Answered Prayer and Awakened Purpose

From the Rooftop to Repentance

(2 Samuel 11&12; Psalm 51) Like David, we need to choose to stop trying to hide and name the “thing” we are struggling with before the Lord. He loves us and wants to help us. God’s grace gives us the power to run from sin and the restoration we need when we blow it. We need to bring whatever it is we are struggling with from darkness to light before the Lord, confess it before Him, and let Him take the sin. He already has, but it’s up to us to choose to release it to Him.

When God's Answer is Bigger than Your Idea

(2 Samuel 7) God sees the future, He’s been in every tomorrow. His ways are higher than ours, and when we plan, God directs and re-directs. If we are questioning a plan or a change of plans, ask the Lord for confirmation. He will give His direction when we pause long enough to ask, and wait for His reply and direction.

Anointed for the Battle

(1 Samuel 16 & 17) The Lord wants to use our lives to magnify His great Name to all the nations of the earth. The Lord is with us and the victory belongs to the Lord. When you choose to repent and surrender your heart and life to Jesus as Lord of all, you are anointed with the power of His Holy Spirit. Through His power, we are able to overcome the giants we face. We need to shut off the worldly noise and the taunts of the enemy and listen to what God says. The battle belongs to the Lord and we can trust Him for every victory - always and forever.

Rejected but still Reigning

(1 Samuel 8-10) The Lord left the perfect heavens and came in human form to our broken sinful world for us. He died a crushing, torturous death for us, offering us His life instead. We can trust that He not only wants good things for us, but that He will go all out for us if we are simply willing to trust Him, trust His timing, and trust His eternal goodness.

Answered Prayer and Awakened Purpose

(1 Samuel 1-3) We are created in the image of God and are created to bear His glory to the world around us. We benefit greatly and eternally from God’s glory and His redemption plan for us, but we are not the focus or meant to be. We fall short of His glory and we desperately need Jesus and His glory. The spotlight belongs on God, not us.