“And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Nothing is  better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines. And Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel, and so I shall escape out of his hand.” (1Samuel 27:1)   When Saul pursued David to kill him, I imagine that it was a desperate time for David. And when we get desperate, we forget God’s promises to us. We panic and always think the