Gideon Identity Discovery Profile

God Encounter

Judges 6:11–12

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites. The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.”

Judges 6:11–12

What happens when you encounter God?

When you encounter God, what most often rises up inside of you and is stirred up in your heart?

God Given Identity

Judges 6:12

The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.”

Judges 6:12

Write some identity words that have consistently come up in your personal encounters with God and in prophetic words spoken over your life.

Write some things you often dream of doing.

Write several themes that have shown up consistently throughout your life.

For example: when you were playing as a child, hobbies, and so on.

Gideon’s Frustration

Judges 6:13

Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

Judges 6:13

What frustrates or angers you most is often a clue to the problems you are created to solve.

Gideon’s frustration and anger

Why has this happened? — frustration
Where are all the miracles? — disappointment
Our fathers told us… — testimonies from the past
Did not the Lord deliver us? — remembering the stories

List several things or themes that really anger you.

What testimonies stir you the most?

What biblical stories inspire you the most?

God Given Mission

Judges 6:14

The LORD looked at him and said, “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”

Judges 6:14

Gideon was told to “Go and Deliver.”

The action words that stir your heart are often clues that point to what you are called to do.

Step 1. Choose the 3 verbs that most stir your heart. Add your own if the word you want is missing.

No verbs chosen yet.

0 of 3 chosen

Step 3. Combine your three sentences into one sentence.

You now have a powerful statement that encompasses your heart passion and mission.

The Lord says, “Have I not sent you?” What has He sent you to do in this season?

Replacing False and Low Identities

Judges 6:15

He said to Him, “O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

Judges 6:15

Gideon had been told that his family was the lowest of the lowest. This false identity needed to be replaced for him to step into his place of saving a nation.

Write several low or false identities you have struggled with. Next to the false identity, write out your true identity.

Example

False identity: “lowest of the low” → True identity: “nation changer”

False Identity	True Identity

Revelation of God

Judges 6:22–24

The LORD said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.” Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it The LORD is Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 6:23–24

Gideon encountered God as Jehovah Shalom. The Lord is Prosperity and Peace. This revelation was key to bring Gideon and a nation out of poverty, lack and defeat.

Who has God especially revealed Himself to be to you? Write some of these below.

Family Strengths and Strongholds

Judges 6:25–32

Now on the same night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it; and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take a second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.” Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.

Judges 6:25–27

Example of Gideon’s father. In the verses above, what is Gideon’s father doing?

Gideon’s father

was a WORSHIPPER — yes, the wrong god, but interested in spiritual things.
name was JOASH. God is STRONG.
challenged them to believe in the SUPERNATURAL. (let Baal defend himself)
spoke with WISDOM and BOLDNESS and AUTHORITY.
released a sound and his voice SAVED his son.

Gideon’s family was created to be WORSHIPERS, people of STRENGTH, who move in the SUPERNATURAL with WISDOM, BOLDNESS and AUTHORITY that brings SAVING BREAKTHROUGH.

Gideon’s father is demonstrating that he is wired for these things even while he is serving false gods. The devil does not create, he only steals and perverts what God has created.

Gideon becomes a follower of the Living God and these strengths are manifest in his life as God always intended for them to manifest in Gideon’s family.

Step back and look at your family as a third party observer or a newspaper reporter writing an article. What have been some consistent patterns in your family?

“That’s interesting, they…” As an emotionally disconnected reporter, write what you see. Do not worry right now about whether they are good, bad, neutral, or amazing. Just write them out.

Look over what you just listed. What has your family consistently done well?

If you wrote some negative qualities, what are some possible positive strengths that were meant to be in place of these?

What has the enemy stolen and taken advantage of in your family that is meant to be a God stronghold? For example, your family may be very good at criticizing and cursing. What if your family was given a gift of powerful speech and is actually meant to be very good at blessing and encouraging? You would write: Criticizing and cursing TO blessing and encouraging. You can also write good things and how you see the opportunity for them to be better things: Information and learning TO revelation.

God’s Anointing

Judges 6:33–35

So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon; and he blew a trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called together to follow him.

Judges 6:34

What comes out of you when the Spirit of the Lord comes upon you?

What most consistently happens through you when the Spirit of God is upon you?

Other questions that can give identity and mission clues

Write down the people you admire the most and would most like to be like.

What is it that they do or are that you most admire and would want to see in your life?

You lived an amazing life and died at age 99. Someone is standing up to give a short eulogy about you and your life. What will they say?

In your heart, what must be in this eulogy?

My Identity and Passion Snapshot

Each part below is drawn from the sections you have already answered. Read what has been gathered, then shape it into your own words.

Your answers have been gathered into the six statements below. Rebuilding will refresh any statement you have not edited yourself.

Identity

Drawn from section 2, God Given Identity, and the True Identity column in section 5.

I am a…

Show what this was drawn from

Take the key phrases in the box above and craft them in a clear, compelling statement.

Mission and Purpose

Drawn from the mission statement you crafted with your verbs in section 4.

My mission is…

Show what this was drawn from

Take the key phrases in the box above and craft them in a clear, compelling statement.

Passion

Drawn from section 1, God Encounter, and section 3, Gideon’s Frustration.

I am passionate about…

Show what this was drawn from

Take the key phrases in the box above and craft them in a clear, compelling statement.

Revelation

Drawn from section 6, Revelation of God.

I know God as…

Show what this was drawn from

Inheritance

Drawn from section 7, Family Strengths and Strongholds.

I believe my family was created to…

Show what this was drawn from

Manifestation

Drawn from section 1, God Encounter, and section 8, God’s Anointing. Take what you wrote for yourself and now write it as something you are anointed to give away.

God has freely given these to me and I will freely give them to the world…

Show what this was drawn from