themselves and believing that God can make anything out of them or do anything with them. But before the Lord could use Gideon in His service, He had to deal with four doubts that plagued him and were obstacles to his faith. These doubts can be expressed in four questions. “The Lord has forsaken us!” was Gideon’s response to the Lord’s message (v. 13, NKJV); and yet the Lord had given Israel proof of His personal concern. He had chastened them (vv.