Word of the day 📖 *Judges 6:36-40* 36 Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised— 37 look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.” In the above context of scripture we see that God sent Gideon to save Israel from the Midianites and promised him success, when we look at the start of verse 36 Gideon tells God that If he will save Israel by his hand as he has promised then God would fulfil the signs. important part of this is that God has already promised Gideon this but Gideon didn’t believe that he heard God right or maybe experienced some form of doubt because he didn’t believe he’s capable. Reference of this would be when the Angel of the Lord encountered Gideon to make the will of God known to him *Judges 6:15-16* 15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” 16 The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” The doubt that Gideon has is already evident “how can I save Israel?” Many of us are like Gideon, we let the imposter syndrome overrule what God has spoken. We pay less attention in what God has promised instead of having faith we resort to asking God for signs and let that be the driver of faith. Here’s where we miss it *Hebrews 11:1 * Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Asking God for signs results in having *less confidence in the assurance of what we do not see* So we metaphorically follow suit like Gideon “God If this person is my spouse, he/she will text me first” “if this Job is sent to me by you, I’ll get the offer from them first before the other companies” “if this university is where you’re sending me, I’ll have an encounter with someone who’ll put me in” we tend to spend so much time waiting on signs and unnecessary confirmations instead of believing what God promised and stepping into faith, rather than wanting to see things manifest in the physical first before we can begin believing in God, that isn’t faith. Even though God first fulfilled the first sign for Gideon of making the wool fleece wet with dew and everything else dry, Gideon still didn’t believe and asked for a second confirmation (referenced in verse 39) but switching it around he asked God to make the fleece dry and everything else wet & God still did it. *Mark 8:11-13* 11 The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven. 12 He sighed deeply and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.” 13 Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side. In our walk with Christ let us not be like the Pharisees or a generation that consistently tests God for signs and worry about how God will do it, if he spoke it he’ll see you through it. Let’s challenge ourselves to believe in Gods spoken word the first time and step into his spoken word by Faith without first seeing the physical manifestation of it, let signs not be the reason why you have confidence in Gods word or them being the reason why you believe, if you wait on signs to believe what God has said, how will you have the discernment to know it’s God?