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I wanted to encourage you in something today that Holy Spirit revealed to me in my reading this week! 

Let’s read 2 Samuel 5:17

1. Right when all things started to come together for David…he becomes king, builds a palace and is established by the Lord as king- the enemy comes. My Bible reads- when the anointing is finished and the time for kingdom business is at hand, the enemy invariably shows up. 
   1. Have you ever dealt with this before? Your family is established. Your ministry or business is on the verge of exploding, your marriage is restored, you are walking in the goodness of God and his full identity for your life  and boom the enemy shows up - right on cue!
   2. Side note-  He is so predictable that way. Which means we should be prepared at all times for his stupid schemes. And that means getting in to God’s word and staying connected to Him at all times!
   3. The Pharisees saw that David was flourishing and my guess is they didn’t want him to succeed. Maybe-They were trying to burn down his house before he could take theirs. Either way…they come in to try to take what the Lord had built and established. 
2. So what does David do?  I love about this, and it’s my main point today- let’s continue in vs 18-21

David had been anointed. David was King over Isreal at this time. David knew that God was with him. He had built a strong palace and kingdom. BUTl he didn’t stop going to the Lord for each event. 

He knew that He needed the Lord to lead Him through each and every battle. He stayed humble before the Lord and that is why he is known as a ‘man after my own heart’- 

And God gives him victory!! David listens to the Lord and is victorious! Woot!

But guess what…the enemy comes back.  And what does David do? He inquires after the lord! Let’s start at vs 22-25

And the interesting thing is that even though they were fighting the same enemy in the same place, God gave him two strategies. He could have thought ‘well here we are again, I’m going to do what I did last time because it worked and God was with me’ and maybe it would’ve worked because he wasn’t necessarily disobeying God BUT instead he obeyed God and He conquered more land than before.  The valley of Rephaim was a few miles of land from Jerusalem. But the second conquest- Gibeon to Gezer was 15 miles!

So the point? Remember to always go to the Lord FIRST!


 

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