2 Sam. 21-23; 1 Thess. 1

1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, “It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.” 2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; the children of Israel had sworn protection to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah. 3 Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”

David’s success was that he first looked to God in regard to his circumstances. Not to over spiritualize anything but I believe you cannot over spiritualize anything. What I mean by that is a truly Godly person makes a connection between earthly things and heavenly things. There was a famine in the land. Today’s governmental response would be to look into the scientific evidence for drought, how is global warming affecting the moister, cloud cover and rainfall. But David’s first response was to go to his knees and inquire of the LORD. In this situation the previous administration had broken a covenant with the Gibeonites and thus with God, and Blessing was withheld from the land. People think that our nation has been blessed because of our Governmental structure I don’t think so. I do believe that our constitution was born out of Biblical principles and a Christian world view, but it was more than that. Some think is because of our ingenuity or infrastructure. I see those as a byproduct of God’s blessing not the reason for it. No it is because America in times of great distress has called on the name of the Lord. We have not always done the right thing and we paid dearly for it. The civil war is an example of God’s blessing withheld for the way we treated people because of the color of their sin. We made it right but at a great price. Today we have another evil that is cursing the land and that is the massive slaughter of innocent children who haven’t yet escaped their mothers wombs. Our president has made a crucial supreme court nomination without inquiring of the LORD. This famine isn’t the result of economic laws that were not put into place to regulate the banking industry. This famine is because we have deeply offended the living God and we need to repent and make it right. We need a David that will inquire of the LORD, and we need to be David’s over our own household and inquire of the LORD.



Pastor Rick