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In a world filled with uncertainty, fear can feel like a constant companion. But what if fear wasn’t the enemy, but a signal? In this powerful episode of The Jaime Luce Podcast, we explore how God used fear in Gideon’s life to create courageous, obedient faith. And how He wants to do the same in us.

What the Bible Says About Fear and Obedience

Fear often shows up right before our biggest breakthroughs. In Judges 6–7, Gideon’s story begins not on a battlefield, but in a winepress… hiding. He was afraid, unsure, and feeling unqualified. Yet, God called him “mighty warrior” and gave him a strategy that required obedience, not fearlessness.

“God doesn’t start with the battle plan — He starts with pruning what’s out of alignment.”

Before God sent Gideon to fight, He sent him to tear down idols in his own household. Obedience came first — even when it looked foolish.

God’s Pre-Strategy: Obedience Before Victory

We often want the battle plan, the reassurance, the full picture. But God gives us steps that require trust. Just like Gideon, we may have to obey in secret at first, in fear, with trembling. But that act of obedience releases power and alignment for what’s coming next.

When you fear the wrong thing, you empower the wrong source. But when you fear God, in awe and reverence, your anxiety is transformed into strength rooted in trust.

Tearing Down Idols: What It Looks Like Today

In the podcast, Jaime Luce shares how God asked Gideon to tear down his father’s altars to false gods. This was symbolic and literal. Today, our idols may not be physical altars, but they show up in:

• The opinions we’re afraid to offend

• The comfort we won’t surrender

• The habits that keep us from full obedience

God asks us to prune before promotion. That pruning is uncomfortable, but it creates space for clarity and peace.

Doing It Afraid: The First Step in God’s Strategy

Gideon didn’t wait to be fearless, he acted in obedience while still afraid. That’s what makes his story so relatable and so powerful. We don’t need to have it all together to be used by God. We just need to say “yes.”

“Faith doesn’t always feel brave. But it always obeys.”

From Anxiety to Alignment: Trusting God’s Timing

When we give God our obedience, even when we’re anxious, we begin to see things shift. Fear loses its grip because we’re no longer led by our feelings but by our faith. Gideon’s journey reminds us that spiritual strength isn’t the absence of fear; it’s the presence of trust.

Let God Transform Your Fear Into Strength

If you’ve been stuck in fear, waiting for a sign that it’s time to move.. this is it. Like Gideon, you may be hiding in a winepress. But God is calling you a mighty warrior. The first step? Tear down the idols. Say yes even if you’re afraid. And watch what He does next.

Related Scriptures for Study

• Judges 6–7 (Gideon’s story)

• Isaiah 41:10 – “Do not fear, for I am with you.”

• 2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear…”

• John 15 – The pruning process

Where To Dive In:

(0:00:08) – God’s Pre-Battle Strategy and Wisdom
(0:12:56) – Overcoming Fear and Trusting God
(0:28:52) – Renewing Faith Through Obedience and Pruning
(0:40:44) – Embracing God’s Strategy and Confidence

Full Transcript

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0:00:08 – Jaime Luce
Welcome to the Jaime Luce Podcast. Thank you so much for taking time with me today. I appreciate that so much. It’s my pleasure to be able to dive into the Word of God with you. It is what touches my heart. I know it’s what touches yours. We live and breathe by this Word. That’s why the Word says that man shall not live by. We live and breathe by this word. That’s why the word says that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And if you need to know what God has said, that’s what this word is for. This is what he said, so we can know what we need to do when we need to do it.

I saw something I think it was this morning or yesterday and it basically said that you can’t expect to get a word from God if you aren’t in the Word of God. It’s that simple. You need to be in your Word. So hooray for you today. I’m cheering you on. You’re taking time to get in and dig into the Word of God and eat and feed off of it. Let it nourish you, let it strengthen you and build you up. You know there are many times in scripture when Moses was wanting to get through a land, to get them to the promised land and the people, it would be an easier thing for them, and the enemy would say no. And then, when the tables turned, and Joshua and then the following judges were coming in, it is explained in Scripture that they were in need and they were hungry, when they would pursue their enemy and their enemies would tell them no and not allow them to feed, and that the hunger that they felt was they needed to be strengthened. They needed to be able to continue to fight. And so, whatever you’re facing today, the Word of God is your bread. This is your sustainer, this is your ability to take in and nourish yourself and strengthen yourself for whatever it is that you face.

