Deflated

Capture

At first I wanted to preach on Ezekiel and the valley of dry bones, but I figured that there is a way I could tie that into your theme concerning flat basketballs all around, and I believe that would have been a sermon that would have been good for us to hear but as good as that would have been, it would have been a message strictly for people who once belong to God but because of a crisis in life or because of the battles they went thru, they would have become dry and some would have dried up so much that their spiritual life, has dried up to the point that they are dead and stuck in the valley of dry bones. That would have been nice, but it would have been a message for your parents and for the adults, but for you guys there’s a different message that God needs you to hear.

Gods’ intentions on me being here tonight is to talk to you about the season or circumstances that you all might be in right now. God has quickened in my heart that you all are not dry, but that you just might be deflated.

2) Connect When you think of a deflated ball, you might think of a ball that you have received on your birthday or as a Christmas gift. When You think of the ball, you think of the best friend that let you hold it for a while.

However you’ve received that ball, somewhere along the line, the ball was left outside in the hot weather and through the difficulties of the different seasons, the ball was left there to weather each and every storm on its own.

The ball given to you as new, didn’t asked to be abandoned and left alone. The ball didn’t ask to be placed in the most extreme conditions, and it didn’t sign up to be rejected at some point. Tonight I want to share with you all a story about a young boy who was treated like an unwanted(deflated) ball but found his purpose in God and became one of the greatest kings to ever rule in the earth.

1 Samuel 16:4–6 NKJV

So Samuel did what the Lord said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, “Do you come peaceably?” And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice. So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!”

1 Sam 16

*Consecrated-dedicated to a sacred purpose. *3)The sacrifice and the bbq. Talk about David and how he felt smelling and probably having a since of something going on.

Consecrated-dedicated to a sacred purpose.

8)The sacrifice and the bbq.

Let’s talk about how God will have you in the field... while his brothers were in the house.

-What God has for you, is for you. no matter how they look, or dress, no matter what they get that you don’t, what God has in store for can’t nobody get in the way of what He has for you...

1 sam 16:7-

1 Samuel 16:7–10 NKJV

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” So Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.” Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.” Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.”