Today I'm going to show you evidence of David's emerging from the cave of Adulam turned into a prayer closet.

He emerges, giving us evidence, giving us proof that in that prayer closet, in that cave of Adulam,

David began to develop a new level of trust in the living God. First Samuel 23, look at verses one and two with me. At the old translation

said, behold, modern translation said, look, the Philistines are fighting against Kila, and they're looting

the threshing floor. That is, where all the supply for the rest of the year of food,

basically guaranteeing their starvation to death. But here comes, are you ready for it?

You ready for it in the second verse? And David inquired of the Lord. Say that with me. David, shall I go to attack these Philistines? Now, beloved, please listen to me. You can linger on this statement, this short statement, for a long,

long time, and I pray to God that you will. Just linger with it, meditate on it, think about it.

You see, after the flush of victory over Goliath, Saul would say to David, go and get me 100 Philistines,

he'd get 200.

Go and do this, he'll do more.

Go and do this and do more.

And what happened?

He began to develop confidence in himself, not in the living God who gave him the strength

to defeat Goliath.

And so the moment fear came in, he had to flee in fear.

But as he turned his cave of Adulam into a prayer closet, as we saw in the last message, he now

comes out graduating from the testing school of God. He comes out trusting yet again in the

living God. And that is, beloved, what I call faith 101 or trust 101. Now I'm going to tell you

that if you have not learned to inquire of the Lord, most likely

in the spiritual school, you keep on repeating first grade over and over and over again,

and you're not moving forward. Now, regardless of what grade you're in, in the spiritual school,

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