I told you last week that we were going to be talking about the strategy, god’s strategy, and I’ve realized there are two things here. There are two different strategies that God deployed. One of them is almost what I would consider. This is what we’re going to talk about today. We’ll talk about the next one next week, but this is almost like a pre-strategy. You know, if you’ve ever been in any kind of organization where you had to come in and kind of brainstorm and plan before you actually planned. You had to plan a meeting to plan the event before you actually planned the event. I hope that makes sense If I know that I’m going to throw a birthday party and I need to sit down and get my thoughts together about knowing I have to do that birthday party and then I actually have to do the planning, I have to organize thoughts, I have to figure out what I’m going to do, and then I actually have to go do those things.

So, to me, this strategy that I see this is not just a strategy. I would call it this a strategy for fighting what you’re afraid of. A strategy for fighting what you’re afraid of and God, I think, always makes sure that before he takes us into the actual event, there was this pre-strategy, before the actual strategy of the deployment of what he’s asking you to do, and so that’s what we’re going to be talking about today. This is important. This is important not just if you’re in a battle. This is an important strategy that literally, you can live every single day of your life, every day, not just when you’re fighting a battle. This is how we prepare our lives to walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh. This is what God said needed to be done, and he explained why there was fear, and I think that you’ll see that this is true. I will explain to you today why you’re afraid of the battle that you’re in. You may think you know the reason why, and it may surprise you to find out what the root problem is, but we’re gonna talk about that today too. So in our scripture, where we’re at today, I’m gonna take you back to Judges 6, and we’re gonna be looking at some scriptures in Judges 6 and then a couple others from there. But that’s the main thing. As always, if you’re available right now to do so, I would encourage you to get something to write with, take some notes, get out your Bible, let’s do some Bible study and let’s dig in.

Okay, so we know that, no matter what we’re facing, if it’s a battle, you need a battle plan right. There needs to be a strategy, a battle plan. You need to know what to do, and we’ve been talking about Gideon for several weeks now how God calls out the mighty in us when we are, or feel that we are, the weakest and the least of all. A few weeks ago, I showed you that what I proved to you through scripture was that you just need your yes. God just needs your yes, his call to you. All that is necessary from you. Not that you’re the greatest, not that you’re the most qualified, not that you’re the most educated, not that you’re the most experienced, not that your family is the best and the pedigree you have is the best None of that matters. What matters is your yes, right. But what you do after the yes is just as important. It’s part of the strategy you have. Your not come from your creative mind. It won’t come from your collective counsel and experience from other people going through it.

This particular strategy comes from God and God alone. It has to do with you and him and your communication with him. This is very personal. This is the pre-strategy, this is your relationship with him and what’s necessary. It’s his talking to you, it’s his preparing you, it’s him getting you ready for what he’s actually going to give the secondary strategy for to get through that battle that you’re facing.

We had talked about how God used weird, crazy, obnoxious things that didn’t seem to go together, how he can take A and add four and come up with purple, you know, and he’ll ask us to do things or involve us in things, we’re thinking why am I here, why does God want me to do this? What in the world is this for? And we don’t see the beautiful way that he is orchestrating and putting the pieces together to bring about the answer. And it is almost always shocking and we think how did God do that? That is just crazy, it’s a wonder. But he took a pit a pit, literally an old cistern and he used that and sold Joseph from that pit to produce a solution, in its end, for a famine that was worldwide.

God took something that seemed devastating, empty and worthless, dry, the very thing that they would be facing. He took that thing and the end result of that experience for Joseph was that he understood famine and God’s wisdom was in him and he brought about the answer for the greatest famine that sustained not only the nation but the surrounding nations and his family. God was doing something to preserve a family. Do you realize that when God does things, he does it on such a huge scale. It’s affecting things you don’t understand. That’s why you don’t understand all the pieces that go to it. God wanted to establish Jacob and his family and fulfill his promise to him so they can’t die in a famine, what God’s going to do creating Israel that is still here today, the people of God, israel, the land, israel, the promise fulfilled. All of that came about because God had an agenda to save a family, to save a family, and in the process nations were saved, not just that family. So you have to understand the strategies and the way that God gives us. Things don’t need to make sense to you. He’s doing something bigger than you know he’s doing. So he took a pit to produce the answer to famine.

