God continually saves David from Saul

(This podcast was previously published on, November 16, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   As God saved David from Saul, God saves us from those who are enemies of God.   Isaiah 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.   We who are born again are the servants of God, chosen by God, and given the Holy Spirit of God to lead us and guide us that the purpose of God would be fulfilled in our lives on this earth according to the will of God.   Romans 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.   And God watches over us continually and will not allow anything to come upon us if it is more than we can bear.  God makes a way of escape for us.   I Corinthians 10:13   There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.   💥💥💥   In the following examples, consider how God protected David as Saul pursued David to kill David.  God used a priest of the nation of Israel to give David provision and a weapon.   I Samuel 21   1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?   2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.   3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.   4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.   5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.   6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.   7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.   8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.   9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.   When Saul learns the priest Ahimelech has befriended David, Saul commands he and his household be killed.   💥💥💥   David feigns madness to escape the king of Gath:   I Samuel 21   10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.   11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?   12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.   13 And he (David) changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.   14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?   15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?   💥💥💥   God uses the Moabites to help David:   I Samuel 22   1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.   2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.   3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.   4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.   💥💥💥   God saves David by a prophet.   I Samuel 22:5  And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.   💥💥💥   Saul orders the killing of the priests of God who gave provision to David:   I Samuel 22   6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)   7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;   8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?   9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.   10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.   11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.   12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.   13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?   14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?   15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.   16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.   17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me.  But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.   18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.  And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. (85 priests were killed by Doeg)   💥💥💥
David provides help to the one surviving son of the priest Ahimelech:   19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he (Saul) with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.   20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.   21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.   22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.   23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog