Who Does God Say You Are? Judges 6:14-16

You are much greater than you know. This video reveals your true identity: who God says you are and releases you to walk in your true identity. "Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

00:00 Discover Your Hidden Identity
0:49 Gideon Discovered His Identity
2:42 God Corrects Moses’ Limiting Beliefs
5:18 God Defined Moses and Gideon’s identities by His presence.
6:16 William Carey’s Story
8:47 Your Identity is in Christ
9:12 “The voice you listen to is the voice that defines you.”  Jonathan Helser
10:22 Activation

**Gideon Discovered His Hidden Identity
Jesus appeared to Gideon as an angel and said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”
Gideon told Jesus that God wasn’t with them.
14 The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
God’s answer to Gideon’s identity questions:
16 “I will be with you” and “you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”

**God Corrects Moses’ Limiting Beliefs

Exodus 3:1-12 NIV
God appeared to Moses in a burning bush. God sent him to rescue Israel from Pharoah and the Egyptians.
11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
God’s answer:
12 “I will surely be with you,” God said.

God Defined Moses and Gideon’s identities by His presence. That is your identity too!

Gideon, said I’m the least of the least.
God responded “I will be with you.” “Go in the strength you have.”

“Who am I to do this,” Moses asked.
God replied: “I will surely be with you.”

**William Carey’s Amazing Story
Willie never had higher education. He was a humble cobbler. He stuttered. And his wife was insane.

Church leaders rejected his idea to take the Gospel to India. Churches in England weren’t sending missionaries in the 1700’s.

Someone said, “Face it, William: you’re unfit.” He stuttered, “B-b-but I c-c-can p-p-plod!”

For 11 years he studied Greek, and Hebrew and other languages on his own. He finally was accepted as a minister. Finally, in 1793 he went to India.

William Carey ministered in India for 7 years before he had a convert. He plodded on. After 20 years, he only had a small number of converts.

By the end of his life he had translated the complete Bible into 6 languages and parts of the Bible into 34 languages. He had established India’s first college, 45 teaching centers, and a school for girls (unheard of at that time.) In India, he is still revered as a man who loved India and helped the people. 

Today, we call William Carey the “Father of Modern Missions.” Today, there are over 27 million Christians in India. And his early critics were right: he was totally unqualified. But, like Gideon and Moses, God went with Him.

All God needs is a man or woman willing to let God give us our true identity and to step out in the strength we have, knowing God’s might and power will go with us.

Your Identity is IN CHRIST - John 15:5 NIV,  Philippians 4:13
With Jesus – we can do anything.  
Without Jesus –We can do nothing of eternal significance!

** “The voice you listen to is the voice that defines you.”  Jonathan Helser 

Gideon didn’t know who he was until Jesus revealed his identity to him. The same is true of Moses, and the same is true of you.

Colossians 3:3 NIV
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Ephesians 1:11 MSG
It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for

Activation Prayer