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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
- Hebrews 10:23 KJV
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
- Philippians 1:6-7 KJV
9 And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
10 So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
11 And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.
12 And it was told king David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
- 2 Samuel 6:10-15 KJV
The Message For Today (June 19, 2026):
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Imagine failing so badly at a task that a friend died in the doing of it. This is what David experienced in 2 Samuel 6, and in experiencing the death of Uzzah, because he touched the ark of the Lord and was struck immediately to death, he decided to leave the Ark of the Covenant inside the house of Obed-edom. (2 Samuel 6:6-7 KJV)
The failure was so heavy and the fear so great that he dared not continue on the journey. He left the glory there for three whole months, and all of the house of Obededom the Gittite and all his family were blessed. This is what happens when we stop doing what we’re called to do, and we leave it to someone else to pick up the mantle, or we leave it undone and unfinished.
There are things that God has for us that sometimes we do not see because we are not able to trust the process. We’re not able to see the end of a thing for one reason or another. Life happens, and then we stop. We stop, we address the issues of life, but we never get back on the journey.
We never get back, or very rarely do we ever get back to the assignment of God: the thing that God has called us to do in the process that he has called us to walk out. Here in the cornerstone scriptures, we see the commandment to hold fast to the confession of your faith.
We see the scripture that says that the Lord will finish the work that he started in us. So we have these scriptures. What we see with David in 2 Samuel 6 is we see someone who stopped and then was guided by the prompting of the people to go and retrieve the glory. So he did. But this time he did it differently.
This time, I believe they all discovered that touching the Ark of the Covenant was a no-no. But more than that, every six paces, every six steps, there was a sacrifice. Every six paces, with great intention. The process of getting the Ark of the Covenant back to the city of David, back into the house of Israel, and back with the Israelites.
It took time. It took a process. It took being intentional. It took worship beyond anything that many had ever seen. It took something different. It was not going to be done the old way. This had to be intentional. So when David went back to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant, the way he carried it, even to stop every six paces to sacrifice the oxen and the fatling. It may seem as if it was too much, but to one who lost Uzzah, and to one who left the glory for three months, this was not a light thing.
This was serious. This was intentional.
This was him dancing and girding his loins and preparing to war. Now, biblically, in scripture, whenever a man of God girded his loins, or was girded up in his robes or his, in this case, in an ephod, this meant that they were ready to war. When you look it up, and you research what to be “girded” is, to be girded was a practice of gathering up long, flowing robes and tying them tightly around the waist with a belt or sash.
So to be girded was to be prepared for movement and mobility. The action was often done to prevent tripping and allow for freedom of movement during work, travel, or battle. We know that David was a worshipper. We see in 1 Samuel chapter 16 that when he played the harp before Saul, that the spirit that was sent from the Lord to Saul in 1 Samuel chapter 16 began to flee when David played the harp. So we knew he was a worshipper.
But the worship that David did was actually warfare. To cause evil spirits to flee took something different. It wasn’t just playing a song. It wasn’t just praising the Lord. It was warring in the Spirit. And so here in this scripture, in 2 Samuel 6, we see that the intentionality that David carried went beyond just taking careful steps. They not only sacrificed the oxen and fatlings, but he was girded up in an ephod.
And being girded with a linen ephod represented the fact that David was warring, he was fighting. So his dance was not merely dance. His dancing before the Lord was worship, and it was warfare. This was a fight. Getting the Ark into the city of David was a fight.
Likewise, for us, walking with the Lord is going to be a fight.
Finishing the journey is going to be a fight. Trusting the process through delays, through denials, through being overwhelmed and feeling like there’s no way out, it’s going to be a process. It’s going to be warfare. And it will require something different.
It will require a different level of faith. It will require worship. It will require that you be intentional. In the same way, trusting the process may seem easy, but it’s not. It is a decision that is made and committed to by faith.
So when you’re walking with God, when you’re praying for the Lord to do a thing, when you’re knocking and praying that he perform miracles, signs, and wonders, when you’re praying for your finances to change, when you’re praying for your marriage to be healed, when you’re praying for your children to come home, when you’re praying for the glory of the Lord to be released in your body so that you may heal and be delivered and set free from physical afflictions, you are warring.
And it will take something different. It won’t always be instant. It may take months. For many of us, it has been years. But here and now, commit to the journey of not distrusting the process passively, but trust the process intentionally, with worship, with thanksgiving, with dancing before the Lord and preparing for you to see the victory.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you:
Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you. I thank you, Lord, for the mighty woman of God. I thank you for the grace and the glory. I thank you for being Alpha and Omega, O God, the beginning and the end. You are our great God. You know what you have planned, God.
So as we hold fast to the confession of our faith, as we come before your throne of mercy, of healing, of grace, I’m praying in the name of Jesus for the mighty woman of God to receive her fresh wind, to receive a refreshing, to receive the outpouring, God, to receive the fire in her heart, to believe again, to rise and walk again in authority and dominion in you.
I pray, O God, that the mighty woman of God would overcome in the name of Jesus, that every battle, every fight, every delay, every denial, O God, that, Lord God, you have the final say over it. That you speak over it, God, that you release it the same way you spoke in Zechariah 4:7 to the mountain.
I pray that you speak to her mountains now, in the name of Jesus. I pray that the mountains would move, for you are God alone. And, Lord, you are more than able to remove every stronghold. So, Lord, I thank you, I bless your holy name. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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