Gideon's 300 at IHOPKC

 

Lapping water with abandon

On February 22nd I posted on Facebook the word I had been getting in relation to what has been happening at IHOP. This morning it has returned to me. Again, I see Gideon's 300. Those that stay, who do not flee to please the crowds who want more to please their outraged friends, but the ones who stay, these are going to dig deeper wells of their own salvation.

Feb 22: GIDEON's 300. That is the word I keep getting since yesterday for IHOP.

There has been a separation there, like in Gideon's story when he was about to go into a major battle against "the Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other people of the east who had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts."

The Amalikites, to this day are seen as the spirit of the archetypal enemy of the Jews.

The Medianites were the who God specifically referred to that He was leading Gideon in to defeat. The meaning of Medianites is "strife" and they were a nomadic group.

Gideon has 22,000 fighters with him, but at the En-Charod, "the fountain of trembling," where Gideon was encamped 10,000 turned back because they were "fearful and trembling."

Afterwards God told Gideon there were too many people still, but to take the men down to the water, where God said, "I will sift them for you there."

I have never understood why the sifting process was to choose the ones who lapped up the water with their tongues like a dog and to dismiss the ones who just knelt and cupped the water in their hands. But now I see it speaks to the abandon to their thirst for the water.

Because the word of the LORD for our day is sifting out the enemies of Israel, and choosing those who are thirsty enough to receive God's "water of the word" about our spiritual battle related to Israel, there has to be a Divine sifting process.

Out of 22,000 fighting men to start, Gideon ended up with only 300 to fight that great camp in the valley. But God assured Gideon it was enough. Better to go into spiritual battle without the fearful, without the nomads of strife, but only with those who thirst for God's direction and assurance that, verse 9

“Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand."