Gideon and the Three Hundred: Lesson Four

The Spirit comes first, and God is patient with honest doubt.

The Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon. He blew a trumpet, and his family gathered behind him.

Judges 6:34 (KJV): But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-ezer was gathered after him.

Gideon still asked for a sign. He laid out a fleece of wool and asked that dew be on the fleece only.

Judges 6:37 (KJV): Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

It happened. He wrung a bowl full of water out of the fleece.

Judges 6:38 (KJV): And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

Then he asked for the reverse, and God did that too. The fleece was dry and the ground was wet.

Judges 6:40 (KJV): And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Scripture References

Judges 6:34
Judges 6:37
Judges 6:38
Judges 6:40