Risk Taking Faith
"I saw that you would not deliver us ; I risked my own life, and I crossed over to the Ammonites, and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?" - Judges 12:3 (LEB)

"I saw that you would not deliver us ; I risked my own life, and I crossed over to the Ammonites, and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?" - Judges 12:3 (LEB)
"Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord." - Acts 13:12 (http://pastorpriji.com/podcast)
“But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 CSB
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9 NLT
Now, concerning the resurrection, haven’t you read in the Torah what God said to Moses at the burning bush? ‘I AM the living God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? Mark 12:26 TPT
And he shall dwell in that city until he has been tried before the congregation and until the death of him who is the high priest in those days. Then the slayer shall return to his own city from which he fled and to his own house. Joshua 20:6 AMP
“I tell you that God's kingdom will be taken from you and given to people who will do what he demands.” Matthew 21:43 CEV
This is the Message I’ve been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It’s also the cause of all this trouble I’m in. But I have no regrets. I couldn’t be more sure of my ground—the One I’ve trusted in can take care of what he’s trusted me to do right to the end. - 2 Timothy 1:11-12 MSG
No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. - Romans 8:37
“Then you will be like monuments in my temple with your names written on them. This will be much better than having children, because these monuments will stand there forever.” Isaiah 56:5 CEV
I know your [record of] works and what you are doing. See! I have set before you a door wide open which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My Word and guarded My message and have not renounced or denied My name. Revelation 3:8 AMPC
“Beware lest there should be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose [mind and] heart turns away this day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a [poisonous] root that bears gall and wormwood,” Deuteronomy 29:18 AMP
“If anyone says anything to you, you should say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and without delay the owner will send them [with you].”” Matthew 21:3 AMP
“Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”” Genesis 20:5 WMB
Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray - not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. - 1 Timothy 2:8-10 MSG
For who do you know that really knows you, knows your heart? And even if they did, is there anything they would discover in you that you could take credit for? Isn’t everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? - 1 Corinthians 4:7-8 MSG
Those in the crowd were indignant and scolded him for making so much of a disturbance, but he kept shouting with all his might, “Son of David, have mercy on me now and heal me!” Mark 10:48 TPT
We had heard of the city's glory, but now we have seen it ourselves- the city of the LORD of Heaven's Armies. It is the city of our God; he will make it safe forever. Psalm 48:8 NLT
2 Thessalonians 2:13 AMP But we should and are [morally] obligated [as debtors] always to give thanks to God for you, believers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through the sanctifying work of the Spirit [that sets you apart for God’s purpose] and by your faith in the truth [of God’s word that leads you to spiritual maturity].
“It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.” Isaiah 29:8 WEB
Does it sound like we’re patting ourselves on the back, insisting on our credentials, asserting our authority? Well, we’re not. Neither do we need letters of endorsement, either to you or from you. - 2 Corinthians 3:1-3 MSG
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. - Romans 12:1-2 MSG
“Ezra opened the scroll in the sight of all the people for he was above all the people. When he opened it, all the people stood up.” Nehemiah 8:5 TLV
“The other ten disciples were listening to all of this, and a jealous anger arose among them against the two brothers.” Matthew 20:24 TPT
“Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.” Genesis 13:17 RV
“Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.” Matthew 4:1 TCENT
“And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.” Genesis 12:5 RV
Jesus said, “Marriage is a major preoccupation here, but not there. Those who are included in the resurrection of the dead will no longer be concerned with marriage nor, of course, with death. They will have better things to think about, if you can believe it. All ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God." Luke 20:34-38 MSG
Then they were on the road. They preached with joyful urgency that life can be radically different; right and left they sent the demons packing; they brought wellness to the sick, anointing their bodies, healing their spirits. - Mark 6:12-13 MSG
“On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses.” 2 Corinthians 12:5 RV