David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your servant will do. Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you keeper of my head for ever.
Now God speaks to us in many different ways. God can speak to us by dreams. Now I don't believe that I personally have ever had a dream that had any spiritual significance to it. But now that I'm getting to the age, as the scripture said, "Your old men shall dream dreams," maybe I'm going to someday start getting dreams with spiritual significance. Let me say this, though to my own belief I've never had a dream with any spiritual significance, it doesn't stop me from realizing that I may someday have a dream that has spiritual significance, and I'm open to it. Just because I never had it, I don't say, "Well, God doesn't speak to men through dreams anymore." I believe that God can still speak to people through dreams, and I'm open to dreaming if God wants to speak to me in a dream, I'm open to it. I'd be thrilled and delighted to have God speak to me in a dream.God also speaks to people through visions. Now I have had visions in which God did speak to me. God speaks to people through the prophets, and I have had God's word come to me through anointed brothers and sisters in Christ, that I recognize as God's word to me.In the Old Testament God also spoke through the Urim and the Thummin, which were a part of the priest's garments. They were a little sort of a pouch that he wore, and they say that there was a black stone, and a white stone, and that the black stone was a no answer, and the white stone was yes. Whether or not that is actually so, I don't know, but somehow God spoke through the Urim and the Thummin. Now the words actually mean "lights and perfections," and it could be rather than stones, which have become sort of a traditional kind of a thing, it could be that this thing would light up that the priest wore. When God would say yes, that this thing would light up. But God was not answering Saul's prayers by any of these methods by which they were accustomed to God speaking to them.Now I'm interested in God speaking to me, however. God spoke to some of them through angels. But God has spoken, and God continues to speak to me constantly through His Word. This, I think, is the place where you learn to start knowing to hear the voice of God, getting into the Word. It's so important that you're in the Word, and God has that opportunity to speak to you through His Word.So God wasn't answering the prayers of Saul,