FAITH CAPSULE: To despise the word of His command is an avenue to destruction. 

1 Samuel 16

The word of God is truth to perform and perfect. 
The word of God is unbreakable to those who live by the word of God in obedience to the command of God.
Isaiah 55:11 declares the word of God, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”  
Truth is the word of God. 
David, a man after the heart of God, testifies that God magnifies His word above all His name. (Psalm 138:2) 
A failure to obey the word of God is a straight passage to self-destruction. Are you living disobediently to any of the words of God, His command? Proverbs 13:13 declares, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
To despise His word of command is evidence of a lack of fear of God to obey the command of God.
To despise the word of His command is an avenue to destruction.
God appointed King Saul as the first king of His people. 
During his reign, disobedience on his part set him apart from God. 
After the second year of King Saul over the children of Israel, his disobedience to the word of God hanged on him for forty years. 
King Saul was king for a long time but had no reasonable time with God.
Sin before God kicks anyone with sin to become far from God that never far.
King Saul violated God when he despised the word of God. 
After he despised the command of God, “… the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a distressing spirit from the LORD troubled him. 15 And Saul’s servants said to him, “Surely, a distressing spirit from God is troubling you.” (1 Samuel 16:14-15) 
The sin of Saul evicted him from the presence of God.
In your God-appointed position, are you lost from the presence of God? King Saul was at the seat of power, but power had left him. 
Does that sound like you? 
Anyone can lost with God and not know. 
In the case of King Saul, after he had lost the presence of God, he became exposed to acute mental suffering, affliction, and distress became his portion. 
When the presence is not in the life of anyone, there is nothing to make up for the presence of God.
David, a skillful player and a mighty man of valor, was not enough to make up for the presence of God that was absent in the life of King Saul.
David played the instrument for King Saul and answered as instrumental for a temporary solution.
God is not substitutable in any situation or under any circumstances. Despite skillful play by David, the distressed spirit over King Saul could not depart from him.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from every spirit of destruction.