JOY IN WAITING ON THE LORD

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JOY IN WAITING ON THE LORD
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• David learnt to worship the Lord, while watching
  his fathers flocks in the fields of Bethlehem.
• It was during this period of time that he began
  to understand spiritual truths that would change
  the Nation of Israel in his generation and
  thereafter.
• He exercised faith to fight the Lion and the Bear
  to protect the flock.

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• It took that same faith to defend Israel, Gods
  flock, against Goliath.
• He learned that the Name of the Lord was powerful
  for the pulling down strongholds.
• David became the greatest king, Israel ever had
  but he began not as a king but as a shepherd boy!

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• Matt 25 21
• His master replied, Well done, good and
  faithful servant! You have been faithful with a
  few things I will put you in charge of many
  things. Come and share your masters happiness!

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• Matt 25 21
• His master replied, Well done, good and
  faithful servant! You have been faithful with a
  few things I will put you in charge of many
  things. Come and share your masters happiness!

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• You need to fight the lion and the bear before
  you can take on the Goliaths.
• David fought with smaller things. He tried and
  tested Gods word in every situation long before
  Goliath came to the scene.

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• Even though Saul offered his armor, David could
  not fight Goliath using Sauls armor. You cannot
  walk the walk of faith using somebody else
  revelation of God or their fillings.
• Everyone one of us has to find our own strength
  and gifts and walk in the revelation that God has
  given each of us individually.

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• After being anointed as the new king of Israel,
  he had to wait on the Lord patiently for fifteen
  years before God would bring to fulfillment His
  word in Davids life.
• 1063 BC. David is anointed as king of Israel at
  the age of approximately 16 yrs.
• 1063 BC.- David serves as a musician David
  kills goliath
• 1056 BC. Saul tries to kill David. David spares
  Sauls life twice
• 1056 BC. Installed as King of Judah
• 1048 BC Installed as king of Israel for both
  kingdoms.

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• He was rejected by Saul for about 7 years. And
  then for another 7 to 8 years, he was king of
  half Israel.
• It took fifteen years from the anointing, till he
  actually became King of the whole nation of
  Israel.

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• We need to realize that even though we have
  received the call of God on our lives, and His
  anointing for service He still takes time in
  bringing us to the fulfillment of the call.
• We cannot allow poverty, sickness and tribulation
  rob us of this joy!

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• Luke 1017,20
• The seventy-two returned with joy and said
  LORD, even the demons submit to us in your name
• Has the Lord Jesus Christ written with His nail
  pierced hand your name in the book of life?

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• Isaiah 6110
• I delight greatly in the LORD my soul rejoices
  in my GOD. For He has clothed me with garments of
  salvation and arrayed me in a robe of
  righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns herself
  with her jewels.

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• Joy multiplies in the presence of God In His
  presence is fullness of joy!
• Psalms1611
• You have made known to me the path of life you
  fill me with joy in your presence with eternal
  pleasures at your right hand

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• Psalms 374
• Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give
  you the desires of your heart.
• Isaiah 408
• The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the
  word of our GOD stands forever

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• John 1624
• Until now you have not asked for anything in my
  name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will
  be complete
• I John 15
• This is the message we have heard form Him and
  declare to you GOD is light in Him there is no
  darkness at all

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• Acts 541
• The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing
  because they had been counted worthy of suffering
  disgrace for the Name.
• Romans 1417
• For the Kingdom of GOD is not a matter of eating
  and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy
  in the Holy Spirit.

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• This is not a selfish joy. Earthly joy cannot be
  shared like this.
• But this is Heavenly joy, which is our privilege
  to seek, receive and share with many others on
  earth.
• I Samuel 163
• Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show
  you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one
  I indicate

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• Have you ever realized the God wants you to be a
  Heavenly King?
• I Peter 29
• But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
  a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that
  you may declare the praises of Him who called you
  out of darkness in to His wonderful light.

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• When you become conscious of the Spirit of God
  being poured upon you as a sign that you are His
  forever, its only a beginning. Even though the
  joy of now is wonderful, its only a beginning.
• II Samuel 57,9a
• 7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of
  Zion, in the City of David.

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• 9David then took up residence in the fortress
  and called it the city of David.
• Whom Joshua could not drive, David did by the
  Grace of God. It was a heavenly plan that they
  should be driven out only by Gods people who had
  come out of Egypt.

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• He did not do to the Jebusites, what God did to
  the people of Jericho.
• Have you realized God depends on you to fulfill
  the heavenly plan?
• Jebusites are Gentiles or unbelievers with whom
  believers have common yolk.
• For about 400 years, Gods plan was hindered
  because of Jebusites!

