I think David is one of my favorite people in the Bible. I am realizing just how much I relate to his life... today in my time with the Lord I read verses in 1 and 2 Samuel where David inquired of the Lord of what he should do. (1 Samuel 23:1-5; 30: 6-8; 2 Samuel 2:1; 5:17-25) He didn't rush ahead of God's timing... he waited for the Lord to direct him. I needed to read those passages today and recognize areas of my life that I am not inquiring of the Lord, but trying to figure out how to move ahead on my own. I so often take things and try to work them out on my own.

I finished by reading 1 Chronicles 17. It is an amazing glimpse into the relationship David had with God. David truly recognized who he was in light of who God was. God blessed David in amazing ways! And David saw that it was not because of what he had done, but because of who God is.

"The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on God in the thick of the fight. It comes to the one who tarries for the vision of faith. It comes to the one who believes that he who waits upon the Lord shall never be confounded. It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the one who believes that before he calls, God will answer. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him. It is faith who turns distress into singing."

Alan Redpath in The Making of a Man of God