Come close, ladies! Listen Linda. Listen Linda. I want to tell you a secret Abigail taught me in the word. Abigail was a beast. Yes, she was. Let me tell you what she did. I am about to give you the hood version. David and his men were out in them streets and they basically was just doing their thing and decided we gone do this work and then we gone eat really good. So, David sent his home boys to go knock on Nabal’s door. They came back and told David home boy was crae crae and told them to go somewhere. David was like, let’s go. I got sumpin for all the ninjas. David said, I am about to kill everything that can piss on a wall.
Ladies, lean in. We need to ask God to teach us how to talk to the King in that man like Abigail did.
Now David was in beast mold but sista girl said, let me take a bow. Sometimes we are not the ones wrong, but we have to be willing to cover that man we are with even when he is wrong. She stood in the gap for her house and God brought deliverance swiftly. Abigail was married to a fool. His name meant fool, senseless.
Let’s read what home girl told King David. 23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
26 Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
30 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then Forget me not.
David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
34 For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there would not have been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
Abigail PRESENTED herself. She said, HEY, when the Lord takes care of my situation, I want you to forget me not. Be encouraged and believe God has seen your intercession and how you have been standing in the gap. May the Lord grant us the anointing of Abigail to speak to the King inside of our man, so we are not forgotten. David went back and got that and made her one of his wives.
Forget me not
I reached up far enough this time and I grabbed a star,
I no longer have to wish and wonder where you are,
You are right here in my face,
In my embrace,
in the water that I drink,
In the thoughts that I think,
In the moments that make me stretch deeper,
In the steps that I take that are steeper,
In the air that I exhale,
In the moments I will prevail,
Against everything that could ever stand in our way,
For I have already leaped over walls and ran through troops,
To fight for a love like yours that has me in loops,
Of forget me nots.