#286: Seizing Your Divine Moment: The willingness to take risks

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you had failures in your life? If so, it’s a good indication that you’ve taken some risks along the way. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few notable “failures”</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Creasey received 743 rejection slips from publishers before one word was published. He eventually published 560 books and sold over 60 million copies </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Waltrip lost 530 races before winning his first NASCAR race in 2001…the Daytona 500</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abraham Lincoln lost 18 elections for various offices before being elected 16th President </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re going to look at one of my favorite stories in the Bible about a man who took a big risk.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- 1 Samuel 14:1-23</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Saul & his troops were down to 600 men and only 2 swords among them (Jonathan holding one of the swords)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Depressing situation under this pomegranate tree while the Philistines were wreaking havoc in every direction.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonathan has had enough and decides to take a risk. Jonathan realized he couldn’t</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">win</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">a battle without</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">entering</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">a battle. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How about you & I? Have we reached a point where we’re tired of seeing nothing happen with our books? Tired of allowing the enemy to run amok all around us?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonathan seized his divine moment while everyone else was asleep. I want to touch on 4 things from this story we can apply to our own lives. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we choose to take risks as Kingdom