More – God = Less
“When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords.” – Judges 7:22 As Gideon and his 300 soldiers prepared to face the enormous army of the Midianites, they banded together confidently, knowing that they were the ones chosen by God for the task! In the middle of the night, they split into three groups of a hundred, encircled the sleeping enemy soldiers, dropped clay pots containing fiery torches that quickly spread flames throughout the camp, blew their shofars (a Jewish instrument of war), and chaos immediately erupted in the midst of the otherwise skilled warriors. Since they were bloated in number, most of them had never met, and because they didn’t recognize each other’s faces, the Midianites began killing amongst themselves. Before long the entire army was either dead or had fled the camp, and victory came
