One of the ways God intervenes in our human affairs is when we do our part and let Him take over. Gideon wanted to go to battle with 22,000 men, only for God to ask him to choose only 300 warriors (Judges 7), because wanted to take the glory and not man.

There is a story of a great Christian worker, George Müller, who set up orphanages in the United Kingdom in the 19th century when the UK was just entering the Industrial Revolution. This was a period of great upheaval that left many families torn apart. As they migrated from rural areas to urban economies, hardships and disease due to poor hygiene standards left many orphaned children out on the streets.

It is at this point that Müller decided to step in. However, he lacked funds, especially as the number of kids filling his orphanages grew to the thousands. What he did was revealing. He decided not to solicit any funds, but simply pray and trust God. On one well-recorded occasion, without any food available, he gave thanks for breakfast with the children sitting at the table. As they finished praying, a baker knocked on the door with sufficient fresh bread to feed everyone. Then, a milkman came and gave them plenty of fresh milk because his cart had just broken down right in front of the orphanage.

Müller did his part and let God take over. But just like Müller, you too can do your part—work hard at school, serve faithfully in your job, network in business with all the right people, give an ailing person their medicine—and then ask God to take over. As God told Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel glorify itself over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me” (Judges 7:2). The same God is asking you to do your part and let Him finish the story.

Pray: Almighty God, let me always do my part—work hard, invest, pray, make the calls, do the walk, and do all that I can—