I Samuel 24:4 “Now’s your opportunity!” David’s men whispered to him. “Today is the day the Lord was talking about when He said ‘I will certainly put Saul into your power to do with as you wish'”.

 

Saul was very jealous of David because God had chosen him to be king. Saul selected 3,000 “special forces members” to find and kill David. Saul went into a cave at Engedi to “relieve himself”. What he didn’t know, was that David and his men were in that very cave!

 

David’s men tried to persuade David to sneak up behind him while he was preoccupied  and kill him stating “This is God answering our prayers!” The problem with that thinking is that God’s law stated not to touch His anointed (Kings, Priests, Prophets). David knew this and he rebuked his men.

 

When you’re praying for God to answer your prayer, what seems like the right thing to do could very well be the wrong thing. Make sure your decision lines up with God’s principles. Proverbs 16:25 says “There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.”