Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Obtain

David heard,

believed, acted

upon God’s word

promise settled

in his heart.

Reign of Israel

built on victorious

seen, battles ahead

secured

by covenant.

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     What immediate promise are you waiting upon the Lord for?

2.     Are you at peace with it or anxiously watching?

3.     If you have anxiety, what is the primary cause—from sources outside of you giving advice or within your own heart with worry challenging you?

4.     How do you seek His counsel while you are waiting and working towards your ‘house’?

Share: What scripture verse sustains you in hope?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

2 Samuel 7:11, “from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house.”

God made a covenant with David and David took Him at His word.

David didn’t understand why or how or when all the promises would be fulfilled but he gave his return pledge in trust. Regardless of his own abilities or lack of, regardless of immediate confirmation or not; he trusted in God’s word over his own inadequacy. He began to live into the promise as completed.

David waited in faith and action.

Why then with so many stories of God’s faithfulness do we continue to struggle with His promises to us: to give counsel and wisdom, strength and compassion, hope and a future.

We often wait in timidity.

Perhaps we’ve had so many promises broken to us in our lives, or broken our own to others, that we see them as feeble words lacking conviction until proven. Or we’ve broken our own commitments to God so dramatically we can’t even imagine we still have a trust relationship left.

When we put our-self at the center of expectations we are left with dry dust.  Somewhere along the way we reverse our words with God’s promises and are left empty-handed. Instead, like David, we can only obtain promises when we put God’s words at the center of our lives and live into them—with faith—in our own ‘houses’—ourselves where the Lord abides in us and we in Him.

Psalm of Worship: Psalm 73: 23-24

“Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou hast taken hold of my right hand.

With Thy counsel Thou wilt guide me, And afterward receive me to glory.”