Because God had promised to be with him, David’s victories in this chapter are inevitable. Just as it is with the progress of the church of Jesus Christ. The church may look doomed in this country, just like it has looked extinct in certain countries before. But we have Christ’s promise: ‘I will build my church and that gates of […]

What we see in this chapter is a king who is on the up. This is a king who is rising in power. The key word in the chapter is the word ‘defeated’.v1: David defeated the Philistinesv2: And he defeated MoabV3: David also defeated HadadezerV5: David struck down – which is the same word in Hebrew – David struck down, […]

If we knew what was going to happen in the future, it would affect what we do here and now. There are always people trying to work out what’s going to happen next. But our problem in many areas of life is that we don’t know where life is going, so we just have to guess. But there are some […]