13TH APRIL, 2023
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
DEVELOPING DAVID’S HEART
Psalms 78:70-72 (KJV)
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
David was declared by God to be a man after His own heart. God had to search for a man with a heart like David: there were not many men that had, or even now have, David’s heart.
This is because a David heart, so to speak, is not a natural heart: nobody is born with that kind of heart; it is one that is developed over time by the power of the Holy Spirit and the written Word of God.
What then are the characteristics of a David heart?
Honesty and humility to accept all of the truth of God’s Word and diligently practice it. This practice will develop courage, fortitude, faithfulness, patience, perseverance, love and all the other fruit of the Spirit in your heart.
Why do we need to develop a David heart?
The reason is that we are living in a prophetic time, the third day, in which God is raising up spiritual kings in Christ, typified by David, who will bring order to God’s Kingdom, and fulfill God’s purpose of manifesting the perfection and fullness of Christ in the earth (Jer. 30:7-9; Amos 9:11).
How then do you develop a David heart?
By daily, as a habit, using the written Word, the life of God and the power of the Holy Spirit to write God’s law of love upon your mind, will and emotions, so that it controls your conduct like it did David’s.
It was God’s law written on David’s heart that gave him the courage and strength to kill the lion, the bear and Goliath (1Sam. 17.34-37).
David, in spite of his good heart, in a time of obvious carelessness and negligence of the Word and prayer, allowed himself to be set up by Satan to commit adultery and murder (2Sam. 11, 12:1-25).
Thank God that, by the mercy of God, he was able to repent of this and did not commit this type of folly again in his life. However, we are to learn from his example that it is not enough to develop a David heart; it is also vital to maintain it constantly, by habitual, daily fellowship with the Lord in the Word and prayer.
Acts 13:22-23 NKJV
And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.‘
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