How many repetitions? As many repetitions as He thinks necessary.

You deal with any fool, whether king or twerp, with wisdom and humility.

Can you be safe from this? Only if you find some way of not drifting. You need some kind of anchor for your soul. What God has made for us is living anchors called roots.

You live in the secret place according to God’s principles so that when you get the chance to do anything the way you want, you actually want to do things God’s way. The result is miraculous.

Today we get to see people failing David, betraying and attacking him, and yet God is teaching him and encouraging him to live in the secret place with God.

God in effect says, “King Saul is killing innocent men under him, but I want you to be like Me; I want you to give these losers life.”

David goes to the house of God, where he receives almost everything he needs.

Everything is going to turn out for good because David is in the hand of God.

The most amazing, I think, is He overcomes unwillingness and stubbornness, and pride, to make us believers.

Outwardly the death of Jesus doesn't look like the salvation it is. Isaiah supplies the significance seven centuries before it happened.