Facing your Insecurities by Faith

Gideon Gideon reminds us that obedience to God's call is crucial even when we feel inadequate. Gideon reminds us that obedience to God's call is crucial, church, even when we feel inadequate, even when we feel insecure, even when we have fear, even when we say, who am I? Who am I that I should be used by God? Because God equips those he calls. [01:16:33] (38 seconds)  #ObeyDespiteFear

God the good news is, church, God will meet you at your insecurities. He will. He'll meet you right at your insecurities. He's he's not gonna ask you to be perfect. He's just gonna go ahead and meet you in the wine cellar, and he's gonna call you by name. And he's gonna say, hey, mister Forgiven. Hey, missus Faithful. Hey, missus Righteous. Hey, mister Generous. Hey, missus Kind. Hey, missus Loving. He's gonna call you by name where you have failed in the past, And it's gonna say, you are righteous. You are holy. You are are precious in my sight. [01:07:29] (48 seconds)  #GodMeetsYourInsecurity

That's huge. That's massive for us because he saw the Lord, and all of a sudden, the Lord's voice starts to talk to me and says, Gideon, I want you to take care and clean up your family's business. Your family has an altar to Baal on the land. You gotta get rid of it. Your family has Asher poles right next to it. Take the the bull that's seven years old. Take it. Sacrifice it. But tear down that ball, that altar to Baal. Tear down the altar. Tear down the Asher poles. Get rid of them. Destroy them, and offer me that sacrifice on that altar instead. [00:55:51] (31 seconds)  #TearDownAltars

Asking for confirmation to fulfill the divine assignment is met with patience from the Lord. There's a big difference. What has God called you to do? And when he calls you to do it and he confirms that you're supposed to do that, what do you need to do? You better obey. Right? You better obey. [01:15:22] (22 seconds)  #ObeyTheCall

what if God is asking you to do something significant? What if God is asking you to make a change? It starts first of all with your family. You can't make a change in the culture if your family has idols in it. You've gotta clean the idols out of your heart and then clean them out of your families first. It has to start there. [01:19:38] (21 seconds)  #ChangeStartsAtHome

An insecure person is if if you're insecure, you develop learned helplessness. Whatever you do won't make a difference. Whatever you do, you're you've you've learned that you're helpless. It's a big world out there, and who am I to do that? Can you imagine Gideon? I'm the weakest tribe, the most expendable person, and God is gonna use him. [01:03:56] (28 seconds)  #WeakButChosen

So ultimately, what happens, you become a Sunday only Christian. You become a person who just I come and I sing, I love, I shake hands. But that's about the impact of your spirituality. You leave it at the door when you leave the door because you don't wanna take any risks for God. He tells you to do something, and it's okay in church, but then you leave it in church. [01:06:44] (22 seconds)  #NotJustASundayChristian

It was called the darkest hour. Nazi Germany was sweeping across Europe, and the British army, it was trapped. France was collapsing. Britain stood alone. European leaders, they wanted to negotiate with Hitler at this moment, and Winston Churchill had just become the prime minister of England. Churchill. Churchill, he he made if he made the wrong call, Britain would fall. [00:46:45] (36 seconds)  #LeadInDarkTimes