Considerations The man said, “I have spent so many hours when I was driven by despair to my knees because I had nowhere else to go.” The man’s name? Abraham Lincoln. The “man after God’s own heart,” King David, understood discouragement. I Samuel 30:6, Then David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of the people was bitter, every man for his (captive) sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. Even the incomparable prophet Elijah had his moments of despair. 1 Kings 19:4, Alone, Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he ...