PURSUING RECOVERY
1 Samuel 30:1-25
"The thief comes only to steal and kill
and destroy; I have come that they
may have life and have it to the full."
John 10:10
Three Things the Enemy is Focused on Stealing:
My
My
My
RECOVERY: A return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength; the action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost. (Oxford Dictionary)
David’s Recovery:
1.
"Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God." 1 Samuel 30:6
2.
"Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 8 So David inquired of the LORD*, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and* without fail recover all.” 1 Samuel 30:7-8 NKJV
3.
"So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the Brook Besor, where those stayed who were left behind. 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so weary that they could not cross the Brook Besor.*"
1 Samuel 30:9-10
4.
18 So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. 19 And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all." 1 Samuel 30:17-19
5.
23 But David said, “My brethren, you shall not do so with what the LORD has given us, who has preserved us and delivered into our hand the troop that came against us. 24 For who will heed you in this matter? But as his part is who goes down to the battle, so shall his part be who stays by the supplies; they shall share alike.” 1 Samuel 30:23-24
“My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn’t have to come last.”
– Anonymous