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Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Earthen Vessels" Judges 7:19-20 II Corinthians 4:6-10

• God will use people who other least expect.
• If God tells you to do something and you don't do it, it's going to have the power over you.
• Gideon gathers up 32,000 soldiers versus an army of approximately 135,000. God tells Gideon he has too many men. 
• Fear cripples faith, which is why God told Gideon to send home the men who were afraid. 
• Gideon's army moves to 10,000 men and then down to 300.
• God works in the impossible. What man deems impossible, God says it's possible. 
• 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8.We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9. Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
• When we allow God to work in our lives during impossible situations, He gets the glory, not us.
• When God's in it, it'll come out right. We just have to trust in the Power of God; we need to let Him reveal Himself through everything. 
• We do have the option to say we are scared, but God doesn't get glory in that.
• You can move forward in faith even when you're scared. 
• There might be times when you are afraid, do it what God said to do anyway, even if you do it in secret.
• In the midst of our fear, our faith can overcome. 
• Rely on God's word, no matter what.
• Fear should not override your faith. 
• Do not operate in fear. You have to operate in faith!
• The power of God is in us.
• The light is hidden in us as long as these vessels of earth remain intact.
• We are not destroyed or defeated when circumstances come our way. We are still children of God, if we have him in our hearts. We should be shouting during both the good and the bad times. 
• The same God who raised Lazarus from the dead, the same God who allowed Peter to walk on water, is the same God who lives in us today.
• When we are broken we are no longer seen but the glorious light that is within us becomes manifested to all the world and they are illuminated. Not by the vessels but by the light within the vessels.