Approval or Presence Part II

Product of a Promise

In 2011 I had pleaded with the Lord to make as David… I had come to learn David had moments in which he was not the squeaky clean person I had known him to be.

David married multiple women, committed adultery, lied to the priests, commits murder, does a terrible job raising his kids, there were so many reasons for God to not choose David.

He did have one thing going for him and we can argue it is the most important thing one can have.

Even in the midst of his mess he is known as a man after God’s own heart.

While there were things he did that I did not do, I thought if God names him in such a way He could do the same for me.

This is a prayer that was prayed in the quiet secret place, when it was spoken over me the pastor didnt know me and simply spoke the word the Lord gave to him.

To be known as a person after God’s own heart You must completely surrender to God

Acts 13:22 ESV

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

Saul’s Recap

Saul’s Description

Tall, Handsome, from Money

Kingship

Kingdom was supposed to last forever

Issue

Insecurity, (Hid in the baggage) Led to pride, and arrogance

Sought after the Approval of People

Caused the people to sin

Rejected

Insecurity led to foolishness rooted in Pride and Arrogance (please love me)

Rejected the word of the Lord

Lord rejected him

David

Description

Ruddy, Sheep Farmer, Handsome, Conceived in Sin…

Likely throw away he is not initially presented to Samuel as an option

Ex 4:10-11 God;

Calls

Anoints

Equips

Appoints

Sends

Issues

many

Promise Fulfilled

Sought after God’s Presence

Did not hide from

All Summed up by this statement… “Did what was the will of God”

Selected and Qualified by the Lord

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Samuel looked the outward appearance of David’s brothers

Rebuked and told to look at the heart

When he anoints David it would be another 8 years before he would become king.

The Road would be marked with many mistakes but he remained surrendered to God.

Examining David’s Prayer

Trust in the Lord over the Self

We know he rejects Saul’s Armor… Lives into His Calling

Psalm 51:1–3 ESV

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

Trusts the Lord is the only one who can save him from himself

Knows the futility of his own desires and will

Psalm 51:4 ESV

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

His sin hurt others but none greater than God

Desires forgiveness not for himself but that God would be glorified

Acknowledge the Condition

Psalm 51:5–7 ESV

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

The human condition is to live in the identities we are given

Self deprication

Wants to be instructed by the Lord

David knows The only one who can free him from the internal self is the Lord

Purge me with Hyssop

Confess in the Work of the Lord

Psalm 51:8–12 ESV

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Understands the self inflicted wound and the work of the Lord to correct him… chooses not to hide

Understanding his nature asks the Lord to take away his desire to act against Him

Wrestles with the Lord and contends for not just forgiveness to be renewed

Contends to stay in His Presence

Salvation comes from the Lord

Willing Spirit

The Will of God Over His Own

Psalm 51:13 ESV

Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.

He longs for the work of God

Uses his life as a living testimony

Complete surrender is what we see in Psalm 51:17 a humble spirit, broken heart for the things that have broken His heart, a full acknowledgement that without God no amount of people who like us will satisfy.

God’s desire is that we acknowledge and fully depend on Him. To fully accept and step into the calling He has for us in His will and to progress His will over our own…