Wednesday Night Services

These two verses in Judges 6:12-13 show us an attitude that is often present with Christians today. If God is with me (or us) why are things so bad? It is hard to hear what God says through the filter of our circumstances, but that is what Gideon is being asked to do, and once he does a great victory comes to Israel that changes the course of history. How do we get to a place where we just hear what God says, and not the add on stuff? What is involved with getting rid of the circumstances filter that's in the way?