Sunday 2nd August 2015 - Palace or the pasture - Martin Kedian

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SUNDAY 2/8/2015 TITLE PALACE OR THE PASTURE 1SAMUEL 16::11 READ AND SAMUEL SAID TO JESSE ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN HERE AND HE SAID THERE REMAINS YET THE YOUNGEST AND HE KEEPS THE SHEEP AND SAMUEL SAID TO JESSE SEND AND FETCH HIM FOR WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN UNTIL HE JOINS US WHAT MADE DAVID WHO HE WAS ,WAS NOT DEVELOPED IN THE FANFARE OF THE PALACE BUT IN THE ISOLATION OF A PASTURE LONG BEFORE HE PLAYED FOR SAUL HE PLAYED FOR GOD BEFORE DEFEATING THE GOLIATH HE PRACTICED ON TREES TARGETS BEARS AND LIONS DAVID WAS THE YOUNGEST SON THE YOUNGEST CHILD GENERALLY HAS TWO DISTINCTIONS 1/ SPOILED 2/ UNINFORMED (.BY HIS WORK AS A SHEPHERD ) IN DAVIDS DAY VERY LITTLE WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED OF HIM HE DISPLAYS FEWER CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADERSHIP THAN HIS BROTHERS AFTER ALL HE NEVER LEAD HE ONLY FOLLOWED HE HAS NO ONE YOUNGER ON WHOM TO PRACTICE LEADERSHIP THE SEVEN OLDER SONS OF JESSE WORKED NEAR THEIR FATHERS FARM THE YOUNGEST WAS SENT ON TREKS INTO THE MOUNTAINS TO GRAZE THE FAMILIES FLOCK THE YOUNGEST SON WOULD LEAVE HOME AND CARRY TWO THINGS A SLING AND A HARP SPARE TIME FOR A SHEPHERD IS ABUNDANT THE SHEEP WOULD GRAZE FOR DAYS IN THE GREEN MEADOW AS DAYS BECAME WEEKS DAVID BECAME LONLEY PERHAPS HE FELT FRIENDLESS AND THE SENCE OF ISOLATION WOULD PERHAPS RISE UP AND CAUSE TEARS IN HIS BOREDOM HE WOULD PLAY HIS HARP TO PASS THE HOURS AS HIS HARP PLAYING IMPROVED HE ADDED SINGING HIS VOICE CHANGED OVER THE YEARS AND BECAME STRONG AND MATURE WHEN HARP PLAYING FAILED TO COMFORT HIM I CAN SEE IN MY MINDS EYE DAVID AS HE GATHERED UP A PILE OF STONES AND ONE BY ONE HE PLACED THEM IN HIS SLING AND LAUNCHED THEM AT A DISTANT TREE WHEN THE ROCK PILE WAS DEPLETED HE GATHERED HIS ROCKS AND CHOSE ANOTHER LEAFY ENEMY FURTHER AWAY I AM SURE HE DEFEATED MANY TREES IN HIS ISOLATION HIS QUIET PLACE HE WORKED ON SOMETHING ELSE DAVID LOVED GOD AT NIGHT WHEN ALL THE SHEEP LAY SLEEPING AND HE SAT STARING AT THE EMBERS OF THE DYING FIRE HE WOULD STRUM UPON HIS HARP AND BREAK INTO QUIET SONG HE SANG THE HYMNS OF HIS FOREFATHERS I HAVE THIS IMAGE IN MY HEAD WHILE HE SANG HE WEPT. AND WHILE HE WEPT HE PRAISED THE PASTURES WERE IN THE MOUNTAINS AS HIS PRAISE REACHED THEM THEY LIFTED HIS CRY TO GODS EARS DAVID TENDED TO EACH AND EVERY SHEEP AND LAMB IN HIS CARE PLAYING. SINGING SLINGING ONE DAY WHILE SINGING TO GOD ANGELS SHEEP AND PASSING CLOUDS HE SPIED A LIVING ENEMY A BEAR DAVID LUNGED FORWARD THE BEAR AND DAVID FOCUSED ON THE SAME OBJECT A YOUNG LAMB SHEPHERD AND BEAR STOPPED HALFWAY AND TURNED TO FACE EACH OTHER DAVID REACHED INSIDE HIS POUCH FOR A STONE. AND REALISED HE WAS NOT AFRAID MEANWHILE THE BEAR ON STRONG FURRY LEGS CHARGED AT HIM PUT A STONE INTO HIS SLING AND SOON A BROOK SMOOTH ROCK FLEW THROUGH THE AIR BRINGING DOWN THE BEAR DAVID WAS SUDDENLY DIFFERENT LESS A YOUTH MORE A MAN STOOPING HE PICKS UP THE LAMB. AND SAYS I AM YOUR SHEPHERD AND GOD IS MINE AND SO LONG INTO THE NIGHT HE WOVE THE DAYS EVENTS INTO A SONG LIKE A ROCK FROM A SLING HE HURLED HIS HYMN TO THE SKIES AGAN AND AGAIN UNTIL HE TAUGHT THE MELODY AND WORDS TO EVERY ANGEL THAT HAD EARS DAVID WORSHIPED IT HAS BEEN SAID WHAT IS DONE IN DARKNESS WILL COME OUT IN THE LIGHT WE TEND TO LEAN TOWARDS THE NEGATIVE WHEN THIS POINT IS MADE WE SEEM TO BELIEVE THAT OUR SINS WILL FIND US OUT IF ALL THAT WE DO IN THE DARK IS SIN THAT IS TRUE THATS NOT THE ONLY THINGS HAPPENING IN THE DARK