LIGHT IN THE DARK DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Are there areas in your life where you are currently discouraged, disappointed, or full of despair?

1 Samuel 30:3-4

When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fre and their wives and sons and daughters taken captives. So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

*If you are doing this study in a group, take some time to pray for each other after answering this question.

2. From our teaching we learned to encourage means to fasten upon, to seize. In what ways can we encourage ourselves in the Lord?

1 Samuel 30:6 (KJV)

…but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

3. What areas do you need to push past self-pity and begin to give away the very thing you need?

1 Samuel 30:11-12

Tey found an Egyptian in a feld and brought him to David. Tey gave him water to drink and food to eat— part of a cake of pressed fgs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.

4. To be an encouragement to yourself and others, can you think of a time where God has truly given you more, because of a difcult or discouraging situation you’ve walked through?

1 Samuel 30:18-20

David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. He took all the focks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, “Tis is David’s plunder.”