THE FUTURE OF MY HOUSE

 2 SAMUEL 7.18-19

Thursday, August 1, 2013

3:08 PM

 

"Who am I, Sovereign Lord, and what is my family,

that you have brought me this far?

And as if this were not enough in Your sight, Sovereign Lord,

You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant

…a mere human."

2 Samuel 7.18-19

 

 

God gave David great mercy.

And great grace.

And great love.

 

God's mercy, grace, and love brought forth great humility and gratitude from David's heart and much, much more.

 

This was because God had found David to be the man Who sought God with all his heart.

 

 

The Lord God, the Almighty, developed David to be

"a man after His own heart

And appointed him ruler of His people."

1 Samuel 13.14

 

God testified concerning him:

"I have found David…a man after My own heart;

he will do everything I want him to do."

Acts 13.22

 

 

This all happened with and for David by one simple action:

 

King David went in and sat before the Lord.

2 Samuel 7.17 

 

David simply "sat before the Lord," and God gave him faith to believe and trust God's promises about the building of "the House of the Lord."

 

Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, has chosen the church as the people to build a Temple for the glory of His Name today and forever.

 

We need only come and sit before God, as did David.

God will come to us, meet with us, be with us, and speak to us,

as He did for David.

 

Jesus' calls this,

 

Abide in Me, and I will abide in you.

John 15.1-18

 

 

In this simple investment of time to abide, sitting before the Lord, the Holy Spirit, makes Jesus Name great to us.

 

Then, we make His Name great to all we know.

We become salt and light to the world.

 

We  bring great mercy, grace, and love from God

to our generation of our nation.

  

Greater than the greatest kings and rulers of the earth…

greater than any president of this nation….

is to be a doorman in the house of the Lord.

 

 

As doormen,

we bring others into

the House of the Lord Jesus.

 

 

TO BE A DOORMAN IN

 

THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

 

IS

 

GREAT.