He took a jawbone, a dried out bone, a dried out jawbone of a donkey, and in the hand of Samson it was a tool that wiped out a thousand Philistines. Not a knife, not a sword, not brute strength a jawbone, a jawbone. A thousand men I don’t even think you can possibly. I know we have, you know, movie scenarios going on in our mind and we think of all this might. But try to think of this in normal terms. We’ve seen enough in the news lately of all of the riots and when a mob of people come around, you can overpower one person pretty easily, even if that person is armed, if you get enough people around them a thousand men. One man with a jawbone brought about a victory of slaying a thousand men.

None of that makes sense. A donkey to speak wisdom to a man who could actually already hear from God that doesn’t make sense either. Taking something to speak to you that not only shouldn’t speak, but something that is used as a burden, a beast of burden, something that is made to be submissive, could have more wisdom and speak to a man who already knew how to hear the Word of God, and it took that to get his attention. It took a choir to defeat an army, a sick whale to produce revival, a fiery furnace to convert a heathen king and his nation, 300 men with literally nothing more than an empty pot, a torch in their hand and a trumpet for their mouth to defeat an entire Midianite army who had kept an entire nation under fear and trembling. All of these are examples of God’s strategies.

Your yes to God needs to be coupled with God’s strategies, regardless of how ridiculous you think that that sounds, regardless of how ridiculous you think that that sounds. Last a couple of weeks ago, I shared with you kind of one of my testimonies of my $35 tithe that I needed to give and the strategy that God employed that day was for me to give away every last penny that I had in order to pay all of the bills that I currently needed by morning. That’s ridiculous until it isn’t when God asks us to do something. He asked Noah to build an ark when there was never a thing called rain. Up until that point, it seems ridiculous. You might be mocked and ridiculed for what God calls you to do in order to combat the thing that you’re facing, but it’s not crazy. It’s ridiculous until it’s not. That’s the way God’s strategies work. And for me, with my $35, in the morning, for me, with my $35, in the morning, the impossible was made possible. I had enough to pay the bills, I had enough to put gas in my car and it was just in time for me to leave to work and be on time for work.

That, my friend, is a wonder. You wonder how he did it. How did you do that, god? But the beautiful part is we don’t have to know. We can have the awe of wondering how God does what God does. It’s those moments that we realize he truly is so much bigger than me, he’s so wonderful. He does these wonders. That’s what makes him wonderful. He is full of wonders. Full of wonders. We just need to do what God has told us to do and he does the rest. He does the wonder.

Our problem is that we are usually afraid of the problem. It’s not just that there is a problem, it’s that we are afraid of that problem. That fear causes us to hide, to hide. Hiding is more than hiding from your enemy. When you’re hiding, you’re not addressing every issue. You end up hiding from everyone, everything. Hiding is deceptive and when we hide, it’s because we think we have to protect something or someone, and usually that someone is us. We think we’re having to protect us. We think we’re having to protect us. Hiding lets you know that you think you have to defend yourself and whatever you have, you think you have to protect it. You think you have to protect you. You think there’s no one protecting you but you, you but you. We have to tear down whatever it is that is a barrier between us and God’s strategy for our deliverance. If we look back at Judges 6, verses 7 through 10, we can see the root problem that led to Gideon hiding in the winepress, and I would venture to say that this root problem is the very same for each one of us. So let’s look at that. Judges 6, verses 7 to 10.

It says when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of the Midianites, the Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel. So they’re crying out, they need help and God actually sends them somebody to explain the problem they’re in. He didn’t send the answer just yet, but he sent understanding, and sometimes that is the first thing we need. We need to understand first. Wait a minute, what’s really going on? My mom used to always say ah, the devil has shown his hand, meaning if you were playing cards. All of a sudden, the realization comes to what he’s really doing. What’s really going on? The understanding of. I was so distracted by all these things I didn’t realize what was really happening, and we need to understand that. And God is faithful to tell us what is really happening. What’s really going on here? Let’s look at it.

Thus says the Lord. Well, he sent the prophet to Israel and he said to them Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you and drove them out before you and gave you their land. So this is everything. God is, reiterating who he is and what he’s promised them and what he’s done for them. And I said to you so this is really important, this is what God had instructed them before.

