All of us face crises. Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth with wise advice for those times when

everything seems out of control. In the crisis situations of life, you and I need to be women of

discernment. And how do you get discernment? You ask God for it. Ask God for it before you get in the crisis. This is the Revive Our Hearts

podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned for January 21st, 2020.

We read in 1 Corinthians 13 that love is not provoked.

That's easy to understand until a two-year-old asks you the 500th question of the day,

or someone cuts you off in traffic, or maybe your husband forgets to pay the bills on time again.

Well, today, we'll hear about a righteous man who let his guard down.

He was so provoked, he was ready to kill the person who offended him.

Here's Nancy, in the series entitled How to Live with the Fools in Your Life.

We're looking at a story in the Old Testament, the book of 1st Samuel chapter 25.

If you have your Bible, let me ask you to open to that passage.

It's a story with three main characters, and we see first a man named Nabal, who was a wealthy businessman,

but he was a harsh, mean, ill-behaved, ill-mannered man

who acted like his name, Nabal, which means fool. Now, as we come to verse four today,

we see that David heard in the wilderness, David and his 600 men who are fugitives with him from King Saul are fleeing from

Saul. They're out in the wilderness. And David, verse four, heard in the wilderness that Nabal was

shearing his sheep. Nabil is a rancher. He's a herdsman. He has a lot of sheep and a lot of goats.

So, verse five, David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, go up to Carmel and go to

Nabal and greet him in my name. And thus shall you greet him. Peace be to you and peace be to your house

and peace be to all that you have. Here's David wanting to be a peace-loving man and being gracious and kind

in the way he approaches this man who has

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