In this powerful continuation of What Made David a Man After God’s Own Heart, international missionary and Bible teacher Cherri Campbell explores the vital connection between obedience and faith. Through Scripture and personal experience, Cherri reminds us that delayed obedience is disobedience and that God is pleased with quick obedience—just as parents are pleased when their children respond right away.
Drawing from the example of David, Cherri shows how a heart after God is a heart that delights to do His will, even when it’s hard. She challenges believers to overcome fear, unwillingness, and procrastination by developing bold, active faith—the
Welcome to Victorious Faith. We believe you will be blessed, encouraged, and receive fresh faith to begin your day as you listen to today’s message with international missionary and Bible teacher, Cherry Campbell.
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Good morning. Welcome to Victoria’s Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning I’m going to continue sharing with you message number three in a series of messages that I preached in our Victoria’s Faith services called, What Made David a Man After God’s Own Heart? And I trust these messages are blessing you. So join me now in our live service for the continuation of message number three in this series, What Made David a Man After God’s Own Heart? And so I prayed that prayer many times. I desire to do your will. In the King James translation, I delight to do your will. Lord, okay, you know I don’t like this place. I delight, though, to do your will. By faith, I delight in this. Oh, praise the Lord. You know, I had to do a lot of things that I didn’t want to do by choosing to delight in it. And so there’s an unwillingness. Sometimes God tells you to do things you just plumb don’t like and don’t want. And that unwillingness, a lot of people will just stop right there. I’m not doing that. They don’t. That’s why a lot of Christians really are in disobedience. They just plumb don’t like and don’t want to do what God told them to do. I don’t want to do that. I am not going there. And they will just not do it. So unwillingness is another reason. But then unwillingness is really the reason for the third one that I was talking about last time, procrastination. It’s because really the reason people procrastinate, they really don’t want to do it. So they put it off. They think, well, I’m not going to tell the Lord, no, I’m not going to do it. But let’s just give it a few days. And procrastinate. Well, maybe in a month it’ll be better. And then a month comes by. Well, it’s not quite right. Times aren’t right yet. The economy isn’t right yet. Let’s wait a little bit longer. And they will wait months. and then another month after month after month, and it becomes year after year after year until they have forgotten what the Lord told them to do. They just procrastinated long enough. They never outright said, no, I don’t want to do that. They just procrastinated because of unwillingness or fear. Fear or unwillingness. They procrastinated until they just never did it. Procrastination is also disobedience. As we quoted to you in Psalm 119 verse 60, I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands. You need to put that word hasten in your memory and remember that because a lot of people, they delay to obey. But delayed obedience is disobedience. For example, if you have children, they’re sitting in front of the TV watching cartoons. And you tell them, get up, go do your homework right now. And 30 minutes later, they’re still watching cartoons. Well, they’re going to get to it. They’re going to get to it. Is that obedience? No, it’s not. When you say get up and go do your homework and they stay sitting there in front of the TV, delayed obedience is disobedience. What’s the same with you as an adult? I mean, don’t blame your kids for doing it if you’re going to do it with God. Some parents are going to be more strict with their children than they are with themselves before God. They correct their children when their children sit too long. But they themselves sit too long before God, waiting, putting off, procrastinating. So you need to keep in mind that when you get an unction from the Lord to do something, hasten to obey. Hasten to obey. Praise the Lord. Everybody say, don’t say this. I won’t even have you say it out loud. But if it’s in your heart and this is your prayer, Lord, just tell him, Lord, Lord, I want to hasten to obey you. I want to be quick to obey you when you speak to me. Help me to always be quick to obey. And you know what? Quick obedience pleases the Lord, just like quick obedience of children pleases their parents. I mean, the kids get up right then and go do what they’re told. That really pleases their parents. Well, your quick obedience pleases God, but also the delayed obedience is actually disobedience. So don’t even think, well, I can do it next week. No, you can’t. That’s disobedience. If God says do it now. So hastening to obey, being quick to obey what God tells you to do. And we saw David did this. He sought the Lord’s will. So we read in 1 Samuel 23, 1 through 4, he inquired of the Lord, should I do this? Should I go? And then the Lord said, go. And then 1 Samuel 23, 5, David and his men went. He inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, do it. He went and he did it. What we see, actually, and I pointed this out in Acts, we’re actually starting in 1 Samuel 13, 14, the very thing that lost King Saul the throne and the kingdom was his disobedience. That was what caused him to lose the kingdom. And in Acts 13, 22, God said, I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do. So right here we see obedience to God is a very, very key