{"id":3400,"date":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/please-lord-how-can-i-save-israel-behold-my-clan-is-the-weakest-in-manasseh-and-i-am-the-least-in-my-fathers-house-judges-615-esv\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"please-lord-how-can-i-save-israel-behold-my-clan-is-the-weakest-in-manasseh-and-i-am-the-least-in-my-fathers-house-judges-615-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/please-lord-how-can-i-save-israel-behold-my-clan-is-the-weakest-in-manasseh-and-i-am-the-least-in-my-fathers-house-judges-615-esv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father\u2019s house&#8221; (Judges 6:15 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was Gideon&#8217;s response to the angel of the Lord who commissioned him to do battle with the Midianites&#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m too little.&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that what we always feel when God calls? Because God doesn&#8217;t ask us to do something we can do. He always asks God-sized things of us. Attempting great things for God requires total dependence on Him and results in greater glory for God. God loves taking the little guy to slay a giant. What are you involved in that if God doesn&#8217;t act, it will totally fail? What God-sized callings are you answering? Stop living little lives. Listen for God&#8217;s big calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was Gideon&#8217;s response to the angel of the Lord who commissioned him to do battle with the Midianites&#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m too little.&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that what we always feel when God calls? Because God doesn&#8217;t ask us to do something we can do. He always asks God-sized things of us. Attempting great things for God requires total dependence on Him and results in greater glory for God. God loves taking the little guy to slay a giant. What are you involved in that if God doesn&#8217;t act, it will totally fail? What God-sized callings are you answering? Stop living little lives. Listen for God&#8217;s big calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1274],"scripture-chapter":[1339],"oyb_day":[1643],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3400","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-judges","scripture-chapter-1339","oyb_day-april-26"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}