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Sick and Tired
Two things move people to actually change: revelation and tribulation. Truth or pain. And honestly, most of us only move when the pain finally gets loud enough!
That’s how Gideon’s whole story starts. For seven years, the Israelites suffered under the Midianite raids in silence because tolerating is what imperfect, exhausted people do until they can’t do it anymore. Then Judges 6:6 records the moment something finally broke loose: they cried out to the Lord. Not a polished prayer. Not eloquent theology. Just a raw, desperate noise from people who had run out of options.
That cry was the turning point of the entire story. God doesn’t despise broken prayers from broken people—He answers them. David wrote Psalm 34 from a similar place, on the run from Saul, pretending to be insane just to survive. Even there, he could write, “I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.”
Pray
Father, I’m done pretending I have this handled. I’m crying out. Meet me in it. Amen.
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About this Plan
The people God used most weren’t the polished ones. Samson compromised. Moses ran. Gideon hid in a winepress. They lied, raged, doubted, and drifted—yet each one ended up at the center of what God was doing. Over the next 13 days, we’ll walk through their stories and discover what God does with imperfect people who finally show up.
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We would like to thank Steve Robinson for providing this plan. For more information, please visit: https://steverobinson.com/
