8 ”Go down ahead of me to Gilgal. I will surely come down to you to sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, but you must wait seven days until I come to you and tell you what you are to do.” 9 As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day.
He turned to leave and God changed Saul’s heart and all was fulfilled that day. This is interesting because it makes me wonder if Saul was going to do what he was suppose to do or was he leaving thinking this was crazy and the Lord changed His heart. Was he walking way with a wrong heart and it was changed or was he walking away and was going to obey and then the Lord changed Him?
Sometime I wonder if change comes before or after the step of obedience. I mean was He going to do and the Lord changed His situation and everything was fulfilled or was He walking away from it and the Lord changed His heart and he went to do it. This is for me right now for sure. I need to know if I am needing to step out or it change and then step out. I am may be reading into this way to far because I am not sure what You want me to do yet and I need some real clarity and I am trying to figure out if I need to step out or wait and it change. I know you have never left me in the Dark and I know that I need to just obey your word. I pray for a clear word from you… one like saul in regards to each step that is going to need to be taken. I want to be obedient to you and walk away but follow your word.
10 When they arrived at Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him; the Spirit of God came upon him in power, and he joined in their prophesying.
When He arrived in Gibeah the spirit came upon Him and He prophesied. This is powerful idea that when you get to where God is telling you to go then what you need to complete the task will be there. The Spirit came upon Him when he got there and He joined in on prophesying. I know that all that is needed to complete the task is already there I just need to get there. I pray that your word would lead me into the next step. I know all that I need is already there and when i get there I will have what is needed by your spirit to prophesy and fulfill the word that was given.
The Bible tells us to “Delight yourself in the LORD and He wil give you the desires of your heart” Psalms 37:4
So in asking when exactly did Saul change, before or after? I say before. Saul was delighting himself in the LORD, and the LORD gave him the desires of his heart. Now this can be interpreted one of two ways:
Saul desired in his heart a Corvette- The LORD gave Saul a Corvette (the desire of his heart)
OR
Saul had desires that were of himself (Corvette) – The LORD then “removes” those desires- and then the LORD give you the (new)…Desires of your heart.
In other words. if we would only delight ourselves in the LORD, then our desires would change to His desires, thus changing our actions. In our flesh the world “tells” us what the desires of our heart are. In the Spirit, the LORD “tells” or the LORD “gives us” the desires of our heart.
Just delight yourself in the LORD and he will fill us with new desires, desires to fulfill the plan and the purpose that he has for each and every one of us.