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Judges chapter 3 and we see this happen a lot in the book of Judges verse number 9 the Bible says that when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel who delivered them even Othniel the son of Kenaz Caleb's younger brother and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he judged Israel and went out to war and the Lord delivered Cushan-Rishitham king of Mesopotamia into his hand and his hand prevailed against Cushan-Rishitham and I don't know why that name had to be in there twice probably just to screw up people trying to read it just kidding look over to Judges chapter 6 because the only other thing the other main thing you're gonna see I mentioned what you're gonna see very very frequently is people preaching right people going out and speaking and preaching that is number one and number two is going to be people going out to war and fighting battles when the when when the Spirit of God comes upon people Spirit of the Lord it's preparing them for a battle so we need the Lord to be upon us to preach to prophesy and we need the Lord to come upon us to help us in our time of need like with a spiritual battle now obviously these are physical battles going on we're dealing in spiritual battles and that's the whole teaching here and understanding is that God's gonna be there to be your defender and to be there to help you to even just to know how to give you the knowledge and wisdom on how to proceed and and I don't have every example by the way of this happening in Scripture don't worry because there's a lot of them and you can look for yourself you can look up all the times that David consulted the Lord on what to do and his battles in the spirit we're gonna see where the where the Bible says that the Spirit comes upon David and just with him then you know for extended period of time so then you could just go back and see all these other times where David's acting righteously and you say well the spirits with him there anyways look at verse number chapter 6 verse number 33 this is Gideon about says then all the Midianites and Amalekites and the children of the East were gathered together and went over and pitched in the Valley of Jezreel but the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon and he blew a trumpet and Abiezer was gathered after him so the Spirit of the Lord coming upon Gideon and when you know the story you get a little bit more understanding as well and for all these people the Spirit of the Lord is gonna provide boldness boldness to stand out boldness to step out in faith boldness to do something that might look crazy to some people and Gideon gathering together a much smaller number and force against a much greater army might seem like a suicide squad or a death wish but having God on your side and having that faith and then having God's spirit on you to help give you that boldness help provide you the the strength to keep going and say no this is right we're gonna do this is needed for that job but see when your hearts right and God's looking to use someone whose heart is right then God will give you the extra spirit the extra strength that you need to make to just keep moving forward and it doesn't counter your will so your spirit needs to be willing your flesh is weak but your spirit needs to be willing and when your spirit is willing God can can supply the lack of the spirit to keep you moving in the right direction and doing what's right because you want to