Today on real life radio.

God's sheep gather around his word.

God blesses his word.

And to begin to assume that God is blessing

because of the committee or because of the staff

or because of being the pastor or the whatever,

you're ministering by assumption.

Remember, he says, my word shall not return unto me void.

This is real life.

Welcome to Real Life Radio with Pastor Jack Hibbs.

I'm David Jay thanking you for joining us today as we listen, learn, and are challenged by God's Word, the Bible.

Hey, everybody, we got our first time ever, actually, devotional. We have a 40-day devotional called

watching, waiting. 40 days of walking you through biblical passages that excite you and prepare you for the soon coming

of Jesus Christ. Watching waiting is a 40-day devotional. It's all tied to biblical prophecy.

Watching waiting. It is our featured resource for this month, and it's available for a gift of any

amount at jackhibs.com slash real radio. Jackhibbs.com slash real radio jack hibbs dot com slash real radio on today's

edition of real life radio pastor jack continues his series called first samuel and a message

titled when god comes upon a man part one sam Samuel of the Old Testament was the last judge of Israel

and the first of its prophets. So here in chapter 16 we'll learn how King Saul is so full of pride

and his spirit becomes so dark that Samuel anoints a new king whose name is David.

You see, all along God was supposed to be the ruler over Israel, and God's

will for the people was for them to prosper. But when Saul was anointed king, he only partially

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