2 Samuel 6:10 He was not willing to take the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed him and his entire household.

When David refused to take the ark of the Lord to the city, he left it at the house of Obed-Edom. In the Old Testament, the ark of the Lord represented the presence of the Lord. The simple fact of the ark being in Obed-Edom’s house caused he and his family to be blessed.

As born-again believers today, we are under a better covenant. Unlike the presence of the Lord in the old covenant, which was there today and gone tomorrow, the presence of the Lord is ALWAYS with us everywhere we go. God is with us and He promised to never leave us.

Based on His presence alone, we should expect to be blessed. We should expect our health to be blessed, our finances to be blessed, our thought processes to be blessed, and our families to be blessed. This is the power of God’s presence operating in our lives. Use it for the glory of God.

Inspired by Bishop G.E. Patterson