"Lord, I passionately love you.." Psalm 18:1-2 (TPT)

King Saul and his officers were relentlessly pursuing David, and the strain upon David was beginning to show. However, David didn’t let that strain change his focus from the Lord; in fact, it had the opposite effect; it strengthened his resolve to put even more of his confidence in the Lord God.

David had immense stressors upon his life, considering his origin was from a family of seven brothers, and him being the youngest, he was often left alone to do the chores his older brothers were unwilling to do, like tending the sheep.

David’s father Jesse was an ordinary farmer in Israel who had raised his eight sons, nothing is mentioned regarding David’s mother. David had much free time to develop his music playing, and well as the use of his sling while he was tending his sheep, I believe the one thing that drew him to the Lord was his isolation. (speaking from personal experience)

Samuel, the prophet, had already anointed David with oil and had told him that day forward, the spirit of the Lord would rest mightily upon Him, and the Holy Spirit departed from King Saul.

These confidence-building times for David were the daily interaction of conversations he with the Lord, where the Lord would speak to him, and he would compose a song based on that interaction. 

David would often see rivers, mountain cliffs, and the firmness of bedrock, as terms which helped him to define the depth of his relationship with the Lord. These terms helped him compose some of the most beautiful songs of praise to the Lord. 

After David’s encounter with Goliath, David was appointed as an aide to King Saul. Since the spirit of the Lord had left Saul, an evil sprint was tormenting him at the Lord’s direction, David’s melodic praise brought peace and rest to Saul to ease the tormenting spirit upon him. 

David served a useful purpose to King Saul, utilizing the gifts that he had been given. However, Saul and the spirit that tormented him caused turmoil in Saul concerning David, for he knew that David would eventually replace him as king and reign in his stead.

David remained faithful to the Lord and to Saul, for David realized that he could not do or say anything against the Lord’s first anointed, to do so would have been a sin, so David served and respected the office of the King while Saul lived.

In many of the Psalms, we can notice that the character of the Psalm (or song) changes from David singing about the Lord, to the Lord singing over David. 

It is the prophetic nature of the Lord to speak His positive affections over His people; in fact, there is healing that comes from these positive affections spoken (or sung) over someone.

“The Lord your God is with you; His power gives you victory. The Lord will take delight in you and in his love he will give you new life. He will sing and be joyful over you.” Zephaniah 3:17 (GNT)

According to scripture, singing existed long before the creation of the world, and the “sons of God” (Elohim) sung and shouted with Joy as Yahweh-God was considering the dimensions of the world and its foundations as a master builder to place the earth within the universe. 

Job had this very discussion with the Lord; the Lord told Job that he was not present before creation when the sons of God were singing and shouting for joy over God’s desire for creation.

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, who set its measurements? since you know. Or who stretched the line on it? On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”  
Job 38:4-7 (NASB)

There is an inherent joy in a song which comes when we consider praising the Lord, and worshipping Him, He takes pleasure in His people of His creation and imbues them with Himself to partake of that joy with them. 

When we let ourselves go and truly worship the Lord with our whole heart, He responds and sings over us, which is when we experience the joy of the Lord and know and experience His affection for us. It is at that point; we can speak the true heart of God’s love and affection for others because we have experienced it ourselves.

Our purpose isn’t to just to become lovers of God, but as ambassadors of love to others. The love of Christ must go beyond us and our experience; it needs to reach into everywhere we go daily. 

There will come a revival of young people turning to Christ Jesus very soon, and our role is to pass on this Gospel of love to the next generation with clarity and fidelity. We cannot rely on religious institutions or denominations any longer to do this for us; we must rely on Christ Jesus alone.

David knew this; he depended on God for everything in his life; God was David’s stability and his secret strength to withstand and overcome every obstacle and enemy.

We also are overcomers when we stand in the victory of Christ Jesus; we can withstand and overcome everything thrown at us and still stand victorious. 

We can praise and worship the one who made our new life possible, that He might respond and sing and rejoice over us with dancing.

Our God is like that!  That's who He is!

Be Blessed;

Stephen Barnett