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The\\xa0Lord\\xa0said to Samuel,\\xa0\\u201cHow long will you grieve over Saul, since\\xa0I have rejected him from being king over Israel?\\xa0Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite,\\xa0for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.\\u201d\\xa02\\xa0And Samuel said, \\u201cHow can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.\\u201d And the\\xa0Lord\\xa0said, \\u201cTake a heifer with you and say,\\xa0\\u2018I have come to sacrifice to the\\xa0Lord.\\u20193\\xa0And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do.\\xa0And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.\\u201d\\xa04\\xa0Samuel did what the\\xa0Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city\\xa0came to meet him trembling and said,\\xa0\\u201cDo you come peaceably?\\u201d\\xa05\\xa0And he said, \\u201cPeaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the\\xa0Lord.\\xa0Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.\\u201d And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.6\\xa0When they came, he looked on\\xa0Eliab and thought, \\u201cSurely the\\xa0Lord's anointed is before him.\\u201d\\xa07\\xa0But the\\xa0Lord\\xa0said to Samuel,\\xa0\\u201cDo not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the\\xa0Lord\\xa0sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance,\\xa0but the\\xa0Lord\\xa0looks on the heart.\\u201d11\\xa0\\u2026Then Samuel said to Jesse, \\u201cAre all your sons here?\\u201dAnd he said,\\xa0\\u201cThere remains yet the youngest,\\xa0but behold, he is keeping the sheep.\\u201d And Samuel said to Jesse,\\xa0\\u201cSend and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.\\u201d\\xa012\\xa0And he sent and brought him in. Now he was\\xa0ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the\\xa0Lord\\xa0said,\\xa0\\u201cArise, anoint him, for this is he.\\u201d13\\xa0Then Samuel took\\xa0the horn of oil\\xa0and anointed him in the midst of his brothers.\\xa0And the Spirit of the\\xa0Lord\\xa0rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.1 Samuel 16:1-13(ESV)

And Samuel said to Saul,\\xa0\\u201cYou have done foolishly.\\xa0You have not kept the command of the\\xa0Lord\\xa0your God, with which he commanded you. For then the\\xa0Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.\\xa014\\xa0But now\\xa0your kingdom shall not continue. The\\xa0Lord\\xa0has sought out a man\\xa0after his own heart, and the\\xa0Lord\\xa0has commanded him to be prince\\xa0over his people because you have not kept what the\\xa0Lord\\xa0commanded you.\\u201d1 Samuel 13:13-14(ESV)

Blessed is the one who does not walk\\xa0in step with the wicked or stand in the way\\xa0that sinners take\\xa0or sit\\xa0in the company of mockers,2\\xa0but whose delight\\xa0is in the law of the\\xa0Lord, and who meditates\\xa0on his law day and night.3\\xa0That person is like a tree\\xa0planted by streams\\xa0of water, which yields its fruit\\xa0in season and whose leaf\\xa0does not wither\\u2014whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:1-3(NIV)

1. Trust in His ways
2. Meditate on His word
3. Remain by the water\\xa0
4. Produce in the waiting