inspired by Julie Meyer (a sermon I heard her preach)

"David, along with Joseph, had an unbelievable promise. SOMETIMES you step right into that promise. Sometimes first you go to jail." -julie meyers

When the story comes full circle, may we look back with the eyes of papa and say, "GOD set this up for good."

What is written about your life in the book that lasts for eternity? Even in the jailhouse, what is your testimony saying?

Hard questions I am asking myself. I want my heart to be full of faith, even when the dream does come right away. Even when no one is looking, our Father is watching.

"We live for the promise, and we set our hearts to get there, but sometimes God sets up divine delays. And in that divine delay, that is the place that God is looking into you to see what is really in your heart. Because He not only creates us to be great, but he wants us great on the depths of the inside. That's true greatness...greatness within us, no matter what season we are in."

"God is always about restoration. Always, always, always."

Even when you feel overlooked, God knows where you are. And God is the only One that counts.

"And David behaved wisely in all his ways. And the Lord was with him."

Psalm 27:4 "One thing I ask of the Lord, and this is what I will seek all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord." <------who David was at the core, regardless of what he achieved or lost...a lover of God.

Don't let what you do define who you are. Be a lover first.

Psalm 75 "Promotion does not come from the east or the west or the south. It comes from God. God raises one up. God presses another down." <----it's the hand of God. And in the season of God pressing you down, that's where He tests your heart. Can you still be a lover there? Will you still believe? How will you set your heart in those moments?

Psalm 84 "Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the valley of baca [weeping], they make it a spring. The rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength..." <-----the key to walking through the Valley of Baca is to KEEP walking. Don't build your house on "poor me" street.

"This too shall pass..." both in the hard times and in the times of favor.

Remember: this season will one day be your history in God. So make it a good one.