I read the bible many times and skipped the parts I was not interested in, Later found out I mist out on the prayer of Jabez, because it's hidden in the genealogies. Nnow that you know what you will miss, just type Jabez on Google and you will get the reference, Yes the bible is full of mysteries, I would look for parables with hidden meaning, Like the 2 first kings: Saul and David, the name Saul means desire (to remain in charge) representing the fallen sin nature. David, a man after the heart of God is a picture Of Jesus not taking the kingdom by force from Saul: Jesus will not take us by force.
Here is part of a study about it.
There is a motion of sin in us, while I start working Jesus stops:
"What is gain for me is lost for Christ."
"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
If we do not walk in the light we have, we deceive ourselves and become dull of hearing, so that knowledge of God becomes something far away. In disorder of inner life, spiritual reading does not bring relief. The little value set on Him being what we received: discouragement and loss of vision with disappointed expectations where we stopped short on the journey. "A double minded man is unstable in all His ways."
Enter in as a little child and put away your divided spirit:
"Prepare for war... Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord, is near in the valley of decision."
The old nature still desires control after we receive the Holy Spirit. To arrive at wholeness passes through the valley od decision. “Yes though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me.” David who wrote this Psalm, taken from tending the Father's sheep in the wilderness; confronted the bear and the lion without fear. Alone with God in the wilderness, living for His praise, is the rightful place for fear: in admiration worship of God. This is the confidence to face our public enemy in the world (Goliath) without fear. "Out of the mouth of babes You have ordained strength: to still the enemy and avenger." "The joy of the Lord is our strength."
Saul desires to remain in charge, knowing the kingdom is thorn from Him, and gives his daughter to David in marriage. "Saul said: I will give him her that she be a snare to Him." God responds to Saul is according to his obsession for control. "The evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house, and David played with hand as at other times. And there was a javelin in Saul's hand and Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul...and David fled and escaped that night." Leaving the comfort of Saul's daughter, to escape a battle he is not to fight.
Getting past the wall of our comfort zone:
"Michal let David down through a window."
The wall, enclosed with desire to please the old king: when controlled by desires, we can't run from the insanity of a divided spirit. "It shall come to past in the day that the lord shall give you rest from your sorrow and your fear and the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve." Godly sorrow turns us to Him, to continually repent and seek first the Kingdom of God. "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the enemy and he will flee from you." Losing sight of the Lord in these uncertain times is our greatest affliction. "The heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be Lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father."
To get past you have to surrender everything:
"They that wait on the Lord shall renew strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint."
To seek the Lord and not take things in our hands again: we learn to soar effortlessly with God, but loose this privilege when controlled by desire in relationships. "Flee youthful lusts that war against the soul," "Flee anger," "Flee from idolatry." "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is going on to perfection."
God breaks our heart to enlarge our territory:
“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies it brings forth much fruit."
After the death of Saul, David is king over all Israel, no longer fleeing outward enemies and encounters the enemy within: corrupted by power to take things in his hands with Bathsheba. The sentence of the Lord, "From now on you shall have wars." David was faithful to turn to God in adversity, to yield to Him in affliction. "You did chastise me Lord, and I was instructed."
As contraries otherwise that cannot coexist as one. He has finished the work but requires our agreement with Him as the Passion of Christ takes us captive.
Wounded with His wounds, we journey into union with God:
"These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends."
Carried into His death to all that is not of God, in the truth that sets us free. Obedience to God is dependence on the Holy Spirit. "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit sais the Lord." To be filled with the Spirit is to go on to know the Lord, in the relationship of Jesus in constant fellowship with the Father: We will not be satisfied until we find our rest in God. Life in this world is a dream that wakes us up when we suffer disappointment; alone in deep darkness, unprepared to suffer the journey alone in the death of Christ. Without the power and leading of the Holy Spirit we are like the disciples at Gethsemane, tempted to go back asleep in the old dream. If we don't know how to interpret we won't enjoy the wonder. What we learn in waiting on the Lord, is more important than what we are waiting for: to persevere through uncertain times, for Grace to renew strength and continue to appear before God. Grace enables us to do "One thing needful," to forget what lies behind and go on to know the Lord, to prepare our heart for spiritual awakening: that we may enter in His rest. "The weapons of our warfare are not of our fleshly mind, but mighty through God to pull down strong holds; turning down imaginations and every proud thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, to bring every thoughts in obedience of Christ."