Desired in Their Prayers
Recently I saw a license plate cover that said on the top: “Pray specifically.” On the bottom was a reference to a passage in this week’s Come, Follow Me lesson: “Judges 6:36-40”. The verses tell of Gideon’s request for confirmation about his mission and future success. He wanted to know for sure that God would truly “save Israel by [his] hand.” So first he requested this of the Lord: “Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.” He had a wool fleece that he put on the ground overnight, and he requested of the Lord that there be dew on the fleece and dry ground all around it as a sign to him. This was answered: “And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.” That’s a lot of dew on the fleece for it to fill a bowl full of water f...
