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December 8 – Go to God in Prayer Read Psalm 142 1 Samuel 22 records the time that David hid from Saul and the Philistine king Achish in the cave of Adullam. 1 Samuel 24 recounts the time that he fled from Saul to a cave in the wilderness of Engedi, the same cave his pursuer shortly entered. It’s likely that on one of those occasions, David prayed the words that are recorded as Psalm 142. The psalm bears the title “Maschil,” meaning that it is a psalm that teaches. What lesson would David...