and shout, and the walls would fall down. Gideon was told to reduce his fighting force down to three hundred men to fight several nations who were numerous as locusts. He was not only to fight with three hundred men, but he was also commanded to use a strange "weapon" of clay pottery with a candle on the inside to fight with on this dreadful night. It didn't make sense to him nor to any naturally-minded man. Jehoshaphat was led to send out the choir before his army because the battle was not theirs, but the Lord's. All these things are out of season events. None of them logically make any sense. Think about each of these historical accounts and find the four common denominators in each one. We must notice that each account is different. They were all told to do something different to fight. The result was that they all fought differently.
We often will look at a passage like the ones mentioned above and make every effort to emulate what they did. The outcome leaves us frustrated and defeated more often than not.
The four common denominators are:
1. Each leader (individual) heard a Word from God. 2. Each heard an "out of season" word of instruction. 3. Each had to trust God's instruction and obey it even though it was "out of season." 4. Each experienced victory.
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