Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement, the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Continuing on in our First Things First series today, and every Monday, by the way, in April, today I want to throw some show credit to where the inspiration for this month's worth

of shows came from.

David and passages of scripture from his life lived in First and Second Samuel.

I noticed a thread with David in things I read in these books, and they truly inspired this

whole month's worth of shows.

I want to talk about one thing that stood out in particular on today's show.

Ask, then act, is what I'm calling it.

So important, I think.

I'm sure all of you listening are much more spiritual than I am,

but I for one have a tendency to get ahead

of God. Part of it is my driven personality. I don't like to be inactive. My mind is sort of always going.

I don't feel the need to prove something, so it's not like an achievement thing. Some of you who

like the Enneagram were probably thinking, she's a three, which, by the way, I'm not, but I like so many of you, want to be moving and pressing forward, and God sometimes likes to take it too slow for my liking. The truth is, none of us like to wait, really, and we tend not to be very good at it. It's a human condition. We've talked about it on here before. It's quite hard to wait on God. As a result, in my life,

I've often gotten ahead of him. And it's never worked out very well for me when I've done that,

by the way. As I was reading about David, who remember, God anointed many years before he appointed

him to take the throne as king of Israel. He had to wait his turn, essentially, wait until Saul

died, be patient,

knowing all the while he had been chosen by God, trusting all that time that he would, in fact,

get to take his position. He never got ahead of God during this time. In fact, in so many verses I

read throughout First and Second Samuel about David, talks about him consulting with God,

even on things that looked like no-brainers. In 2 Samuel 2, verse 1, it says this, after this,

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