LINKGod in his infinite grace, mercy and love gives us encouragement and strength to move forward, even when we have doubts and fears.And it came to pass that night that the LORD said to him, Arise, and go down to the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand. 10 And if thou art afraid to go down, then go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the camp, 11 and thou shalt hear what they say; and then thy hands shall be strengthened, and thou shalt go down to the camp. So he went down with Phurah thy servant unto the outposts of the armed men that were in the camp. 12 And the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east were stretched out in the valley like locusts in multitude, and their camels were without number like the sand that is on the seashore in multitude. 13 When Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling his friend a dream. He said, “I had a dream: a barley loaf of bread rolled into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned it from top to bottom, so that the tent fell.” 14 His friend answered and said, “This is none other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered the Midianites and all the camp into his hand.” 15 When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped and returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into your hands.” 16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches in the jars. 17 And he said to them, “Look to me, and do as I do; behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, you shall do as I do. 18 I will blow the trumpet, and all who are with me; and you shall blow the trumpets all around the camp, and say, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon. ’” 19 So Gideon and the hundred men with him came to the outermost part of the camp at the beginning of the midnight watch, when the watchmen had just been renewed. They blew with the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 Then the three companies blew with the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, took the t