Archive for September 7th, 2009
Do you have the courage to take risks? (86-1)
A leader’s confidence in the Lord leads them to take risks that would have ended in failure if the Lord had not been with them. God honors actions born out of radical dependence on Him. Read 1 Samuel 13:16-14:23.
Israel’s leadership was in paralysis. The Philistine army was a well armed, far superior military force that dominated the lives of the Israelites. They had forced Israel to give up all military weapons and they would not even allow a blacksmith to exist in Israel to insure the people could not make more. In the army of Israel only the King Saul and his son Jonathan had a sword or spear. The fighting men in Israel’s army had given up and gone back to their home or were in hiding in caves to keep from engaging the Philistines in battle. Only a small force of six hundred men was with Saul and the military situation looked hopeless.