Power of God

¹⁰ The next day an evil^[a] spirit from God came forcefully on Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand ¹¹ and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
¹² Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with David but had departed from Saul. ¹³ So he sent David away from him and gave him command over a thousand men, and David led the troops in their campaigns. ¹⁴ In everything he did he had great success, because the Lord was with him. ¹⁵ When Saul saw how successful he was, he was afraid of him. ¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he led them in their campaigns.

God removed His spirit from Saul and put it into David. The difference is so evident. The spirit was with David, he can do anything under the sun with God's strength. While Saul was being tortured by evil spirits who came when God's Spirit left Saul. Earlier in the paragraph, Saul did not allow David to return to his own place in the fear that David would turn against him.  Even by keeping David in his palace, David grew stronger with God's spirit. He killed even more of Israel's enemies and shown Godliness. So, now Saul wants to try sending David away from the palace. It is shown that when God is with you no one can be against you. No one no matter his size, would be able to have control over your destiny. Only God is in control. We must build that close relationship with God so we can use His strength and glory for the good of Christ. Saul had pride in His life, he did not humble himself before God and before His people. That is one reason that cause him to be in this state today. Saul did not humble Himself, but tried to defend his pride by trying to destroy David. What is surprising is that Saul actually tried to kill David himself. Either he is blinded by his power or he is deeply affected by his insecurity of having pride. We ought to solve all insecurities, else they would come back to haunt us one day. Then we can allow ourselves to be used by the devil through this stronghold. Fix it and we would be completely safe from the devil. We can be tolerant and go about our everyday life, but if our hearts are not fixed, one day everything would come back to haunt us and then, we would and can be used by the devil.