GO GET YOUR STUFF!

“Nothing was missing. David brought back everyone; young and old, sons and daughters. He recovered the valuable things and everything the Amalekites had taken.”
1 Samuel 30:19
New Century Version

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While David was on the run from Saul, he decided to dwell in the land of the Philistines (I Samuel 27:1). David found favor with Achish, king of Gath, who granted David and his men permission to dwell in Ziklag. The Philistines were preparing to fight against Israel and Achish enlisted the services of David and his men to fight against their own countrymen. Although David had found favor with Achish, the other princes of the Philistines did not trust David to war against his own people. So, David was dismissed from the ranks.
Upon arriving at Ziklag, he found the city burned, valuables plundered and all the women and children taken captive by the Amalekites. After traveling three days, the sight was the last thing David and his men expected to find. Knowing their families were being held captive, seeing their homes burned and suffering from exhaustion, the men were devastated and overwhelmed. The men were so grievously distressed over the lost of their loved ones, they spoke of stoning David.
David’s wives were taken captive too and he must have felt responsible for what had happened. Yet, David ‘encouraged himself in the Lord his God’ (I Samuel 30:6) and began to inquire of the Lord. The Lord gave him instructions to, “Pursue: for thou shall surely overtake them, and without fail recover all” (I Samuel 30:8). The New Century Version says, David took his men and fully recovered the valuable things and absolutely nothing was missing. The enemy can have the things that are not valuable. Let him keep that! You have no need for them. But, the salvation of loved ones, joy and peace are valuable and worth the recovery mission.
Has the enemy invaded and taken your marriage, children, or finances captive? How about your joy? Peace of mind? Prayer life? What is the word of the Lord for your particular situation? Go get you’re your stuff! We don’t go in our own strength and own ability, but in the authority of the Lord’s Christ. We go in the authority of the name that is above every name, the name of JESUS.
How do you get your stuff? You get it through prayer and communion with the Father. Our means of warfare is not carnal (2 Corinthians 10:4). We use God's mighty weapons, not mere worldly weapons, to knock down the Devil's strongholds. Get on your knees and fight like a man! Pursue God and go get your stuff back!