Do you know what’s interesting about prayer? When we examine both the “Old” and New Testaments, we see that prayer is NOT an end in itself. It’s ALWAYS connected to action. And when I say “action”, I mean OUR action. Prayer is the preparation for action. As I said yesterday, God accomplishes His perfect will […]

Saul and Jonathan are now dead. The road to David’s rise to the throne has been cleared. But here’s the thing… And this is a point the narrator of 2nd Samuel took great pains to demonstrate… David didn’t commit any evil in his rise to the throne. He had two chances to kill King Saul… […]

“David said to the young man who had told him, ‘Where are you from?’ He answered, ‘I’m the son of a [resident] foreigner, an ‘Amaleki.” David asked him, ‘How is it that you weren’t afraid to raise your hand to destroy Adonai’s anointed?’  David called one of his young men and said, ‘Go over to […]

“On the third day, there came a man from Sha’ul’s camp with his clothes torn and earth on his head. He approached David, fell to the ground, and prostrated himself.  David said to him, ‘Where are you coming from?’ ‘I escaped from the camp of Israel,’ he replied. ‘Tell me, please, how did things go?’ […]

Let’s examine David’s situation as it stands at the moment. On the third day, he and his men returned to their destroyed village, Ziklag. They were joyful because they had rescued their wives, children, and the elderly who had been kidnapped by the Amalekites. They had also succeeded in getting back everything that was stolen, […]