I love King David. The word says he was a man after God’s heart. Did he make mistakes? Of course, BIG ones. He was charged with committing murder and adultery but he was still God’s man and his baby died. He still paid a price for his sins. He numbered the people because he wanted to know how many were following him and thousands died because of it. However, David knew it was better to fall into the hands of God than man. He had big problems with his kids like some of us must deal with. Nevertheless, he was the King, and he knew how to get God’s attention.
He knew how to fall on his face and seek the heart of God for his life and get the strategies he needed for his battles. David was a man of war, so much so that his son Solomon never had to fight one battle. Get God’s attention for the strategy for your situation.
One of my favorite exploits of David’s was when he inquired of the Lord and asked, Shall I go up at Ziklag? In this moment his own men were ready to kill him. He encouraged himself and went to get God’s attention. There will be times you will feel alone because others won’t have the faith to do what you have to do. They don’t have the strength to fight. They won’t even seek God for the strategy. But God told him to pursue, overtake and recover all. He headed out without any real sense of direction. But God ordered his steps.
It is time for many of us to encourage ourselves, get God’s attention and go up, so we can recover all like King David did!
1Samuel 30
21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
Don’t be mad at those that didn’t help you fight and the ones that didn’t support you. Everyone can’t go with you but make sure your heart is right when you return with the spoils. God is a righteous judge. This is another reflection of the heart of God and why God calls David a man after his own heart. Get Gods attention and allow him to deliver you so you can recover all he has for you and yours in this season!