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First Samuel chapter 27 verse 7. In the number of the days that David lived in the country of

the Philistines was a year and four months. So I just want you to think about this verse with me

because this is one of many places in the Bible where we see just a quick verse, like that took all

of like five seconds to read. But it covers a long span of time. So David has been fleeing from

Saul. He's living in the country of the Philistines of all places. He is waiting to become

king. God has made it clear that he's going to be king. I can just imagine there's a tendency

in David to say, like, let's just make this happen. Like why am I having to wait and

flee for my life and experience attacks and slander and all these different things coming at me.

And first Samuel 27, 7 says the number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines

was a year and four months, 16 months is a long time to hide out. Like it may take five seconds

to read, but I am pretty confident. It didn't feel like that in David's life in a way that I think

most, if not all of us are familiar with. Like there are times where we wonder when is it going to end?

Can this just happen already? Can we move on from this already? And we stay in the valley

certainly longer than we desire longer than we had planned and we need patience in the waiting.

This is a picture we see all over the Bible. I would highly command it's been one of my greatest

friends over the last year and a half of waiting when it comes to our adoption process and our

family and waiting for a son in another country that we have been unable to go to and I've been

reading a book. It's just kind of a devotional book along the way by Andrew Murray called Waiting

on God. I would highly command it. But based on 1 Samuel 27 verse 7, I just want to lead us to pray

for patience in the waiting when it comes to so many different things in our lives. Even when I

think about the present situation in the world and pandemic and variance and who would have thought

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