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God's Great Plan for Failures

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Most people I know have gone through at least one season in life where they haven’t felt like a winner. It’s totally normal for humans to go through seasons where we frankly just feel like we’re losing in at least some area of life. CB vulnerably shares failures as a former drug addict and someone who’s lost a marriage, his children, his career and his friends, he admits that he knows what it’s like to feel a total failure. For those who feel like they have been living in a losing season marked more by failure than success, there is good news: God loves people who make mistakes and He’s got a great big plan for people who sometimes feel like failures. In this course, we’ll take a close look at the life of Gideon, a small man from a small tribe, amongst people in a bad season, and we’ll examine how the Lord uses Gideon, an unlikely hero, to change the course of an entire nation.

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In this Bible character study of the ultimate underdog in the life of Gideon you will learn how to turn past failures into God’s greater purpose for your life. CB Barthlow reveals hidden truths found only in the Biblical story of Gideon who becomes an unlikely hero who God uses to change the course of an entire nation. Understand how to operate from a vision that you are passionate about.

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Introduction to Gideon

Gideon: God's Great Plan for Failures

CB introduces himself as a pastor with a past full of failures and disappointments.  Much like the Bible character in the Old Testament Gideon whose story is found in a few chapters in the book of Judges.

When It All Falls Down

God’s great big plan for failure.  There is a period when the people of God found themselves in a very dark place when they rejected God and embraced sin.  Because of their sinful actions, God removes His hand of favor and protection from their lives and one of their enemies - the Midianites invade and take them captive. At this moment we see the people of God suffering and physically hiding.  CB Barthlow instructs us on the first steps to break this type of cycle of broken living. In this chapter CB reveals a powerful truth that to break a negative cycle in your life that you have to move from simply being sad over what they have lost, to become sad and sorry for losing your connection with God.

From Zero to Hero

God can take our weak dysfunction and turn it into your strength.

Here's Your Sign

It is normal for you to want a sign from God.  But what we really need is not more of God but instead giving more ourselves to Him.

The Contender

Everyone loves when the underdog prevails when nothing is handed to them. This chapter we learn how Gideon goes from being a loser into special training that challenges him to become obedient to the Lord. Goes from being the one who has been overlooked and discounted to suddenly going in front as a leader.

I Still Don't Get It

This is one of the most popular Bible passages for how Gideon put a fleece before the Lord.  CB reveals the cultural context for why Gideon used a fleece to inquire about the Lord’s will. It demonstrates how we can come boldly to God.

Less Is More

The provision that the Lord gives Gideon is pared down to far less than he thinks he needs. 

Worship Before the Win

CB teaches a concept of worship as an effective tool to win life’s battles.  God gives Gideon, who was a baker, a dream how a cake of barley bread will roll down and crush his enemy. 

This is How I Fight My Battles

In this final class, CB reveals to us how God fights our battles for us in ways you would not expect.

Conclusion to Gideon

CB recaps this course on how the Bible character of Gideon is turned about from his failures into a life that believed in God’s strategy for winning a battle with the minimum of resources. 

Your guide, CB Barthlow