I have a question for you, if you had a rare opportunity to destroy an enemy would you pass it up? I don’t even have a yes to that question. I am a peaceful person but I am not usually in the habit of letting my enemies go scott-free. Yet I understand why David did.
Listen, God’s gift cannot be acquired or maintained outside God. If God has given something to somebody no spear you throw can take it away from them. You can plot, scheme, try, jazz, anything you like, God has taken it, period. The
You have to understand that Israel is greater than one individual. God’s purpose is far more precious than one person’s tantrums; there are lives at stake, Kingdom agenda will not wait for anybody.
If you ask a proud person, they will tell you that they are afraid of nobody but watch what happens when people try to take their focus off them. Watch what happens when something tries to “fall their hand.” Pay close attention to how pleased they are when they win the approval of people.
There is no such thing as partial obedience to God. It is all or nothing. We don’t get to pick and choose which instructions to follow and which to disregard, it is an insult to Him and a rebellion against Him.
Has it ever happened to you that just as you succumbed to pressure and did what you shouldn’t have, you found the solution? Just as you did things your way, you discovered what God had prepared? If only it had come yesterday or even moments ago? And now what you have done is too late to be undone and you are stuck with the regret of your hasty actions. And ask yourself, why didn’t I wait?
Beloved, when God sends you on an unusual assignment, He gives you unusual courage to go along with it. So maybe that’s why nobody understands why you are so driven and passionate, it’s all in the plan.
Is this true with you too? Are you so terrified of your coronation that you rather hide? You are called to speak to the world, but there you are hiding behind that excuse. forgetting that nobody lights a candle to keep it hidden.
