1.TRUSTING GOD A Character Study from 1 Samuel 14

2. TRUSTING GOD = TRANSFORMATION 3. DO I TRUST GOD? 4. TRUST DEFINED: (N.) ASSURED RESTING OF THE MIND ON THE INTEGRITY, VERACITY, JUSTICE, FRIENDSHIP, OR OTHER SOUND PRINCIPLE, OF ANOTHER PERSON. CONFIDENCE; RELIANCE; TO HOPE CONFIDENTLY; TO BELIEVE; TO RELY ON TO RISK OR VENTURE CONFIDENTLY 5. AND YOU WILL REALIZE WHAT AN EVIL THING YOU DID IN THE EYES OF THE LORD WHEN YOU ASKED FOR A KING. 1 SAMUEL 12:17B (NIV) 6. 1 SAMUEL 14:1-23 7. RELATIONSHIP 8. THOSE WHO KNOW YOUR NAME WILL TRUST IN YOU, FOR YOU, LORD, HAVE NEVER FORSAKEN THOSE WHO SEEK YOU. PSALM 9:10 9. NEVER BE AFRAID TO TRUST AN UNKNOWN FUTURE TO A KNOWN GOD. - CORRIE TEN BOOM 10. HUMILITY 11. JONATHAN SAID TO HIS YOUNG ARMOR- BEARER, COME, LETS GO OVER TO THE OUTPOST OF THOSE UNCIRCUMCISED MEN. PERHAPS THE LORD WILL ACT IN OUR BEHALF. NOTHING CAN HINDER THE LORD FROM SAVING, WHETHER BY MANY OR BY FEW. 1 SAMUEL 14:6 12. MOST MEN LIVE LIVES OF QUIET DESPERATION AND GO TO THE GRAVE WITH THE SONG STILL IN THEM. HENRY DAVID THOREAU 13. ACTION 14. AND JONATHAN SAID TO HIS ARMOR-BEARER, COME UP AFTER ME, FOR THE LORD HAS GIVEN THEM INTO THE HAND OF ISRAEL. 13 THEN JONATHAN CLIMBED UP ON HIS HANDS AND FEET, AND HIS ARMOR-BEARER AFTER HIM. AND THEY FELL BEFORE JONATHAN, AND HIS ARMOR-BEARER KILLED THEM AFTER HIM. 14 AND THAT FIRST STRIKE, WHICH JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOR-BEARER MADE, KILLED ABOUT TWENTY MEN WITHIN AS IT WERE HALF A FURROW'S LENGTH IN AN ACRE OF LAND. 1 SAMUEL 14:12B-14 (ESV) 15. WHEN YOU PASS THROUGH THE WATERS, I WILL BE WITH YOU; AND THROUGH THE RIVERS, THEY SHALL NOT OVERWHELM YOU; WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH FIRE YOU SHALL NOT BE BURNED, AND THE FLAME SHALL NOT CONSUME YOU. FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, YOUR SAVIOR. ISAIAH 43:2-3A 16. GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU. AND BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE END OF THE AGE. MATTHEW 28:19-20 (ESV) 17. THE GENEALOGY OF BLESSING ALWAYS TRACES BACK TO GOD-ORDAINED RISKS. - MARK BATTERSON 18. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust. - Psalm 40:4 ARE YOU LIVING A LIFE OF TIMIDITY OR TRANSFORMATION? 19. TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND DO NOT LEAN ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE WILL MAKE STRAIGHT YOUR PATHS. PROVERBS 3:5-6