FAITH CAPSULE: Disallowed your glorious past not to replace your reliance on God for direction.  

1 Samuel 30

King David was a man of war from an early age. 
God identified David as a man after His heart.
When Goliath, the Philistine, stood between the Israelites and peace, David stood against him to terminate his life.
David was wise-full of the move of God, the evidence of him as one that is mindful of God.
By his wisdom and knowledge, he did not upset the plan of God to force his way to the throne but gave himself to the appointed time of God.
How often have you come out of the timing plan of God into self-time?
David had the reason to kill the reigning king (Saul) when Saul attempted to kill him.
Yet David did not take the life of Saul but waited for the appointed time to become the King after Saul. 
With wisdom and knowledge, he chose to run and hide from cave to cave, wilderness to wilderness, and from one priest to another. 
From David, learn wisdom and knowledge to be inquiring from God. 
At a time when King Saul was after his life, David wanted to keep his father and mother safe as stated: “Then David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come here with you, till I know what God will do for me.” So he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.” (1 Samuel 22:3) 
David also inquired from God before going after the Amalekites burned the city and took captive wives, sons, and daughters of his men. 
Bible records, “David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail to recover all.” (1 Samuel 30:8) 
David disallowed his glorious past not to replace his reliance on God for direction. 
David inquired as he “…attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all.” (1 Samuel 30:17-19) 
Inquiring from God is the evidence of one that is after the heart of God.
Inquiring is the character of one with faith that seeks God diligently, to see God, to attain great exploit for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the God-given days of your life shall know to be continual inquiring for reliance on God for direction.