Whatever Is in Your Heart
I Chronicles 17:2
Then Nathan replied to David, ‘Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”
David had it in his heart to build a house for the Lord and for the Ark of the Covenant. David always loved and appreciated the Presence of the Lord and had even at one point in his life, had set up a tent where he had singers, musicians, intercessors and worshippers to be there before the Lord 24/7. He did this because he wanted to have an atmosphere of the Presence of the Lord where he could be at any time, day or night. Yet David had been a man of war and because of this, the Lord sent the prophet, Nathan, to tell David after at first telling him the Lord wanted David to do what was in his heart, that the decree had to be changed. Because of David being a man of war, having blood on his hands, God didn’t want him to be the one to build the temple, but his son, Solomon. God was going to make David a great “house,” by blessing his family and his kingdom. God told David that his throne and lineage would be established forever and that from his lineage the Messiah would come forth. David so longed for Temple to be built to honor God as a nation together. He went to work gathering building materials, including precious wood and stones to use to build the Temple that would make the Temple magnificent and beautiful. What has God put within your heart that you would really like to do, what you would really want to accomplish? David was totally sincere in his deep, heartfelt desire to honor the Lord in this powerful way. Our challenge many times, is belittle what we are sensing and then reduce it down to a huge bout of wishful thinking. We may even talk about what we have moving in our heart, yet never take any steps to move toward it being accomplished. It eventually becomes just a faded memory and tug of regret and disappointment within us. Here’s a secret that we need to understand and apply—whatever is in our heart, realize that many times, it is our heavenly Father who seeded that desire within us. David felt bad that God’s Ark of the Covenant was being housed in a tent, but he, himself lived in a wonderful house of cedar. God did not need a physical building Himself, and He never commanded one to be built. Yet God knew the desire that was in David’s heart. Our all-knowing heavenly Father knows our every thought afar off. Why do you have this “thought” keeping rolling around within you? Could it be the Lord who is stirring you? Maybe there is a greater purpose that you will never fully understand this side of heaven, yet it is there. Walk by faith toward it. The Lord will shine His light on it as you move towards it by faith. David was so grateful and amazed by the goodness of God toward him and you will be grateful and amazed as well.
What about you? What is stirring and burning in your heart today? Will you go forward with this desire by faith to investigate what the Lord will do? I pray that you will. Have a great day in Him.
