Wait On God Series

God is more interested in PREPARING David for the throne, than in putting him ON the throne.

• Led by God, David went through many different experiences and adversity, all of which makes him a better KING for having endured them.

• So don’t presume that the shortest way is the best way. Don’t presume that the quickest way is the right way. We walk WITH God, not ahead of Him.

• It may look like a detour, it may look like a delay, but we trust Him. God has His time and His way. He knows what He is doing.

Our part is to INQUIRE of the Lord, just as David did and learn to obey what He says.

• 3 days ago FB reminded me of an old post in 11 Aug 2011, “God is not primarily interested in TRANSPORTING you somewhere (heaven), but rather in TRANSFORMING you into someone (like Christ).”

• The destination is not God’s greatest concern, the journey is.

David has learnt, over time and over this long journey, to submit to God and obey His ways.

• There were times he drifted and sinned, but he returned and repented in quick time.

• We see him grow in faith, not in himself but in God. We see him trusting God more and more, over the difficult circumstances.

• He might not understand how things would turn out, but he has learned not to take things into his own hands.

It will take some more time, and more adversity before we reach 2 Sam 5 and see David becoming King over all Israel.

• It’s easy to stand at Chapter 5, looking back and say, “You have to trust God, and everything will be fine, you’ll be King one day…”

• It is quite another, to stand at Chapter 2 and make sense of all that is happening.

• Can you? Can you keep faith with God? Can you trust that God’s purpose will be fulfilled? Can you trust God to lead you?

David will not just become king, he will be a BETTER King because of all that he was put through. God PREPARES His King.

• That day will come. It will surely come because God says so. The seed of the Kingdom of God has been sown.

• It may start in a small, unknown place called Hebron, but it will come.

• David’s house will be established, in God’s time and in God’s way.

Twists and turns are part and parcel of God’s sovereign work in our lives.

• We don’t like it, we don’t understand it, but we can trust Him for it.

• There is no accident with God.

Spafford wrote the words to this hymn, IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL.

He was a very successful lawyer in Chicago and heavily invested in real estate. In 1871, the great Chicago fire destroyed all his downtown investment properties.

He was a devout Christian and a great supporter of his good friend Dwight L. Moody and Ira Sankey evangelistic ministry. After this crisis, he and his family planned a vacation trip to Britain, to rest and also to support Moody’s evangelistic campaign. Spafford sent his wife Anna and four girls — ages 11, 9, 7 and 2 — ahead while he finished up some last-minute business in Chicago.