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Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother’s womb.” Psalm 22:10   Perhaps being the youngest of eight sons was not so easy for David.   Maybe, with such a large family, there was not much time or attention given to David. We know that when Samuel came to Jesse’s house, his seven sons, minus David, were ready for Samuel to see them, while David was left out in the fields with the sheep.   David’s own testimony

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders. I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.” Psalm 9:1-2   Here is the basic premise of what we say in our ministering to the Lord. Just as David did, we “give thank to the Lord with all my heart” for Who He is and for what He has done.   In future sharing from the Psalms, we will see that David would often list actua

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “But as for me, by Your abundant lovingkindness I will enter Your house, at Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You. Let all who take refuge in You be glad, let them ever sing for joy; and may You shelter them, that those who love Your name may exult in You” Psalm 5:7,11   In this early Psalm of David’s, we see the heart of someone who not only practiced and understood ministering to the Lord, but who also desired for all to

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “The Lord said, ‘ Arise, anoint him; for this is he.’ Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward” 1 Samuel 16:12-13   David was the one individual whom God had found, saying “This is he,”in all of His searching for “a man after His own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14).   When Samuel anointed him, “the Spirit of the Lord came mightily

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7   These are the words the Lord spoke to Samuel after he had arrived at the house of Jesse, where he had gone, following God’s word to him, in order to discover and anoint the next king of Israel.   When Samuel first entered and saw Jesse’s son, Eliab, He thought, “surely the Lord’s anointed is before him” (1 Samuel 16: 7

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people.” 1 Samuel 13:14   These were the words of the Lord through Samuel, now a grown man, to king Saul, who had “not kept the commandment of the Lord your God” (1 Samuel 13:13).   David was the one whom God had found, “a man after His own heart,” who would soon be anointed king by Samuel (1

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and he will walk before My anointed always.” 1 Samuel 2:35    A prophet of God had spoken these words to Eli, shortly before the Lord called to Samuel in the temple at night.    The first meaning of this prophecy, I believe, is about Samuel, who was faithful to God and who did, during his life, walk before God’s anointed king

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Then the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’ The Lord said to Samuel, ‘Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.’” 1 Samuel 3:10-11   God was telling little Samuel first, of a new thing that He was about to do, before He showed anyone else in all of Israel.    Why?    To me the big obvious

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord yet been revealed to him. So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time.” 1 Samuel 3:7-8    Why was God calling Samuel?    We know God wanted to speak to Samuel, but why to Samuel?    The one singular distinguishing element we see highlighted and shining about Samuel in these Scriptures is that He ministered to the Lord (1 Samuel 1:28, 2:11, 2:18, 3:1).    In the

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Then the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’” 1 Samuel 3:10     This is the fourth time God called to Samuel, the boy, as he was lying down in the temple at nigh, sleeping near the ark of the Lord.    Each time God had called, little Samuel rose up and went to Eli, the elderly priest who, after the third time, discerned that God must be calling t