After a great victory, you remember from the last message, after a great victory of David

doggedly refusing to kill Saul when he could have, when all of his motley crew telling him to

do it, when he refused to do that, and he only cut a small piece of the garment.

That was a great victory over temptation.

And he said, I will not touch the God's anointing. After that, David entered into a period

of moping and sulking and feeling sorry for himself. And, beloved, when that discouragement

sits in, it can become a disaster if you stay in it.

So let me repeat this because it's very important.

It is important to know that we all, at some point, because of circumstances totally out of our control, we can feel discouraged.

But please, do not stay there.

Staying in discouragement led David to Zicklag. That's a good word. You need to remember it. It's Z-I-K-L-A-G. Z-I-K-L-A-G. Say it with me. Because all of us,

every one of us, including your pastor, at some point we found ourselves in our Ziklag.

And my Ziklag and your Ziklag are very different.

Your Zicklag is inevitable, and it is inevitable destination if you stay with discouragement.

Listen to what David said during that time.

Psalm 101, he was writing during that period of time,

Why, oh Lord, do you stand far off?

Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? Or Psalm 13 verse one.

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

And you see that spirit of discouragement setting in? Or in that messianic Psalm,

which was repeated by our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, Psalm 22, verse 1, my God, my God,

why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me? Whenever a person, anyone, begin to think this way, or begin to think

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