Scripture: 1 Samuel 30 I. You strengthen yourself in God by remembering that you will suffer but God will lead you to victory. A. David suffered by enduring the loss of his home, his goods and his family (vs. 1-2). David was grieved by his many losses, but he was not surprised by it. See…

Scripture: 1 Samuel 28:3-25 I. Desperate times call you to seek God.   A. “When Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him” (vs. 6). Saul had turned his back on God’s prophets and God’s priests. Saul had disobeyed God regularly. If you don’t listen to God, God will not listen to you.…

Scripture: I Samuel 27:1 – 28:2 I. During a crisis of faith, you might preach lies to yourself. A. David preaches to his heart in vs. 1. David preaches that he is going to die. Saul will kill him. But this message that he is preaching to himself is the opposite of what God had…

Scripture: I Samuel 26 I. You have patience if you are a person of faith. A. David has another opportunity to kill Saul and become king (vs. 8). But David reasoned that it was not his role to punish a servant of God’s (vs. 9). If God wanted to punish Saul, God could do it…

Scripture: 1 Samuel 25:32-44 I. You should respond to God’s restraining providence with worship. A. David planned in vs. 22 to kill Nabal and all of his servants because of Nabal’s lack of gratitude for David and his men protecting Nabal’s sheep. But then Nabal’s wise wife Abigail stops David while he is on the…

Scripture: 1 Samuel 24 I. While you wait for God’s promises, you pass God’s tests. A. At the end of 1 Samuel 23, David had just barely escaped from King Saul. But in 1 Sam. 24 Saul hunts for David again. Saul decides to go into a cave. And guess who just happens to be…

Scripture: 1 Samuel 23 I. God provides divine guidance in time of need. A. The only priest to survive when Saul slaughtered the priests was Abiathar. And when he came to David, Abiathar brought the ephod, the clothes that the priests wore which contained the Urim and Thummim which revealed God’s will for Israel that…

Scripture: 1 Samuel 22 1 John 2:18: “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come.” I. You can still have faith when antichrists come because of God’s providence. A. 1 Samuel 22 opens with David on the run from King Saul. By opposing God’s true…

January 16, 2022 Scripture: 1 Samuel 20 I. Promises kept bless us with help in uncertainty. A. In 1 Samuel 20 David turns to Jonathan for help when it was uncertain if Jonathan’s father Saul wanted to kill David. In verse 8, David asks Jonathan to deal kindly with him. This word literally means loving-kindness…

Scripture: 1 Samuel 19 I. God protects you through other people. A. 1 Samuel 19 reveals four attempts that Saul makes to kill David. So, what stopped Saul from killing David? One thing that stopped Saul from killing was other people. The first person to save David was Jonathan (vs. 1-7). Saul listens to the…