This has been on my heart.
David could have forced his way to the crown, but he knew it was not his time.
He knew how to wait on the Lord. He was never in a hurry to be seen.
David was anointed king long before he ever wore the crown
(1 Samuel 16:12–13 NIV),
yet he waited years while Saul remained on the throne.
Even when David had the opportunity to take what was already promised to him, he refused.
When Saul was delivered into his hands in the cave, David would not touch him. Instead, he said,
“The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed.”
(1 Samuel 24:6 NIV)
David could have taken the throne by force—but he trusted God to establish him in His time, not his own.
He was never in a hurry to be seen.
David did not fixate on his achievements, even after he killed tens of thousands
(1 Samuel 18:7 NIV).
He did not build his identity on victories, because he understood that everything he did and everything he was flowed from his God.
Before Goliath, there was the lion and the bear
(1 Samuel 17:34–37 NIV),
and even then, David knew it was not by his own strength, but by the Lord who delivered him.
David lived a life of intimacy, and that is what separated him.
That is what set him apart from others—even from his own brothers.
God saw David when no one else did.
While others looked at outward appearance, God looked at the heart.
“People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
(1 Samuel 16:7 NIV)
God sees your heart.
And He is far more concerned with your heart and your character than He is with using you.
Faithfulness in the little leads to more
(Luke 16:10 NIV),
but before increase there is testing.
Before visibility, there is pruning.
And pruning is necessary.
There are things in the believer’s life that feel like part of their identity—things they think they must hold onto in order to be used by God. But those very things are often what hold them back.
To be used by God, we must let go.
Let go of fear.
Let go of false identity.
Let go of the parts of ourselves we’ve protected more than we’ve surrendered.
And when you truly let go, you don’t lose yourself—you find who you were always meant to be.
Him in you.
That is where freedom is found.
Only then can God truly use you—when the things that limit you are removed and space is made for Him. When you learn to abide instead of perform. When you stop trying to produce what only He can produce.
When you stop looking at your shortcomings and weaknesses and realize it is not you doing the work—it is God.
“Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” says the Lord Almighty.
(Zechariah 4:6 NIV)
When pride is laid down.
When rebellion that is deeply rooted is surrendered.
When obedience is chosen over control.
Until those things are surrendered, many remain stuck—going around the same mountain, moving from wilderness to wilderness, transition to transition. Because the wilderness is not punishment; it is preparation.
There were many wilderness years between David’s anointing and his crowning
(1 Samuel 16 → 2 Samuel 5).
I remember walking through fire after fire, asking, When will this stop?
What I couldn’t see then was that He was making me more like Him—refining my reactions, shaping my character, working deeply in places I didn’t even know existed.
And He doesn’t stop.
He doesn’t stop correcting.
He doesn’t stop refining.
He doesn’t stop teaching.
That work continues until He returns.
There are things that only come from fire.
Only from pressure.
And every new level brings new weight.
But we must never lose sight of what matters most:
sitting at His feet
(Luke 10:42 NIV),
giving Him every part of us—every thought, every fear, every anxious place, every weakness.
Seeking Him daily for the next step.
Seeking Him daily for strength.
Seeking Him daily for the grace only He can give for today’s assignment.
Not tomorrow’s.
Not the future crown.
Today’s obedience.
Let us pray.
Lord, teach us how to wait on You without striving.
Teach us to trust Your timing instead of forcing outcomes.
Search our hearts.
Prune what does not belong.
Remove what we’ve mistaken for identity but that is holding us back.
Help us choose obedience over control,
intimacy over visibility,
and faithfulness in the hidden place.
We surrender today’s assignment into Your hands
and trust You with the crown in Your time.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Born Again Ekklesia
David could have forced his way to the crown, but he knew it was not his time.
He knew how to wait on the Lord. He was never in a hurry to be seen.
David was anointed king long before he ever wore the crown
(1 Samuel 16:12–13 NIV),
yet he waited years while Saul remained on the throne.
Even when David had the opportunity to take what was already promised to him, he refused.
When Saul was delivered into his hands in the cave, David would not touch him. Instead, he said,
“The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed.”
(1 Samuel 24:6 NIV)
David could have taken the throne by force—but he trusted God to establish him in His time, not his own.
He was never in a hurry to be seen.
David did not fixate on his achievements, even after he killed tens of thousands
(1 Samuel 18:7 NIV).
He did not build his identity on victories, because he understood that everything he did and everything he was flowed from his God.
Before Goliath, there was the lion and the bear
(1 Samuel 17:34–37 NIV),
and even then, David knew it was not by his own strength, but by the Lord who delivered him.
David lived a life of intimacy, and that is what separated him.
That is what set him apart from others—even from his own brothers.
God saw David when no one else did.
While others looked at outward appearance, God looked at the heart.
“People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
(1 Samuel 16:7 NIV)
God sees your heart.
And He is far more concerned with your heart and your character than He is with using you.
Faithfulness in the little leads to more
(Luke 16:10 NIV),
but before increase there is testing.
Before visibility, there is pruning.
And pruning is necessary.
There are things in the believer’s life that feel like part of their identity—things they think they must hold onto in order to be used by God. But those very things are often what hold them back.
To be used by God, we must let go.
Let go of fear.
Let go of false identity.
Let go of the parts of ourselves we’ve protected more than we’ve surrendered.
And when you truly let go, you don’t lose yourself—you find who you were always meant to be.
Him in you.
That is where freedom is found.
