As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long -- though I know not how to relate them all.I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign LORD; I will proclaim your righteous deeds, and yours alone. Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.Even when...  Read More

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.  And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.     . . . And God said, "Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water."   . . . And it was so.   . . . And God sai...  Read More

As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the Philistine’s head...From that day, Saul kept David with him and did not let him go back to his family...Whatever mission Saul sent him on, David was so successful that Saul gave him a high rank in the army…When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philis...  Read More

This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head...and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s and He will give all of you into our hands...Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Phili...  Read More

Then Saul dressed David In his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off. Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouc...  Read More

David said to Saul, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by ...  Read More