David’s story: signs of spiritual exhaustion

“My dad’s in Ziklag,” a teenager told me during a sermon series I preached years ago. In that series, we followed David during the time he was running from Saul. After eight and a half years as a fugitive, David said, “I’m done,” and escaped to Philistine territory. He settled in the remote town of Ziklag. In those messages, Ziklag came to represent the place we go to hide from God– as if that were possible.