God’s Heart to Meet with Gideon
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🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt incompetent for the work God sets before you? The mission and call of God on our lives can seem daunting and impossible. Know that Gideon felt that way, and it’s okay if you do too. But God wants to speak courage and empowerment to our hearts today that he will be with us, moving through us every step of our journey. Open your heart today that God may fill it with fresh fire and excitement for the call on your life.
Our Scripture for today comes from Judges 6:16, and today's worship is Valor by Christy Nockles.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt incompetent for the work God sets before you? |
| 0:08.8 | The mission and call of God on our lives can seem daunting and impossible. |
| 0:14.7 | Know that Gideon felt that way, and it's okay if you do too. |
| 0:18.6 | But God wants to speak courage and empowerment to our hearts today, that he will be with us, |
| 0:25.2 | moving through every step of our journey. |
| 0:28.3 | Open your heart today that God may fill it with a fresh fire and excitement for the call on your life. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | The story of God meeting with Gideon ignites a fire of faith within me to be used by God to powerfully impact the earth. |
| 0:48.4 | Gideon exemplifies the truth that God anoints all he appoints. He will perfectly equip and empower you to accomplish |
| 0:56.2 | whatever task he has set before you. In Judges 6, an angel of the Lord approaches Gideon, |
| 1:02.9 | who at the same time was beating out wheat and a wine press to hide it from oppressive |
| 1:08.9 | Minionites. Scripture says, and the angel of the Lord appeared to him |
| 1:13.9 | and said, the Lord is with you, almighty man of valor. Now, if an angel appeared to me and told me something, |
| 1:21.9 | I'd like to think I would believe whatever he said. Not so with Gideon. Gideon immediately doubts the word of God. |
| 1:30.0 | He responds to God's call to save Israel by saying, please, Lord, how can I save Israel? |
| 1:36.3 | Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. |
| 1:42.1 | And the Lord said to him, but I will be with you, and you shall |
| 1:45.9 | strike down to Midianites as one man. So great was Gideon's insecurity that he did not trust a direct |
| 1:54.5 | word from God. But God still responded to Gideon's doubt by meeting him at a place of insecurity and faithlessness |
| 2:02.7 | by consistently speaking truth over him. Before Gideon even had a chance to doubt, God called |
| 2:09.5 | him a mighty man of valor. God knew Gideon's insecurities. He knew that his past and present works were anything but full of valor. |
| 2:20.1 | But God called out the greatness he had placed in Gideon. In meeting with Gideon, he formed and |
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