Just as David often isolated himself to seek God and receive divine inspiration, God’s people today must also learn the power of separation. Seeking God does not require public spaces, beautiful studios, or crowded places. True encounters happen in silence—in hidden places where no one is watching but God alone....

In the desert, after God redeemed the Israelites from their bondage in Egypt, He laid out a series of rules they were to follow. He said, “Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole...

It is easy to say that we trust God with our whole heart and yet another thing to actually do so. Often, we find that we trust Him with some things and not with others. Or we just may not trust His timing and take things into our own hands...

Feeling discouraged is not the same as being faithless. How you respond to discouragement or pressure helps reveal whether your heart is fixed on God. David was not whining, not bitter, not doubting in today’s passage. He was honest. He was not worried that, if he spoke his discouragement, he...

Before David’s bold faith declaration, “My heart is fixed,” in Psalm 57, there was a history of trust developed between God and him. The author who penned, “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want,” and “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be...