Wednesday May 07th, 2025
Meditate on Acts 13:22CEV
« Later, God removed Saul and let David rule in his place. God said about him, “David the son of Jesse is the kind of person who pleases me most! He does everything I want him to do.” »
Read 2 Samuel 6:20-22NKJV
20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the base fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”
21 So David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me instead of your father and all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will play music before the Lord.
22 And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight. But as for the maidservants of whom you have spoken, by them I will be held in honor.”
1 Samuel 2:7-8 tells us that God can make one fellow poor and another rich, He can bring one down and raise another.
He can lift a beggar out of the dust and keep on promoting them until they are sitting amongst princes. Psalm 75:7AMPLIFIED says further
« But God is the Judge; He puts down one and lifts up another »
What does God look out for in the people He promotes?
The first thing, according to our memory verse, is a willingness to do His will.
- Once He finds out that you are the kind of individual who always wants to do His will, then He will mark you out for promotion.
If He sees how passionate you are about lifting His name above every other name, He will lift you.
This is the kind of heart that David had; it was this passion that made him confront Goliath when he heard the giant defiling the name of the Lord.
« Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” »
1 Samuel 17:26NKJV . In 1 Samuel 17:45-47, David said that the ‘fight belonged to God’.
He wasn’t fighting for his own accolades; he was fighting for the glory of God.
How passionate are you about the will of God being done in your life and around you?
Once in a while, a fellow could start out pursuing the Lord’s will, so He promotes him or her, but then along the line, the person could get so carried away with power that he or she is no longer pursuing the Lord’s will.
The Lord responds by demoting such an individual immediately and disgracefully, as we see in the story of King Saul in 1 Samuel 15:23.
Today, when people talk about King Saul, they use him as a bad example.
You can hardly find any good thing to say about him.
That is the lot of those who, after being promoted by God, begin to do their own will rather than His.
Food for thoughts – Within your sphere of influence, do you pursue God’s will or your own agenda?
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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