1. David in the cave
Testing in the cave of Adullam

2. Hope arise in the cave
• Your own father did not consider you as a
candidate
• Small shepherd boy
• Your father’s view about you
• You buy people’s view about yourself

3. The hard lesson from God
• Crisis
• Character development
• Isolation
• Problem solving
• networks

4. The choice you make determine your
direction
• Integrity check
• Obedience check
• Word check

5. Integrity Check
• Integrity is the foundational for effective
leadership; it must be instilled early in a
leader’s character

6. Obedience Check
• Obedience is first learned then taught

7. Word check
• Leadership gifts primarily involve word
gifts, which initially emerge through word
checks.

8. God’s Favor
• Caused jealousy
– Job too well done to the extent that others
become jealous
– Come within your “own camp”
– Wrongly accused
– A fugitive
– Where is justice?

9. God’s training
• Mean years of difficult
• Unfair treatment
• Will he take things into his own hands?
• Not his right to remove Saul (boss)
• Recognized the office
• Even followers will wrongly advising

10. God’s train His leader on the road of
leadership
• Unfairness
• Crisis
• Isolation
• doubts

11. Types of Adullam cave
• Doubt
• Persecution
• Sickness
• Bereavement
• Conflict in relationship
• Betrayal
There is no cave dark enough to shut out God

12. David’s respond
• Operate righteously
• With justice
When the sovereign God brings us to
nothing, it is to reroute our lives, not to end
them.

13. Own sin led you to the cave of
isolation
• Pride
• Arrogance
• Presumption
• Notoriety
• Strategic error
• Lack of discernment

14. Purposes to in this cave
• Sanctify our lives
• Need to repent
– Gain the freedom of this process items
• Perform deeper work
• Bring deliverance from our places of bondage
• Bring us into maturity
• joy

15. • Discover our true self
• Purpose in Him
• Closest relationships

16. 40 years lesson
• Humble you
• Test you
• What was in your heart
• Keep His commandments

17. Isolations removes things
• Removes things that hinder us
• Force us to draw deep upon His grace