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How God Uses Clay Jars, Torches, and Trumpets to Equip You for Battle

Finding Strength When You Feel Unqualified

If you’ve ever felt underqualified, overwhelmed, or under-resourced in a spiritual battle, you’re not alone. In this powerful message, Jamie Luce dives deep into the story of Gideon, revealing how God uses the weak things of the world to confound the strong—and how your “yes” to God is your greatest qualification.

The Spiritual Battle is Real—But So is the Strategy

Gideon didn’t feel ready. He was hiding, afraid, and questioning God’s presence. Yet God chose him anyway. Why? Because it’s not about might or power—it’s about obedience and faith. Gideon’s journey shows us that God equips those He calls with divine strategy, not worldly strength.

Key Takeaway: Your yes is your weapon. Obedience is more powerful than confidence.

The Three Spiritual Weapons from Gideon’s Story

Gideon’s 300 men didn’t carry swords into battle—they carried torches, clay jars, and trumpets. These unlikely tools reveal three powerful spiritual principles:

1. Clay Jars: You Are the Vessel

We are fragile vessels, but it is Christ in us that carries the power. The breaking of the jar in Gideon’s battle symbolizes how God uses our brokenness to release His glory.

“Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” —2 Corinthians 4:7

2. Torches: Christ is the Light Within

The torch hidden in the jar represents the light of Jesus within you. When the jar breaks, the light bursts forth—illuminating darkness and signaling victory.

“I am the light of the world… whoever follows me will have the light of life.” —John 8:12

3. Trumpets: Declare the Word of God

In Scripture, trumpets are used to declare war, announce victory, and signal God’s presence. When you declare God’s promises aloud, you partner with His power and call heaven’s authority into your situation.

What to Do When You’re Spiritually Exhausted

If you’re walking through darkness and don’t know the next step, don’t move until you hear from the Lord. Go to the Word. Pray. Wait. The strategy will come—and so will the light.

Practical Tips:

• Sit with Scripture and ask God for your next step

• Practice declaring God’s promises aloud each morning

• Surround yourself with people who help you strengthen your spirit, like Purah did for Gideon

The Potter’s Wheel: God Can Remake Anything

Even when the vessel is marred, God doesn’t throw it away. He reshapes it. Your brokenness is not the end—it’s the place where God can shine most brightly.

“Can I not do with you as this potter has done?” —Jeremiah 18:6

Let God’s Light Shine Through You

You are the jar. Jesus is the treasure. Let Him shine through your broken places. With God’s strategy and your obedience, victory is not only possible—it’s promised.

Episode Chapters:

(0:00:09) – Empowering Strategies for Spiritual Battles
(0:10:27) – Facing Fear in Spiritual Battles
(0:23:30) – Battle Strategy With Clay Pots
(0:36:49) – Transformative Power of God’s Work
(0:42:59) – Embracing God’s Remaking Process

Full Transcript

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0:00:09 – Jaime Luce
Welcome to the Jaime Luce podcast. Thanks for tuning in today. I just want to say that I hope that you are having a great day today. My hope is that, by taking this time right now, spending some time digging into God’s Word, that this will encourage you, strengthen you, build you up and make you more able to deal with whatever it is you got to deal with, whatever life is throwing at you right now. If it’s all good, praise God, but if you’re in the battle today, I want to encourage you. We’re still talking about Gideon.

I really thought that maybe the last week was going to be the last, but the Lord has not allowed me to turn loose of this yet, and so I’ve got at least today and next week to give you. I’m excited about it, though, because when God gives you something, it just breathes life into your spirit, and I don’t know about you. There have been many, many battles spiritual battles, natural battles where you go into the fight thinking that you know you’re the underdog, you don’t have enough, you aren’t enough, or somehow what you need is lacking, and you just don’t think you’ll be able to make it through. Whatever it is you’re facing, don’t think you’ll be able to make it through, whatever it is you’re facing. And let me encourage you, folks, we’re going to read it through Gideon. But I promise you this If you have a yes to whatever the Lord has called you to, then that is what you need. Your yes is what qualifies you, that is what you need. Your yes is what qualifies you and it’s what he does. I’ve been saying it over and over again and reminding you of the scripture that says it is not by might and it is not by power, but it is by my spirit, says the Lord, and he’s the one who gives the strategy. Last week, when we left off, I kept saying you’ve got to have God’s strategy. Well, in the next two weeks we’re going to talk about that strategy. Today, I want to give to you the tools. The tools we’re going to talk about, the tools of your warfare today that we see in Gideon, and next week we are going to talk about the actual strategy. And boy am I excited about that. I’m excited about today, but I just want to wet your whistle. You don’t want to miss next week’s. It’s just so good.

