Mon. devo - Worship Makes You a Warship

Read 1 Sam 27
David is seemingly a man without a country. He can't go back to his own or Saul will kill him, so he joins the enemies' camp. But in his heart he is still an Israelite. He takes his men and deflects to the Philitines in the royal city of Gath. When Saul hears where David has fled he gives up finding him. David asks the king for a place all his own for he and his men to live and Achish gives him Ziklag. "Ziklag" means "an envelope of grief" which is exactly what David was to them. He was hidden grief to the Philistines. He would take his men and go kill off whole towns of enemies and when the Philistines asked him where they had gone to fight he would lie and tell them he had gone south instead. He wisely killed everyone in the towns he plundered so that noone could live to tell Achish where he had really gone.
Achish fell for it and David was safe - a spy for God.
David could have chosen bitterness and joined the other side to spite Saul; instead, he chose forgiveness and kept his loyalties. He never forsook God. I think the secret to David's victory was that he was such a worshipper. Whenever he couldn't understand what was going on he would write about it (or sing about it) and it always brought him back to: God is greater than me and my trial.
Worship builds up our inmost being, the warrior in us. Lord, we choose to worship you and build our spiritual muscles to fight in your army. Help us to see the real enemy: the devil and the real hero: Jehovah God.