Overhearing the dream and its interpretation brought about the intended effect in Gideon: he worships God. It has taken him a long time to get to this point. He has challenged God. He has made excuses. He has doubted that God will keep his promises to him. He has tested God. He has been crippled by fear.1 But now, Gideon finally trusts. He worships God, and then he roused his small band of men to action. The promise of deliverance now poured out of his own lips with complete confidence in God. God had uniquely worked to expose the problem of fear in his life. So that he could now bring him to a point of worship and faith in the all-sufficient God. God desired a leader who would simply worship him and take him at his word.2
15 As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand.”