But we need to understand what we have in these earthen vessels, though we know with our minds and we understand, because of our faith, that Jesus Christ has come and paid the price for us, we tend to still look at this world and the things that we deal with as if we are here and Jesus is out there or up there, and that there is this chasm between us and that we are doing whatever we can to somehow convince him to come back, to enter into the issue that we are facing so that he can do something about it for us. And it’s easy to do. But when we do that, the reason we’re doing that is because in the moment, in the fear or in the anxiety or in the lack of knowledge that we have to advance ourselves in the situation or to get victory over something, it is in that process and in the natural part of it that we’re dealing with that. We tend to forget that we walk by faith and not by sight, and that we forget sometimes that the knowledge we have of Jesus Christ is that he is not. Yes, we are seated with him in heavenly places. We are with him in heavenly places.

According to scripture, we are in the throne room of God, the place where we can come boldly and make our requests known, but at the same time, scripture is very clear and teaches us, especially all through the Gospels, about Christ in us, that he is here with us and that the whole reason we celebrate Pentecost and the whole reason that we have an understanding of the Trinity and having the Holy Spirit who indwells us, who helps us, who is our comforter, who gives us strategies, who searches the deep things of God, it is that power that is not just available to us, but that resides on the inside of us. What the goal is is to have the power and the might of the Holy Spirit burst forth out of us, that it is through him, telling us the way that we should go, the strategies to employ, how we’re to do it, what it takes to get it done, and following him in obedience in that path. It will always lead to the victory that God has for you. God’s strategy is always for God’s plan. Now, granted, the plan can look different than we have concocted in our own minds. I would venture to say that we miss it 99% of the time, that we aren’t necessarily seeing what he sees, and that our perspective is clouded by all of the things that touch us in the natural and all of the things that motivate us and all of the things that bring hindrances and all of the just the natural world we live in. It will cause our thought, life and what we picture as answers for the situations we’re in. It takes all of that and it molds it and we allow the circumstance to mold our picture and our preview. It’s like we have a running movie preview of what we think this movie is going to be and how it’s going to play out. And you know, in coaching practices for coaching people in leadership, they often talk about that. You need to have a plan. You should rehearse that plan.

You know, I remember watching a video clip, very, very good, just kind of. I don’t even know how to describe this. So if you’ve ever seen the Blue Angels flight crew they’re you know they fly at all the special events. Their aircrafts are so close that one false move will be catastrophic for the entire team it could be death and that when they are bringing a new team member on board, every single person has to agree that, yes, this is the person, the trust level. They all have to completely and totally trust that the person that is on that crew with them has their safety in mind and will do the very best for the team and that they are capable and able to perform all the things that they’re being called upon to perform.

And in the video clip that I saw, it was the mental exercise that they go through before they ever get into the actual cockpit of the planes and perform these amazing things that they do that we can watch guy with airplanes and they will sit in a configuration that is identical to their plane configuration and they will speak the instructions. They all have their eyes closed and they each perform manually with their hands. They do every movement that they would do, every gear, they would touch everything, they would turn on everything, they would push, pull, whatever they do, they have closed their eyes and the person who is leading or calling out commands is doing so. Each person is responding and all of them are performing what they see with their mind’s eye how this is going to go. And so in coaching practices they talk about that, that you need to be able to see a thing happen, and it’s those people who are great in sports or those people who are very good in maybe speaking publicly, people who perform tasks that are critical. They go through those things in their mind, they are thinking about it, they are practicing in their subconscious or in their minds. They’re making sure that they are thinking of every detail and they are laying out with their mind the way they think this should go. Now, that’s a fantastic practice. That’s something that we should all probably put into practice. If you have to have a critical conversation with somebody, it would probably be a great idea to sit down and think through what that conversation might go, how that might go, think about the questions that they might have and prepare answers that you might need to have, or think about criticisms that might come and have you critically thought through that and how you could be an active listener and care about the things that they’re going to say, not just what you’re saying. So all of that is really good practice. That is something that we should all do.

