A transformed heart

THEN THE PEOPLE ASKED FOR A KING, AND HE GAVE THEM SAUL SON OF KISH, OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, WHO RULED FORTY YEARS

AFTER REMOVING SAUL, HE MADE DAVID THEIR KING. HE TESTIFIED CONCERNING HIM: I HAVE FOUND DAVID SON OF JESSE A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART; HE WILL DO EVERYTHING I WANT HIM TO DO

ISRAEL ASKED FOR A KING- 1 SAM 8 SAUL BECAME KING- 1 SAM 10 SAMUEL REBUKED SAUL- 1 SAM 13 GOD REJECTED SAUL- 1 SAM 15 SAMUEL ANOINTED DAVID1SAM16 DAVID AND GOLIATH- 1 SAM 17 DAVID BECAME KING- 2 SAM 2

1. DEVELOPING FAITH AS A SHEPHERD

1 SAM 17:31-37 WHAT DAVID SAID WAS

OVERHEARD AND REPORTED TO SAUL, AND SAUL SENT FOR HIM

AND DAVID SAID TO SAUL, “LET NO ONE LOSE HEART ON ACCOUNT OF THIS PHILISTINE; YOUR SERVANT WILL GO AND FIGHT HIM”

SAUL REPLIED, “YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO GO OUT AGAINST THIS PHILISTINE AND FIGHT HIM; YOU ARE ONLY A BOY, AND HE HAS BEEN A FIGHTING MAN FROM HIS YOUTH.”

BUT DAVID SAID TO SAUL. “YOUR SERVANT HAS BEEN KEEPING HIS FATHER’S SHEEP. WHEN A LION OR BEAR CAME AND CARRIED OFF A SHEEP FROM THE FLOCK, I WENT AFTER IT, STRUCK IT AND RESCUED THE SHEEP FROM IT’S MOUTH

WHEN IT TURNED ON ME, I SEIZED IT BY IT’S HAIR, STRUCK IT AND KILLED IT.

YOUR SERVANT HAS KILLED BOTH THE LION AND THE BEAR; THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE WILL BE LIKE ONE OF THEM, BECAUSE HE HAS DEFIED THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD

THE LORD WHO DELIVERED ME FFROM THE PAW OF THE LION AND FROM THE PAW OF THE BEAR WILL DELIVER ME FROM THE HAND OF THIS PHILISTINE.” SAUL SAID TO DAVID, “GO AND THE LORD BE WITH YOU”

HE CHOSE DAVID HIS SERVANT AND TOOK HIM FROM THE SHEEP PENS;

FROM TENDING THE SHEEP HE BROUGHT HIM TO BE THE SHEPHERD OF HIS PEOPLE JACOB, OF ISRAEL HIS INHERITANCE.

AND DAVID SHEPHERDED THEM WITH INTEGRITY OF HEART; WITH SKILLFUL HANDS AND HE LED THEM.

1. DEVELOPING FAITH AS A SHEPHERD

2. CONQUERING FEAR AGAINST GOLIATH

1 SAM 17:41-49 MEANWHILE, THE PHILISTINE, WITH

HIS SHIELD BEARER IN FRONT OF HIM, KEPT COMING CLOSER TTO DAVID.

HE LOOKED DAVID OVER AND SAW THAT HE WAS A BOY, RUDDY AND HANDSOME, AND HE DESPISED HIM

HE SAID TO DAVID, “I AM A DOG, THAT YOU COME AT ME WITH STICKS?” AND THE PHILISTINE CURSED DAVID BY HIS GODS

“COME HERE”, HE SAID, “AND I’LL GIVE YOUR FLESH TO THE BIRDS OF THE AIR AND THE BEAST OF THE FIELD!”

DAVID SAID TO THE PHILISTINE, “YOU COME TO ME WITH SWORD AND SPEAR AND JAVELIN, BUT I COME AGAINST YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD OF THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, WHOM YOU HAVE DEFIED.

THIS DAY THE LORD WILL HAD YOU OVER TO ME, AND I’LL STRIKE YOU DOWN AND CUT OFF YOUR HEAD. TODAY I WILL GIVE THE CARCASSES OF THE PHILISTINE ARMY TO THE BIRDS OF THE AIR AND THE BEAST OF THE EARTH, AND THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW THAT THERE IS A GOD IN ISRAEL

ALL THOSE GATHERED HERE WILL KNOW THAT IT IS NOT BY THE SWORD OR SPEAR THAT THE LORD SAVES; FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S AND HE WILL GIVE ALL OF YOU INTO OUR HANDS”

AS THE PHILISTINE MOVED CLOSER TO ATTACK HIM, DAVID RAN QUICKLY TOWARD THE BATTLE LINE TO MEET HIM

REACHING INTO HIS BAG AND TAKING OUT A STONE, HE SLUNG IT AND STRUCK THE PHILISTINE ON THE FOREHEAD. THE STONE SANK INTO HIS FOREHEAD, AND HE FELL FACEDOWN ON THE GROUND

YOU PREPARE A TABLE BEFORE ME IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES. YOU ANOINT MY HEAD WITH OIL; MY CUP OVERFLOWS

WHAT DO WE FEAR?

