#GOD APPOINTS KINGS AND RULERS INSTALL#

Trust the Lord and do not lean on your own understanding. Will you be a David today? Will you pray for your nation’s leaders? Will you avoid trashing your leader with course jokes or hateful speech? No matter how bad it seems, God is in control. We are to pray for our leaders and leave what happens in the hands of God. It is God who appoints authority and establishes powers of nations.

Daniel 2:20-21 teaches that God, as ultimate king, is not standing by wishing and hoping his will comes about.

#GOD APPOINTS KINGS AND RULERS INSTALL#

The authorities that exist have been established by God. God has the power to install and depose kings. When God was ready for him to be King, God would work out the circumstances, and David would not have that blood on his hands.Įveryone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. As such, David put his fate in the hands of God. You see, he believes that God appoints the kings and rulers of nations. Why? Why was David so mad at the man, who was simply helping Saul to die rather than to lie there in pain and suffering until he bled to death? David, although he knew he was to be the next King, refused to lay his hand on the Lord’s anointed. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’ “ 16 For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head. “I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite,” he answered.ġ4 David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”ġ5 Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died. When the Amalekite reported that he himself helped kill Saul, who was already fataly wounded, David became enraged.ġ3 David said to the young man who brought him the report, “Where are you from?” Yet, David did not rejoice at the new of King Saul’s death. He told David of the death of Saul, the King of Israel and also the death of Saul’s son, Jonathan (who was David’s best friend).Īs you know, King Saul was in hot pursuit of David to kill him to prevent him from becoming his replacement. The man, clothes torn with dust on his head, fell at David’s feet and began to honor him. This chapter starts out with an Amalekite man coming to David, having escaped the Israelite camp that David just defeated. I am grateful for God’s Word and for good friends who care enough to help me along on my journey to continue to growing in my relationship with Jesus Christ.

I jump back into dBrag (see for more info) again with a good friend, after a season of “busy-ness”, having been convinced once again of the importance of spending time each day in meditation of the Holy Bible.

God appoints kings and rulers