Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Damlin for Thursday, June 22.

Have you ever been so discouraged that you felt incapable of making a decision?

Today's podcast presents King David's dire predicament and how his situation frames the lesson on how to encourage yourself.

Well, what I want you to see tonight is how David encouraged his own heart.

You remember the last time that the bottom dropped out on you?

I mean, it really dropped out and you looked down and you thought, Lord, I can't go any further down.

When everything within you said there's no way out.

Everything in you rose up with remorse and regret or maybe bitterness and resentment and hurt and anger and fear and unbelief and doubt.

And you would just shrouded with it and just covered, just flooded with it.

Just the assaults of Satan continuously barrage you in telling you that God didn't really care.

That God really wasn't concerned about you and after all, God wasn't listening to your prayers.

He had no personal concern about you and a lot of these things that you've been believing all along, there was nothing to it.

Well, the three areas of this passage that I want us to look at now want us to get down to the second one but I want us to divide it up to see what's happening here.

The first one is this and that is the disaster that David faced him because he did face a disaster.

Here he was coming back to his own town with all of these men who were really a bunch of criminals and renegades who decided to side up with David because they couldn't afford to stay in Saul's camp because of who they were.

We talked about that before.

When they approached Ziklag, they see the whole city inflames burning and smoldering.

When they get back, they discover that all of their sons and daughters have been taken.

They don't see anybody lying around dead. They don't see their cattle dead.

But everything has been taken.

So here's their whole town smoldering in flames.

Not only that, but David's men who've been so faithful in law, they had begun to talk about stoning him to death right in the middle of them.

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