But when it comes to spiritual things, sometimes God will give you a scenario and say it’s going to go like this do this, this and this. But many times, literally, it’s a walk of faith, because we are getting one instruction at a time and we don’t know how this is going to play out. We don’t know how A attaches to five. It’s like he puts things together and uses things that you would think. How in the world does this produce that? A couple weeks ago, I gave you some illustrations all through scripture, about that, that he took a sick whale to produce a revival and a city that was completely heathen and turned that city around.

And, speaking of Jonah, the things that God did he took. A good example of this is looking at Isaac when there’s a great famine in the land and he wants to move his family to Egypt in order to survive the famine I mean to survive. This isn’t just so that he could, you know, do well, it’s survival. And God says no, I don’t want you doing that, because his father did that. His father went down to Egypt and so he was doing what he thought was a good plan. This is how we’ll avoid this. This is how we’ll take care of ourselves. And God says, no, I want you to stay in this famine and I want you to plant your crop in the middle of a famine. Now, how do you take a famine and do what God did? He obeyed, he planted that crop and his crop produced a hundred fold. In the middle of a great famine, he not only survived, he more than thrived, he grew, he increased in a time when he shouldn’t.

Okay, that kind of math doesn’t add up. That’s one plus J equals. You know the answer. That’s it doesn’t make sense, it’s algebra. You know it doesn’t make sense. He takes things that don’t go together and they go together and it works.

And you might be facing today a situation and you’re thinking, god, I don’t have anything. I don’t even have. I don’t even have what I think are the essentials to be able to win this fight that I’m fighting. Maybe you’re sick in body and you don’t have the immune system to fight. You don’t have the immune system to fight, you don’t have the connections for the specialist, you don’t have the time that it takes, that they’re saying it takes this amount of time and you’re saying we don’t have that much time.

Whatever you’re facing today and you think you don’t have what it takes, you serve an amazing God who creates with his mouth, his words. It doesn’t matter what you have, it matters what he has said. It doesn’t matter what you have, it doesn’t matter what your abilities are, it matters what he says, what he says. Only what God says matters, and if he says it, it’s done. What God says, is the answer. Jesus is the answer. So I wanted us to look at this passage and I want to encourage you. If you feel like you don’t have what it takes today, I want you to know you do, and we’re going to get the proof of that out of God’s Word. God said it, this is God’s Word, and you’re going to see how this can affect you personally in your situation today. So let’s go to Judges, chapter seven, and we’re going to start with verse 16. And this is after, just for context. God has spoken to Gideon.

Gideon is afraid in the wine press threshing out his wheat. He doesn’t think he can do it. He’s the least among everybody. He just feels the most unqualified. His own family is not really truly serving God alone and God calls him to it. So afraid, gideon obeys and Gideon does what God tells him to do and he destroys the false god’s altars and builds a new altar and sacrifices to God on that new altar. And in the process of doing that, the very people he was afraid of, who he thought would kill him, came to kill him. But when they heard his father’s words about him and it convicted their heart, saying you need your God needs to defend, you have to defend your God, then he’s not a God. And in the process of all that, the people changed their opinion of Gideon. He was now this mighty man of valor that God said he was to begin with, and they all surrounded him to go defeat the enemy. They all had gathered to him to go and fight Midian.

