with Pastor Jayson Martindale
The Specter Of Your Origin
Text: 1 Samuel 16:1-13
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
Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
- Psalm 9:10
David was given “the menial task assigned to the least important son or
servant of the household” - Beacon Bible Commentary
…work that is far removed from anything we think of as ideal work. It is the utterly hard, menial, tiresome, and dirty work.
- Oswald Chambers
“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 things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- 1 Samuel 1:7
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
- Psalm 139:1-3
In some cases the way a person does a task makes that work sanctified and holy forever. It may be a very common everyday task, but after we have seen it done, it becomes different. When the Lord does something through us, He always transforms it.
- Oswald Chambers
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31
The Specter of the Future
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
- Deuteronomy 31:8
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Matthew 6:34
But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hands...
- Psalm 31:14-15
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