Good morning, our Fire-starter comes from 1 Chronicles 15. Our
Fire-starter thought is: we should have sought God first!!!!

There are so many things that could be brought from this chapter but I
would like to draw your attention to Verse 13.
In the latter part of the verse it states, …for that we sought him not
after the due order.

If you remember chapter 13 and also 2 Samuel 6 there was a man by the
name of Uzzah who was killed because of sin. See had they had done it
the right way and sought God they would have never had that happen to
Uzzah. Why do you say that? Simply because the ark would have never been
placed on a cart it would have been on the shoulders of the levites.

The thought is very simple this morning. Oftentimes we reap the
consequences of not seeking God. We end up not doing his will simply
because we do not ask him what his will is for us. We do not seek his
advice on how to discuss things with a family member that is out in sin
and we end up turning them away from hearing the truth all because we do
not seek the Lord!!!
We sometimes have a hard time helping others simply because we do not
seek the Lord on how to handle the situation. Here David was saying,
because we didn’t seek God a man died. Because we didn’t seek God it was
drove on a cart. Because we didn’t seek God the levites were not present.
Yes! It was an exciting time but they forgot to do one important step
and that was seek God.

We may get excited about things but if we are not seeking God like we
ought to then those things will not turn out to our liking why? Because
we failed to seek God.
I encourage you this morning before you do anything seek God and find
out what his will is. You seek him and he will show you how to not only 
do the right thing but do it the right way!!!
Hope you have a wonderful day!!!!

1 Chronicles 15:1-29 KJV
And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for
the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. [2] Then David said, None
ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the Lord
chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. [3]
And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark
of the Lord unto his place, which he had prepared for it. [4] And David
assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: [5] Of the sons of
Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty: [6] Of
the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and
twenty: [7] Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an
hundred and thirty: [8] Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief,
and his brethren two hundred: [9] Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the
chief, and his brethren fourscore: [10] Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab
the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve. [11] And David called
for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel,
Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, [12] And said unto
them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify
yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of
the Lord God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it. [13]
For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach
upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. [14] So the
priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the
Lord God of Israel. [15] And the children of the Levites bare the ark of
God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded
according to the word of the Lord. [16] And David spake to the chief of
the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments
of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the
voice with joy. [17] So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and
of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari
their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; [18] And with them their
brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and
Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the
porters. [19] So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to
sound with cymbals of brass; [20] And Zechariah, and Aziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah,
with psalteries on Alamoth; [21] And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and
Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the
Sheminith to excel. [22] And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for
song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful. [23] And
Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark. [24] And Shebaniah,
and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah,
and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of
God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark. [25] So
David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went
to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of
Obed-edom with joy. [26] And it came to pass, when God helped the
Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered
seven bullocks and seven rams. [27] And David was clothed with a robe of
fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and
Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon
him an ephod of linen. [28] Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the
covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and
with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and
harps. [29] And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord
came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out
at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in
her heart.