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“Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it…And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host” (Judges 7:13-14).
God had one more encouragement for Gideon before he and his men actually went into battle. Read Judges 7:9-15. The Lord knew that Gideon was still hesitant, so he told him to take his servant and go down to the camp of the Midianites. There he heard one man telling another man about a dream he had the night before. In his dream a cake of barley bread actually rolled down a hill and knocked over a tent! But the friend knew that this cake of bread was a picture of Gideon, and that the dream showed that the Lord would defeat the Midianites by Gideon.
It was rather humbling to be compared to a cake of barley bread, but then Gideon knew two things. First, he knew for sure that he would win the battle. Secondly, he knew that the Lord would do it for him. The Midianites were “like grasshoppers for multitude,” and Gideon’s 300 men were naturally no match for them. Only the Lord could defeat that big army!
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