Word Of Encouragement:
I stumbled upon this while researching how God prepared David to be king and thought I might also share:
"God spoke a word through the prophet Samuel, declaring David’s destiny. And then he seemed to be pulling David deliberately backwards away from that goal. Great tension was created as the gap between the spoken promise and the apparent reality seemed to grow wider and wider... Read these words again, and you will see that I am describing an archer, pulling back his arrows, ready to shoot further, harder, and with more power when it hits the target."
The hardships David went through all those years were actually preparing him to be a great king. Never give up on God. He'll always see you through everything, for the plans He has for us are to prosper us and not to harm us.