Archive for month: October, 2024

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 10:17-27.  As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Samuel 10:17-19 (NIV) 
17 Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the LORD at Mizpah 18 and said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the power of Egypt and all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’ 
19 But you have now rejected your God, who saves you out of all your calamities and distresses. And you have said, ‘No, set a king over us.’ So now present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.” 

On verses 17-19:  What was so wrong with the Israelites demanding that they have a king to rule over them?  In doing so, the Israelites were rejecting God as their king, the very One who had successfully brought them out of slavery in Egypt and enabled them to conquer nations much greater than them. 

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 10:1-16.  As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!

1 Samuel 10:1-7 (NIV)
1  Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on Saul’s head and kissed him, saying, “Has not the LORD anointed you leader over his inheritance?
2  When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb, at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried about you. He is asking, “What shall I do about my son?”‘

On verses 1-7:  Samuel anointed Saul king over Israel by pouring oil on Saul’s head.  What does it mean to anoint?  To anoint means to set apart for a special purpose.

Similarly, to prepare us for our mission and life purpose, God anointed us.  Every Christian is anointed by God to serve Him and to live for Him (see 1 John 2:20).  As 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 says, “…He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.”

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 9:15-27.  As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Samuel 9:15-20 (NIV)
15  Now the day before Saul came, the LORD had revealed this to Samuel:
16  “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him leader over my people Israel; he will deliver my people from the hand of the Philistines. I have looked upon my people, for their cry has reached me.”

On verses 15-20:  Saul was on a mission to find lost donkeys.  Little did Saul know that Samuel was on a mission to find Saul and anoint him king over Israel.  In the same way, God is on a mission to find you and to give you a new purpose for living.