Okay, then we have Gideon. He’s still afraid and he goes through this process of saying, okay, god, if you’re really with me, then I need you to prove it, I need to know this is really you. And he’s having that wrestling match with God Is this you or is this me? This has to be you or I’m not doing this, that fear. He’s still wrestling with that fear and he puts a fleece out twice and God answers that fleece and says yes, it’s me. Then Gideon takes all the men here they are and God says you’ve got too many. He reduces him, he prunes him the very thing that you finally give him the courage to go and do this fight and then he takes away all the men. He leaves them with only 300 men. Now these men are going to go fight an army, in fact.

I’m going to read let’s start at verse. Let’s start at verse 9. No, yeah, let’s start at verse 9. I know this is a lot of scripture, but let’s read through this so that you can see what Gideon was up against and how God was with him to encourage him all along the way. I hope that today I can be Purah, who is his servant, with you today, just to bring you some strength if you’re afraid of what’s ahead of you. But in verse nine it says that same night the Lord said to him arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands. So God’s saying I want you to go see this enemy, I want you to see their camp, I want you to see what you’re up against. And he says but if you’re afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah, your servant, and you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp. That’s my hope for you today, that after this your hands will be strengthened. Then he went down with Purah, his servant, to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp, and the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley like locusts in abundance and their camels were without number as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

Can you imagine going and looking to see how bad this is, how huge this battle is that stands in front of you and all? If you picture any of the great battle movies? You know you can picture them doing this, going and looking battle movies. You know you can picture them doing this, going and looking and they’ll show you a shot. Especially if you see an army that is filled the valley and you just see. All you can see is the mass of people and their horses or their whatever they’re riding on, whatever they’re doing. You can see all of their might, their might. You see all of their equipment. You see everything they have to fight against you and it’s. It just looks like it’s without numbers. This is like locusts, like just seeing a swarm. Then you can’t count the number. It’s so great. It’s like the sands of the sea.

Verse 13. Fell and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat, and his comrade answered this is no other than the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel. So what has happened? The fame of what Gideon did by tearing down these false gods’ altars and building an altar to God. This whole scenario has made him famous even in the enemy’s camp. You don’t even realize. When you obey God and you’ve done the hard thing that he’s asked you to do, when you’ve said yes, you are now famous among even the enemy’s camp. Not only will God draw to you those that you need that are helpful to you, but he will also put the fear of who you are in God in your enemy. That is part of what God does in the process of our saying yes, even when we’re afraid. Verse 14, and his comrade answered this is no other than the sword of Gideon, the son of, is gonna pass from tent to tent. We are in trouble. God has decided to move on behalf of Israel and Gideon is going to take us out. That is what they feel. That is the fear that now has come on the enemy.

As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped and he returned to the camp of Israel and said arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand. Okay, so he’s getting ready. They’re gonna go for it. They know God has said not only am I with you, I let you know that the enemy knows I’m with you. I’m with you, I am enough. Your 300 men are enough. Now let’s look at verse 16. This is where I really wanted to go, and he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars with torches inside the jars. And he said to them look at me and do likewise when I come to the outskirts of the camp. Do as I do when I blow the trumpet. I and all who are with me then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout for the Lord and for Gideon.

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We are the earthen vessels.

We were made from the dust of the ground we were breathed into. So what’s in the pot is what produces life, what’s in the pot. That’s why we needed salvation, because our spirits had died in the fall. We needed to be reconciled and we needed the holy spirit to come and refill us and make us new and put this treasure. Jesus is the treasure. We’re going to talk about that in just a minute. But we have that treasure. It’s a treasure. It’s it’s past value. But you, you can’t put a value on it. There used to be commercials all the time that were for a MasterCard credit card and they would all say that it was priceless. Everything was priceless. You can’t put a price on it.

And so we’re saying that if you are the vessel and if you have Jesus Christ inside of you, the earthen vessel, that was one of the strategic necessities, of the tools that you would need, the weapons of your warfare. You, you are the earthen vessel. I hope you get this. And it says that because we said it’s not by might and it’s not by power, meaning external power, not by the actual. You know, if it was a battle today tanks and guns and aircraft it’s not in the might of what’s natural, it is not the arm of the flesh, it is not by might and it is not by power, it’s by my spirit, it’s him. He’s the one who’s all powerful, he’s the one who actually is the power, the necessary power to win. Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show we’re going to get back to that in a minute to show that this all-surpassing power, that, no matter what you face, there is an all-surpassing power and it is from God and not from us. You don’t have to be powerful enough, because it is God who is powerful in you. He is the power. This is the way he chooses to do it. He uses us, these earthen vessels, to show forth his power.

