Weak But Anointed
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Introduction
Introduction
SCRIPTURE: - 2 Samuel 3:39
And I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too harsh for me. The Lord shall repay the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
PRAYER: -
OPENING: - Icy-Hot, Large-Shrimp, Bitter-Sweet, Same-Difference, and Orderly-Confusion.
These are common oxymorons. An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
In our society and our way of thinking it is impossible to be 2 things at the same time, you can’t be tall and short, coming and going, happy and sad, and right and wrong.
It is this mentality that has caused us to develop a certain type of persona.
We believe tears make us seem as though we are weak and without a backbone.
We believe that circumstances make you appear as if you don’t have a clue as to what is really going on.
So, then we put on a false face and travel through life everyday like everything is all right because we don’t want people to see or know how we really feel.
At work we show the face of oh it is so good to see you but really, we feel I just want to do my job and go home please leave me alone.
At home we tell our spouse everything is going to be all right and not to panic, but inside we are struggling and saying Lord if you don’t hurry up, I don’t know what I am going to do.
Then we come to church, the place where we should be able to be ourselves and be free, but we don’t want people to think less of us or realize you don’t have it all together, so we put on the false face of sanctification.
Praise the Lord I am blessed and highly favored of the Lord, Hallelujah, glory to God but down on the inside
I am hurting,
I am messed up,
I got some issues,
I don’t have it all together and
I need some help.
Understand, this does not negate your salvation, it does not say that you have limited amounts of faith, it has nothing to do with you going to heaven or not, but it says I am human, and I am dealing with some things.
The devil, who is a master at deception will try to make you feel that the way you feel right now or what you are going through right now is the way it is always going to be.
He tries to say see you are defeated, you don’t have the strength to make it through this, and he will even try to convince you and say see God has forsaken you.
What he doesn’t want you to realize is that you overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of your testimony.
Because of the Blood of the Lamb my sins are forgiven because He was bruised for my iniquities, the chastisement of my peace was upon Him and by His stripes I am healed.
Also, I can stand assured because if He delivered me out of what I went through before I know He will deliver me out of this also.
I am weak but I am anointed.
TEXT: - In our text David, who at this point had been anointed by Samuel to be King, He had already defeated Goliath about 15 years prior. Saul was now dead, Jonathan was also dead, David should have been made King over all Israel. However, Israel had been divided into two kingdoms, the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (Judah) and he (David) is King of Judah or the Southern Kingdom, while Ishbosheth, another of Saul’s son’s is King of Israel.
BACKGROUND: - Now there is war between the Northern Kingdom Israel and the Southern Kingdom Judah, and each side had a general if you will Israel had Abner and Judah had Joab. The Bible says Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul. Well, Ishbosheth, who was one of Saul’s sons accused Abner of sleeping with Saul’s concubine named Rizpah, which was forbidden because that was the King’s concubine and to sleep with her was to disrespect the King. This didn’t sit right with Abner because he was loyal to the house of Saul, so he leaves Ishbosheth and the Northern Kingdom and comes to David and tells David it’s time for Israel to become united and that David should be king of all Israel, this is what he was anointed to be. Abner says to David, he can make it happen and the people will gladly follow along. David agrees with Abner’s plans and sends Abner away in peace to make it happen.
Now Abner had killed Joab’s brother in battle and when Joab heard that Abner came to David and David sent him away in peace Joab felt that Abner was trying to deceive David and entrap him, so he sent troops after Abner and had Abner captured, brought back to Joab thinking it was all peaceful and then Joab killed Abner by stabbing him in the side.
David when he hears Abner is dead, he rents his clothes and refuses to eat saying Abner died as a fool dieth because he was ambushed and killed by surprise. David curses Joab and his family because of what Joab has done.
Then we come to the 39th verse David says “And I am this day weak, though anointed king…”
I just want to say right now there may be a time in your life when a situation makes you weak.
There may be something that stops you in your tracks.
You will come to a point in your Christian walk where you stop and look up to heaven and ask God WHY ME and maybe even do You care.
Understand God is not intimated by your questions.
God is not going to become depressed because you question him.
There is nothing you can ask God that will surprise Him.
There is nothing you can say that will make Him say I don’t know.
You worship and cry out Lord you are a deliverer He begins to pull you out of that mess.
Lord you are a healer and He begin to heal your body.
Lord you are a way maker, and He begins to show you the way.
You cannot worship God for who He is, and He does not do what you said He is.
David said, “I am weak THIS DAY”.
WATCH THIS: -
This day is just a period of time.
This day is different than other days.
This day deals with a current situation at a certain point in time.
This day does not determine your destiny.
David was saying
I already killed a Lion and a Bear, I already killed Goliath,
I already been delivered from Saul’s attempts on my life,
but this day I am weak.
