Sun.’s Devo - David Crowned King

Read: 1 Chronicles 11:1-12:18; Acts 28:1-31; Psalm 9:1-12; Proverbs 19:1-3 After Saul was killed, the people met with David at Hebron and crowned him their king. David made a covenant with the Lord to served him as a nation. David took Jerusalem from the Jebusites. He also captured the fortress of Zion which they changed it to the City of David. David had three mighty warriors who were the most famous and were part of David’s Thirty mighty warriors. The first was Jashobeam the Hacmonite. He killed 300 enemy warriors in a single battle. The second one was Eleazar son of Dodai. He was famous because when Israel met the Philistines in a field full of barley, all of Israel fled, but he and David stayed and held their ground in the middle of the field. The third man of The Three is not mentioned by name. The Three overheard David commend that he would love some of the good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem. The Philistines controlled Bethlehem at the time. The Three risked their lives to get David some water from that well and brought it to him. He refused to drink it because it was the cost of their blood. The leader of The Thirty was Abisai, who killed 300 in a single battle. Benaiah killed two campaigns of Moab and also chased a lion into a pit and killed him also. He killed an Egyptian warrior who was seven and a half feet tall. The giant had a thick spear which Benaiah wrenched from his hand and killed him with. David made him his personal bodyguard. The men who had been with David while he ran from Saul were mentioned. All of them were archers who could shoot arrows and sling stone expertly with both hands. Some of the men of Gad came to the stronghold where David was. David came out and met them to see if they were on his side. They joined him and he made them officers over his men. In Acts, Paul and his men were shipwrecked on the island of Malta. They made a fire and a poisonous snake came out of the fire and attached himself to Paul’s arm. Paul shook the snake off into the fire and nothing happened to him. The islanders went from thinking he was a murderer to thinking he was a god. The chief of the island welcomed them into his house where they healed the chief’s father who had dissentry. Many on the island were healed also. They stayed their for months then left on another ship. They finally came to Rome. Paul was put on house arrest with many freedoms. Paul had all the Jews come to his house and listen to his testimony and why he was there. He caused a stir as some believed what he said about Jesus and others didn’t. Paul stayed in Rome for two years teaching the truth to both Jews and Gentiles without anyone trying to stop him. Lord, may we be as determined as Paul to tell the truth whether we are accepted or not. May everything we do be for your glory.