Self-Help Aids

Self-help resources that leave us as the answer to our needs have failed us, even if they happen to improve our life. Self-help that succeeds at adding value to our lives is help that moves us to Holy Spirit-help.

Once David and his gang of mighty men did some mercenary work for a couple of kings, and when they returned from the job, they discovered that all their stuff and their families had been stolen and kidnapped. Their first response was to discuss how they would kill David. David’s first response was to encourage himself in Yahweh. His response put him in a position and a condition in which he could receive revelation. Yahweh told him to pursue the thieves. When he did, he and his gang came home with more than they had lost. (1 Samuel 30)