Adversity to Victory (2023)
Are you going through a transition?
Perhaps you're going from one job to another or from having a job to being unemployed?
Does it seem that you're facing difficult problems without an answer seemingly in sight?
If so, this teaching is for you.
David was in a time of transition. . .He had been anointed by the Prophet Samuel to be King of Israel.
However, David was far from the throne. He was living as an outcast on the run from King Saul and dwelling among his enemies, the Philistines.
Topping it all off, David’s mentor, the Prophet Samuel, died.
1 Samuel 25:1 says:
“Then Samuel died; and the Israelites gathered together and lamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.”
There was no closure for David. He would never see the Prophet Samuel again in this lifetime either alive or ready for burial. He had only the Lord Himself for consolation.
This may sound familiar to you. If you are not in a time of transition, you have surely experienced transition in the past. It is never easy.