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An Altar Called Peace
After Gideon’s encounter with the angel of the Lord, the first thing he did wasn’t strategize a military campaign or sharpen his weapons. He built an altar and named it Jehovah Shalom—The Lord is Peace. This is striking because nothing about Gideon’s circumstances had actually changed. The Midianites were still camped in the valley, his people were still hiding in caves, the crops were still ruined, and the war hadn’t even started yet. What changed wasn’t the situation. Instead, what changed was Gideon.
The peace the world offers is conditional. Get the diagnosis cleared, get the relationship fixed, get the bank account full, and then you can relax. Jesus offered something different in John 14:27: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
God’s peace doesn’t wait for the storm to die down—it sits with you inside the storm and somehow holds you steady while everything else shakes.
Build the altar before the battle is over. The peace doesn’t come after the breakthrough; it comes from the One who’s already with you in the middle of it.
Pray
Jesus, You are my peace. Quiet what’s loud in me, and let me rest in You before anything else changes. Amen.
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About this Plan
The people God used most weren’t the polished ones. Samson compromised. Moses ran. Gideon hid in a winepress. They lied, raged, doubted, and drifted—yet each one ended up at the center of what God was doing. Over the next 13 days, we’ll walk through their stories and discover what God does with imperfect people who finally show up.
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We would like to thank Steve Robinson for providing this plan. For more information, please visit: https://steverobinson.com/
