David Was Not a Motivational Singer!

There are many in Zion who desperately need not only the prophetic office of Samuel but the anointed playing of David.

Although depression is generally understood today as a mental-health condition supported by scientific and verifiable research, the Bible, the source of spiritual knowledge, also teaches that King Saul suffered from some form of depression; a torment with a spiritual origin, described as “an evil spirit from the Lord.” (1 Samuel 16:23).

Science or Scripture?

Christians do not have to choose between science and Scripture as if they are enemies. Science offers scientific knowledge; the Bible offers spiritual knowledge. Both help us understand the human condition, but they speak to different dimensions of it.

For example, you cannot prove or explain in a laboratory the relationship between David playing the harp and the evil spirit leaving King Saul. That event is not governed by a scientific law but by a spiritual law, so it cannot be tested or reproduced with data. If we are ever to understand what happened in that moment, it must be approached from a purely spiritual standpoint.

David was not a motivational singer!

David was anointed by the Holy Spirit, powerfully anointed. God anointed both his singing and his playing. And when King Saul suffered a crisis, David would play, and the evil spirit would depart from him. Not by power, not by science but by my spirit says the Lord! For this reason, I must emphasize: David was not a motivational singer. When God sent food from heaven to the Israelites, and they did not know what to call it, they said, “Manna” which means “what is this?” 

(Over time, the understanding of manna has evolved. While originally the Israelites called it “What is it?” because they didn’t recognize it, today manna is often understood more broadly as divine or miraculous food from God). In the same way, many today cannot distinguish anointed singing or messages that bring healing to the spirit, mind, and body from ordinary motivational performance. And whatever we cannot understand, we quickly reduce to something familiar. 

The  motivational-speaker mindset

But when we adopt a motivational-speaker mindset toward things of spiritual significance, we are most likely to overlook or downplay the Spirit’s working through songs, messages, and words that bring deep healing to the mind. There are many people like Saul today, even in Zion, who desperately need real help; men who need only the playing of David and not even the office of Samuel.

And just as God used David, there are men and women whom God has raised, and will continue to use in our generation, with powerfully anointed messages, men not with Samuel’s anointing but David’s anointing. Men who would not use music but divinely inspired utterances. When you hear them, it will restore your soul. Beware that you do not judge by the flesh.

Beware that we do not become sense-ruled and place labels that reduce the effectual working of what the Lord is doing. "For I work a work in your days, saith the Lord, that you will not believe even when you are told." (Acts 13:41). I pray the “B” part of this prophecy would not fulfill in your life, in Jesus’ name.

There are many in Zion who desperately need not only the prophetic office of Samuel but the anointed playing of David - Tabe Abane