{"id":615,"date":"2011-07-14T06:24:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=615"},"modified":"2011-07-16T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T13:36:11","slug":"circumstances-1-samuel-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Circumstances (1 Samuel 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNow\u2019s your opportunity!\u201d David\u2019s men whispered to him. \u201cToday the LORD is telling you, \u2018I will certainly put your enemy into your power, to do with as you wish.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

It certainly seemed to David’s men that the message the Lord was sending through this circumstance was clear enough —‘Kill your enemy now while you can!’.<\/p>\n

And yet this was not the Lord’s message at all. The Lord’s will is really not discerned through circumstances, which may be favorable or unfavorable, and are usually beyond our ability to correctly interpret anyway. Rather, the Lord’s will is discerned through prayerfully applying His principles to whatever the present circumstances happen to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNow\u2019s your opportunity!\u201d David\u2019s men whispered to him. \u201cToday the LORD is telling you, \u2018I will certainly put your enemy into your power, to do with as you wish.\u2019\u201d It certainly seemed to David’s men that the message the Lord was sending through this circumstance was clear enough —‘Kill your enemy now while you can!’. … <\/p>\n

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