{"id":3669,"date":"2019-11-24T21:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:54:42","slug":"glorifying-god-gideon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/2019\/11\/glorifying-god-gideon\/","title":{"rendered":"GLORIFYING GOD &#8211; Gideon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>In the book of Judges, chapters 6-8, we learn from Gideon\u2019s life what to do, as well as what not to do, in glorifying God. We see the man Gideon, after much encouragement by the Lord, finally stepping out and following the Lord\u2019s leading. But even as Gideon took one step forward, he took at least 2 steps backward. Gideon went from the lowest and the least to the greatest and then the worst. When his country needed him most, he abdicated his responsibilities and ultimately led the people away from the very God who had saved them. Now, where is the glory in that? But there is a way to truly glorify God. Listen and find out:<\/div>\n<div>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3669-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Glorifying_God___Gideon_11_9_19_clean-mp3cut-mp3cut.net_.m4a?_=1\" \/><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Glorifying_God___Gideon_11_9_19_clean-mp3cut-mp3cut.net_.m4a');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Glorifying_God___Gideon_11_9_19_clean-mp3cut-mp3cut.net_.m4a\">https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Glorifying_God___Gideon_11_9_19_clean-mp3cut-mp3cut.net_.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the book of Judges, chapters 6-8, we learn from Gideon\u2019s life what to do, as well as what not to do, in glorifying God. We see the man Gideon, after much encouragement by the Lord, finally stepping out and following the Lord\u2019s leading. But even as Gideon took one step forward, he took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,39,152,40,202,48,41,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}