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As David looks back over a lifetime of battles, failures, and victories, he discovers one unchanging truth: Yahweh is faithful. Join us as we journey through Samuel and discover why the same God who heard Hannah, answered David, and raised Jesus from the dead, is still faithful to hear His people today.

At the beginning of Samuel, Hannah sang because Yahweh had answered her prayer.

And NOW - At the end of Samuel - David sings because Yahweh has been faithful throughout his entire life.

These two songs aren’t accidental. They’re bookends placed around the entire story to remind us of one great truth that…

Yahweh is Faithful!

Hannah thanked Yahweh for answering prayer and reversing her fortunes, while looking forward to what He promised in the future. In particular, she foresaw that…

This points to the ULTIMATE Anointed King - the Lord Jesus. But, it was to be Hannah’s son, Samuel, who Yahweh would tell to anoint David as Israel’s king. Now we come to David’s prayer near the end of Samuel (2 Sam 22:1-51) that looks back at how faithful Yahweh has been throughout his life. 

Check out the language about Yahweh’s ability to deliver David from his enemies - ROCK, FORTRESS, SHIELD, HORN (power & authority), STRONGHOLD, REFUGE, SAVIOR. This is our God—not merely David’s God. The same faithful God who protected David is the God who keeps every one of His children today.

Waves, torrents, cords, and snares are images David uses to point to his life being endangered - like being carried away to drown or caught by a hunter to be killed.

• Sheol is the place of the dead.

In the middle of the struggle, David called upon Yahweh and He heard David’s prayer. This is David’s GOD. This is OUR GOD! FAITHFUL to HEAR us.

BIG TRUTH: Yahweh is FAITHFUL to answer His faithful servants. 

• His temple is not the temple in Jerusalem (it doesn’t exist yet), but is God’s heavenly home.

1,000 years later Jesus made this clear.

Matthew 7:7–11 CSB

Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you…Who among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.

As in the case of David, God doesn’t always answer HOW we want or WHEN we want - BUT - He will answer in His wisdom and timing.

2 SAMUEL 22:8-16 LSB

Then the earth shook and quaked; The foundations of heaven were trembling And were shaken, because He was angry. Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens and came down With thick darkness under His feet. He rode on a cherub and flew; And He appeared upon the wings of the wind. And He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies. From the brightness before Him Coals of fire were kindled. Yahweh thundered from heaven, And the Most High gave forth His voice. And He sent out arrows, and scattered them, Lightning, and threw them into confusion. Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare By the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Yahweh is ANGRY against those who stand against David. And Yahweh comes in response to his prayer, to protect him.

• If the Creator of heaven and earth stands against you, there is nowhere to hide. But…if He’s WITH YOU, then who can be against you? Paul reminds believers that NOTHING can separate us from the love of Jesus (Rm 8:31-39)! Paul wasn’t inventing a new teaching - he was building on the promises of the same God David had learned to trust!

This language might remind you of something that Peter experienced in real life - when he called to Jesus to pull him from the Sea of Galilee before he drowned.

It’s hard to see David as righteous and keeping the commands of Yahweh when we recall his sin with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah. BUT…the author HAS intentionally placed David’s song long after he tells us about David’s wicked sin.

We must remember that David has long been forgiven and restored by Yahweh. David isn’t claiming to have lived a sinless life. Instead, he’s describing a life that belongs to Yahweh, a life that is characterized by repentance, obedience, and faith.

• That’s GOOD NEWS for those of us who have disobeyed God in the past, but are now fully forgiven and living for Yahweh!

“I have kept the ways of Yahweh” might sound like David is bragging or saying that he has somehow earned the EAR of God. But instead, David is highlighting the fact that Yahweh has been watching his ways and responds to His servant’s cries.

David has been living like Yahweh SEES how he lives and how he obeys. And David knows that…Yahweh is FAITHFUL to answer His faithful servants.

If you live as if God doesn’t reward or punish and only call on Him when you get in a tight spot, don’t presume God will answer your every wish. He is the God of the Universe! 

Yahweh responds faithfully to the faithful, while opposing and humbling the proud.

• Does that help answer how God treats you?

• David isn’t bragging about his victories. He’s testifying about Yahweh’s faithfulness.

BIG TRUTH: Yahweh is FAITHFUL to answer His faithful servants. 

We must be reminded that David is singing this in light of God delivering him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul (2 Sam 22:1), so don’t be surprised at the battle language that follows.

These foreigners have fought against David and were brought under his lordship, because YOU - Yahweh - have preserved me as head of nations.

His seed is referring to David’s descendants, but also points us to…His anointed - Yahweh’s Messiah.

Yahweh had been FAITHFUL to do what Hannah had prayed about at the beginning of this writing we call Samuel. Yahweh had done what He said he would do. Yahweh had raised up a KING, his anointed one, an imperfect messiah who pointed to the ULTIMATE PERFECT MESSIAH, the ONE who was coming to save souls from every tribe, tongue, & time!

Yahweh heard and answered Hannah. Yahweh heard and answered David. Yahweh heard the cries of His people and sent the Promised Messiah!

Yahweh heard the cries of Jesus in Gethsemane & on the cross.

Ultimately, the Father vindicated His faithful Son—not by sparing Him from death...

but by raising Him from the dead. The resurrection is the Father’s triumphant answer to the suffering, obedience, and prayers of His Son.

• Because we belong to Jesus, Yahweh still hears us today. Yahweh is FAITHFUL to answer His faithful servants. 
• Because Yahweh is faithful: Keep seeking. Keep serving. Keep asking. Keep trusting. Keep waiting. 
• Our faithful King always keeps His promises.