God Has The Best Plan: Lessons from Gideon’s 300 in Judges 7:1-23
We live in a world that screams for bigger numbers, better strategies, and more impressive resources. Yet the King James Bible—the only preserved, inerrant Word of God—tells us a different story. Sometimes the Lord deliberately takes away what the world says we need so that He alone receives the glory. That truth shines brightly in one of the most thrilling accounts in the Old Testament: the story of Gideon and his 300 warriors in Judges chapter 7. If you are a fundamentalist Christian who still believes every word of Scripture literally, this passage is not ancient history—it is a living blueprint for victorious Christian living today. Let’s open our King James Bibles to Judges 7:1-23 and let the Holy Ghost speak to our hearts. The Setup: An Impossible Situation The Midianites had invaded Israel like a plague of locusts—135,000 fighting men strong, camped in the valley of Jezreel. Gideon had rallied 32,000 Israelite men at the spring of Harod. By every human calculation, they were sti...