RTW April 26

Avoid The However

However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 20:1b

 

 

My Takeaways

Something Old

We really see the manipulative and slimy side of David.

Where am I normally supposed to be?

  • Be where I am supposed to be.
  • Do what I am supposed to do.

Something New

Do not banish me from Your presence, and don’t take Your Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51:11

David knew of the presence of the Lord, and the power of the Spirit. He didn’t want it taken away. When we experienced it, we don’t want to lose it or have it lessened.

Something to Do

Fight to stay in God’s presence.

 

 

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6 Comments

  1. I saw so many places that David had the opportunity to stop doing wrong and turn from temptation. He could have looked away when he first saw Bathsheba, he could have not called for servants to go get her once he knew she was married, he could have not slept with her when she came, he could have not had Uriah killed. God always gives us a way out of temptation but we have to take it. We have to stop and turn around and not continue in that same path. Oh God help me to stop immediately when I know I’m following temptation. Show me the way out and let me take it and not try to cover, hide or manitpulate things to continue sinning. Let me have a heart like David that feels broken when I’ve sinned and quickly confess and make right with You.

  2. —Continue to regularly ask the Lord to search my heart for sin. Humble myself before Him and repent immediately.
    —Use Psalm 51 as a prayer today.

  3. Thank you for this lesson and ‘telling it like it is’. It really is a battle to stay in God’s presence. It forces us onto that narrow path, and to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily.

  4. Respectfully, I don’t believe we have to fight for God’s presence. At the moment of salvation we are born of the spirit, born again, given a new heart. The free gift of righteousness is given to us through the cross and the resurrection. It’s not based on our works, our obedience or our striving. We never need to invite God’s presence again from that moment. He doesn’t and won’t ever leave us.
    The New Testament tells us that we are one spirit with the Lord, that it’s His spirit, a union, a fusion together, us in Him and him in us and that bond is incredibly close, it is unshakable, it is unbreakable, it is amazing!

    We don’t need to pray things like “come be with us Lord” that is an old testament relationship. Or pray “spirit fall fresh on us”, or invite his presence. He presence is always with us.

    Our focus should be on that he lives right inside of us. And seeking, remaining, and abiding in Him through being still in his presence and reading his word daily, getting to know his goodness better and better and learning about him, therefore growing our faith and our relationship with our creator. We don’t have to do anything to stay right with God, Jesus did that for us making us forever right with God.

    We never have to fight for his presence or do anything in our own strength except to seek him. That is why the amazing gift of grace is so INCREDIBLE!!!!

    I want to share a resource with you all. He visited our church a few summers ago.

    https://andrewfarley.org/

  5. I think you’re right. Maybe a better way of saying it is – – it seems to be a struggle to stay in the ‘awareness’ of His presence. He does say that he will never leave us, but it’s up to us, like you said, to seek Him.

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