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Some Thoughts on Inquiring of the Lord
How do you make important decisions? Are you deliberate, or do you act quickly? Is your approach based on research, or do you go with your gut? Do you seek advice from trusted friends or content experts, or rely on your own knowledge and insight? Do you weigh all possible outcomes and implications? Do you pray? And if you pray, is it a deliberate attempt to seek the Lord and his will—or are you asking the Lord to bless what you’ve already discovered?
One danger of highly gifted or “successful” people is the tendency to rely on their own wisdom and insight—and to forget to inquire of the Lord. King David was a leader who usually sought the Lord when making decisions:
"Once again David inquired of the Lord, and the Lord answered him, 'Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand.'" (1 Samuel 23:4)
On nine different occasions, the Bible tells us David "inquired of the Lord"—and each time he did, God guided him to success. But there was the one time he didn't inquire of the Lord: instead of going with Joab and his army to attack the Ammonites, David stayed in Jerusalem—instead of looking away from Bathsheba, he lusted after her—instead of "inquiring of the Lord," he acted on his impulses, took her, broke four of the Ten Commandments, and allowed brokenness to enter his family that would affect generations.
How different would the story have been if David had stopped to inquire of the Lord at any decision point—but especially when lust started a battle in his soul?
How different would our lives be if, when confronted with decisions or temptations, we stopped and inquired of the Lord?
I write today to remind you to pray—to inquire of the Lord—at every decision point in your life.
God would later make this promise to David's son, Solomon, about the power of inquiring of the Lord:
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14)
Let us inquire of the Lord, my friends!
Bishop Jeff Greenway