“Get up! For the Lord has given you victory over the Midianite hordes!” Judges 7:15
To get up means to Arise, some definitions would say “wake up and rise up”. For the longest time, I kept hearing the words Arise in my heart, I sensed that I did because I started hearing the words move forward. But recently the word “arise”, and “get up” have been echoing so loudly. It seems to be in every sermon and word God sends me. But I know it’s not just a word for me, it’s a word in season.
I sense that many had begun a journey that became long, fierce, and tiring and that many have camped around a mountain or stream. Maybe to catch your breath, maybe to get a drink, but somewhere in that place wanting to just rest a bit, you have sat too long. So, if that’s you, it’s time to get up and finish the journey you started. There are yet others who have lived under the oppression of certain situations and challenges and God is saying to you it’s time to get up because He has given you victory over that situation.
Isaiah 60: 1 – Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you—rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!
My first question to you today is: what has held you down? What has brought depression or prostration into your life? What has kept you back from shining and stepping into your new? God says to tell you, I have given you victory over that situation, it’s time to get up and possess your victory.
For years, the Midianites oppressed Israel, they destroyed their harvest and left them to hunger and suffering. Israel cried out to God who intervened by asking Gideon to arise. In our key verse for today Judges 7:15, God gave Gideon the privilege of hearing words, words that proved to him that the victory was theirs, words that encouraged him to get up. When Gideon got these words, his enemies were still alive and well. Victory did not seem eminent on the outward with 300 men going up against nations, but Gideon and his men arose on the words God sent them and they took the victory already given.
What’s holding you back from getting up and taking victory? God says to tell you, He’s given you victory over the situation that has oppressed you for years. It’s time to rise up in victory. Someone needs to rise in praise, someone needs to rise in a dance, Arise and possess your land, whatever that land may be, for God has given you victory.