No-transcript. Okay, but you have not obeyed my voice. This is the foundation for every fear that we face, and the foundation is that if you fear other gods, then you have just now laid the foundation for every fear, because if you fear God, the fear of God dispels the fear of everything else that you would face in life. If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-s sufficient, omnipresent, omniscient. Everything that we know about God, all of the attributes of God, when you believe in this God, when you know who this God is and you fear him because you understand his power and I’m not talking about being afraid of him power, and I’m not talking about being afraid of him. I’m talking about fearing him, understanding his ability and capacity, that he is the creator of all, the sustainer of all. If you don’t give the right attention and honor to God and understand that, just by the sheer fact that he can control your breath.

Jesus himself said why do you fear those who can hurt the body? You need to fear the one who created you. Jesus said that. So we need to understand that, if Jesus says that it is God who we fear, not man. That’s why David said some trust in chariots, and you know all their horses and chariots. We don’t trust in that. We don’t trust in the might, because we trust in God. God could, he would send hornets to destroy an army, no military necessary. The hornets would do it for them. Send in locusts, send in hail to destroy. God could do anything and you wouldn’t even be necessary. God speaks and it is so.

If you believe in this God, you truly have given your life to this God. You fear him, truly have given your life to this God, you fear him. Then you have no reason to fear anything or anyone else. There is no other thing that deserves your fear. It is God and God alone. And he tells them I instructed you do not fear other gods. If you begin to fear other gods, you have dethroned God in your heart and in your mind. You have dethroned him. You now see those issues, those problems, those other gods. What is a god. What is an idol? Something you give your attention to, something you sacrifice for something, you make way for something you want to do, all the things that drive you. These are idols. This is idol worship. These are other gods, not just. You know, we don’t worship Buddha, we don’t worship, you know, millions of Hindu gods. Those are other gods. There are people who do worship those.

But I’m talking about also in our life, the things you fear. You might fear your bosses and the company you work for, because you think that your livelihood is dependent upon the job you have with those people, instead of understanding. God is your source. God is your provider. All of your provision is found in him. It’s not found in man. If God wants you sustained by that job, he’ll make sure that you are sustained by that job. But if he wants something else for you he owns the cattle on a thousand hills he can do whatever he wants. He’s God. But if you dethrone him in your heart, you have set up these other things to be more powerful. That makes them a God. If you are more afraid of that than you are of him, you have dethroned God and you have made that thing a God over you. And God was giving the children of Israel the understanding to know.

You’re in this mess. You fear these Midianites because you feared other gods. I told you not to do that. This will be a snare to you. You are to worship the Lord, your God, and him alone do you serve. You are to worship the Lord, your God, and him alone do you serve. Him alone do you serve. And in that commandment was safety. It wasn’t control, it was safety. It was safety and peace. Peace from the fear of anything else.

So many get so wrapped up in the commandments, thinking that all that he is is a God who tells you what you can’t do. It’s the most foolish thing to think that that’s what he was commanding. He was commanding your peace. He was commanding your serenity. He was commanding your ability to trust and rely on him and not be self-reliant, to be able to know you are loved, you are cared for. If you will do what I’m asking you to do, you never have to worry another day in your life. That’s why he can say be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and thanksgiving, you and your supplications can be made known to him. You can request of him, you can ask of him. You don’t have to be afraid.

Fear and hiding lets you know. You think you have to defend yourself, and somewhere in that you have set up other gods. You have set up other gods. You have taken him down from his rightful place.

When we fear other gods, we have removed God in our hearts from the supreme place of authority that he holds as God. He is God alone. He is over everything, sovereign. We think, then, that the thing we fear has more power than God himself. If you’re fearing that thing and you’re terrified to the point that you’re hiding from it, you think it has more power than God has. You are trusting in your ability to deal with that power, that the powerful thing that you think you’re facing alone, instead of an all-sufficient God who is actually all-powerful.

Can you see the problem? Can you see the problem in your own circumstance? Are you fearing that thing more than you believe? God has power and love to protect you and provide for you, and love to protect you and provide for you. Can you see that in all of scripture, he has been trying to get his people to rely on him, saying I love you, I am for you, I care about you, I will make a way for you. I will sustain you, I will provide for you.