factor to being a man or a woman after God’s own heart. A person who will do everything God tells them to do. Are you a man or a woman, a person after God’s own heart? Going back to the heart issues, have you kept a clean and pure heart before God? Are you quick to repent? Do you love to fellowship with God? Do you love his word? Do you love to fellowship with him? Do you love praise and worship? Then do you seek his will and ask his will to direct your life? And then are you obedient to do his will? Then that takes us on to what I wanted to add on to this tonight. You know, I’ve learned from my teachers, review is very important. Because when I’m reviewing, I’m also expounding a little bit more on some of the points I’ve already made. But repeating them again helps to hammer them in to your thinking. Sometimes just saying it once, it sounded good the first time, but you forget. And actually it said you have to hear something seven times to remember it. It takes more than that to really renew a paradigm, change a way of thinking. Hearing it over and over and over again. So this review is necessary. One of my favorite teachers reviews like at least the first 20 minutes of every message if he’s in a series. And so that’s why I’ve spent this time in review. It’s important to go over these things again and then to expound on them a little bit more. So the one point I wanted to add on to tonight, and it’s not going to necessarily take a lot of time because it is a point that I have really taught a lot about. And I’ve got lots of messages on my YouTube channel about faith, what faith is, how faith works. But tying it in here, what made David a man after God’s own heart? Another factor was he was a man of faith. And he acted on his faith. He didn’t hold back in fear. He was a man of faith, courage, boldness. And that’s what faith does. Faith will give you courage. Faith will give you boldness to step out and act boldly. And because of his faith in God, he had the faith and boldness to do some great exploits. Back to the notes here. First of all, faith is specific. In other words, faith works the same for everything, but just because you have faith to be saved, born again, go to heaven when you die, does not mean you have the faith to be healed. All the Christians who say, Lord, if it be your will to heal me, they don’t have the faith to be healed. They believe God will take them to heaven, but they don’t know that God’s going to heal them. So just because you have faith to be saved doesn’t mean you have faith to be healed. It doesn’t mean you have faith to have your needs met. Faith to be saved does not mean you have faith for provision. Your bills paid, your rent, your mortgage paid, your car paid, your credit card paid, your kids’ tuition paid. You don’t necessarily have faith for those things. It doesn’t mean just because you have faith to be saved doesn’t mean you have faith to be protected from danger, whether it’s car accidents or violence. And just because you have faith to be saved doesn’t mean you will act on what God says do. So, of course, everybody who’s saved, born again, has faith to be saved. You can’t be saved without faith. But there’s a lot of Christians, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of Christians who stop right there. They got saved by faith, and that’s as far as their faith got developed. And I mean developed by you have to feed it, exercise it, train it, and practice it, and use it in every area of your life. Train and develop your faith for healing. Train and develop your faith for your needs to be met financially, materially, emotionally, whatever. All your needs. Train your faith. Develop your faith to be protected. And develop your faith… to be able to act when God says do something. So Hebrews 11.6, without faith, it is impossible to please God. Does that say it’s hard or difficult? No, impossible. You will never please God without faith. And we use this scripture in our offering tonight, Hebrews 11.1. Now, faith is, this translation, the NIV being sure, King James says the substance. What I showed you is it’s literally the foundation of what we hope for, which is confident, joyful expectation, and being certain of what we do not see. That’s what faith is. You’ve got to develop faith. Not only to be saved and go to heaven when you die, but faith to be healed, faith for your finances, faith for your marriage, faith for your children and grandchildren, faith for your job, faith for your needs to be met, faith for financial material provision, faith for protection from danger, whether it’s accidents or violence. Faith to act when God tells you to do things. You’ve got to develop each one of those. And I’ve got other lessons on the YouTube channel specifically about how to develop faith. So I don’t have time right here right now to go into a whole lesson about faith. and how it works. But I’ve talked already a bit about it, even during the offering. I shared with you the word believe to receive. Receive is the Greek word lambano, means to take, to take with the hand, to take to yourself, to take possession of. And so that’s how you believe to receive things. And that’s just a part of it. Go to the YouTube channel and And the YouTube channel is under my name, Cherri Campbell. And there’s radio broadcasts at the top by series title. You can look for the one that is on the law of faith. What you just heard was the continuation of message number three in a series of messages that I preached in our victorious faith services called What Made David a Man After God’s Own Heart. And we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow. And remember, God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
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