Maverick's Muttering

  1 Samuel 23:14 – Jesus is Lord. “And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.” 1 Samuel 23:14 David is running away from King Saul and yet he seeks God’s counsel to pursue God’s will and not his. He asked God if he should go to Keilah to save his countrymen from the Philistines. Meanwhile, King Saul was secretly trying to capture and kill David in Keilah, David asked God again what he should do. God told him if he stayed in Keilah the men of Keilah will deliver him to Saul even though he helped them fight against the Philistines. It could have been devastating for David who sincerely asked God for counsel and to receive unfavourable answer from God. David had to flee to the wilderness to save himself. The comfort of the city was robbed from him. And to this David replies in psalm 27. “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness o...

    (A Prayer of David.) Psalm 17:1-2 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,) Psalm 18:1-3 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength . The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust ; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. King David is our example to follow when it comes to praying. David does not flee from his troubles but stands firm when facing is his life struggles. Davis does flee into prayer though...