A Person After God's Own Heart

How To Become A Person After God’s Own Heart

 And when He had deposed him, He raised up David to be their king; of him He bore witness and said, I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart, who will do all My will {and} carry out My program fully. –Acts 13:22 Amplified Bible

You can be like David

Do you know that you can become like David? A person after God’s own heart. You can also be a John. A disciple that Jesus loves most. This is not something too difficult. God does not intend to make anything too difficult for His children. He longs to see us prosper in doing all His will. Even wicked parents love to see their children do well in life. How much more the God who loves us so much that he sacrificed His son’s life for us. One thing I desire most for all men is for them to experience the love of God. The love of God supersedes all things. Ask God constantly to increase your understanding concerning His love. This will bring you fruitfulness in your walk with Him. David understood the love of God. When you understand the love of God it will cause you to be His best lover. Let’s look at some of the things David did to demonstrate his love for God. David was God’s best lover because He worshiped God the most. He danced the most at worship service. He wrote the longest songs, praises and worship book in the Bible. This explains that he is the person who expressed his love to God most. Our words and actions express what is in our hearts. David also decided to build God a magnificent house. He taught about God so much that he decided to build Him a temple. If you think about God you would care for his Church. Do not only be concern about building a family, a career and a business for yourself. Think also about what you can do to support your church. David never offered a sacrifice to God that did not cost him. How do you give to God? Do you just give anything or you give your best? Do you give willingly or grudgingly? The way you give determines how heaven will respond to you. Remember Cornelius.  Because of David’s love for God, God fought all his battles for him. God also established his kingdom, blessed him with wealth and gave him long life. God gave him a wise heir to succeed him as well. God will fight all your battles for you. He will establish all the work your hands finds to do. You would be blessed with so much wealth and good health. Your labour on this earth will not be in vain. Because God will surround you with wise people to guard and perpetuate your good works. All these would come to you as you decide to love God most. I want to share with you four steps I believe would lead you to become a person after God’s own heart.

The will of God

Doing all God’s will and carrying out His programme fully are the two great pillars that makes a person loved by God. Knowing and doing God’s will are the two secrets to prosperity and good success. The Scripture above described King David as one who did all the will of God and carried out His programme fully. If you love God you will obey all His commandments. Everyone loves individuals who listens to and are obedient to them. We listen to God by paying attention to His voice. God’s will is contained in His voice. The will of God is for you  to know and to obey His word. His word should be imprinted in our hearts. The word should be the compass and captain of our lives. The word is what can train our hearts to do the will of God. God trains our heart by giving us wisdom and power to obey His word. God is always communicating His will through His voice to us. He is everywhere. He speaks always. But we fail to listen mostly. Our mind and feelings has taken much control of us that we fail to hear from God. You can know the will of God concerning every issue through your heart. God is a spirit so He speaks to us mainly through our spirit. God directs us through our spirits or heart. Bible says our heart is the candle of God(Proverbs 20:27). A candle is a light that helps for direction. All of us need to understand we are spirit beings. The heart or spirit is the real you; the inner man or hidden man. The hidden man because you cannot see or feel him with your physical senses. He is inside you and hidden from your senses. Our bodies and mental faculties only help us to express ourselves. The reason God choose David as king was because he had trained his spirit to listen to God. David was a person who longed to do God’s will only. God told Samuel that he choose David because he had a heart that was better than that of his brothers. God looks at the heart but man looks at the outward appearances. David was more spiritually matured than all his brothers. But his brothers were physically and mentally matured than he was. His brothers had not trained their spirits to maturity. They did not understood how to know and relate with God properly. David had trained his heart to know God better than his brothers. His heart appreciated God as a his Shepherd and as the Lord of host, the leader of the armies of Israel. Tomorrow I would discuss the four steps involved in training your heart to know and to do God’s will. 

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