We live in a very mobile world.

Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys

of the Bible. Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

Every trip is not a fun trip. And today, we've come to one of those great journeys of the Bible

that is great in the fact that God teaches us some great truth from it, but it was not enjoyable

for the man who was making the journey. The story is said in 1st Samuel chapter number 22,

and the short story is that Saul is pursuing David David is literally

on the run for his life you know a lot of us live on the run running here and there and

everywhere trying to get things done but it's different when you're running for your life

when you know the enemy is at your heels and he's after you.

And during this season in David's life, he wrote a number of the Psalms.

I would challenge you to study all of the Psalms and try to see the connection between many of the Psalms and the historical setting.

But the setting of 1 Samuel 22 connects to one particular psalm it's psalm 142 so if you'll permit me today to

walk you through psalm 142 i think we'll learn some things about what to do when you're on the run

when the enemy's after you you see some of you think that the enemy's after you today

maybe the devil's getting you giving you fits maybe some critic is on your case maybe your

flesh is hounding you and you feel like all of the demons of hell have been turned loose on you

the bible says in first samuel chapter number 22 that the person that was seeking David was

seeking his life. He didn't just want to hurt him a little bit. He wanted to kill him. And I want

you to know that the devil wants to devour you. He wants you gone. So what are you going to do when

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