Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5

he cave of Adullam is not where you would expect a great movement to begin. No prestige, no resources, no obvious promise — only four hundred men who had nothing left to lose. Distressed. In debt. Discontented. These are the ones who came to David in the wilderness, and these are the ones God chose to transform into some of the most celebrated warriors in Scripture.

Do not rush past the scandal of that. God rarely begins with what we would call promising material. He tends to begin with what we have already written off: the overlooked, the broken, the ones carrying a wound or a debt too heavy to conceal. The cave is not a setback in David’s story. It is the classroom. It is where everything that comes after is formed.

This means your present season — whatever its shape — is not evidence that God has miscalculated. The men who came to David at Adullam did not arrive as mighty warriors. They left that way. What changed between the arriving and the leaving was not their circumstances; it was their community and, through it, their character.
So the question is not whether your current season is impressive enough to count. It is whether you are showing up to it — bringing what little you have, standing under the same roof as other limping people, and trusting that God still makes mighty warriors out of men and women in caves.