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Overcoming Emotion Read 1 Samuel 30:1-20. Here's what jumped out

at me as I read through these inspiring verses:

1 Samuel 30:4: They wept until they had no more

power to weep.

Don't just give in to despair when trouble comes

upon you. Many things will happen to you in life,

especially as you decide to serve God, but don't

mourn as those who have no hope... You might,

like these men, have lost all your earthly store,

but if you have God in a real way, you have eve-

rything you need and if it pleases Him, you can

surely get it all back with an abundance.

1 Samuel 30:6: “And David was greatly dis-

tressed; for the people spake of stoning him.”

David had lost his things and his two wives also

and beyond all this, the people spake of stoning

him.

Verse 6: “…but David encouraged himself in the

Lord his God.”

When you have a personal relationship with God,

you can be encouraged even in a discouraging

situation. You have a reason to hope against

hope.

David encouraged himself. He didn't wait for any-

one else to encourage him. He didn't wait for any-

one else to say, “It's going to be alright. Don't

worry about it. Everything will turn out okay in the

end.” He encouraged himself so he could en-

courage others also and put hope and strength

into those who were grieving in the situation.

1 Samuel 30:8: “And David enquired at the Lord,

saying...”

David didn't let the pressure of the situation or

circumstance cause him to act hastily, but even

in this dire circumstance with his wives’ lives in

danger and his men thinking to stone him with

stones, he took time to pray and get before God

and say, “shall I pursue after this troop?” Lord,

what would you have me to do? I can react after

my emotion or I can react after my pride, but it’s

better if I get before God and pray. God will give

me some good counsel. God will spell some

things out for me. He'll let me know what the out-

come will be that I might go boldly with confi-

dence.

When I go according to God's command, I can go

without fear or apprehension because “thou art

with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort

me...” (Psalms 23:4).

God let him know that He'd overtake them and

without fail recover all.

1 Samuel 30:10: “But David pursued, he and four

hundred men: for two hundred abode behind,

which were so faint that they could not go over

the brook Besor.”

Were these men naturally faint or were they just

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Overcoming Emotion so weak from crying until they had no more pow-

er to cry and couldn't pursue?

Discouragement and despair will rob you of your

vital energy. The joy of the Lord is your strength.

We should never get so weak that we can't pur-

sue or do what God would have us to do. The en-

emy of our souls is just looking for an opportunity

to take us out. So, if we just give in to depression

or downheartedness, we will be an easy target

for him. We can't take any discouragement in the

midst of this battle – we must, like Paul, “count all

things but loss for the excellency of the

knowledge of Christ Jesus my

Lord...” (Philippians 3:8).

1 Samuel 30:11: “And they found an Egyptian in

the field…”

When a man’s ways please God, He will make

even his enemies to be at peace with him (ref.

Proverbs 16:7).

1 Samuel 30:17 “And David smote them from the

twilight even unto the evening of the next day:

and there escaped not a man of them, save four

hundred young men, which rode upon camels,

and fled.”

For some situations, it may take time to deal with

them unto a satisfactory conclusion, but if you're

willing to lay with it (pray until it changes or you

hear from heaven) and work with it, you'll make a

final end of it.

1 Samuel 30:18-20: “And David recovered all that

the Amalekites had carried away: and David res-

cued his two wives. And there was nothing lack-

ing to them, neither small nor great... David re-

covered all. And David took all the flocks and

herds... this is David's spoil.”

God gave David all that he had lost and more be-

sides. When you order your battle according to

what God would have you do, you'll get back

what the devil took and more besides. You will

surely recover all.