Walking Through the Wilderness | Historical Books | 1 Samuel 21

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

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Why does God lead us into the wilderness? Where did David turn in times of tragedy? Do you trust God's guidance through suffering? In today's episode, Jensen shares how 1 Samuel 21 reminds us that there is a purpose behind our times in the wilderness, and encourages us to trust that God will lead us home. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Samuel 21

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:12.9	When I had my first child, I faced a season of life unlike any I'd had before.
0:18.3	I had left a job in vocational ministry, a job where I worked daily
0:22.5	alongside some of my closest friends. My daily rhythms had been disrupted. The plans I had for
0:28.5	my career were no longer attainable in the way that I had hoped. My husband soon began his residency
0:34.1	where he worked long hours, six to seven days a week. And I was navigating the life-altering
0:40.5	shift that comes with learning how to be a mother, how to keep a baby alive, how to find purpose
0:46.0	and changing diapers, and how to steward my days in time well when I felt unprepared and ill-equipped
0:52.3	to be a mom in the first place. I felt isolated. I felt lost.
0:58.0	It was not a time of flourishing or abundance in my life.
1:02.0	I felt like I was wandering through a barren wilderness.
1:06.0	Mom or not, I'd guess that you faced a season like this one before.
1:11.8	Unsure of where to go, feeling isolated, experiencing lack, wandering in the wilderness.
1:19.2	The pandemic, certainly in many ways, was a season of wilderness globally.
1:25.3	Chapter 21 of 1 Samuel marks a shift in the narrative. David is now entering the wilderness.
1:31.5	He's running from Saul, knowing that his life is in danger, he escapes to the wilderness,
1:36.6	a fugitive. This time in David's life, it's fraught with danger, hunger, trials, testing, and need.
1:46.7	We learn about his time in the wilderness factually in the book of First Samuel, but we can also turn to the Psalms and read about David's
1:52.2	inner life during this time. We're going to look at some portions of this chapter now and just get
1:57.7	a picture of what the wilderness was like for David. In the first few verses,
2:02.6	he takes refuge in knob, asking the priests there for food. He lies saying he's on a secret
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