{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwalk-boldlly-with-jesus.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fcome-as-you-are-gideon-tJehpgVW","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Come As You Are: Gideon","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/d4627cb2-32b3-41b3-9dbc-be10e0836d04/f2ec69d0-6f66-4459-aec5-1c83930fbed5/walk-boldly-with-jesus-1.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Judges 6:12-16 “The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior.” Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian.” Then the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian; I hereby commission you.” He responded, “But sir, how can I deliver Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike down the Midianites, every one of them.” Today's episode is the first in a 31-day series about how God loves us just as we are. The people I talk about in the next 31 days will not be people who led extraordinary lives. They are people whom the world would see as unfit for the job that God gave them. They were mainly not thought of at all, or thought of as insignificant, and yet God took them and used them powerfully.\n\nMusic:\"Adding the Sun\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\n Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License \nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}