This document discusses David's time in the cave of Adullam and the lessons God taught him there. Some key points: 1) David found himself in the cave of Adullam after facing rejection from his father and others, isolating him as a shepherd boy. 2) While in the cave, God used David's crisis and isolation to develop his character and teach him important lessons about integrity, obedience, and using his word gifts as a leader. 3) The cave experience helped prepare David to become a righteous leader who operated with justice, even in the face of unfair treatment, and helped him recognize his true purpose was to serve God, not take things into his own hands.

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