Faith Capsule: By your assumption, do not make a move to remove yourself.

2 Samuel 5

The word of God encouraged us, Ask, seek, and knock. (Matthew 7:7-8) Are you asking or assuming? If you will resume asking instead of assuming, you will cover grounds that are beyond your assumptions. It does not matter how long you have been assuming correctly, but it could take one wrong assumption for to experience an epic failure. Switch from assumption to praying and asking God for directions God has never failed. A command to ask, seek and knock is a connection to receive. God declared King David as one “…Who kept my commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in my eyes.” (1 Kings 14:8) It is evident in the life of David that he was a man that personalized God by the testimony of his ways in asking. David would repeatedly go before God to ask the same thing before making his move. In David’s obedience to God’s command, there was no assumption in any of his operations.
David was going back and forth to inquire from God before making moves of war. The bible recorded in 2 Samuel 5:18-19, “The Philistines also went and deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim. So David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.” God gave David the go ahead, and he went and defeated his enemies. After God had given the victory to David over the Philistines, the Philistines did not disappear, but they showed up again and repositioned themselves against David. It could have been reasonable for David to assume that the same God is still at His throne, and will move on his behalf instead, “…David inquired of the LORD, and He said, “You shall not go up; circle around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the LORD will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.” And David did so, as the LORD commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.”
The way David went to war and defeated his enemy the first time was not the same way the Lord commanded him to take on his enemy the second time. If David has assumed and gone to war, it could have been a different result. Do not make a move to remove yourself by your assumption. God is the Unchanging Changer; take it all up to Him, because the anointing of yesterday will not carry you for today.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to constantly engage asking and not assuming.