Okay, I want to look at this same scripture in the NLT, the New Living Translation we now have. I want you to think about the story of Gideon, what we just read. We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. Oh my gosh, this one scripture to me is Gideon’s battle literally summed up. Literally summed up. Okay, those are the clay pots. Now we’re going to talk more about clay pots in a little bit, but I want us to move then to the torches, because we’re talking about this great treasure and we’re talking about this light shining in our hearts. What was the strategy in Gideon, shining in our hearts? What was the strategy in Gideon? You had a torch and you had the clay pot on the outside of the torch and you broke the clay pot at a certain time so that the light would burst forth. Okay, the torches.

I want you to go to John, chapter eight, verse 12. John, chapter eight, verse 12. And it says again Jesus spoke to them saying I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. If you are in a battle and you feel like it is the battle for your life, you need to survive this. You need new life to spring forth. You need Jesus is the light, and he is what is housed in this earthen vessel, if okay, so when, in the story of Gideon, he tells them I want you to hold this torch in your hand, cover it with the clay pot and when I, when I this, do this and when I say this, say this. That’s literally how Jesus operated. Jesus said I do what I see the father doing. I say what I hear the father saying. That is literally the same strategy. We should be following this exact same strategy. Even Jesus himself did it. This is how this is done.

It’s not faith in myself, it’s faith in Christ in me, that when he tells me to do something, if I will do what he tells me to do, I will see the victory that I need to see. Or I will see the next puzzle piece come together, or I will see the next maneuver that needs to take place, or I will. However, he is leading you through the situation that you are in. If you will do what he asks you to do, when he asks you to do it, you will see the progress. You will see what needs to take place. It brings a light into the dark place. You could be thinking I don’t know what to do, I’m sitting in darkness. I’m dark in my darkness, I’m dark in my soul, I’m dark in my instruction of what to do. It’s dark.

Then your first mode of action needs to be you need to simply get in your Bible and you pray and spend time with the Lord Jesus Christ until you get some kind of instruction from him. I would say don’t go do the next thing until you hear from him. You hear from him whether he strengthens you and you know you. Just keep going until he gives the instruction or he gives you an instruction. But don’t allow the enemy to keep you in that dark place, just without. You have the light. You have the light of God in you, you have the power of God.

All of this is available because we have a relationship with Jesus Christ. You. You. If the only way you have no access to it is if you simply don’t avail yourself to it, it’s the same as having money in a bank that you don’t ever go and access. It does you no good sitting in the bank unless you actually go and make use of the money? We have to understand what we have available to us. If you don’t understand the power of God’s word, you won’t make use of it. If you honestly don’t understand its power, you won’t take the time to spend in the word of God. You won’t invest your time.

You do what you think is important. It’s real easy to see what people think is important. They think sports is important. They think putting their kids in all the travel programs is important. They think going to every concert is important. They think going out to every restaurant is important. They think making sure they spend time with their friends and family is important. You can easily see what they think is important. You can see when they don’t think that church is important because they never make an effort to be there. They don’t prioritize it. It’s real easy to see what people think. It doesn’t matter what they say, folks, it matters what we do. That’s why scripture says don’t be a hearer of the word only. You have to be a doer of the word. A doer.

What you do shows what you believe. You can say you believe in Jesus all day long, but if you don’t take steps that actually show that you really do have faith in him, your life will stay the same. Your circumstance will stay where it is or get worse. We have this ability. We have this treasure in earthen vessels. You have what you need. You are not lacking anything. If you have Jesus Christ, you have all you need. If you have the word of God, you have all you need.