God must be first. First, he must be first, first he must be first. No one else can compete for this position. No fear, no attention. You would give no time, no finances. If you want to know I mentioned this, I think, last week if you want to know what you care about, look at what you spend money on, what you give your time to, what you give your energy to. That will tell you what’s first in your life and what you care about.

So the first pre-strategy that God deploys for Gideon and for the people of Israel to understand Now. He called Gideon to do this, but he explained it to all the people first. Okay, god gave this in chapter 6. He gave all of this instruction through the prophet to all the people. This is your problem. But he gave Gideon the instruction to make sure that God is put first Now. Why did God give it to Gideon? Because he’s going to use Gideon. Put first Now. Why did God give it to Gideon? Because he’s going to use Gideon. So, in your circumstance, god’s going to give you the responsibility of putting God first, putting him back in the proper position, in first position. He’s going to make you do that first before he deploys the strategy to bring about the deliverance, because this is necessary. Without this, you cannot win this battle. If God is not set up first, if he is not in the preeminent place of first, you cannot win the battle. You will remain in fear. You will be unable to defeat your enemies, you will remain in hiding.

Let’s look at what Gideon needed to do Judges 6, verse 25 through 27. That night the Lord said to him to Gideon, take your father’s bull and the second bull, seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has and cut down the Asherah that is beside it and build an altar to the Lord, your God, on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bowl and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down. So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord told him, but because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.

I love this scripture so much I think I’ve already mentioned it several times. This is the do it afraid? He did it. He was called to do it and though he was afraid, he still did it. Now he made provision for his fear. He hasn’t fully conquered his fear. He did it at night, but he still did it. He still did it. He did it afraid. He did it covertly, that’s okay. God’s not going to let you stay covert, but this was how he began rearranging things. So what would I say to that? For you, you don’t have to make this giant announcement to everybody. You might fear family. You might fear circumstance and people around you. You might fear friends and co-workers, whatever. That’s okay. You can still be doing this afraid. You can still care about those relationships, okay. But Gideon was actually afraid for his life. He was literally afraid they were going to kill him. But I want you to see what happened here. God wants to address that fear in Gideon. He wants to let him know if you will trust me with this, you will no longer have to fear these things. You can put the fear down. You can let go of the fear. So let’s read on to see what happened. So let’s go to verse 28 through 32.

When the men of the town rose early in the morning. Behold, the altar of Baal was broken down and the Asherah beside it was cut down. And the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built. So Gideon did exactly what God told him to do, was offered on the altar that had been built. So Gideon did exactly what God told him to do. And they said to one another who has done this thing? And after they had searched and inquired, they said Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing. Then the men of the town said to Joash bring out your son that he may die. They wanted to kill him for this. So he was right to be afraid.

It wasn’t that he did. His fear wasn’t irrational and I’m not saying that your fear is irrational, but let’s look at what obedience to what God tells us to do produces. But Joash said to all who stood against him I’m sorry, bring out your son that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it. But Joash said to all who stood against him will you contend for Baal? What’s he saying? Are you going to fight for your God or will you save him? He’s saying you mean to tell me you think you’re more powerful than your God, that you can save him? He was cut down and now you have to defend him. You have to save him. You think you can save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a God, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down. He’s showing them the irrational assumption that you have the ability to fight for your God. If this is truly a God, he doesn’t need you to fight for him. You should be afraid of him.

Suddenly, the light bulbs are going off in Gideon’s father’s mind, in Joash’s mind, and he’s realizing wait a minute. We’ve been serving and fearing these other gods and yet we have to defend them. Then they’re not a god at all. This makes no sense. Therefore, on that day, gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, let Baal, or Baal contend against him, because he broke down his altar. So then they started saying, okay, this man was not afraid to go after this God. So now they’ve renamed him. They’ve renamed him because he faced this fear and challenged this God. Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came together and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

So I’m going to stop there for the moment because we go into the fact that this very event and this obedience is what there was a turning point. It was a turning point in his family’s mind. It was a turning point in every person who was a part of Israel. It was also a turning point in his family’s mind. It was a turning point in every person who was a part of Israel. It was also a turning point in the minds of all of his enemies.

So this passage shows how God changed the way that the people saw Gideon. And I want you to get this. I’m going to say this to you, write this down. This is really important. And I want you to get this. I’m going to say this to you Write this down. This is really important. No-transcript.

