Your Hands Will Be Strengthened
A 30-Day Devotional Through the Life of Gideon for Anxiety, Panic, and Fear
by Nicholas Dailey
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When God came looking for Gideon, he found him threshing wheat in a winepress, hiding from the raiders who had stripped Israel's fields for seven years. The angel called him "mighty man of valor" anyway. Gideon asked why all this had happened, asked for a sign, tore down his father's altar by night because he was afraid, and put out a fleece twice. On the night of the battle, God told him that if he was afraid, he could go down to the enemy camp with his servant Purah first. And with three hundred men, ram's horns, clay jars, and torches, he won.
Your Hands Will Be Strengthened is a 30-day devotional through the life of Gideon for people living with anxiety, panic attacks, and fear, and for the families, friends, and churches who walk beside them. Along the way you'll follow Tate, a 26-year-old seed and grain elevator worker in the wheat country of eastern Washington who pulled his truck onto the shoulder of the highway one August night sure he was having a heart attack, and Fern, a 74-year-old retired chemistry teacher who spent most of 1979 unable to leave her farm. Their year runs from a cold January morning through a diagnosis, a fear ladder, a setback, a harvest, and an empty highway at night, and their conversations lead into each day's Scripture, reflection, and practice.
Inside
- In the Winepress: threshing in hiding, the prophet before the angel, "mighty man of valor," "Why has all this happened to us?", and "Go in the strength you have."
- The LORD Is Peace: asking for a sign, "you will not die," the peace Jesus gives, obeying by night, and "let Baal contend for himself."
- The Fleece: the Spirit comes upon Gideon, the fleece on the threshing floor, "one more time," the fearful sent home, and the men who lapped the water.
- Go Down with Purah: going down with a friend, the enemy like locusts, a loaf of barley bread, worship in the dark, and Jesus in anguish in the garden.
Format: PDF, 6 × 9 in layout with clickable contents
Written with the assistance of AI writing tools, under the author's direction.
