Why would we do something so depressing? Because you are doing the same thing and God doesn’t want you to lose everything valuable to you. He just wants you to lose your worst enemy: you.

And because there is a God for Israel, then you are not alone. There’s a God for you.

It’s so simple that a child can do it. Therefore you can do it, too.

So what we see today is that kings and nations come to their day of reckoning.

A natural man without the Holy Spirit naturally works against God.

God can do anything with people who are like-minded with Him.

In order to believe God you have to trust Him with your life.

God doesn’t want us to solve our own problems. He wants to be glorified in saving us.

This is a practical demonstration of what it says in Zechariah 4:6 Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.

We see God working in a complicated, roundabout way to call Saul. God reveals His man sovereignly, with power and confirmations so that the king himself will know: “I am God’s man. I am responsible to God first.”