The Bible is filled with words of encouragement, stories of victory, unusual miracles, signs and wonders, it is an epic adventure of God and people. No matter what book you choose to read, there is going to be fascinating finds that will bless you in a variety of ways. I think people get bored reading the Bible because they read the same stories over and over again, or they only stay in the New Testament. The Bible is the Old Testament, the New Testament, it is the book of Enoch, the Apocrypha, and the lost letters to the Corinthians. There are books written we have never seen or even heard about, there are stories we have never been told. At least that is what John said, “Now there are also many other things Jesus did. Were everyone of them to be written, I suppose that the whole world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” (John 21:25)

Reading 1 Samuel 14 today yielded a story I want to share with you, I think it will encourage you. “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. 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. And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.” Jonathan is the kings son and he is climbing on his hands and knees before the enemy, but God decided on the victory, so no matter what approach he took before the enemy, victory was already decided by God Himself.

Friends, I believe some of you are ending this year, this season and you feel like you are climbing up hill on your hands and knees. The enemy looks like he is in a power position over you, but God has already declared your victory. When you get to the end of this year, this season, you are going to find the enemy has turned on themselves and God has already declared your victory. Rejoice my friends!!!! I say it again, rejoice!!!!