Lessons on Living from David, Beware the Sinkhole

2 Samuel 11:2-3 Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone...

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Lessons on Living from David, Show a Little Kindness

2 Samuel 9:1 Now David said, “Is there still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” Kindness thinks of others. British statesman and financier Cecil Rhodes, whose fortune was used to endow the world-famous Rhodes Scholarships, was a stickler...

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Lessons on Living from David, Age Is No Excuse

2 Samuel 5:3-4 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David mad a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord. And they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and h reigned forty years....

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Lessons on Living from David, God’s Payday

1 Samuel 26:23 “May the Lord repay every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed.” After serving for 40 years on the African mission field, Henry C. Morrison returned...

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Lessons on Living from David, Giving Good for Evil

1 Samuel 24:17-18 Then [Saul] said to David: “You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil. And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me; for when the Lord delivered me into your hand,...

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Lessons on Living from David, The Lord’s Anointed

1 Samuel 24:6-7 And he said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord.” So David restrained his servants with these words, and did not...

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Lessons on Living from David, Safe Refuge

1 Samuel 22:21-23 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the Lord’s priests. So David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have caused the death of all the persons of you father’s house. Stay with...

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Lessons on Living from David, Company of the Unfit

1 Samuel 22:1-2 David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to...

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Lessons on Living from David, Living on the Edge

1 Samuel 20:3 Then David took an oath again, and said, “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he says, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but...

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