WORD: Turning A Broken Story Into God’s Glory

To commence this journal, I have decided to start off in an unusual way. Instead of using the story of a woman, I’m going to explore some of David’s life events to introduce some deeper issues at work in the lives of God’s people. Although there are no direct Scriptural references to David’s mother, there has been many speculations relating to his birth, with many references suggesting an illegitimate beginning. In Psalms 86:16 and 116:16, David refers to himself as the ‘son of a maidservant’, and that he was ‘brought forth in iniquity and conceived in sin’, (see Psalms 51:5). In 1 Samuel 22:3-4, we read that David requested a place of refuge for his parents from the King of Moab, indicating that his mother may have been alive during his struggle with King Saul. Despite the lack of evidence regarding David’s beginnings, some Jewish legend depicts his mother as an ‘immoral woman’, whilst others believe that it was her piety and religious devotion that influenced David’s love for God. Whoever his mother may have been, David grew up as an outcast, an outsider by his family and banished into the backwoods to care for the family’s flock, (Psalms 69:8). We could say that this was not a good start, but it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.

You may not have had a good start, but neither did Esther, she was born into a slave environment; Then there was Abigail, locked into a miserable marriage; There is another woman called Rizpah, she’s not mentioned much, she was Saul’s concubine, she bore him two sons. Both were executed. How can we forget ‘The woman at the well’ and ‘The woman with an issue’. Their stories serve as a reminder that God is not done with you yet. You think you are finished, but God is just getting started. You say you have reached your end, but God is saying He is just beginning. You may be thinking that you have nothing left to give, but God is saying He is everything that you need. You are saying that you are too broken to be put back together again. However, God wants us to know that He did not come to seek ‘the whole’. A ‘whole vessel’ does not require healing. God is asking that we bring to Him all our shattered pieces. God promises to restore health to you and heal your wounds

PROPHETIC PRAYER
– The Lord’s promises over our lives will manifest. We will emerge, not haggard, ashamed, shattered, hopeless, abandoned, forsaken, and discarded. We will emerge knowing that our end will be much greater than our beginning.
– Our beginnings will not dictate our end. In Jesus’ Name.
– Our small beginnings only serve to make us more resilient, strong, powerful, courageous, fearless, valiant and victorious. Thus, we emerge like a champion prize-winning stallion, reared in the courts of the Lord.
– My destiny will not be aborted in the wilderness.
– My purpose will not be terminated in the ‘back-side’ of the desert.
– We sense that something is shifting in us, the removal of the ‘old’ and the arrival of something ‘new’.
– We thank You Lord for allowing us to be part of Your: New Beginning; Refreshing; Re-Birthing; Reviving; and Restoring, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.