David, escaped to the Cave..

Did you know David wrote most of the Psalms, hiding in a cave... if you want to read the narrative story about this incident, you read it in 1 Samuel 22. Remember how Saul was really wanting to destroy David, knowing that God had set His pleasure upon him. Of course, David had to flee, and he hid in the Cave of Adullam, probably it's the Cave of Adullam that he's in as he writes these Psalms - of course he was in another cave, the Cave of Engedi - but Saul and his men were hunting David, the lone fugitive, like panting animals pursuing their prey. They were after his blood. This deepens my heart because faith actually transforms caves! But the problem we have when we are in caves is: if we walk by sight and not by faith, we're not going to see very much in a cave. Caves are dark places, therefore sight is unreliable. But, in this sense, this is why caves are have blessings: because they force us to walk by faith, not by sight, because we cannot walk by sight. When were are thrust into a cave and we're in utter darkness, the sight won't do any good - we're forced to walk by faith, the evidence of things not seen, the handle on the unseen. -Hebrews 11

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The Good News said…
No one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life. Psalm 142:4 When I read that David felt no one cared for him, David actually had good reason to feel abandoned. He wrote these words in the dark depths of a cave where he hid from Saul, who pursued him with murderous plans (1 Samuel 22:1; 24:3–10).
May 25, 2019 at 3:14 PM
The Good News said…
” When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying, “Of course, He can’t do anything about this.” We struggle to reach the bottom of our own well, trying to get water for ourselves. Our well of our incompleteness runs deep, but let us make the effort to look away from our-self and to look toward Him
May 25, 2019 at 3:17 PM
The Good News said…
The Lord put 1 Samuel 17:17-29 into my spirit, David was having a ordinary day. David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse his father, had commanded him; and he came to the trenches to feed the army that were in battle with, parched corn, ten loaves, and ten cheeses. David had no idea he was going to fight the Philistine of Gath, Goliath... “for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”-1 Samuel 17:26 I was watching a music video, where the beginning plot fast forward where a group of people got out the car...now this was strange to the point they had to go back a month, showing this crew coming to one location...rapping rhythms to the point they each are sitting around a kitchen table passing a paper around to each one to write a verse down. Then they go back to the scene were they all are getting out of the same car, into a recording studio.

The greatest impact our lives can have isn’t in the moment where greatness begins: it’s what happens before that moment. Those moments where we live out the mundane and the minuscule tasks of our lives, thinking that none of it matters; but it’s bigger than we think. Every lesson we learnt, every battle we fought, every minor and major event we experienced has prepared us for something that will span generations, legacies, and lifetimes. We may see mediocrity, but God sees a miracle that He’s going to work within us!
October 13, 2020 at 3:48 PM
The Good News said…
In Psalms 22, Jesus and David said the same words....My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me: This psalm begins shows both who knows and trusts God is forsaken, and cries out to God in agony. Man has come against them, but the agony is so great they look to God, asking why?
“It was necessary that he should feel the loss of his Father’s smile, – for the condemned in hell must have tasted of that bitterness – and therefore the Father closed the eye of his love, put the hand of justice before the smile of his face, and left his Son to cry, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’” (Spurgeon)
March 21, 2021 at 2:48 PM
The Good News said…
As we go through our own suffering, through that moment we don't realize it's to comfort others as they go through their own turmoil....Jesus was suffering not only the physical pain of his torture and the implementation of the crucifixion, but he was suffering the psychological pain of ridicule by those whom he was saving by his actions. It amazes me how David, penned this Psalms 22, which spans at least five centuries before Christ. KJV: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
March 24, 2021 at 12:38 PM
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March 24, 2021 at 12:57 PM
The Good News said…
Psalms 9, remines me how David remembers we can't give God halfhearted praise. This was the time David fought Goliath, he sang high praise to God, when we praise God, he fights our battles. When Paul and Silas had been in prison, and laid with their feet firm in the stocks, they seemed to others to be very miserable people; but when, in the dead of the night, they began to sing God’s praises, and the prisoners heard them, they proved themselves to be among the happiest of men. So it was with David. When the psalmist wrote this song he was slandered and speak ill of: every evil thing was laid to his account. This was the case externally, and yet within, his mind was at such perfect peace that he could say, “My foot stands in an even place.” -Psalm 26:12
November 19, 2021 at 3:06 PM
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