Be Encouraged!
1 SAMUEL 30...and David encouraged himself in the Lord. Sometimes on this journey, you have to encourage yourself. When you are at that place in the race where there seems to be no one cheering you on, there are no more water refreshing stops, and the finish line is some miles down the road. There are times when you just need to keep going but you can't seem to find the strength or figure out how to put one more foot in front of the other, it is during those times that you have to encourage yourself in the Lord. In 1 Samuel 30... It came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. David lost everything he owned, the enemy had cleaned out his camp. There were times when I felt like David, like the enemy had invaded