{"id":13834,"date":"2017-04-14T06:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=13834"},"modified":"2017-04-14T06:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:10:56","slug":"secretly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/14\/secretly\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFor you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0David said to Nathan, \u201cI have sinned against the LORD.\u201d And Nathan said to David, \u201cThe LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Psalms 51:1<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.\u00a0Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!\u00a0For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.\u00a0Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 11:2-27<\/b><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, \u201cIs not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.\u00a0\u00a0And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, \u201cI am pregnant.\u201d\u00a0So David sent word to Joab, \u201cSend me Uriah the Hittite.\u201d And Joab sent Uriah to David.\u00a0When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.\u00a0\u00a0Then David said to Uriah, \u201cGo down to your house and wash your feet.\u201d And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.\u00a0But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.\u00a0\u00a0When they told David, \u201cUriah did not go down to his house,\u201d David said to Uriah, \u201cHave you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Uriah said to David, \u201cThe ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Then David said to Uriah, \u201cRemain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.\u201d So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.\u00a0\u00a0And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.\u00a0\u00a0In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.\u00a0\u00a0In the letter he wrote, \u201cSet Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.\u00a0\u00a0And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.\u00a0\u00a0Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.\u00a0\u00a0And he instructed the messenger, \u201cWhen you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,\u00a0\u00a0then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, \u2018Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?\u00a0\u00a0Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?\u2019 then you shall say, \u2018Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.\u00a0\u00a0The messenger said to David, \u201cThe men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.\u00a0\u00a0Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0David said to the messenger, \u201cThus shall you say to Joab, \u2018Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.\u2019 And encourage him.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.\u00a0\u00a0And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.<\/p>\n

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Nehemiah 4:5\u00a0\u00a0Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.<\/p>\n

There is no sin that God does not know. \u00a0There is nothing done in secret no matter what we may believe. \u00a0Why is it that we close our eyes to our sin. Sometimes I think we are so far from humbly serving, trusting, honoring, and obeying God that we have shut the door to our heart, and having any ability to hear God speaking to our mind and soul. \u00a0Scripture tells us that His word is sharper than a two edged sword and able to divide the intent and will of our soul. We fill this void with everything but God’s word. \u00a0Do we think we will not be held accountable for neglect of His word? Christ went to the cross, suffered and died and rose again. \u00a0He did this to redeem all who would believe in, trust in, and rely on His sacrificial redemption. \u00a0He did this so that we would be made whole and white as snow. \u00a0He did this so that we would have forgiveness of our sin and in this forgiveness have a victorious life, peace, joy, hope, rest, faith, strength, and power. \u00a0This victorious life grows with knowledge and understanding of God’s word, warnings, and promises. \u00a0Our faith grows in line with the amount of time in His word, prayer, and obeying the still quiet voice speaking into our life in alignment with His word. \u00a0Staying in His word speaks to our heart and soul. \u00a0Apart from His word we allow the culture we live speak into our lives and nothing truly good comes from this. \u00a0Commit to being in His word today. \u00a0Stay in it, read it often, think about what you have read, and obey His leading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFor you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0David said to Nathan, \u201cI have sinned against the LORD.\u201d And Nathan said to David, \u201cThe LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.\u201d Psalms 51:1\u00a0\u00a0 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your … Continue reading “Secretly”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1744,3575,3569,286,2475,1131,2798,3577,3573,3574,587,3571,91,84,1365,3570,3567,3565,468,2826,511,2614,931,3576,3566,3572,3568],"class_list":["post-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abundant-mercy","tag-archers","tag-bathsheba","tag-blameless","tag-cleanse-me","tag-david","tag-die","tag-displeased-the-lord","tag-drunk","tag-fighting","tag-iniquity","tag-journey","tag-judgement","tag-mercy","tag-mourning","tag-pregnant","tag-roof","tag-secretly","tag-servants","tag-sinned","tag-steadfast-love","tag-sword","tag-transgressions","tag-uriah","tag-wash-me","tag-wife","tag-woman-bathing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13836,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions\/13836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}