What is Wrong with Me? Roundup

What is God up to?

Often times we go through problems and our cry is God what the heck?

It is hard to see what God is doing in the mist of hardship

when we are down

when we are hurting

when life just sucks

But is was through the oppression that Israel realized they needed a savior

Judges 6:7 HCSB

When the Israelites cried out to Him because of Midian,

God used the terrible situation to show who he is

is there anything in your life where you need a savior?

you need God to step in?

Galatians 5:1 HCSB

Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 1:5 ESV

to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Often times we are like Israel in the story

we go back to the broke

we put the chains back on

we say “ I cant get over this”

We say “this is my....”

God says “it is for freedom that you have been set free.”

Don’t return to the old

In our story God smashes all the idols the people bowed to

Judges 6:28–29 HCSB

When the men of the city got up in the morning, they found Baal’s altar torn down, the Asherah pole beside it cut down, and the second bull offered up on the altar that had been built. They said to each other, “Who did this?” After they made a thorough investigation, they said, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

Judges 6:28-3

For too long the people had been sacrificing to other God’s

they were giving things away that never should of been giving

their children

their future

their hope

their hearts

So the first thing God does is He smashes all of the lies

For to long in your life you have lived according to a lie

we know what they are

many of us have sacrificed and given away things we never should of to the god of

anger

pain/hurt

depression

cutting

low self-esteem

neglect and abandonment

God wants to smash those altars

Isaiah 43:1–4 HCSB

Now this is what the Lord says— the One who created you, Jacob, and the One who formed you, Israel — “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. You will not be scorched when you walk through the fire, and the flame will not burn you. For I Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior, give Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Seba in your place. Because you are precious in My sight and honored, and I love you, I will give people in exchange for you and nations instead of your life.

God wants to redeem every aspect of your life

the story is of Gideon and how God raised him up and had called him

but the story is also the story of Israel and how God wanted to redeem them

There is a God who loves you and you are precious in His sight

you might be “messed up” and feel like you are to far, But God longs to redeem you

Romans 5:6–8 HCSB

For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

Israel cried and God heard

God hears your cries

Psalm 34:18 ESV

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

God used one man to save others

once Gideon allowed God to work in his life and through his life He saved others

His story was what empowered others

it showed who God is to the others

Your story tells of who God is

My story show that God takes the broken and raises them up.

that God can take a boy locked in a prison cell

hurting

feeling unloved

unwanted

Give him a new name

redeemed

restored

healed

And use

Judges 6:12–16 HCSB

Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said: “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” Gideon said to Him, “Please Sir, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.” The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and deliver Israel from the power of Midian. Am I not sending you?” He said to Him, “Please, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Look, my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” “But I will be with you,” the Lord said to him. “You will strike Midian down as if it were one man.”