Sermon Info
Summary
David is the most famous person in the Bible outside of Jesus. David’s life is like a movie – he goes from being a nobody to becoming king over all of Israel. David defeats a giant, Goliath, and wins basically every battle he fights. Even more, David is a worshiper of God and keeps his love for God all his life. There is so much we can learn from the life of David. He wasn’t perfect, but at the end of his life, he was known as “a man after God’s own heart.” This summer will be an incredible journey, and I pray God will grow each of us deeper in our own walk with God. Your best days are still ahead. Develop, maintain, and mature a beautiful heart for God.
Content
1. David and Samuel
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the thing people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7
- Samuel was a spiritual leader and the last judge in the Bible.
- Do we look at other people the way man does or the way God does?
- Samuel becomes a spiritual mentor to David.
- We are all called to be a Samuel to someone.
2. Your heart is important to God.
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23
- Are we more concerned about our outward appearance or our heart?
- Our hearts can easily run after the things of the world.
- Jesus said, For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
- Has God made the move from your head to your heart?
3. God is always working in our lives.
...being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6
- God is working even in the waiting.
- David was anointed as a teenager but didn't become king until the age of 30.
- David started out as a shepherd.
- God is preparing you for what He is preparing for you.
4. David and Me
- God chose David, and God has chosen you.
- For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will… Ephesians 1:4-5
- What makes David so special is his heart for God.
- After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: “I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’” Acts 13:22
- Do you have a heart for God?
