Thread by @GbengaWemimo

David was anointed as the King of Israel at the age of 17. God said to Samuel “I have seen a man after my own heart in the family of Jesse, go and anoint him”
Once He was anointed, he became a King in the sight of God!
But in “reality” he walked into a season of struggle

First he killed Goliath, then he played music for a mentally disturbed King Saul, then Saul was stirred to envy by some women singing of David’s greatness and David became an assassination target! The entire priests of Nob and their families were killed for helping David

David has to run for his life. He relocated his entire family, including his parents to philistine, he was a wanted man with King Saul’s bounty hanging on his head! David was betrayed by spies, insulted by Nabal, saved by the whiskers at Keila, got his family kidnapped at Ziklag

Those who came to support him were the “nobodies”. It looked as if God had lied! David wrote many psalms depicting his state of mind according to the “reality” he saw in the flesh! But God knows no man after the flesh! God is a spirit! When he changed Jacob’s name to Israel...

...Jacob was still limping and looking like a loser! Long after He renamed Abram Abraham, Abraham was still childless! When I hear people say “I know what God said but I am facing reality here” I SMH at their ignorance! What God said is the only reality that matters.

We are moved too much by emotions, we infuse stories and experiences into the word of God and trip ourselves with the odd mixture such creates. Leave your experiences alone and hold on to God’s Word!
The word has the power to make you what God said if you stick to it!

By declaration God called Abraham Righteous, By Declaration God called Lot Righteous, By Declaration God called Jacob his beloved, By Declaration God called David a man after His heart, By Declaration God said those who believe in Jesus have eternal life! Stop Arguing! Believe!!!