“Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.” (1 Samuel 30: 4) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Our Focal Scripture speaks of that moment when David and his men lifted up their voices and wept until they had no more power in them to weep. Their wives and children had just been taken away and their city burnt, and naturally, they wept; but they continued weeping until they had

“So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.” (1 Samuel 30: 3) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. David had been anointed as king of Israel prior to the attack against Ziklag, but he was yet to become king. After the attack on Ziklag, David sought the face of God on the way forward, and the Lord directed him to go to Hebron where he was anoi

“So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.” (1 Samuel 30: 3) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. When the Amalekites invaded Ziklag, they took away the wives and children of David and his men. They took an action in the present, and that put the lives and destinies of the wives and children in jeopardy. Children are the future of every gene

“So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.” (1 Samuel 30: 3) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Our Focal Scripture speaks of how the sons and daughters of David and his men were taken away. Children are the next generation of every generation. So the enemy came to take the next generation into captivity. Notice that the enemies didn’t try

“And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.”(1 Samuel 30: 2) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Our Focal Scripture speaks of how the Amalekites took the women and children captives, and went their way. The captives lost the right to determine which way they would go, and it was their captors that led the way and led them in the way they determined. T