The Fall and Rise of the House of David: The Retreat

Today we look at the arena or workshop where God often performs His divine alchemy and changes the lead of our failings into the gold of Christ-likeness. That workshop is the WILDERNESS. David is in retreat and along with many of his supporters, he's fleeing from Absalom into a place where no one cares to go – a place of pain and deprivation…where the believer sees his or her desperate need for God.

Today, the believer in Jesus Christ and the "wilderness experience": 
1) How'd it happened for David?
2) How it happens for us and what to do about it.