PSALM 119 : 62. AT MIDNIGHT I WILL RISE TO GIVE THANKS TO YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENTS ACTS 16 : 25 AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED AND SANG PRAISES UNTO GOD AND THE PRISONERS HEARD THEM I WANT TO SAY TO SOME TODAY !!! MIDNIGHT IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT THOSE LONELY TIMES JUST YOU AND GOD ARE WHAT YOU MAKE THEM THAT ISOLATION IS NOT A TIME OF PUNISHMENT ITS A TIME OF PREPARATION MORE IMPORTANTLY. PLEASE UNDERSTAND. GOD IS MORE INTERESTED IN PREPARATION THAN PUNISHMENT WHAT WE SEE AS AN END GOD SEES AS A BEGINNING WORSHIP PETER THOUGHT IT WAS OVER. DENIED AND DISCONNECTED BUT JESUS SAID IT,S IN THAT LONELY TIME THAT I PREPARED FOR YOU A PENTECOST IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HIS LIFE WHEN PETER WAS ISOLATED AND ALONE JESUS WAS WORKING SOME PRIDE OUT SOME ARROGANCE OUT SOME SELFISHNESS OUT WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT OUT OF ISOLATION HE WAS ALSO BROUGHT OUT OF THE TIME OF PREPARATION IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE TIME IN THE WILDERNESS I COULD NEVER HAD HANDLED THE PROMISED LAND SEE YOUR DESTINY IS GREATER THAT YOUR DILEMMA SORRY FOR MY SLANG IF YOU AIN,T GOT NO DILEMMA YOU AIN,T GOT NO DESTINY WHEN GOD SETS US APART AND SEPARATES US FOR A SEASON RECOGNISE HIS WORK HE IS PERFECTING THE TOOLS THAT WE WILL NEED IN OUR DESTINATION INSTEAD OF POUTING. PRAY FLEEING. FAST WORRYING. WORSHIP WRINGING YOU HANDS READ YOUR BIBLE BAD THINGS ARE NOT THE ONLY THINGS HAPPENING IN THE DARK LONELY HOURS GOD HAS BEEN PATIENTLY SHAPING AND FORMING ME AND USING ME ALL AT THE SAME TIME. AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME HIS WORK IS NOT HAPPENING WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE IT BUT IN THE HIDDEN PARTS OF THE HEART I AM BEING TRANSFORMED FROM ONE DEGREE OF GLORY TO ANOTHER BEING SHAPED MORE FULLY INTO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST WORSHIP WHEN SAUL CALLED DAVID TO PLAY THE HARP TO SOOTH HIS SPIRIT THAT WASNT THE FIRST TIME DAVID PICKED ONE UP LONG BEFORE HE PLAYED FOR THE KING HE WAS PLAYING FOR THE KING OF KINGS BEFORE ISRAEL RAISED HIS NAME IN TRIUMPH. HE PERFECTED HIS MINISTRY IN ISOLATION BEFORE THEY SANG HIS PRAISES IN THE STREETS. HE SANG GODS PRAISES IN THE MEADOWS WHY DID DAVID REJECT SAULS ARMOUR IT HAD NOT BEEN PROVED IN THE TRYING TIMES OF ISOLATION DAVID UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD WAS GOING TO MEET HIS NEEDS AND MAKE A WAY IF HE DIDNT NEED IT IN THE HOURS AND DAYS HE SPENT WITH GOD IT WAS GOING TO BE A WEIGHT LETS SET ASIDE EVERY SIN AND WEIGHT WORSHIP WHEN DAVID PICKED UP HIS SLING TO FACE GOLIATH IT WAS NOT HIS FIRST DAY TO TRY IT OUT YEARS BEFORE HE DEFEATED TREES DONT GET HUNG UP IN THE PHILOSOPHY THAT GOD GUIDED THE STONE I PROPOSE TO YOU TODAY THAT GOD GUIDED A SHEPHERD BOY GOD GRADUATED DAVID FROM TREES TO TARGETS TO A BEAR WHEN HIS FAITH WAS STRONG HE GUIDED HIM TO A LION THEN A GIANT GOD WAS GUIDING LONG BEFORE THAT STONE LEFT THE SLING GOD GUIDED DAVID IN TIMES OF PREPARATION SO HE COULD STAND IN TIMES OF ADMIRATION IF WE GET ADMIRATION BEFORE PREPARATION IT WILL LEAD TO DEVASTATION THE BEST IS YET TO COME A GREAT DESTINY AWAITS US LETS BE THOSE WORKING ON THE THINGS WE SHOULD BE IF DAVID HAD NEVER PICKED UP THE HARP IN ISOLATION HE WOULD NEVER HAVE PLAYED TO SAUL IF HE HAD NEVER PICKED UP THE SLING !!! IF HE HAD NEVER SANG AND PRAISED GOD HE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ANOINTED KING GOD DIDNT GET TO KNOW DAVID IN THE PALACE HE GOT TO KNOW HIM IN THE PASTURE WHERE ARE YOU TODAY