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Getting God's guidance. The following two paragraphs are excerpts from the pamphlet:
He is bearing on his heart all that people; he felt the burden of their condition. Have you ever borne up in the presence of God the condition of His people today? Does it form any part of your private program of prayer that the vast majority of God's dear people are in the hands of the "Midianites" and are being robbed and impoverished day after day and week after week? Does it form any part of the burden of your heart and mine? Gideon says, "Why then is all this befallen us?" He identifies himself with the case of the whole nation. That is like a scene we have brought before us in the New Testament-Nathanael under the fig tree. He is brought to Christ, and as the Lord looks at him He says, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" He says, Nathanael, "Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee." What did He mean? The fig tree is a picture of Israel-God's people. No doubt the Spirit of God means to tell us that Nathanael was in prayer and meditation under that fig tree, thinking of the state of the nation at that time, and that is what singled him out; that is what made him important-a true Israelite thinking of the people of God and the sad condition of the nation at that time. The Lord made him one of His disciples.
We have already seen how he sorted that army down to three hundred men. What marked those three hundred men? When they stooped to drink, they did not put their mouths to the surface of the water, but scooped up the water and lapped, putting their hand to their mouth. Why? I do not know that I am right, but they could not be very watchful with their heads down and lips to the surface of the water; they would not know much about what was going on around them. These men were on the watch, and while refreshing themselves their eyes were scanning the horizon, ready for any surprise the enemy might seek to bring upon them. "Watch" is the word for us. "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch" (Mark 13:37)