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SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: The Lord answers David’s prayer
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Samual 15:31-37
Message of the verses: “31 ¶
Now someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the
conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O LORD, I pray, make the
counsel of Ahithophel foolishness." 32
It happened as David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped,
that behold, Hushai the Archite met him with his coat torn and dust on his
head. 33 David said to him, "If you
pass over with me, then you will be a burden to me. 34 "But if you return to the city, and say
to Absalom, ’I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s
servant in time past, so I will now be your servant,’ then you can thwart the
counsel of Ahithophel for me. 35
"Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So it shall
be that whatever you hear from the king’s house, you shall report to Zadok and
Abiathar the priests. 36 "Behold
their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son and Jonathan,
Abiathar’s son; and by them you shall send me everything that you hear."
37 So Hushai, David’s friend, came into
the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.”
This
section shows more evidence that David was a man after God’s own heart. I am sure that this may have been David’s
darkest hour, but David did not lose his faith in the Lord for in this section
there is seen worship and there is seen prayer and there is seen an answer to
prayer. In fact this prayer and answer
to prayer may have been what saved David’s life and allowed him to come back as
king in Israel again after the defeat of Absalom.
I
can see another aspect from this situation that David finds himself in and that
is the work of Satan, for it can be seen that Absalom was doing the work of
Satan and he probably did not even know that he was doing that. The reason that I say this is because that
God was going to use the line of David and then through Solomon and perhaps
even Nathan to continue the line to the Messiah and so if Absalom could
overcome David and become king then that line would have been stopped and this
is why I believe that Absalom was doing the work of Satan and he was not even
realizing it.
David
prayed that Ahitophel’s counsel would be foolishness to Absalom and then a man
named Hushai, who was a fiend and counselor to David came to see David and then
David asked Hushai to return to Jerusalem in order to give bad counsel to
Absalom and then to report it to the priests whom David had already sent back.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I think that prayer is so important
especially in times of a crisis and Dr. Wiersbe writes in his commentary the
following that surely makes a lot of sense to me: “If there’s one thing better than getting an answer to prayer it’s being an answer to prayer.” I think that this is a good prayer request
for me that I may be an answer to prayer for by doing that I can say that I am
doing the will of the Father.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. I
pray Lord that You would allow me to be an answer to someone’s prayer, even
today and many times in the future.
2. I
continue to trust the Lord to use my life to glorify my Savior.
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