Praise & Worship – We Raise a Hallelujah – The Remnant (Live) – 19th July 2019

“The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” ” Judges 6:14 To a fearful Gideon, performing an act of cowardice in the winepress, the Lord sent an angel proclaiming the news of favour, revival, of victory, and also does this strange thing of addressing him as a ‘mighty warrior’. Most often, when God’s call comes, we are at our worst and most pitiful state, our eligibility for anything good is nil, and we are worse than when we started.

But God calls us out by what He has purposed us to be, He who saw us being knit in the womb and sees us to the finish line of this life unto eternity, calls us out by the name He has given us, by the character that He has coded into us, the purpose that He has placed in us – He calls us mighty warriors. And while Gideon stood in shock and disbelief, as we mostly do, God reminds us, in order to silence this doubt, that He is the One who brought us up out of our Egypt, out of the land of slavery, that He rescued us from the hand of the Egyptians, and delivered us from the hand of all our oppressors; that He even made us witnesses as He drove troublemakers out before us and gave us their land. We didn’t even break a sweat for any of this.

As we come to worship tomorrow, let’s not forget even for one moment how we got here, and the goodness of the God who snatched us out of the hands of evil. Let’s remind the people of God that our God has called us and commissioned us.

We remind ourselves and the Church to turn our eyes away from looking to ourselves for a qualification we never possessed but turn those eyes upwards to the Risen King, who stood by us and brings all of Heaven down to fight for us, every time we call on His Name.