When you change the way you see God, god will change the way people see you. You’re worried about what people think, but when you put God in his proper place, when you do the things that God has called you to do, by putting him first, god changes how people see you, how people deal with you. That was the first strategy, the pre-strategy, if you will. Then God deploys this second strategy. The second strategy can feel the scariest. This can feel so terrifying because it’s a process that we experienced. From this point on, and this process, this strategy, was a pruning.

You take Gideon, who felt like the least, the most unequipped, ill-equipped, the most afraid, hiding in a wine press, threshing out in a wine press. Folks, we have to learn to tear down the very thing that we are hiding in. You have to tear down the very thing that is keeping you bound, and the only way to do that, the only way to do that, you know. Some may say that it’s facing your fears. It’s really not. It’s not that you’re facing your fear. It’s that you are rightly fearing the right thing. You now shift your perspective.

I fear God. I no longer fear this. God can deal with that. There is no way that that thing is more powerful than God. He created every scenario that even made this possible. These people wouldn’t be alive, their power wouldn’t be in their hand. God sets up and pulls down. Nothing that they have or can do is more powerful than the one who created it all. So that in itself, it’s not true to say that you simply faced your fear. It’s that you rightly fear what you should fear and that enables you to no longer fear what you shouldn’t fear, but what comes after that alignment.

Many times not everybody experiences this, but this is what happened in Gideon’s life Many times, this process of how you see God, how you now deal with people, how they now see you, it produces a pruning, a pruning effect. This is a pruning, a pruning effect and in that pruning effect, many times you feel like God is pruning your actual resources to deal with the thing that you fear. And for Gideon this was very true. God was pruning him and taking away men. All of these men got changed, the way they all saw him. They all came to fight with him. They all came to be his army, made him the leader, instead of coming to kill him. Now he’s the leader. They’ve made him the leader, the one who wasn’t afraid to take on the false gods. They’ve made him the leader. And now he’s the leader and has all these men.

And God says wait a minute, you have too many. All of this is too much. You have too many people around you. I don’t want all these people with you. If I let you fight with all these people, you’re going to think that it was your might that brought about this victory, and Gideon may not have felt it was his, but those people who fought with him sure would have. They weren’t the ones who tore down the idols, they weren’t the ones. They came to kill him because he did. These were not the people who had set God in proper order. Gideon did that and they surely would have thought they won the battle by their might, and that would have brought about more trouble for them in the future. So God was going to make sure that God, and God alone, gets the victory that he is reminding them you only need me. It is not by might, it is not by power, but it is by my spirit, says the Lord. We’re going to say that till you just can’t Never forget it.

God cuts down his numbers and this is the process that in pruning, where you have to allow God to remove from you what you think you need. This is. It may be people, it may be finances, it may be education, it may be where you live, it may be certain gosh, it could be. It could be anything a job, a boss, a connection, you know, anything where you lived, um, uh, what’s the word for that? Um, your low, your locale, your location, your proximity to something, to someone. Um, this is where you have to allow God. You have to continue your yes. When God starts this process in you, you have to allow him to finish this process. You don’t stop with the yes and then take matters into your own hands and say, no, I think I’ve got it from here. You have to remain in the position of keeping God in first place and everything else is whatever he says.

You don’t fear the wrong things. Therefore, you don’t cling to the wrong things. You will cling to the wrong things. If you fear the wrong things, you will cling to them, and God has to remove those obstacles from your life to show you you just need me, you just need me. That’s why I wrote the book.

You don’t need money, you just need God. It’s just God. You don’t need the army, you need God. Okay, so he will remove from you what you think you need. He knows what you do actually need, who you actually need, meaning the people he’s chosen or the means and the ways that he’s chosen to care for you or to get you through this to a victory. He knows what you actually need, who you actually need and who you should and shouldn’t put confidence in, should and shouldn’t put confidence in. Okay, our confidence needs to be in him and him alone. Not in yourself, not in your connections, not in your resources, not in your might. No confidence in the flesh is acceptable. No confidence in the flesh. You only need God. You need to be led by the spirit of God and by him alone. So we put our confidence in if we, if, without doing this, without going through this process, without allowing God to do what he needs to do, then we end up putting confidence in all the wrong places. You just need your yes and God will do the rest. Yeah, that rhymes.

