Brook Besor

Yesterday I spoke to residents of an aged care facility in Napier, New Zealand, in a Bible study. I spoke about David and his pursuit of the Amalekites who had decimated his resident town of Ziklag. (1 Samuel Chapter 30 Verses 1 to 25 with the emphasis on verses 23 to 25.) While there are numerous lessons to be taken from this incident, the one I concentrated upon was the need for the camp to be guarded. The residents of the home are clearly not able to physically be at the forefront of the battle but they can stay behind at the camp and guard it. The camp is Christianity. They can guard it with prayer and there is nothing the powers of darkness fear more than prayer. As David states; Those who guard the camp are as important as those who go physically into battle. (Paraphrased.)