"One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple" (Psalm 27:4).
David wanted very much to build the temple of God for the Israelites, but God had that planned for Solomon (1 Chronicles 17:11). Until then the Ark, in which dwelt the presence of the Lord, was to be put in a tent (1 Chronicles 15:1). David commissioned the Levites to carry the Ark while singing praises to God to it's new place, in the city of David. Along the way the daughter of Saul witnessed David dancing by the Ark, in which dwelt the presence of God, she despised him in her heart (1 Chronicles 15:29). When the Ark was placed in it's new home, David assigned Levites to worship before the Lord continually (1 Chronicles 6:31-32 ;1 Chronicles 15:15-16; 16:39-40). "So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands" (Psalm 63:4).
Great I Am - Phillips, Craig, and Dean
David knew what it was like to to be in the presence of the almighty. He would seek after this, to behold his beauty, to inquire in his temple. "As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?" (Psalm 42:1-2). No longer does God dwell in the Ark of the old covenant, no longer does he dwell in a temple built of stone, but in hearts of flesh. In Jesus we have this new covenant and his Holy Spirit dwells in us. If we have fellowship with him, we cleanse ourselves from unrighteousness and have fellowship with one another (1 John 1:5-7). God wants our heart, the point is not to sin but to abide in Christ and to walk in him, the great I Am.
"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5,7). Power from God comes in the form of abiding. Walk in him being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith (Colossians 2:6-7; Ephesians 3:16-19). "Undoubtedly the redemption in Christ Jesus has sufficient moral power to enable us to live in a state of purity and love where our whole life will be a prayer. Individual acts of prayer that spring out of that kind of total living will have about them a wondrous power not known to the careless or the worldly Christian" -- The Root of the Righteous. We tend to focus on the branches bearing fruit, but Jesus wanted our focus on the roots, grow the roots deep else when tribulation comes the branches wither away (Mark 4:6;17).
"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5,7). Power from God comes in the form of abiding. Walk in him being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith (Colossians 2:6-7; Ephesians 3:16-19). "Undoubtedly the redemption in Christ Jesus has sufficient moral power to enable us to live in a state of purity and love where our whole life will be a prayer. Individual acts of prayer that spring out of that kind of total living will have about them a wondrous power not known to the careless or the worldly Christian" -- The Root of the Righteous. We tend to focus on the branches bearing fruit, but Jesus wanted our focus on the roots, grow the roots deep else when tribulation comes the branches wither away (Mark 4:6;17).
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit” (Jeremiah 17:7-8).