When conflict erupts and revenge seems justified, how do you stop disaster before it's too late?

The answer we'll find is found in three real-life characters who demonstrate three unforgettable lessons through one life-threatening encounter. Today on Insight

for Living, Chuck Swindall takes you inside a riveting Old Testament story where an explosive confrontation

teaches us exactly how to de-escalate two warring sides. These aren't just ancient principles.

They're life-changing truths you can apply today in your relationships,

workplace, and at home. Chuck titled his message, Abigail, the woman who saved her husband's

neck.

A good wife cares about her husband. She has his good at heart.

She does him good, not evil, all the days of her life.

It's hard for some of you to hear. I know.

I've talked to some of you. I know that.

It would be hard for me to do if I were in your place.

And I'm not in your place.

And I'm not judging your reaction.

I'm simply teaching you what the scripture teaches from Abigail's model.

She could very easily have done nothing, and you wouldn't have blamed her,

unless you'd have known her motive, which God knows.

I want you to watch her response to this situation. Talk about an active intercession. Follow along. Abigail hurried.

Verse 18. She hurried and took 200 loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared

and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and 200 cakes of figs

and she loaded them in the vans and took off.

In those days there were donkeys.

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