July 2, 2025

A Man after God’s own Heart. (series)

Join us this evening at Bible Study as we continue on in our 12-week study series on the life of King David titled, A Man after God’s own Heart. We will be studying Part 9: The Davidic Covenant. Our anchor text is 2 Samuel 7: 1-29 (NIV).

David has just reclaimed the ark of God, brought it back to Jerusalem and God gave him rest from all his enemies (surrounding people groups with different gods). During his rest, the reality of the ark dwelling in a tent while he lives in a house of cedar dawns on him and it moves him to want to build a home, a permanent dwelling for the ark. It could also be supposed that David was motivated by the death of Uzzah (2 Samuel 6) and wanted to uphold a standard of reverence for the ark of God. Overwhelmed with this desire, he summons Nathan (his advisor) and shares this desire with him, and Nathan sees it as good and blesses it. The Lord, however, did not see it this way and corrects Nathan and begins to reveal to him what He desires for David. Nathan shares this revelation with David, and it moved him to go and sit before His very presence and begin to offer God thanksgiving which turned into praise and concluded with prayer. What started off as David’s desire for God by way of building for God turned into God’s desire for David to redeem and build him.

Join us as Minister Joshua Dada facilitates the study this evening. We will discuss the lessons learned from this passage and how we can apply them to our lives.