Charisma Magazine

Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll—are they not in your record? Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise—in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? —Psalm 56:8-11

You number my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your book? When I cry out to You, then my enemies will turn back; this I know, because God is for me. —Psalm 56:8-9, NKJV

David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him. ... But David found strength in the Lord his God. Then David ... inquired of the Lord, "Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?" "Pursue them," he answered. "You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue." —1 Samuel 30:6-8

David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites ... attacked Ziklag and burned it, and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both young and old. ... When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. —1 Samuel 30:1-4