In other words, Devil don’t get it twisted I might not be up to par right now but I am anointed king, and another day is coming.
Let me explain this anointing.
The 4 Step Process of the Anointing.
You must understand what it means to be Anointed.
Being anointed is more than coming up for prayer and the preacher putting some oil on your forehead in the shape of a cross that’s the act or the outward showing of the anointing.
The anointing is a process, as a matter of fact it is a 4-step process. The number 4 derives its Bible meaning from creation. On the fourth day of what is called “creation week” God completed the material universe.
On this day He brought into existence our sun, the moon, and all the stars Genesis 1:14 - 19
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Their purpose was not only to give off light, but also to divide the day from the night on earth, thus becoming a basic demarcation of time.
They were also made to be a type of signal that would mark off the days, years and seasons of which there are 4.
Interestingly, the Hebrew word for “seasons” is moed in Strong's Concordance #H4150, which literally translated is "appointed times".
The 4 steps of the Anointing process are:
1. Chosen
2. Washed
3. Robed/Clothed
4. Anointed
Before the anointing you & I were chosen.
Chosen
Chosen
First, we are chosen. To be chosen is to be one who is the object of choice or of divine favor, an elect person, selected, and preferred for a certain and divine purpose, the object of choice. Oh, you didn’t catch that, an object of choice is something that when viewed stirs a particular emotion, something toward which thought, feeling, or action is directed, a cause for attention or concern. We are chosen, a chosen generation, when God looks at us it stirs His emotion of Love and compassion and He directs His blessing down upon us, WHY, because we are chosen, the object of His choice, and are the cause for His attention and concern.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
We are chosen by God Himself, to fulfill a specific purpose in His divine plan and have been predestined (predestinated) to the culmination of that plan ever since the beginning of time, for the Bible says in Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Washed
Washed
Then we are washed. Ezekiel 36:25–27
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
The washing of regeneration is a kind of reconditioning, remaking, or remodeling, with life. The washing of regeneration purges away all the things of the old nature of our old man, and the renewing of the Holy Spirit imparts something new the divine essence of the new man into our being.
Clothed
Clothed
Then you are clothed/robed in righteousness. Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban.
God clothes us in his righteousness as a gift of grace.
This righteousness is not something we can achieve on our own but is provided by God.
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
We are clothed in His righteousness.
Anointed
Anointed
Then we are Anointed.
We are made consecrated or sacred empowered or made effective for God's purposes by the special activity of the Holy Ghost.
When Aaron was anointed, he was anointed with a mixture of blood and oil, on his ear, his thumb, and his big toe indicating he would hear from God to the work of God and go where God leads him.
The blood, cleanses and represents ultimately the blood of Christ shed for our sins.
The oil symbolizes God's Holy Spirit, so when we are cleansed from all unrighteousness through the blood of Christ, we are able to live a new life in Christ by His Spirit.
Being Anointed is having God’s presence with you and His favor upon you.
Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
This anointing puts a mark or impression of royal ownership on our lives, which authenticates and guarantees who we are and to whom we belong.
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
David said “I am this day weak though anointed king” – King that’s Royalty!
You are a royal priesthood and are already anointed but let me show you something that the anointing will get you.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
Jesus says in John 14:12
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
Focus on this – “the works that I do shall he do also”. That is a promise.
Let me explain what the anointing gets you.
As a royal priesthood we have conferred upon us an unlimited resource, God said He would supply all of our needs according to His riches in glory, regardless of how many come to Him, He has resources that have yet to be touched.
I am reminded of a song we used to sing that said “There’s room at the cross, those many have come there’s still room for one, there’s room at the cross for you”.
We have unlimited freedom, because He said whom the son has set free is free indeed, and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, we have authority over the devil and this world, for all power in heaven and earth is in His hands and we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ.
We have the ability to demand that the devil be bound and that the spirit of God be released in our lives, that is the authority that we have if we ask in His name.
It is our prerogative rather or not to come under the subjection of satanic influences in our lives.
Because we are a royal priesthood, there are things that are placed under us, they are our subjects and we are not to be bound by them, but rule and reign over them
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I am this day weak but anointed.
You may be depressed THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be weak THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be discouraged THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may feel hopeless THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be confused THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be weak THIS DAY feeling like you don’t have the strength to make it. But I just want to encourage you and let you know you are chosen by God himself for such a time as this, you have been washed in the blood of the lamb through Baptism, you are clothed in His Righteousness and you are anointed having been filled with the Holy Ghost.
You may be weak right now but let me tell you something - You are stronger than you realize.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I am this day weak but anointed.
Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world.
Give God praise and say I’m weak but I am Anointed.