REMINDING GOD OF HIS PROMISES - PART 5

TUESDAY 07 MAY 2024

As time went on, King Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord; he did not keep the word of the Lord and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not inquire of the Lord. So the Lord put him to death, condemned his lineage and turned the kingdom over to David, son of Jesse (1 Chronicles 10:13-14 NIV).

After the death of Saul, David became king over all Israel, and his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people, Israel. So David's fame spread throughout every land, and the Lord made all the nations fear him. In fact, the weight of his fame wasn't light at all, while the glory that began to come was a monumental substance, weighty, and vast beyond description.

Reference: 1st Chronicles 17:28-29 New International Version (NIV)

"You, Lord, are God! You have promised these good things to your servant. Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Lord, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever."

After the establishment of His kingship, David took up residence in Zion and so, the city became known as the city of David.  He built up the city around it, from the terraces to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city. Manifestly, David became more and more powerful, because the Lord Almighty was with him. He chose Jerusalem as his capital - for political and military purposes. In a nutshell, the main reason was because Jerusalem rested between Benjamin and Judah, and it's not located in any of the twelve tribes' borders, making it politically neutral. Got it? So nobody could say that David was showing preference to one tribe over another, or even preference to elite of the Israeli families by locating his capital - and the centre of Isaerites religion within one tribes' borders. I personally believe that this is a very good reason that further justified David's selection of the city, because sitting on a high ridge, Jerusalem would be easy to defend.

What about his wealth and root? Firstly, we can trace the layers of this captivating story of David, by delving into the monetary context of ancient Israeli patriarchy. David was the scion of a wealthy lineage, characterised by Old Testament money elite, on account of the superior covenant blessing evident in His lineage. Although he was a new comer to the nobility that he seemed to enjoy, amid the whispers and beneath the surface of Israel's high society, was David's family tree which had its root entwined in or tied to Abrahamic origin and nobility, positioning him to leap into the laps of deluxe affluence by virtue of covenant.

Remember that Abraham was the ancestor of the Jews, and although David was a God-made success, in the old Testament writings, inheritance was strictly through the male line. King David was from Isaerite tribe of Judah, because he was the son of Jesse, a descendant of Obed and Ruth, and Obed was from the tribe of Judah, and Judah was one of Jacob's twelve sons. Jacob (known as Israel) was one of the Isaac's two children, while Isaac was the legitimate son of Abraham (see Matthew 1:2-6 NIV).

David constructed so many posh buildings for himself in the city of David, and his estates weren't just vast with the appealing and aesthetic display of deluxe and fashionable houses, they were houses constructed with costly timbers of cedar, because he was highly blessed with surplus wealth and material prosperity that made other rich people's money in his day, look like an ordinary clanging brass or symbal sound, thereby granting His Kingship - world prominence - for the sake of Israel (1 Chronicles 15:1 ESV). So "from a wilderness journey to settling in his own palace", it is likened to a plot lifted straight from a fairy tale, considering the fact that he was once a common poor shepherd, from an unknown family with zero political connections (1 Samuel 18:23 NIV).

 

Beloved, King David didn't end up with a pocket change, in view of the high quality awareness of his materialist evaluation, which displayed the level of wealth that could buy any luxury far beyond mere slices of orange and apple cultivated in a fruitful landscape. His life wasn't just littered with the lightening of prosperity, he also stepped into his elegant new role as the King of Israel, with an attitude of unco generosity ready to better the lives of people around him. Stay tuned for part 6. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Deuteronomy 8:18; Proverbs 10:22;  Proverbs 16:3; 3 John 1:2.

Exuberant Declaration:

I have a lot of money and I'm a man of wealthy influence because I'm well positioned in the realm of abundance, greatness and prosperity. All glory to God who has manifested his love for me in Christ, prompting me to gain access to every good thing I require to prosper and to fulfil all that He has called me to do. Every day of my life, I grow bigger in the realm of untold prosperity and I move forward from glory to glory because the Spirit of God is fully at work in me. Praise God!