OBEDIENCE

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Davids obedience to his father and to God is something we all should learn from , he always listened to the voice of God and asked guidance on all things , we see the camparision between david and his father has well , David was the one who was incharge of the field as well has taking care of his brothers needs , Davids obedience led him to the battle field , we find in 1 samuel 17-One day Jesse said to David, “Take ten kilogrammes of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and hurry with them to your brothers in the camp. And take these ten cheeses to the commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are getting on and bring back something to show that you saw them and that they are well. King Saul, your brothers, and all the other Israelites are in the Valley of Elah fighting the Philistines.” David got up early the next morning, left someone else in charge of the sheep, took the food, and went as Jesse had told him to, David with often go back and forth to tend his father sheeps and see to his brothers , david never neglected his duty to his father , he was obedient to his father instructions , the distance between Bethelem to the Valley of Elah is 19 km away – about 3.5 hours walk , David could have grumbled to go there , how many times we become grumblers , when we are told to listen to do a task we often find it difficult and we want to send someone else to do what we are told , but Davids obedience to his Father caused him to be at the right location at the right time , it was only after 40 days that Jesse sent David to the valley of Elah , the 40 days the enemy barked at them God was preparing David to give the nation of Israel a new beginning and a new season , 40 days represented a new rising of generation , David obedience to his father opened the door for him to be at the right location at the right time , from the natural persceptive the human flesh , with look at the situation has a nasty or bad one but when God looked it he was a place of new beginning , Isaiah 43:18-19 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, the obedience of David left the nation with a new beginning , in Psalm 40 :6 Sacrifice and meal offering You do not desire, nor do You delight in them;You have opened my ears and given me the capacity to hear [and obey Your word]; Burnt offerings and sin offerings You do not require. We find here , what God intends for us to be obedient to in this psalm David obedience meant hearing as well , many of us obey the word but don’t listen to what the spirit of God is speaking to us through the word , that only can happen through revelation , obedience to the revelation. In our own lives , we listen to what pleases our flesh we choose what we like to hear and what we want to hear , obedience to revelation , will always bring us to a place of correction and alignment , God speaks through servants of God , maybe your pastors revelation wasn’t something you liked to hear but its what going to grow you , obedience to revelation and servants of God who God placed over you is the beginning of your elevation as we see in the life of David , his obedience to serving his father and Saul ,his anointing or talent didn’t make him puffed up , he humbled himself to a place of obedience , in psalm 141 : 5 Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers, we see in this psalm David humility and obedience to whoever God positioned in his life , david looked at a rebuke as and increase in his anointing ,and a whipping has kind heart . How often we react on a rebuke and a whipping we tend to allow the enemy to sow seeds of hate and resentment but david used this has a stragedy to increase in anointing and to develope his character , many times in our lives we are placed infront of  situations that will make us react and test our patience , but we need to use this situations to our advantage to develop our character . We find obedience between david and jonathan , God sends people with the anointing to help us break through in certain areas of our life , it could be in your personal life character or finances or in health or in decision making , 1 Samuel 18:1-4- As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt. We clearly see in this scripture a transfer in the anointing , the anointing of Jonathan there after helped David to flee from Saul numerous times , God sends anointed servants our way to bring us in alignment to certain areas in our life , we ignore these destiny helpers , maybe because they don’t have a title or maybe because you have a spiritual ego and think no one can tell you what to do , many people are stuck in the health and finances due to refusing to accept the guidance of destiny helpers God sends they way , James 2:14-1714 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is n***d and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.often we hear the instruction but don’t do the instruction , your faith in believing God can breakthrough in your life , is an act of doing what he tells you too in obedience to the destiny helpers he sends your way . 2 kings 4 : Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your woman servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” 3 Then he said, “Go around and get jars from all your neighbors. Get empty jars, many of them. 4 Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour the oil into all these jars, and set aside each one that is full.” 5 So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They took the jars to her, and she poured. 6 When the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another jar.” And he said to her, “There is not one jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing. 7 She came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go and sell the oil and pay what you owe. You and your sons can live on the rest.”, as we see in this scripture , God makes use of what you already have its obedience to his voice that he speaks through servants of God that can push us to this breakthough of overflow, the lady did not question the servant even though in the natural it did not seem to be logical , she just was obedient , many of us look at instructions logical ,yet we just need to act on the instructions and its God himself that acts on the obedience .
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