Many people in life respond to their crisis with knee-jerk reactions. They give into their emotions instead of giving into God's encouragement. When David came back from his battles to Ziklag, their homes had been burned to the ground.
Would David respond with his emotions or would he seek out the Lord for wisdom and guidance? David and his men wept till they could weep no more. Possibly you have lost your marriage, your son or daughter onto drugs or prostitution. You too have wept till you could weep no more.
David sought the Lord for direction and encouragement. God gives him instructions in what to do in his nightmare episode. When you have experience a horrible "Days of our lives episode," don't give into your first knee-jerk reaction. Don't allow your anger to rule your next move. "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." (Proverbs 29:11)
You may feel justified in your response, but is it what the Lord has instructed you to do? God tells David; "yes pursue the enemy and you will recover everything." David finds one of the raiders who had been involved in the attack. David promises if you will take me to where they are, I will not kill you.
God led David to the very spot where their wives and plunder had been taken. When God is working for you, regardless of your setback, God is more than able to help you to recover what you have lost. "I will instruct thee and teach you in the way to go, I will guide thee with my eye. Be ye not as the horse or the mule that has no understanding whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle." (Psalm 32:8,9)
David recovers everything that was loss and wins victorious over the enemy. In your nightmare of life, allow God's light to be the lamp to your feet that will guide you through the dark places that each of us will experience in life.
Today claim, "No weapon formed against me shall prosper."(Isaiah 54:17) "Greater is He that is in me than he than is in the world." (1 John 4:4) "Be confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. (Phil 1:6)
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