Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, June 23rd, who makes the

most valuable contribution to a healthy church.

If you thought only of your pastor, today's podcast broadens the scope to remind you of

the crucial role of those who work for the Lord behind the scenes.

If you'll turn to the 30th chapter of 1 Samuel, and you recall at this time in his life

that David now for some 10 years has been running, and he has gone over to the side of the

Philistines out of a desperation and lack of faith and trust in the Lord at this peak of

time in his life.

And as a result of that, he had a little place called Zicklag.

And while he was gone, the enemy came in and burned him out, burned everything, wiped him out,

took all of his, both of his wives, his children, all their cattle, took everything.

They didn't kill anything.

They just took it all with them.

Then you recall he inquired of the Lord and asked God if he should pursue his enemies or

what he should do and the Lord told him to pursue them, and he would recover everything.

So he had 600 men with him.

And if you recall beginning in verse 9 of chapter 30, so David went, he and the 600 men that were

with him and came to the Brook Besor where those that were left behind stayed.

But David pursued he and 400 men for 200 abode behind, which were so faint that they could not

go over the Brook Besor.

Now they marched somewhere around three days.

And as a result of that, they were faint.

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