Conflict With Unanswered Prayer Part 3
September 20, 2022
When God chooses to not answer our prayers, we may think He’s forgotten us. When David appealed to God to build a temple, God’s answer gave him so much more. In this message, we find three responses from God in place of David’s original request: new promises, new intimacy, and a new project. God has something better in mind for us.
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We are often too satisfied by puny pleasures. Though God didn’t fulfill David’s initial longing, He has revealed how the promises were fulfilled. In this message, we contemplate the mystery of God’s promises. From our limited viewpoint, we have no idea where today’s prayers might take us. God does.
September 19, 2022
Does God care when He doesn’t do what we ask? When David wanted to build a temple, God’s answer wasn’t the expected one. In this message from 2 Samuel 7, we ponder a promise from God like none other. Could God have something bigger in mind for us than what we originally requested?
September 16, 2022
When God allows circumstances that frustrate us, do we complain or run away? When the Lord killed a man helping get the ark to Jerusalem, King David found that God is not a manageable deity. In this message, we discover three lessons to manage our anger, rather than the Almighty. God can handle whatever we might be feeling.
September 15, 2022
It seemed like God was overreacting. When God struck a man dead for reaching out to stabilize the ark of the covenant, David became angry. In this message, we learn the truth about who we are when God does the unexpected. What does God’s holiness reveal about us and the way we view sin?
September 14, 2022
Is it ever okay to be angry with God? We are usually angry at Him because we know that behind our difficult circumstances, there is God. In this message from 2 Samuel 6, we consider the truth about who God is when we’re angry at Him. Bitterness only separates us from the help we need.
September 13, 2022
God often uses stressful situations to get our attention and set us back on track. In Israel, David’s hometown was destroyed by fire and his family captured. In this message from Psalm 18, we consider two lessons from David’s return to God. Anyone who’s strayed from the path can turn back to God.
September 12, 2022
When God doesn’t seem to act on our behalf, many of us turn to other dependencies, like addictions or relationships. For David, he strayed from God, becoming a man of blood. In this message, we explore the consequences of David’s choices. What happens when everything else on which we depend is lost?
September 9, 2022
We sometimes look to our most dangerous enemy to meet a need only God can. David fell so far that he joined Israel’s enemy army for a time. In this message, we review key narratives of David’s flight from Saul from 1 Samuel 24-27. What happens when we run from God to other fortresses instead?
September 8, 2022
We’d like to think that our Christian leaders always walk on the mountaintop and never have times far from the Lord. But it’s not true. Like King David, we all fail. In this message, we find three lessons about victory from David’s experience of doubt and despair. We don’t rely on yesterday’s victories but upon the Lord.
September 7, 2022
The Bible is honest about human nature, even of its heroes’ failures. David is seen as a man after God’s own heart because he always cried out to God. In this message from Psalm 34, we see a picture of David in prayer in a cave. Despite our doubts, God can free us from our self-imposed madness.
September 6, 2022
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