David sought The Lord and God answered him. David was righteous before God and God directed his paths!!!
At one point, God described David as a Man after my own heart!!! Acts 13:22 (NKJV) …He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’ Also in 1 Sam. 13:14
David knew and understood that God was in control of every aspect of life. And he gave honor to God at ALL times. David honored God while he was a young man herding his father’s sheep.
David honored God in ALL that he did and God was with him.
David honored God in ALL that he did and God was with him.
David slew the lion and the bear because he depended on God and NOT on his own strength.
1 Sam. 17:37 Moreover David said, “The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you!”
David depended on God and he knew that God was his help and his strength. That is how he knew that he could go up against Goliath and win. He knew that His God would show up and show out!!!!
1 Samuel 17:45-47 (NKJV)
45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
47 Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
A man anointed by God!!! When God is directing your paths, you use what HE tells you to use because that is ALL it takes!!! God anointed David to kill Goliath with a stone and a sling!!! You can’t miss when God is on your side!!!
David killed Goliath in the name of the Lord God Almighty!!!
1 Samuel 17:49-51
49 Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.
And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
God was with David in ALL that he set out to do and God gave him great favor with ALL the people.
1 Samuel 18:5, 14-15
5 So, David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved wisely. And Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
14 And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the LORD was with him.
15 Therefore, when Saul saw that he behaved very wisely, he was afraid of him.
16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
David sought God’s Will for his life and not popularity with men.
1 Samuel 18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went out to war. And so it was, whenever they went out, that David behaved more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed.
Even when Saul became jealous and repeatedly tried to kill him, David would NOT lift his hand against God’s chosen one.
Even when it seemed that God was giving him opportunity, David refused to kill Saul because he had been chosen by God.
1 Samuel 26:7, 9-12
7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and there Saul lay sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the people lay all around him.
9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
10 David said furthermore, “As the LORD lives, the LORD shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and perish.
11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. But please, take now the spear and the jug of water that are by his head, and let us go.”
12 So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
David remained faithful to God and he saw ALL that God had promised him come to pass!!!
David, God’s chosen man, anointed King of Israel at 17, served God ALL of his days.
1 Chronicles 28:4-5 (NKJV)
4 …the LORD God of Israel chose me above all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for He has chosen Judah to be the ruler. And of the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel.
5 And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
King David stands before Israel, and wisely tells his son, Solomon to love and serve God all of his days.
1 Chronicles 28:9 (NKJV) 9 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
David became King as God had promised and he is still well thought of by people today, because he was a man after God’s Own Heart!!!
2 Samuel 5:4-5
4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
1 Chronicles 29:26-28
26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
27 And the period that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.
28 So he died in a good old age, full of days and riches and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
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A note of interest!!! Today, I learned something new, and I wanted to share it with you, but then maybe you already knew this.
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