Okay, let’s look at John, chapter 1, verses 4 and 5, and it says in him was life and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome. It has not. That’s not. It not. That’s not saying and and it will not, as if it still has to do it. It says it has not. This is a done deal. He is the light of the world. He did what he did and brought the light to us. If you are saved, you have the light, you have what it takes. Jesus in you is the power that you need to win the battle that you are facing.

God spoke his instructions to Gideon. His words of instruction are the essence of his voice. Okay, psalm 119, 105 says your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. God gave him the instruction of the word. This is where we get our instruction, the word. It is our life, it is the plan, it is the strategy, it is the weapon of our warfare. You have the word now. Use the word. Be a doer. Don’t sit and listen to my words. Be a doer. Don’t be someone who goes to church and simply sits and hears messages and never lives it. Live this word and let God prove himself to you and bring you the victory for whatever battle that you are facing. Okay, we, we’ve touched on the clay pots. We’ve touched on the torches.

Their third weapon, if you can call it that, was the trumpet. The trumpet and the trumpet was used all through scripture. There’s just too many references to go and just read them all to you. But the trumpet was used as a declaration of war, with the promise that God would save his people from their enemies, would save his people from their enemies. God would give the instruction and tell them to blow the trumpets. The act of that obedience, of blowing the trumpet said. I believe that, because I have obeyed and done and declared, the trumpet is a declaration. I am declaring what God has said we win. His promise is that the enemies that I face will be defeated. That is his promise to us. That is what the trumpet represents. It is associated with the manifestation of God’s divine presence and the revelations that he had given them. It was a call used as a call to remembrance. A clay jar, a torch and a trumpet. And a trumpet.

Gideon, his army of 300 men, went out with a war cry, armed with the understanding that they were just men, just earthen vessels, who had only the word of God as their guide and the promise that his presence and his great power were all that they needed to win the war against them. I want us to go. This will be the last. We’ll close with this. Go to Jeremiah, chapter 18. Jeremiah, chapter 18.

And I’m sure that you have heard this passage, I’m sure you’re familiar with this. This is the potter and the clay, this is the potter’s house, and God is showing Jeremiah, through this picture, the truth and the promise of God, the way of God. And today I want this to speak to you If you feel like Jaime yeah, I’m a clay pot and I have been marred. I have gone through so much trauma. I am beat up, I’m crushed. What was the instruction that Gideon was given? You had the clay jar over the torch and before they blew the trumpet, they smashed the clay jar so that only the torch could be seen. Not only was the darkness covered and the clay jar filled with the light of God, but it burst forth at the crushing of that clay pot. And many times we go through a crushing and it is that crushing that bursts forth the power and the light of God. Do not be discouraged. If you have been crushed. You have the power now to let the light and the glory and the presence of God burst forth into your situation and the battle cry be cried out so that victory comes to you today.

So let’s read this together. I’m going to read verses 1 through 10. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words. So I went down to the potter’s house and there he was working at the wheel and the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand. Other translations say marred. There were things wrong with it, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

Then the word of the Lord came to me O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? Declares the Lord has done. Declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, o house of Israel, and I say put your name in there. If, at any time, I declare we’re talking about the trumpet and the vessel and the spirit of God, if at any time, I declare that’s the blowing of the trumpet concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it. And if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if, any time, I declare, concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will build and plant, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it, that I had intended to do to it. Now it goes on. This is a prophetic word given to Israel about their behavior and I’m not going to go all into that.

But I wanted you to hear how God spoke to Jeremiah and how he speaks to us. He literally tells him. You see how this work was done on this potter’s wheel and that in the potter’s hand there was a problem, because we can think, just like Gideon did God, if you’re with us, why is all this happening to us? And this very example that God used was that the pot that he was making in the potter’s hand was marred. Something was wrong with it it was the word he used here that it was spoiled. And God is saying and that was in the potter’s hand. So I take comfort, I say okay, if that’s the situation in the potter’s hand. And God is saying to Jeremiah I want you to look at this situation, because this is how it works. You’re going to hear my words, watch this process that I can say my situation seems marred. My situation, or my physical body, or my circumstance, or my child, whatever my finances, my emotional state, my whatever, is marred. Something’s not right. And we could feel like Gideon when God approached him and said I’m choosing you, I’m going to use you, we’re going to change this, we’re going to fix this. Okay. And Gideon said if you’re with us, why has this happened? And you’re thinking today or you could be thinking, if God was with me, why, why has this happened? And the enemy of your soul will want to tell you it’s because you did something wrong or God’s not with you.

