#i don't remember which one of us came up with the idea of murder wives but cheers to us we're for real geniuses /j

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a very nice and not angsty (/j) self-indulgent snippet of the murder wives thunderflames au that @arakhnee and i are brainrotting about <3

"So I did all of this for nothing?" Dorcas asked, quirking up an eyebrow.

They felt like Zoya had pushed a dagger in their heart, in deep and out long, their heart on her knife, blood spilling out, love spilling out, staining her hands. Because loving Zoya Zabini was like a losing game; she'd slip between their fingers and then she'd be back, begging for one more time, one more person to get rid of. They'd do it all for her love, putting themselves on a plate for her to see, all soft spots and rough edges, and she had sweeped them off their feet, stolen them away.

"You never really cared for me, did you?" They spit the words out, bitter, disgusting, and angry on their tongue.

"I care for myself and Blaise more." She looked away from them, and that was what had told Dorcas that she was telling the truth. They had a pawn in her game, the king, and Zoya's game was over. Checkmate. And when she would get rid of everyone, she'd look at Dorcas, hands stained with blood and murder and horrified, and she'd smile.

"Cheers to us," She'd say, a glass of champagne in her hand, and even with Zoya's lips on theirs, Dorcas couldn't think of anything else but murder. They had done it all for her, empty promises in the dead of the night, empty champagne bottles, empty hearts, filled with nothing but death.

[dalyunministry]

Bro. Calvin Nii Bannerman

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TITLE : HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

DATE : 5th February , 2021

Father God in the name of Jesus! I thank You for my life and the person reading this life. Please forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness and purge our sins with the everlasting blood of JESUS. You have predestined pathways for us to walk down. Holy Spirit lead us our savior JESUS Christ. Amen

Today, our topic is ,how do you know you have a real relationship with God? One of the surest way to know that you have a true and sure relationship with God is when you SIN. Because if you have a relationship with God, if right now if you live in sin and you're addicted to porn, sleeping with someone who is not your wife, doing drugs , whatever you are doing ,you can know right now whether you have a relationship with God or not.

If you are right with God, He will do 3 things in your life to show that you really belong to Him. What happened to David, happens to everyone who truly knows God and they decide they're going to live in sin.

1. GOD WILL LEAD ME TO CONFRONT MY SIN.

David in his life has committed a perfect crime, he had sex with Bathsheba , he has covered it up and nobody will ever know ,David thought because he was a man of God owns heart everything was cool. But things are not always as they appear. Because if you may remember , there's a footnote in chapter 11 and it reads like this 2nd Samuel 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

He thought nobody will ever see and Joab will keep his mouth shout . He thought he had fooled everybody but it displeased the Lord. Now , God had waited patiently for a year, He knew David would do what he ought to do ,God doesn't settle all his account at the end of the day, week or year but God does settle every account. David had wrapped up the account of adultery and murder on a credit card and now debts have to be settled. God waited for 1 year, David wrote about that event in Psalm 32 and 51, what we found out was that David was miserable in that year, Psychologically, physically, mentally and spiritually David was absolutely wretch, but David wasn't prepared for Nathan but God prepared Nathan for David. Nathan visits David and David had no idea why Nathan had come to visit.

So the story begins in.

2 Samuel 12:1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

If you're right with God , He will send the Nathan into your life, when did God send Nathan? Was it immediately after he committed adultery? No

Was it after he murdered Uriah? No. Was it after he married Bathsheba? No

Nathan does the wise thing, he tells David a story and David assumes it is true, now here is the story.

2 Samuel 12:1-4 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

Now the symbolism of the story is plain, it is not hard to figure out, in the story David is the rich man, Uriah is the poor man, Bethsheba is the ewe lamb, the traveler is temptations, David got angry with the rich man, let's see how David puts it.

2 Samuel 12:5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:

Let's analyze it. Nathan tells David a story which is not true but David thinks it's true, David gets worked up on someone's else's sin but ignores his own , Now Nathan is about to share with him 4 words that will make him run to God

2 Samuel 12:7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man....

Can you imagine how David would have felt, his hands begin to shake the , his eyes begin to feel with tears because he was the man. His sins has been exposed,

If you are truly a child of God and if your heart is truly right with God, whatever sin you conceal from God, He will expose it. Then God takes step 2

2.GOD WILL MOVE ME TO CONFESS MY SINS.

David had concealed his sin and God had revealed them and now, what God tells David through Nathan is,

2 Samuel 12:7-8 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

Here is a man after God owns heart, and he had totally forgotten God's heart. This is the lesson, you never have to do what is wrong to get what is right for you, you know how I know that, because God always wants what is right for you, with God the end never justifies the means and the means never justifies the end. Let me make this simple, if you got to lie, cheat ,steal or cover your tracks and nobody is looking to get what you want something God doesn't want you to have, and David was about to face how wicked sin is.

Davids sins were much worse than he thought, God tells him 3 things ,all sins breaks God's heart. Listen to what tells David.

2 Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight?

Then he says this in verse 10.

2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

And then He says he verse 14

2 Samuel 12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

Here's the point,all sins ultimately primarily against God, if I steal from my boss, I'm not primarily stealing against my boss, I'm stealing against the God who said You shall not steal, for what David sin has done is when we sin.

1. We despised the word of God , because even though we know what God tells us what to do we don't do it. We despised the word of God.

Then we disgrace the name of God , even though we know that God wants us to what is right, we still do what is wrong, and we damage the reputation of God, we give outsiders to say something like this " you're an evangelist and you have been sleeping with someone the whole time you been ministering? "

Every time you sin, you despised the word of God , you disgrace and damage the reputation of God, all sins hurt God. This is the David I want you to love and respect. I know he's an adulterer, I know he's a cheat, I know he's a murderer but this is the real David, watch what he does.

2 Samuel 12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD.

This is the David after God's own heart, not did he made a public confession , it is the most published confession in history, it has been read by millions of people over 1000s of years. The reason why God can take away Davids sin is because of his descendant Jesus, another King.

When you go back to what the Lord told David,

2 Samuel 12:13 ...The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

Another translation says, the Lord has laid your sins on another, that's exactly what God did through Jesus Christ, 2000 years later, Jesus was standing before pontius Pilate, and Pilate has done a thorough investigation about this man named Jesus and he said I found no fault with this man.

This is what he said about Jesus

John 19:5... And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!

2000 years after this happened, Pontius Pilate looked at Jesus and said "You are the man" because when Jesus died on the cross He became the man who took our sins that we might be forgiven and enjoy God's grace .

David wasn't defined by his sin and neither of us, you're defined by what Jesus did on the cross, your sins may define your pass, they don't have to destroy your present and they don't have to determined your future. You know why, because you can come to the Man, who took your sin , turn to Jesus who said I'm going to take your sin for you and from you and I'm going to deliver your from guilt to grace , because I AM THE MAN

Thank you for joining me and have a great weekend