Risk Takers Inspire

Life, Adventure of Battle

By William M. Self

Wholehearted risk takers are inspiring

Jonathan inspired his armor-bearer

They inspired those waiting on God

They inspired those living with the enemy

Who are you inspiring? 

Risk Takers Inspire
 

Turning your situation into an

 adventure that inspires others.

In 1 Samuel 14, there are three groups of people.

In verse 21, there are the Hebrews

who were living with the Philistines.

They might have been servants, slaves or

decided, “It we can beat them join them”.

The second group is Saul and his six hundred men.

They were sitting around waiting.

Maybe waiting for God or waiting in fear of the enemy.

The third group is Jonathan and his armor bearer.

Jonathan saw life as an adventure.

He was a risk taker because he had faith and hope.

He stepped out before he knew what God would do.

It was at the point of no return when he

showed himself to the Philistines than he

would know how God would respond.

Jonathan’s armor bearer is remarkable.

He followed the inspiration of a risk taker.

 
  He gave us the key to turning life into an adventure.

He said… “Go head; I am with you heart and soul”.

This is the key, the difference in the three groups.

People who look at life as an adventure are full of faith.

Jonathan said…“Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving”.

They are all in…heart and soul.

Jonathan inspired his armor bearer.

Jonathan and his armor-bearer

inspired those waiting on God.

Jonathan and his armor-bearer inspired those

who said… “If we can beat them join them”.

It was this group who turned on the Philistines they were

living with and probably the reason the Bible says…

“They found the Philistines in total confusion,

striking each other with their swords.” 1 Samuel 14:20 NIV 

If you are not a risk taker like Jonathan,

join up with one with all your heart and soul.

When you see faith as an adventure…

Others will be inspired and

They, too, will step out into the adventure of faith.

Scripture Reading

Daniel 11:32 AMP

32 And such as violate the covenant he shall pervert and seduce

with flatteries,  but the people who know their God shall prove

themselves strong and shall stand firm and do exploits [for God].

1 Samuel 14:1-23 NIV

14:1 One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, "Come, let's go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side." But he did not tell his father.

2 Saul was staying on the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron. With him were about six hundred men, 3 among whom was Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was a son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh.

No one was aware that Jonathan had left. On each side of the pass that Jonathan intended to cross

to reach the Philistine outpost was a cliff; one was called Bozez, and the other Seneh.

 One cliff stood to the north toward Micmash, the other to the south toward Geba.

6 Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, "Come, let's go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised fellows. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf.

 Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few."

"Do all that you have in mind," his armor-bearer said. "Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul."

8 Jonathan said, "Come, then; we will cross over toward the men and let them see us. If they say to us, 'Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay where we are and not go up to them.  

But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will climb up,

because that will be our sign that the LORD has given them into our hands."

11 So both of them showed themselves to the Philistine outpost. "Look!" said the Philistines. "The Hebrews are crawling out of the holes they were hiding in." 12 The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, "Come up to us and we'll teach you a lesson."

So Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Climb up after me;

the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel."

13 Jonathan climbed up, using his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer right behind him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and killed behind him. In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.  

15 Then panic struck the whole army — those in the camp and field, and those in the outposts and raiding parties — and the ground shook. It was a panic sent by God.  

16 Saul's lookouts at Gibeah in Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions. 17 Then Saul said to the men who were with him, "Muster the forces and see who has left us." When they did, it was Jonathan and his armor-bearer who were not there.

18 Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God." (At that time it was with the Israelites.)   19 While Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the Philistine camp increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand."

20 Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking each other with their swords. 21 Those Hebrews who had previously been with the Philistines and had gone up with them to their camp went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. 22 When all the Israelites who had hidden in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were on the run, they joined the battle in hot pursuit. 23 So the LORD rescued Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth Aven.

Wholehearted risk takers are inspiring Jonathan inspired his armor-bearer They inspired

Those waiting on God they inspired those living with the enemy who are you inspiring?