Gen 14:14 Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his 318…trained servants…, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Abram partly raised Lot as his son after Lot’s father passed. Everywhere God sent Abram, he took his wife and Lot with him. After some time, Lot was now grown man and rich. To avoid conflicts with their servants, Abram and Lot agreed to part ways. Abram let him chose the region he preferred and Abram took what was left. Rather than insist that his uncle/father go first, or take the least fertile land, Lot picked for himself the best, and before long he was living in Sodom and that spelled trouble for him. The first trouble, he was captured and taken into captivity. Abram received the word and could have left Lot to reap what he sowed, but his soul yearned over his weak and entrapped relative, and he set himself to deliver him. This is the only account of military action we hear of Abram. He was not being ambitious or seeking to enrich himself, the risking of his life and that of his servants was help his nephew/son/ brother/friend.
This was his son in trouble. Abram didn’t care if he was a man of war or not. The fact that his son was in trouble was enough to get him to act. Parents, faith, and prayer are still able to rescue your children taken captive by the devil at his will, but you must rise despite how weak, a failure and inadequate you may feel. Faith subdues kingdoms but it needs those weak vessels to display God’s power, 2Co 4:7 “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” The moment of victory is always one of danger.