Streams of Joy Daily Devotional 28 May 2024 Message Written By Pastor Jerry Eze
Streams of Joy Daily Devotional 28 May 2024 (Tuesday) Message
TOPIC: Pursue
SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Samuel 30:1-20
1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite*; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
FOCUS VERSE: “And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.” (1 Samuel 30: 8)
Streams of Joy Daily Devotional 28 May 2024 – MESSAGE
In our Focal Scripture, when David enquired of the Lord concerning the Amalekites who took away his wives and children, God told him to pursue after them. The journey of taking back what was lost began with pursuing. The pursue is to chase after something, with speed. So God commanded David to move with speed. David was commanded to move quickly. David was commanded to advance towards his target speedily.
Friend, it’s time to add some speed to your journey. You can no longer afford to waste time in those goals you seek to achieve. You can no longer take all the time in the world to chase your dreams. You do not even have all the time, so do well to move speedily like David. Be brisk about what you seek to achieve. Be fast about the timelines you have set for yourself. Be disciplined enough to know that time is not waiting for you.
David needed to chase after the Amalekites and recover his wives and children, and God told him to pursue. His recovery needed speed. Considering all you may have lost, you need to move speedily and quickly in order to recover lost grounds. You need to hasten your movement if you are going to beat your rivals to the game. Sometimes your only chance at success is to move before others move. Be speedy about your movement.
Change your posture and position yourself to move faster. If there be anything that has the potential to slow you down, take it off. Be careful with relationships that slow you down. Rise against habits and attitudes that waste your time. Move like one whose goals cannot wait to emerge. Stop moving like one who has nothing to lose. Stop moving like one who has no competition and competitors. Don’t be slothful in your movement.
David pursued, and he overtook and recovered all. Start pursuing; start moving fast; raise your urgency level; hasten your movement. If you have been walking, start running; if you have been running, start leaping.
Joel 2: 4 says: “The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.”
Declare With Me: I move with speed; I raise my urgency level, in Jesus’ name!
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