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He gave Moses the plans to build the tabernacle and all of the practices that would take place in the tabernacle. He gave Noah the plans, the blueprints, to build an ark for the saving of his whole family. All throughout the entire Bible, you will find someone’s yes coupled with God’s strategy, which produced a great wonder. Even Jesus only did what he saw the Father do and he only said what he heard the Father say. It has to be God’s strategy. Psalm 127.1 says unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it. God gives the plan, you give the yes. Don’t let fear produce a no from you.

As God told Gideon in verse 14, he said go in. Chapter 7, verse 14. Anyway, I’m not making sure. Go in this might of yours, go in this might of yours. He was telling him. I know you don’t think you have it. You do. Why? Because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. I’m with you. Go in this, might you have? You have me, you have me. If you put me in the proper place and I am in that place of authority and you understand that there is nothing that can stand against me, then you know, no weapon formed against you shall prosper if God is in his rightful place, if you have obeyed this first pre-strategy.

Our confidence isn’t in what we can do. It shouldn’t be in what we can do, but in what he will do. Philippians 1.6 says being confident of this very thing that he who hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. We know that we can put our full confidence in him. And let me finish with this Romans 4.21 says being fully persuaded that God is able to do what he has promised. These first strategies are necessary before God deploys the action strategy, and we’re going to talk about that next week.

I hope that you will tune in with me for that. I hope that this has given you some insight, some instruction. I feel a little bit like the prophet that was sent. I’m not calling myself a prophet, but I feel that way that I have been sent with a word to tell you, if you are fearing this thing and you don’t know how to tear this thing down, that you’re hiding in this thing and you don’t know how to tear this thing down, that you’re hiding in the strategy to tear that thing down because you’ve got to tear it down. If you’re hiding in it, you got to tear it down. Whatever you’re hiding in folks, you’ve got to tear it down.

It’s the first order of business and the only way to do that is to set God in his rightful place, put him first. It is in that position that all authority lines up Everything, that it’s like a domino effect. Everything then lines up. You’ve got to put him first. The rest will be according to God’s plan and God will do it. But you can. It’s like letting the weight come up off of your shoulder. You are actually you’re putting a yoke on, but Jesus said take my yoke upon you because my burden is easy, it’s light. So if you’re walking with him, he’s the one carrying the burden. You’re just walking in step.

We are walking by faith, not by sight. Don’t allow what you see around you to be the thing that drives you. Don’t allow the fear of what you see cripple you. We have to tear that down. Folks, put God in his rightful position. If you fear God, if you honestly understand who he is and fear him, there is nothing else you have to be afraid of. But if he is not God in your life, you’re absolutely right. There is everything to fear. Make it right with him.

Today. Let me pray for you, father. We just give you all the glory today because you truly are God. We worship you, the God of all the earth. You have created all that is in the heavens, all that is beneath the earth, everything that breathes, everything that produces life has come from your mouth, from your word, and we live in what you have established. O God, correct our minds, correct our mindset, our thinking.

Tear down the lies that the enemy has spoken, that we have put up other things and allowed them to have power over us, to remove you from your place of all sovereign God. We reestablish that alignment today. We say we know you are God and God alone. There is nothing that can stand against you. You are the one in power. You hold all the control and we submit ourselves to that control, knowing that you will control everything else, that you have ordained a plan for our life, and it’s good, and we say yes to you today. Help us, lord, to build that altar for you today and tear down every false god, every false idea, every false ideology, every false idol that we have propped up to be afraid of. We tear it down. Today we no longer hide afraid. We tear that fear down and we give you our heart, our life, our confidence. We are confident that what you have started you will finish. We are confident that you, who have begun a good work, will complete it. We are confident that you are not only able, but that you will fulfill the promise that you have made to each one. We give you all the glory and the praise for it today. I pray you strengthen those in the pruning process today, lord, those who have arighted the alignment, but they are going through that pruning process, father, that you would be there with them. Strengthen them, let their confidence be that this is simply to show how great you are and you will finish what you started, and it is. In Jesus’ mighty name. We pray Amen.

Thank you again for spending time with me. I appreciate you so much. I’d love to hear from you. If you have any prayer requests or praise reports, you can share those with me at my website. That’s where you’ll find my email. That’s mail at jaimeluce.com. The website is jaimeluce.com. J-a-i-m-e-l-u-c-e. It was my pleasure to be with you today. We’ll see you next week.