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Samuel said to Saul,“Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied,“I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me anymore– not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.”
Saul said to his armor bearer,“Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.
But the LORD does not surrender the godly, or allow them to be condemned in a court of law.
In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and it will be a refuge for his children.
“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.
But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,
Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
Joy in Trials My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,
Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.