Word for the Week

Wilderness Years.

Week beginning: 3rd December, 2017 | By Debbie Woods | Manchester

"David was thirty years old when he became King, and he reigned for forty years."

2 Samuel 5:4 (NIV 2011)

This may seem like an unremarkable statement of fact. David, God's mighty King, a man after God's own heart, from whose descendants God brought the Saviour Jesus Christ was thirty years old when he became King and he reigned for forty years.

However,