DO YOU HAVE INSECURITIES?

1. DEVELOPING FAITH AS A SHEPHERD

2. CONQUERING FEAR AGAINST GOLIATH

3. RECOGNIZING GOD’S FAVOR WHEN TRUTH IS FOLLOWED

1 SAM 26:8-12 -DAVID HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO

KILL SAUL 1 SAM 26:21-25 -SAUL BLESSED DAVID BECAUSE

DAVID FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTION OF GOD NOT TO LAY HANDS AGAINST THE ANOINTED ONE (SAUL)

TRANSITION TO THE NEXT LEADERSHIP: SAUL BLESSED DAVID

-DAVID DIDN’T GO AHEAD OF GOD’S PLAN

THEN SAUL SAID TO DAVID, “ MAY YOU BE BLESSED, MY SON DAVID; YOU WILL DO GREAT THINGS AND SURELY TRIUMPH. SO DAVID WENT ON HIS WAY, AND SAUL RETURNED HOME.

1. I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU-

NO MATTER WHAT WILL HAPPEN, JESUS IS ALWAYS WITH US

2. FEAR?- DO NOT BE AFRAID NOR BE DISMAYED.. 3. DO YOU LACK? SEEK YE FIRST… AND IT SHALL BE ADDED

UNTO YOU 4. AFRAID OF THE FUTURE?- TO GIVE YOU A HOPE AND A FUTURE

1. DEVELOPING FAITH AS A SHEPHERD

2. CONQUERING FEAR AGAINST GOLIATH

3. RECOGNIZING GOD’S FAVOR WHEN TRUTH IS FOLLOWED

4. CHOOSING FREEDOM FROM SIN

2 SAM 11:13-15 AT DAVID’S INVITATION, HE ATE AND

DRANK WITH HIM, AND DAVID MADE HIM DRUNK. BUT IN THE EVENING URIAH WENT OUT TO SLEEP ON HIS MAT AMONG HIS MASTER’S SERVANTS; HE DID NOT GO HOME

IN THE MORNING DAVID WROTE A LETTER TO JOAB AND SEND IT WITH URIAH

IN IT HE WROTE, “PUT URIAH IN THE FRONT LINE WHERE THE FIGHTING IS FIERCEST. THEN WITHDRAW FROM HIM SO HE WILL BE STRUCK DOWN AND DIE

-DAVID WANTS TO COVER UP HIS SIN WITH BATHSHEBA BY KILLING URIAH, ONE OF HIS FAITHFUL AND LOYAL GENERAL

2 SAM 12:13 THEN DAVID SAID TO NATHAN, “I

HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD.” NATHAN REPLIED, “THE LORD HAS TAKEN AWAY YOUR SIN. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DIE

-BE RESPONSIBLE TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE WRONG WE HAVE COMMITTED

1. DEVELOPING FAITH AS A SHEPHERD 2. CONQUERING FEAR AGAINST

GOLIATH 3. RECOGNIZING GOD’S FAVOR

WHEN TRUTH IS FOLLOWED 4. CHOOSING FREEDOM FROM SIN 5. CHARTING THE FUTURE AND

LEAVING A GODLY LEGACY

2 SAM 7:1-7 AFTER THE KING WAS SETTLED IN HIS

PALACE AND THE LORD HAS GIVEN HIM REST FROM ALL HIS ENEMIES AROUND HIM, HE SAID TO NATHAN THE PROPHET, “HERE I AM, LIVING IN A PALACE OF CEDAR, WHILE THE ARK OF GOD REMAINS IN A TENT.”

NATHAN REPLIED TO THE KING, “WHATEVER YOU HAVE IN MIND, GO AHEAD AND DO IT, FOR THE LORD IS WITH YOU.”

THAT NIGHT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO NATHAN, SAYING:

“GO AND TELL MY SERVAND DAVID, ‘THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS: ARE YOU THE ONE TO BUILD ME A HOUSE TO DWELL IN?

I HAVE NOT DWELT IN A HOUSE FROM THE DAY I BROUGHT THE ISRAELITES UP OUT OF EGYTP TO THIS DAY. I HAVE BEEN MOVING FROM PLACE TO PLACE WITH A TENT AS MY DWELLING. WHEREVER I HAVE MOVED WITH ALL THE ISRAELITES, DID I EVER SAY TO ANY OF THEIR RULERS WHOM I COMMANDED TO SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, WHY HAVE YOU NOT BUILT ME A HOUSE OF CEDAR?

FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU, DECLARES THE LORD, PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU, PLANS TO GIVE YOU A HOPE AND A FUTURE

AFTER REMOVING SAUL, HE MADE DAVID THEIR KING. HE TESTIFIED CONCERNING HIM: I HAVE FOUND DAVID SON OF JESSE A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART; HE WILL DO EVERYTHING I WANT HIM TO DO