David vs Saul
David sinned countless times, there is never a time when he turned away and worshiped other gods. He would always come back to God and ask for forgiveness and repent. In Psalms he asked God to create a clean heart and put a new and right spirit within him(Psalms 51:10-12), he knew that what was in his heart was causing him to sin and would always come before God and repent.
9/10 of Psalms were prayers and songs written by David. He was always worshipping, praising God. Repenting and seeking and mending his relationship with God.

Saul
1Samuel is 15: direct disobedience to God when he was told not to take anything from Agag and went on to sacrifice to God without Samuel.
Saul asked for God to forgive him but what he does next is seeking help from a witch and raising the spirit of Samuel when he died.
(1Samuel 28:7-14)

This led to him being removed as king and replaced with David.

What do you think made him a man after God’s own heart??

I hope you have enjoyed these lessons just as such as I have enjoyed them. Thank you for being engaged in the case study.

One man’s actions can transcend to generations after him and spill over to other people.

• All secret things would be repaid in public
• The child born will die
• The house was to always be in war – within and from outsiders. We see his children planning and executing a coup of the throne and wanting to kill him (Absalom) and Adonijah (1Kings 1:5-9). We are introduced to the first rape and incest. Children raping each other(Ammon &Tamar). Children killing each other (Absalom &Ammon)
• A pestilence in the land and the angel smote 70 thousand people who died. People lost their loved ones because of a decision made by one man.

Be mindful of the things you do now because they are fruits you will reap tomorrow.

Invite the Holy Spirit to lead you in every step of the way.

Lack of self control and pride

A. He was never satisfied

He was supposed to be in war but ended up taking an army commanders wife Bathsheba and committed murder to cover up for his mistake — this led to the most heart breaking conversation in the bible.

Chapter 12.
Nathan the priest comes to David after Uriah dies.
vs 8; God tells David that
He had given him everything and if he wanted more, all he could have done was ask and He would have given him more …

How many times have we been greedy and done not so nice things to get something when all has been given to us and all we needed to do was to just access it.
We do not trust that if we ask from God He will provide. We think we should rush the process and give ourselves what we want.

Have you ever asked God❓❓

Have you ever trusted that He satisfies❓❓

Do you believe that He is enough for you❓❓

Do you believe He can quench your thirst❓❓

Do you believe that He owns everything and all we need to do is just ask❓❓

Do you think He will answer your request or you doubt He will❓❓

God was so heartbroken because all David needed to do was ask and say he was not satisfied and He was always willing and ready to give him.

How many times have we grieved the Holy Spirit⁉️

B. He was proud

2Samuel 24 David conducts a census

David instructs his generals to numbers the people of Israel and conduct a census to ascertain if he had the numbers to go to war. He wanted to boast in numbers.

He trusted in his own abilities to win the war and yet all this time the Lord was fighting for Israel.

David after committing adultery and murder, he asked God for forgiveness when Nathan the priest came to rebuke him. He repented for his actions.

He fasted and prayed when the child he had with Bathsheba was to die, worshiped God even after the child had died and things had not gone as he expected. He still knew that God was God and His ways are just and righteous.

He never stopped asking God for forgiveness for all that he had done. Extracts of verses below of him repenting;

Psalms 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143, etc.

God shows us mercy and forgiveness us when we do sin. You only have to confess your sins, repent and turn from your ways. God does not hold sins against you. Isiah 1:18 he makes all sins white. Joel 2:13 He is there to forgive us and not to punish us.

Come back to Him. He loves you and says to you go sin no more.

He would advise and teach his son Solomon to always yearn for wisdom.

When Solomon was approached by the Lord in a dream, he asked for wisdom — what his father had instructed and taught him always to do. (Proverbs 4:3-7.) He taught him in the way he should go and when he (Solomon) got older, he straight up asked for wisdom from God and was granted just that. What a wise father!

In as much as he was told he would not build the house of God, he left everything for his son to use when building.

2Samuel 14 forgives Absalom even after committing murder and allowed him to return. He would not even fight to kill him even after taking his throne but fled.
2Samuel 18:29 he asks if the young man was safe. Vs 33 cries for him when he died and mourned for him throughout chapter 19. He knew what his child did was not right but he was still a father and loved his son.
1Kings he charges Solomon, blesses him.

