DAVID is experiencing some serious problems in the context of our verse. Saul is pursuing David with the intention of killing David. So David is forced to flee from Saul and hide out wherever possible. Things were really dark for David. The promise given him by Samuel that God would make him king seemed doomed because of his circumstances. But our verse says that “day by day there came to David to help him,” and this help eventually became a “great host, like the host of God,” and it helped David become king. In our life we have the same “day by day” experience. We see it in our problems, our prayers, and our pursuits.
