(Samuel to Saul) Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected (yet not removed) you from being king." 1 Samuel 15:23c
My fearof God should not be that He will put His hand on me but that He will take it off. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)
.Saul . to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord." 1 Samuel 15:24,25
Repentance ofthe evil act, and not of the evil heart, is like men pumping water out of a leaky vessel, but forgetting to stop the leak. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
.Samuel said to (Saul), "The Lord . has given (the kingdom) it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you." 1 Samuel 15:28
God judges a man, not by the point he has reached, but by the way he is facing; not by distance, but by direction. James S. Stewart (1896–1990)
.the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should (desire or be forced to) relent." 1 Samuel 15:29
There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)
(Saul) said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God." 1 Samuel 15:30,
Some go tochurch to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God