{"id":2503,"date":"2020-11-14T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2020-11-14T13:32:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:32:21","slug":"devotion-judges-611-16-from-a-seed-to-a-mighty-redwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Judges 6:11-16 From A Seed To A Mighty Redwood"},"content":{"rendered":"
Judges 6:11-16<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe angel of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah\u00a0that belonged to Joash\u00a0the Abiezrite,\u00a0where his son Gideon\u00a0was threshing\u00a0wheat in a winepress\u00a0to keep it from the Midianites.\u00a012\u00a0When the angel of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0appeared to Gideon, he said, \u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0is with you,\u00a0mighty warrior.\u201d\u00a0 13\u00a0\u201cPardon me, my lord,\u201d Gideon replied, \u201cbut if the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders\u00a0that our ancestors told\u00a0us about when they said, \u2018Did not the\u00a0Lord\u00a0bring us up out of Egypt?\u2019 But now the\u00a0Lord\u00a0has abandoned\u00a0us and given us into the hand of Midian.\u201d\u00a0 14\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turned to him and said, \u201cGo in the strength you have\u00a0and save\u00a0Israel out of Midian\u2019s hand. Am I not sending you?\u201d\u00a0 15\u00a0\u201cPardon me, my lord,\u201d Gideon replied, \u201cbut how can I save Israel? My clan\u00a0is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.\u201d\u00a0 16\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0answered, \u201cI will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n
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Whoever we are, from the seemingly most insignificant family to the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth, God uses who He will and when He will.\u00a0 God rules the earth and He is able to use any person He chooses and He is able to change anyone from what they were to what He calls them to be.\u00a0 (2 Corinthians 5:17<\/b>)\u00a0 With God, nothing is impossible. (Luke 1:37<\/b>)\u00a0 We must remember that when God guides, God provides.\u00a0 It really is not us that makes able, but is God.<\/div>\n
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Jaylon Johnson comment\u00a0\u201cThis tree is standing after the sand beneath it was washed out….Why? Because its roots are so deep.\u00a0\u00a0It reminds me of what our relationship with Jesus should look like. When the storms wash up against us, we will still stand because we are firmly planted in CHRIST. Father help us to keep growing our roots deep in Your Word, Your Truth, and Your Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

This tree is a reminder that our role in life can always change. At one time the work of the roots of this tree was not clearly visible, the work was all below ground. Then came the time that everything changed. The roots became the visible and actual support for the tree. The roots had to do what they figured they could not do and were not called to do, until they could and they did.<\/p>\n

Looking at our lives we see that we are continuously called to change.\u00a0 From childhood to adulthood we must be ready for change as God decides.\u00a0 God called Abraham to move from the home of his family and go to an unknown land and be the father of a great nation (Genesis 12:1-3<\/b>).\u00a0 Esther was called from a life of relative ease as the Queen to a place of danger as she bravely stepped forward. \u00a0(Esther 4:12-16<\/b>) \u00a0Gideon was a common person struggling to get by. He was hiding from thieves as he was threshing his wheat in a winepress so that no-one would steal it from Him.\u00a0 When God sent the Angel of the Lord to call Gideon to do great things in the name of the Lord He said to this man who lived in fear \u201cThe Lord is with you, mighty warrior.\u201d\u00a0 Gideon responded with a \u201cWho me\u201d story of his insignificance.\u00a0 Yet God called Him, He trusted God, and God did in fact use Him to dramatically rescue Israel.\u00a0 As God willed Gideon\u2019s life was drastically changed. (Judges 6:12-16<\/b>) Mary was an innocent child of God who was brought out of obscurity to give birth the Jesus, the Messiah. (Luke 1:26-38<\/b>)\u00a0 \u00a0Paul was a zealous persecutor of the church who after meeting Jesus changed to be the most used of Jesus\u2019 Apostles. (Acts 9:1-9<\/b>)<\/p>\n

We must be willing and obedient and God will use us however and whenever.\u00a0\u00a0God used a simple American farm boy name Billy Graham to become one of the greatest evangelists of the twentieth century.\u00a0\u00a0Charles Haddon Spurgeon was nineteen years old when God changed him from a Sunday school teacher to one of the most prominent pastors whom some referred to as the \u201cPrince of Pastors.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Born to a sharecropper Martin Luther King Jr. would become a civil rights lead who would change the world through Godly principles and peaceful protest, and who would win the Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0\u00a0God chooses, God calls, God enables.<\/p>\n

Family, our God created everything out of nothing.\u00a0\u00a0To God, all things are possible.\u00a0\u00a0Be we from a humble background, a criminal background, or a royal background, the Lord is able to use whomever He calls to do whatever He calls them to.\u00a0\u00a0That includes all of us.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, you and me.\u00a0\u00a0When God calls, just say yes and God will use us in things big and small.\u00a0\u00a0And truly, any time God uses us, it\u2019s a big thing.\u00a0\u00a0Praise God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/p>\n

Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judges 6:11-16\u00a0\u201cThe angel of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah\u00a0that belonged to Joash\u00a0the Abiezrite,\u00a0where his son Gideon\u00a0was threshing\u00a0wheat in a winepress\u00a0to keep it from the Midianites.\u00a012\u00a0When the angel of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0appeared to Gideon, he said, \u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0is with you,\u00a0mighty warrior.\u201d\u00a0 13\u00a0\u201cPardon me, my lord,\u201d Gideon replied, \u201cbut if the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is with us, why has all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[82,129,1415,1865,2459,106,94,1874,17],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-acts","tag-corinthians","tag-esther","tag-genesis","tag-judges","tag-luke","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}