⁴ But the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.”

⁷ Then the Lord said to Gideon, ^(A)“By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his ^[a]place.”

⁴⁶ This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give ^(A)the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, ^(B)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

⁴⁷ Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord ^(A)does not save with sword and spear; for ^(B)the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

¹¹ And Asa ^(A)cried out to the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, it is ^(B)nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on You, and ^(C)in Your name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!”

⁶ So he answered and said to me:

²⁶ But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but ^(A)with God all things are possible.”

God’s Everlasting Love

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? ^(A)If God is for us, who can be against us?