David knew that Samuel was coming to his house looking for a king, and that he wasn’t invited. That hurt. So how did he respond? By asking somebody to put his name in the hat? No! ‘… promotion comes…from…God…’ (Psalms 75:6-7). David knew that nobody could keep God from blessing him, Listen: ‘Then Samuel…anointed him in the midst of his brothers…’ (1 Samuel 16:13 NKJV). If you remain faithful, God will lift you up in the midst of those who overlooked and put him down.
Notice, when the Spirit of God left King Saul he was tormented by evil spirits and ended up consulting a witch. No wonder David prayed,’…Take not thy holy spirit from me’(Psalm 51:11). If God called you to do job He will give you all the grace; but if He hasn’t called you to do it, It’ll torment you day and night.
But be prepared for trouble! Like Joseph’s brothers, they will say to you, ‘… Let us… kill him and cast him into some pit…[and] see what will become of his dreams’ (Genesis 37: 20 NKJV). Why would those who were supposed to love you say such a thing? Because they don’t really know who you are, or recognize your God given dream. Expect rejection in the early stages, especially when there is no evidence to validate your Gog given dream. When David demonstrated the faith to take on Goliath, his oldest brother Eliab called him arrogant and resented him (1 Samuel 17:28). Why did God put such stories in the Bible? These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warning to us… (1 Corinthians 10:11 NIV).
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