“Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh”. Galatians 5:16
(KJV)
David
and Bathsheba - 2 Samuel 11
“In
the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite
army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained
in Jerusalem” – (Verse 1)
· In the spring: the season after
winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear. In our daybreak
before revival, Lord, help Your men to understand the season that they/we are in, so that they can sow according
to divine instruction.
· Lord
our God, please give unto us leaders who are acquainted with matters of the
kingdom, men who aware of the urgency of the time, men who the Holy Spirit
will instruct, men who are willing to join others on the field of battle.
David had been out in the battlefield before, where
the king was supposed to be
· Jesus
was acquainted with our sufferings. Give us men who know that the Holy Spirit
is ever with us even in battles. Not men that will send but not themselves go,
not men that will remain in their Jerusalem.
“ One
evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the
palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and
David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the
daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent
messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was
purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. The
woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” (Verses 2 – 5)
· Lord,
deliver, wake us/our men from everything that causes spiritual slumber,
sleep, relaxation, timeout, drowsiness - a condition of body and mind which
typically reoccurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system
is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness
practically suspended.
· Heavenly
Father, please teach the men what real beauty is; deal with their minds and
heart to understand what You consider beautiful. What the world calls beauty,
You Lord see as ugly, lust, ruin, destruction, sin and death.
· Lord, help them never to ignore any warning that You
by mercy is bringing to each one. Lord, that we
will know whose we are and not hesitate to leave the place of sin; that we will
not offer ourselves to the enemy’s desires.
· This
is not the era of our men doing their own thing, or doing the things that
please them. Holy Spirit, please take control of our men of courage; because his lustful desire will outweigh his good sense and
integrity. Un-repented sin (lust) will kill; will distract a man in this
revival if they/we allow it to fume long enough then act on it.
· Lord,
please help our men so that they do not evade
responsibility and their calling because it will lead to spiritual decline.
· Lord,
please reveal to our men, leaders, our disciples, that their position,
philosophy of this world (attitude, viewpoint, ideas, values, thinking, way of
life), education, wealth and power - that if they do not surrender totally to
the Lordship of Jesus Christ; their resolve (like David in this story), will supersede
the revealed will of God in their life in this daybreak.
· God
has a plan for our lives. He has laid certain responsibilities upon us, and
when we avoid them with excuses or justifications, we open ourselves to
temptations that separate us from God. Lord, expose every dead work, sin in our
lives to us and to our men, which wants to separate us from divine use. Holy
Spirit, please help us so we all can cry to the Lord for help.
· Lord, make the eyes of our men of courage to linger
on the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Take their eyes from feasting on every inch of Bathsheba’s
fleshly charms (sin and the world system). Lord, help us hand over every sin to
You, and not delay in this daybreak.
· Lord,
please deliver our men, from “daughters of this age”, the world system bathing
all sorts; that Satan will display around to deceive men, and lure into his
trap.
“So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me
Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. When Uriah came to him, David
asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. Then
David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left
the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the
entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to
his house.
David was told,
“Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a
military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”
Uriah said to
David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander
Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my
house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will
not do such a thing!” (Verses 6 – 11)
· Lord,
make us men who are ready to take leave of their duty.
· Lord, make us/our men, people who do not consider
their leisure worthy of importance compared to work of the Lord and his
countrymen. People
who will not be, or lay at ease, when the battle is raging, when souls are
perishing daily, when there is stealing and no accountability in the body of
Christ; when the young ones are seeking for role models, answers from among the
“Ammonites”, when persecuted Christians die daily .
· Genesis 25:30-32
– “ And
Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!”
(Therefore his name was called Edom) Jacob said, “Sell me your birth right
now.” Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birth right to me?” O
Lord, please help us we pray, make us a people that will not betray our Master
Jesus for mammon.
· Lord,
make us / our men like Uriah, who are very patriotic to matters of heaven than to
enjoy his wife while his countrymen were endangering their lives on the
battlefield.
· Lord,
equip our men with a heavenly sense of will and purpose, so that they become
acquainted with the fact that in warfare, there will be causalities and even
death. Lord, help us to know that while we are refusing the enemy’s gifts, he
is putting “plan B” into operation. He will calmly write our death warrant,
seal it, and send it to a willing captain.
“Then David said
to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah
remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. At
David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in
the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he
did not go home. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab
and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the
fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and
die.” So while Joab had the
city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders
were. When the men of the city came out and fought against
Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died”. (Verses 12 – 17)
·
Lord,
whatever the cost, help Your men to remain loyal to the course of heaven.
