After Jehovah gave Gideon the assignment to lead his people, some thing them make it hard for him to obey and show courage. Jehovah gave him the assignment to destroy his pa Baal altar and that assignment was dangerous. (Judg. 6:​25, 26) Later on, after Gideon put his soldier them together, Jehovah told him two times that they too plenty, so he must reduce them. (Judg. 7:​2-7) Then, Jehovah told him to attack the enemy them in the middle of the night. (Judg. 7:​9-11) The elder them must be “ready to obey.” The elder that can obey can be ready to follow what the Bible say and the direction from the organization. Like that, he will be setting good example for other people. But sometime, it will be hard for him to obey. For example, maybe he get plenty instructions or the instruction them can change quick-quick, so it can be hard for him to apply them. Sometime, he can be thinking whether some direction them really make sense. Or maybe they give him one assignment that make it easy for the police to arrest him. How the elder them can follow Gideon example to obey in situation them like this? Listen good-good to direction and apply it. w23.06 4-5 ¶9-11

In the Bible, Jehovah people face problem them that they were not expecting. One of them was Jacob. His pa told him to go and marry one of Laban daughter. Laban was their relative who was serving Jehovah. And his pa say Jehovah will bless him if he do it. (Gen. 28:​1-4) So Jacob did what his pa say. Jacob left from Canaan and travel to the Laban home. Laban was having two daughters name Leah and Rachel. Jacob fell in love with Rachel, the small sister. And he agree to work for Rachel pa for seven years just to marry her. (Gen. 29:18) But it not happen the way he was expecting it. Laban fool him and make him to marry Leah, the big sister. After one week, Laban allow Jacob to marry Rachel but only if Jacob agree to work for him seven more years. (Gen. 29:​26, 27) Laban was also cheating Jacob with the business. All in all, Laban was not fair to Jacob for 20 years!—Gen. 31:​41, 42. w23.04 15 ¶5

Who we must go to when we want comfort and direction? We know the answer for this question. We can pray to Jehovah God. That just what Jehovah invite us to do. And the Bible say we must “pray constantly.” So we know that he want for us to pray all the time. (1 Thess. 5:17) We free to pray to Jehovah and ask him to guide us in our life. (Prov. 3:​5, 6) Because Jehovah not mean with his time, he say we can pray to him any amount of time we want pray. Jesus learn that Jehovah value our prayer. Jesus use to see how his Pa use to answer faithful people prayer long time before he came to earth. For example, Jesus was near his Pa when He answer Hannah, David, Elijah, and plenty other faithful people prayer. (1 Sam. 1:​10, 11, 20; 1 Ki. 19:​4-6; Ps. 32:5) That why Jesus teach his disciple them to pray all the time and trust Jehovah!—Matt. 7:​7-11. w23.05 2 ¶1, 3