Become a Cave Dweller
1. When life gets difficult, run to was God.
David went to the town of Nob to see Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he saw him. “Why are you alone?” he asked. “Why is no one with you?” “The king has sent me on a private matter,” David said. “He told me not to tell anyone why I am here. I have told my men where to meet me later. Now, what is there to eat? Give me five loaves of bread or anything else you have.” “...We don’t have any regular bread,” the priest replied. “But there is the holy bread, which you can have...“ 1 Samuel 21:1-4 NLT
2. Sometimes it takes an old sword to slay a new giant! God is reminding you of previous victories!
Now Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief herdsman, was there that day, having been detained before the Lord. David asked Ahimelech, “Do you have a spear or sword? The king’s business was so urgent that I didn’t even have time to grab a weapon!” “I only have the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah,” the priest replied. “It is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. Take that if you want it, for there is nothing else here.” “There is nothing like it!” David replied. “Give it to me!” 1 Samuel 21:7-9 NLT
3. Your promotion always involves a cave!
So David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam.
I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill his purpose for me...He will send help from heaven to rescue me...My heart is confident in you, O God..Wake up, my heart! Wake up, O lyre and harp! ..I will thank you, Lord, among all the people. I will sing your praises among the nations..For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Psalm 57
4. You enter the cave a fugitive, and you come out a leader! Armies are built from the discontented.
Soon his brothers and all his other relatives joined him there. Then others began coming—men who were in trouble or in debt or who were just discontented—until David was the captain of about 400 men. 1 Samuel 22:1-2
A cave is the place you go to die to yourself.
Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance. 39 “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.” 40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” 41 So they rolled the stone aside. John 11:38-41 NLT
Message Notes: The Holy Bible, New Living Translation. Overcoming When You Feel Overwhelmed, by Jentezen Franklin. Pray Big, Listen Bigger, by Bil Cornelius