1 Samuel 16 vs 18:
One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the Lord is with him.”
This is when King Saul was being tormented by an evil spirit from the Lord. Earlier in this chapter we hear that the spirit of the Lord had departed from King Saul and now he had an evil spirit from the Lord and it was tormenting him. Oh my goodness! God forbid if that ever happened to any of us. I can imagine the Lord Himself sending an evil spirit to come and trouble you.
This was because Saul had sinned so much against God. God had trusted Him and he had lost the trust so now he was being tormented by an evil spirit and because of that the servants in the palace were recommending to Him that he should seek a man who was a cunning player of the harp and that this man would come and play for the King and this would make the king feel better. That's when one of the servants mentioned David in the passage above.
So my message today is people are observing you. This servant did not say he knew David, he said ,"I have seen a son of Jesse". Some bible translation says ,"I have observed a son of Jesse". He did not even know he's name. He was just observing him and through observing him he also knew quite a bit about him. He knew who his father was, he knew which tribe he belonged to, he knew he was a man of war, he knew he was a prudent man (prudent just means somebody who shows a lot of care, someone who is very thoughtful),he knew that he was very handsome and he knew that the Lord was with him. Wow! I love the last part, that really caught my attention. How do people that the Lord is with you?. I guess they can tell by your character, by the way you speak, by the way you dress, by your testimonies. Maybe they've heard your testimonies and stories about what the Lord has done for you.
In this case David had just been anointed by prophet Samuel. Remember prophet Samuel when he went to Jesse's house to anoint one of his sons and they had even forgotten about David because David was in the field tending to the sheep and they had to bring him in and he was anointed as the king even though he was a young boy, so I guess the servant had heard about this story. We may not know a lot of people, we may not know them but they know us, believe it or not. And they even know the small details about us, why?. Because they are observing us. So whatever we do let's be careful, let's be good examples especially when we are the ones who call ourselves Christians, who call ourselves the children of God. Let's be mindful of what we do because people are watching us.
And also another point from this verse is pray for divine helpers. People who will recommend you even in your absence. David was brought to the palace because of the word of a servant. This was not a high ranking officer in the king's palace, this was not a minister, this was not a governor, this was just another servant just a servant in king Saul's palace. He had a word given to the king to have David come to the palace. So this means you can't despise anybody. God sends people to our lives to help us. Everyone comes to your life for a purpose and sometimes we out of ignorance we despise people. We chase away our divine helpers.
Let's really pray for divine helpers because we all need that one person to connect us to our destiny, to connect us to our greatness, to connect us to a business that will just change your life overnight.
One day I was listening to this man of God and he was saying pray for divine helpers and pray like this,
"God show me my divine helpers and if I have chased them away please bring them back. In the name of Jesus" I've been praying that prayer to myself and I’m sure this prayer will bless you too if you start praying the same prayer.
Prayer:
Father, in the name of Jesus we just want to thank you for another day, another beautiful week. We just want to thank for bringing us this far. This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it. Thank you for the message you have given us, thank you my God for reminding us that even though we may not know it people are watching us. In everything that we do we have to do with an excellent spirit. We have to be mindful, we have to show a godly character because they are watching us and we also have to know that there are divine helpers that you have given to us. We have to be observant and to know who they are, open our eyes to know who they are, to see them cause sometimes we do not know. We just need your help cause we can't do it by ourselves. We thank you my God for everything, for life, for health, for our families, for our friends and we just ask that you keep us safe in your holy hands. In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit.
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