And yet this clay pot example is saying that even in his hand things had happened. Trouble had come. There was a problem so big that he had to remake it. He had to do it again. He had to fix it, and it says he reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good for the potter to do. So he does do it. He changes it, he remakes it, remolds it, reshapes it, repurposes it. He does this as it seems good to him to do. Why is that important? Because so many times we want God. Like I said at the beginning, we get this plan, we have this idea of how this is going to go and then, when God reworks it, it doesn’t look anything like the plan that we had planned.

You have to trust that the potter, the creator, the creator, knows better than you do the creator. How can the pot say to the creator you made me wrong, you did this wrong. I’m just the thing that was made. I don’t even have the capacity to understand the one who made me. I am the made. We get this so backwards. It is such a prideful way of looking at life to think that I know better than God. He is the creator. He has a good.

In Jeremiah 29, 11,. Same book, same author. I know the plans that I have for you, says the Lord. They are not to harm you. These are plans to prosper you. These are plans for your good. He reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to do, and he says to him can I not do this with you? Folks, whatever you need remade today, no matter if it looks different. I read you those last eight, nine and 10, because we, even if you in yourself, are living in a situation that is okay. Things are okay right now, things are blessed right now. Praise God, that’s you. Praise God, praise the Lord, give him thanks and praise for, show forth your gratitude of what God has done for you, what he’s doing for you.

At the same time, we have to understand for those that are not, even if you are, for those that are not, even if you are. Our world is in a chaotic mess. The nations are at war. We are all involved with one another. Now, all of the nations are involved in this process and there is chaos and there are people, ideas and things are being put forth that are not of God, and God is saying I control the nations.

Can I not say at any time? He literally says I can declare concerning a nation anytime. If I, at any time, decide to say something, it’s going to be so. I can make it good, I can make it bad. If they did evil, I can change my mind. If they do good, I can bless them At any time. I want to do this, I will do this. That is the God you serve and right now, today, for you, he can remake your situation and he can declare over you. I decide today, your enemies are coming down, they’re coming down and you’re going to get victory.

All you need to do is understand that your brokenness is not a waste. It was necessary, necessary to shine forth. Let the Lord and his power shine forth from you. I’m going to read you 2 Corinthians 4, 7 one more time and then we’re going to pray. Now we have this treasure in jars of clay. You are enough that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

God, at any time, can declare, and when we declare it, we say the sword for Gideon and for the Lord. Well, for the Lord and for Gideon. He got the order right. For God and the Lord, or for the Lord and for Gideon, if I can say it right, the sword for the Lord and for Gideon, and we can put our names in there. This is what God will do. The victory is ours. We will pursue and win the battle we face. God is with us, he’s in us, he’s ready to burst forth from us to defeat our enemy. Let’s declare the truth, let’s be the trumpet and declare his word. Whatever he says to you, declare it and let him bring the victory. Your army, the army you face, will run from you, will run in fear and defeat themselves.

In Jesus’ name, let me pray for you, heavenly Father. We are so grateful for your word, so grateful that, though we are just clay, you are the light in us and you are enough. You are enough and we will allow the breaking process to be the tool used to shine forth your great light and power. You will work this situation for our good. You will remold and remake us however it seems good to you, and there will be great, great victory that comes forth because of it. Father, we will be careful to declare your name and that you are the one who brought the victory. Our lives are in your hands and your hands are all powerful and capable and we trust you today. We trust you to do the very thing that you’re asking us to do and, as always, we will be so careful to come back and give you thanks and bring the glory to your name, and it is in Jesus’ name that we pray Amen. In Jesus’ name that we pray amen.

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