2. Solo? Could you tie your shoes with one hand…
How does this relate to trials?

3. Gideon
The Lord can answer our prayers through the words of the prophets
To have the Lord’s help, we must remove unclean and evil practices from our lives
He will help us overcome our challenges

4. What blessing did Israel lose as a result of their evil choices?
Judges 6:1
What blessing did Israel lose as a result of their evil choices?

5. Look for what the Midianites and others did to oppress the Israelites.
Judges 6:2-6
Look for what the Midianites and others did to oppress the Israelites.

6. How did the Lord answer Israel’s cries?
Judges 6:7-10
How did the Lord answer Israel’s cries?

7. Turn to me & I’ll help you
Is this a new response?
Is sending a prophet to them a new response?
Why do you think the Lord keeps giving the same response?

8. Look for Gideon’s attributes
Judges 6:11-13
Look for Gideon’s attributes

9. Judges 6:15-16
What were Gideon’s concerns about his call to deliver Israel?
What did the Lord say that might have comforted Gideon?

10. Judges 6:25-26 What did the Lord command Gideon to do?
What principle can we learn from the Lord’s instruction to Gideon? 
If you want the Lord’s help, you need to remove spiritually unclean practices from your life
v What was his Dad’s reaction?
What does this tell you about his Dad?

11. Putting together God’s Army
Judges 7:1-2
Putting together God’s Army
If you had been in Gideon’s position, what might you have thought when the Lord said you had too many soldiers in your army?

12. Putting together God’s Army
Judges 7:3-8
Putting together God’s Army
What might you think about the Lord reducing your army from 32,000 to 300?

13. How could these items be used to fight in a battle?
Judges 7:15-18
How could these items be used to fight in a battle?
What were Gideon’s instructions?

14. Judges 7:19-23 Taking the Lord into Battle with you
The phrase “the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow” (verse 22) means that the Midianites began to attack each other in the chaos created by Gideon’s army.
If we follow the Lord’s instructions, he will help us overcome our challenges!
Read chapter headings for chapters 8& to finish the story
Taking the Lord into Battle with you

15. Application
“The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be.
You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. Perhaps you feel, or have been told, that you are stupid.”
Many of us have felt that and some of us have been told that.
(Pres.. James E. Faust, Acting for Ourselves and Not Being Acted Upon,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 47)

16. Gideon felt this when the Lord asked him to save Israel from the Midianites.
Gideon said, ‘My family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.’

17. He had only three hundred men, but with the help of the Lord, Gideon defeated the armies of the Midianites.

18. “The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself.
This is because God is the ultimate source of power”

19. https://www. lds. org/youth/video/therefore-they-hushed-their-fears
Watch
:53 min

20. https://www.lds.org/youth/video/stand-up-boldly?lang=eng Watch
1:38 min

21. Don’t give up because it’s too difficult.
Surely I will be with thee!
Don’t give up because it’s too difficult.
Remember His promise!