Find encouragement and insight for your walk with God through these devotionals.
Thank you for walking this journey of the life of David with me. I wrote this series from beginning to end in 2019. So each week when I posted a devotion, I didn’t even know what I was going to post. It was a surprise to me as well. And week after week the devotion […]
Last week Solomon was crowned as king by David. And David, on his dying bed gave Solomon some advice. And the most important piece of advice was that Solomon must walk in the ways of God. And we know today that that piece of advice is still just as applicable to us today. We must […]
Last week we learned that David sinned in taking a census of the fighting men. He wanted to do that in order to glory in his own power. God then punished Israel with three days of a plague that He sent. Seventy thousand people died in the process. David repented immediately and offered sacrifices to […]
Last week we had a look at the mighty men that helped David to reach his goal of becoming king. They weren’t valiant, mighty men to start off with, but they became mighty through the power of God helping them to make David king. Today God also supplies mighty men and women in our lives […]
Last week we saw how David thanked and exalted God for saving them from the Philistines. David wrote God the most beautiful song of praise. And we learned that we need to thank God too for all that He is doing in our lives. We should never neglect that. We shouldn’t just ask, but we […]
In the past couple of weeks we saw that David had a lot of opposition. First from within his own family and then from without. But he was God’s ordained leader and God honored him because of it. He fought for David to keep him on the throne. We learned that the same is true […]
Last time we saw how Absalom was killed in his revolt against David. We saw how David bitterly wept for his son. David knew that this whole debacle was his fault. If he had disciplined his sons and if the adultery with Bathsheba didn’t happen, none of this would have happened. But David was reprimanded […]
Last year Easter was really unique due to the hard lockdown we were under here in South Africa. We had to stay home and we were not allowed to go to church or to visit family and friends. Now this year the uniqueness still continues as we are still under a lockdown, even though we […]
Last week we saw how Shimei, a descendant of Saul, came in the ‘Name of the Lord’ and slandered David. He threw him with stones and cursed him using lies of the devil. The Lord never spoke through Shimei. David didn’t do anything, but left it in the Lord’s hands. We learned that we shouldn’t […]
Last week we saw how David had to flee from his own son, Absalom, who wanted to overthrow him as king over Israel. David had to flee Jerusalem, he and many of his friends and allies. David was barefoot, walking with his head covered. It was indeed a low point in his life. But despite […]
Last week we saw how David took basically five years to welcome his son, Absalom back. After three years of living in Geshur, Absalom could come back to Jerusalem, and only after two years did David allow Absalom to see him. So for five years in total David kept his son at bay and this […]
Last week we saw how Absalom killed his half-brother Amnon for raping his sister, Tamar. Absalom harbored hatred and revenge for two years in his heart and when the time came he unleashed his hatred and had Amnon killed. Then Absalom had to flee to Geshur and had to live there for three years. This […]
Last week we saw how David’s son, Amnon raped his half-sister Tamar. She begged him to marry her now, as it was a disgrace not to be a virgin anymore, but his love for her turned into hatred and he chased her away. David was angry, but made a terrible mistake in not disciplining his […]
Last week we learned that God makes all things work together for our good. Good things and bad things. He will use all things to enrich us in the end that good will come out of it. We might not understand it now, but continue to trust God and love Him; in the end you […]
David committed adultery with Bathsheba and murdered her husband. The moment he was confronted with it by Nathan, the prophet, he repented and tried to convince God to take the consequences away. But when that didn’t happen, David still went to worship God within His house. David always turned back to God. He immediately confessed […]
Last time we witnessed the very first misstep of David. His life has been one massive example to us all. Unfortunately at the pinnacle of his life, when God had given him everything that he could ever desire, he committed adultery and murder. This displeased God greatly, as David was a man after His own […]
When I was contemplating what to write in this blog for 2021 God reminded me of the message that I wrote concerning 2020 in January 2020. I would just like to share with you a part of it: “A dear friend of mine commented the other day that the year 2020 reminded her of having […]
What a very interesting year this has been! I don’t think anyone could have foreseen how different a year 2020 turned out to be. So when I asked the Lord for a message for Christmas 2020 He told me: Provision despite circumstances. And when I thought of what happened right after Jesus’ birth I realized […]
Last week we learned a valuable lesson from David. He kept his promise to look after the descendants of Jonathan and Saul. He didn’t back down, even though no one would have expected him to keep his promise. The same is true of us. We should keep our promises. We should do what we said […]
Last week we saw that David wanted to build the Temple of the Lord for Him, but God said no, Solomon will build it. David wasn’t sour about it and he wasn’t resentful, he instead praised God for His good plans and he exalted Him on high. And we learned that we should rest in […]