Pursuing God’s Heart: For Cave-Dwellers Only

1 Samuel 22:1-5

But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will

hear me. Micah 7:7

BIG IDEA: God is Present in the Cave

There is PAIN in the Cave

David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam.

1 Samuel 22:1a

I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift up my voice to the

LORDfor mercy. I pour out mycomplaint before him;

before him I tell my trouble.Psalm 142:1-2

Look to my right and see; no one is concerned for me. I

have no refuge; no one cares for my life.

Psalm 142:4

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity

and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these

things.Isaiah 45:7

BIG IDEA: God is Present in the Cave

The Cave is not meant to be lived _____

When his brothers and his father's household heard about it, they went down to him there. All those who were in distress or

in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he

became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

1 Samuel 22:1b-2

ALONE

While David saw the cave;others saw the crown.

The Cave draws us into an _______ with God

From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, "Would you let my father and mother come and stay with

you until I learn what God will do for me?“

1 Samuel 22:3

INTIMACY

The Cave helps us to ____ our Priorities FOCUS

But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to

rouse a deaf world.C.S. Lewis

“From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would

you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God

will do for me?”

"But now, Lord, what do I look for?My hope is in you.

Psalm 39:7

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for

his compassions never fail.They are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness.Lamentations 3:22-23

God is our refuge and strength,

an ever-present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:1

BIG IDEA: God is Present in the Cave