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• It is a happy day for believers to see, when they
  are separated from all that is of the world and
  of old life and realize that God is relying upon
  them to fulfill His plan.
• Even this joy is the beginning of much much more.
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• II Samuel 2424-25
• 24But the king replied to Araunah, No, I insist
  on paying your for it. I will not sacrifice to
  the LORD my GOD burnt offerings that cost me
  nothing.
• So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen
  and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.

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• 25David built an altar to the LORD there and
  sacrificed burnt offerings fellowship offerings.
  The the LORD answered the prayer in behalf of the
  land, and the plague on Israel was stopped
• How great are His tender mercies, for even though
  we grieve Him, yet He forgives us.

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• The very spot where David was punished became the
  site of Gods House.
• II Chronicles 31
• Then Solomon began to build Temple of the LORD
  in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had
  appeared to his father David. It was on the
  threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the
  place provided David.

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• I Chronicles 2811
• Then David gave Solomon the plans for the portico
  of the temple, its buildings, its store-rooms,
  its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of
  Atonement.

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• I Chronicles 2819
• All this, David said, I have in writing from
  the hand of the LORD upon me, and He gave me
  understanding in all the details of the plan.

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• The joy of the Lord is your strength. But the joy
  of revelation of heavenly pattern and of knowing
  that God has called us to share in it, supercedes
  all other joys you may have experienced on other
  occasions.

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• In this joy you enter in to the plan and purpose
  of God, regarding His people, both now and in the
  ages to come.
• Pray then that the Lord will lead you from joy
  till joy till you come to the fullness of joy of
  the Lord, which is your strength Amen!

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• JOY IN LEARNING
• We shall see how His divine laws will make our
  joy full and complete.

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• From the time God called David, He had for him a
  very high and heavenly purpose though David did
  not realize this for many years.
• At the time of being born again we are really
  concerned about being forgiven, washed, cleansed
  and made righteous before God and when He does
  begin to teach us His own way, we begin to
  question Him or even resist Him.

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• God could have told David from the very beginning
  to build His house in that place, but David was
  not ready then to receive such a command or
  instruction.
• It is only when we are truly ready and prepared
  that God can give us the instructions of His
  heart.

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• We all have to pay a heavy price to be Gods
  servants. We have to be prepared to be delivered
  from our chaff, especially the chaff in our
  brain!
• What is that chaff?
• In Gods sight it is all that we have secured
  through our own intellectual ability.

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• I Chronicles 1528
• So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant
  of the LORD with shouts, with the sounding of
  rams horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the
  playing of lyres and harps.

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• I Chronicles 161
• They brought the ark of GOD and set it inside
  the tent that David had pitched for it, and they
  presented burnt offerings and fellowship
  offerings before GOD.

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• In the book of Numbers, the Lord had given His
  heavenly pattern for the transport of the ark.
• No man has any power or authority to change the
  divine order, whether he be a preacher or pastor,
  Indian or European, poor or wealthy!

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• David had to learn two lessons before God gave
  him the joy of bringing the ark to its right
  place.
• I-He had to learn that his brain must be
  completely free from all chaff and straw to make
  room for the wisdom of God.
• II-He had to learn that the divine order for
  Gods house must be very strictly and thoroughly
  maintained.

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• The Ark is compared to the Lamb, Our Lord Jesus
  Christ. He must be given His rightful place in
  your heart, in your home and in your church.
• When Saul was chosen to be king, he was crowned
  at once without any training. But it remitted
  eventually in his rejection by God because of his
  stubbornness and blindness.

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• But when God bought David to the throne, he had
  already undergone many hardships and trails.
• We may be preaching or praying or teaching or
  merely doing some menial task in the service of
  God, but if it is done for mans pleasure, then
  it will not be acceptable to God.

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• If you perform anything for God at any time
  simply under compulsion or for what you can get
  out of it on earth, then there will be no reward
  for you in heaven.
• GOD DEMANDS A WILLING SERVICE

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• JOY IN UNION
• Isaiah 605
• . . . . As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
  so will your GOD rejoice over you.

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• The object of all His dealings with us is to
  fellowship with Himself.
• That goal, towards which He is drawing us to step
  by step that we cannot draw back, is the highest
  joy of perfect oneness and union with our Lord.
• The word FELLOWSHIP is a unique word in the Bible
  and no one can truly understand it, who is not
  born again.