He also had his downside to being a father..

• He failed to administer discipline and control his children.
• They raped each other
• Planned a coup and attempted to overthrow him on this throne, twice.

He kept promises.

He promises Jonathan in chapter 1 Samuel 20 that he would show kindness to the house of Jonathan. 2Samuel 9 he fulfills the promise he made. Took Mephibosheth son of Jonathan. He made him to eat at his table continually and restored all that was taken from his household.

James 1:8
A double minded person is unstable in all his ways

Are you someone people can trust and know that you are a person who stands on their word or do you waiver and change on what you proclaim? Do you fulfill all the promises you made to God or you say one thing and do the next.

Most people lost potential businesses and partners due to them not being people of integrity and principles. They break promises at every chance they get. It can be the keeping of time, delivering deliverables, accepting responsibilities, etc.

Let’s be people who own up to their word. Acknowledge and accept mistakes. Apologies when you do not stand true to your word and make it up.

David would never do anything without first inquiring on what the Lord wanted them to do.

1Samuel 23
He helps the people of Keliah and knew not to trust in people when he has the source who knows the heart of man to inquire from. He asked God if the people would betray him and deliver him to Saul and was told they would. We would have trusted man and thought they helped them so the next thing was for them to repay the favour.
I did a small piece on this on my blog. (https://kesysstory.home.blog/2024/09/27/one-good-turn-does-not-equate-to-another/)

1Samuel 30:8
The wives and children are taken away, tents burnt, everything looted when they had gone to battle. Everyone blamed David for that and the man mourned and wanted to stone him – he asked the Lord what they should do when it would have been obvious that they either had to go fight them or just stay back and accept the ordeal. The Lord told them to pursue and they will overcome.

2Samuel 2
Saul is dead and the next thing David could have done was go and take the throne because he was a person away from being the king and now he was dead – but he first inquired of the Lord.

2nd Samuel 21
there is a famine – He inquired from the Lord and was told about the Gibeon issue which he later solved after attoning their sins.

How many times have you inquired of God even when it seems obvious?
Do you take your time before making a decision to sit ans hear what the Lord says about it all?
Do you even want His guidance or you have got everything figured out?

In every mundane thing; make it a point to ask God. Involve Him in every decision. Make Him your pillar and you will be just amazed how life will be as easy as that.

David worshipped and praised the Lord. He was a renowned harpist and would play songs that would even drive away even spirits (Saul when he was tormented.)

When he brought back the ark to Jerusalem, he danced to the extent his undergarments were revealed. He was not mindful of how it would appear to other people when it came to serving the Lord. It was just him and his love.

He wrote songs and psalms to God. Beautiful words can be found in the book of Psalms.

Worship and praise aside from telling who God is, what He has done and what He will do, can also be shown in many ways;

He wanted to build a temple for the Lord. He was always mindful of what he would do for the Lord (2Samuel 7.) He was not comfortable with staying in a nice house when the Lord’s house was a tent. That is how much he was devoted to the things of God.

Do you take it upon yourself to beautify the Lord’s house?
Do you give and trust God with your finances?
Do you notice things in the house of God that needs taken care of – Rentals? Is the church clean? Are curtains washed? Do you notice that instruments need replacing? Flowers?
What is missing in His house, do you fill that gap?
What thing have you brought that has benefited or changed the house of God? Can you pinpoint anything?

It is your time to serve the Lord. The time is right now. Today.

David fought against a lion and bear when they tried to kill his sheep 1Samuel 17:34-35

When he was sent to bring food to his brothers who were at war with the Philistines, he saw Goliath whom big, experienced soldiers and mighty men were trembling and running away from him ~ mind you, he was a teenager ~ he was very bold and volunteered himself to fight against a giant and without any armour but a sling and stones.

Palms 27
Light and Salvation – whom shall I fear
Strength – whom shall I be afraid of
Psalms 23:4
God was with him so even Valley of the shadows of death was nothing to make him fear any evil.

2Samuel 5:19-20
The Lord doubtlessly delivers the enemy into our hands.

He knew that if he had the Lord’s backing, then he will never be afraid of anything.

When you have God with you, nothing will make you afraid.
No passage of time
No poverty
No unemployment
No sickness
Nothing will make you to be afraid. We are guaranteed victory.