Only then can God truly use you—when the things that limit you are removed and space is made for Him. When you learn to abide instead of perform. When you stop trying to produce what only He can produce.
When you stop looking at your shortcomings and weaknesses and realize it is not you doing the work—it is God.
“Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” says the Lord Almighty.
(Zechariah 4:6 NIV)
When pride is laid down.
When rebellion that is deeply rooted is surrendered.
When obedience is chosen over control.
Until those things are surrendered, many remain stuck—going around the same mountain, moving from wilderness to wilderness, transition to transition. Because the wilderness is not punishment; it is preparation.
There were many wilderness years between David’s anointing and his crowning
(1 Samuel 16 → 2 Samuel 5).
I remember walking through fire after fire, asking, When will this stop?
What I couldn’t see then was that He was making me more like Him—refining my reactions, shaping my character, working deeply in places I didn’t even know existed.
And He doesn’t stop.
He doesn’t stop correcting.
He doesn’t stop refining.
He doesn’t stop teaching.
That work continues until He returns.
There are things that only come from fire.
Only from pressure.
And every new level brings new weight.
But we must never lose sight of what matters most:
sitting at His feet
(Luke 10:42 NIV),
giving Him every part of us—every thought, every fear, every anxious place, every weakness.
Seeking Him daily for the next step.
Seeking Him daily for strength.
Seeking Him daily for the grace only He can give for today’s assignment.
Not tomorrow’s.
Not the future crown.
Today’s obedience.
Let us pray.
Lord, teach us how to wait on You without striving.
Teach us to trust Your timing instead of forcing outcomes.
Search our hearts.
Prune what does not belong.
Remove what we’ve mistaken for identity but that is holding us back.
Help us choose obedience over control,
intimacy over visibility,
and faithfulness in the hidden place.
We surrender today’s assignment into Your hands
and trust You with the crown in Your time.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Born Again Ekklesia
This has been on my heart. ❤️
David could have forced his way to the crown, but he knew it was not his time.
He knew how to wait on the Lord. He was never in a hurry to be seen.
David was anointed king long before he ever wore the crown
(1 Samuel 16:12–13 NIV),
yet he waited years while Saul remained on the throne.
Even when David had the opportunity to take what was already promised to him, he refused.
When Saul was delivered into his hands in the cave, David would not touch him. Instead, he said,
“The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed.”
(1 Samuel 24:6 NIV)
David could have taken the throne by force—but he trusted God to establish him in His time, not his own.
He was never in a hurry to be seen.
David did not fixate on his achievements, even after he killed tens of thousands
(1 Samuel 18:7 NIV).
He did not build his identity on victories, because he understood that everything he did and everything he was flowed from his God.
Before Goliath, there was the lion and the bear
(1 Samuel 17:34–37 NIV),
and even then, David knew it was not by his own strength, but by the Lord who delivered him.
David lived a life of intimacy, and that is what separated him.
That is what set him apart from others—even from his own brothers.
God saw David when no one else did.
While others looked at outward appearance, God looked at the heart.
“People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
(1 Samuel 16:7 NIV)
God sees your heart.
And He is far more concerned with your heart and your character than He is with using you.
Faithfulness in the little leads to more
(Luke 16:10 NIV),
but before increase there is testing.
Before visibility, there is pruning.
And pruning is necessary.
There are things in the believer’s life that feel like part of their identity—things they think they must hold onto in order to be used by God. But those very things are often what hold them back.
To be used by God, we must let go.
Let go of fear.
Let go of false identity.
Let go of the parts of ourselves we’ve protected more than we’ve surrendered.
And when you truly let go, you don’t lose yourself—you find who you were always meant to be.
Him in you.
That is where freedom is found.
Only then can God truly use you—when the things that limit you are removed and space is made for Him. When you learn to abide instead of perform. When you stop trying to produce what only He can produce.
When you stop looking at your shortcomings and weaknesses and realize it is not you doing the work—it is God.
“Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” says the Lord Almighty.
(Zechariah 4:6 NIV)
When pride is laid down.
When rebellion that is deeply rooted is surrendered.
When obedience is chosen over control.
Until those things are surrendered, many remain stuck—going around the same mountain, moving from wilderness to wilderness, transition to transition. Because the wilderness is not punishment; it is preparation.
There were many wilderness years between David’s anointing and his crowning
(1 Samuel 16 → 2 Samuel 5).
I remember walking through fire after fire, asking, When will this stop?
What I couldn’t see then was that He was making me more like Him—refining my reactions, shaping my character, working deeply in places I didn’t even know existed.
And He doesn’t stop.
He doesn’t stop correcting.
He doesn’t stop refining.
He doesn’t stop teaching.
That work continues until He returns.
There are things that only come from fire.
Only from pressure.
And every new level brings new weight.
But we must never lose sight of what matters most:
sitting at His feet
(Luke 10:42 NIV),
giving Him every part of us—every thought, every fear, every anxious place, every weakness.
Seeking Him daily for the next step.
Seeking Him daily for strength.
Seeking Him daily for the grace only He can give for today’s assignment.
Not tomorrow’s.
Not the future crown.
Today’s obedience.
Let us pray.
Lord, teach us how to wait on You without striving.
Teach us to trust Your timing instead of forcing outcomes.
Search our hearts.
Prune what does not belong.
Remove what we’ve mistaken for identity but that is holding us back.
Help us choose obedience over control,
intimacy over visibility,
and faithfulness in the hidden place.
We surrender today’s assignment into Your hands
and trust You with the crown in Your time.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Born Again Ekklesia
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