What to Do When You Are Weak | Jentezen Franklin

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i’m weak but i’m still a child of god i

may be sick but i’m still a child of god

i may have financial needs in facing a

crisis

in my family but i’m still anointed king

that’s a powerful thing i may be down

and persecuted

but i am anointed

i’m going to speak to you today from

second samuel

the third chapter and it’s a message

that i’ve never preached before but i do

believe that it’s going to speak to your

heart today

i know it did mine and there is this

verse in second samuel chapter 3

and verse 39. david said

i am weak today

though anointed king

i am weak today though

anointed king

sometimes we fail to realize that when

we are at our weakest

we’re still anointed david was secretly

anointed to be king of israel by samuel

but he had not yet worn the crown on his

head

as a matter of fact for a long time he

was in exile

running from king saul hosted

and haunted and tormented by

a remorseful cruel king

who was trying to kill him from jealousy

a band of men gathered in an area of

israel called in getty

and there in a cave he began

to cause these men to become mighty men

mighty warriors finally the day came

when king saul and his son jonathan was

killed in a battle david didn’t have to

kill

saul there was another battle that took

place with saul’s

enemies on mount gilboa and there saul

the king of israel the first king of

israel died

and his son tragically died with him

and so then israel reached a point where

those

of the southern tribes there were two

tribes follow me just a moment

the northern tribes and the southern

tribes there was two kingdoms

israel was not one kingdom they were

divided like we were

during the civil war and

there you have the southern tribes and

they anointed david as their king

the northern tribes anointed another man

as their king

and both of them had

war chiefs of military

david’s military leader was joe allen

and the other king’s military leader was

a guy named abner

now watch this abner and his king

got in an argument and he secretly goes

over to david

and he makes a deal with him and he says

israel ought to be one nation it ought

not to be divided

so what i want to do is i want to pledge

to you all of the military support

and we would just push him out of the

way and david you can finally fulfill

the prophecy

that is over your life and you can

become the king of israel not half of

israel

but all of israel finally

in that moment david thought this is it

this is what i’ve been dreaming for this

is what i’ve been believing for

this is what i’ve been anointed for this

is

all that i have gone through these many

years running and hiding

and living in exile and living in caves

like some kind of

animal now this is my big moment

but the scripture said that joab

david’s man of war had a grudge against

abner and right before the deal was

sealed

right before the deal to take over the

other

part of israel and have one king was

finalized

the bible said that joab because abner

had accidentally killed his brother

had unforgiveness and took abner and

slew him and when he did the whole thing

blew up

suddenly everything that he had dreamed

of

and everything that david thought would

happen

if it fell to pieces

and in that moment david realizes

it’s not going to happen and in that

moment

his dreams seem to be destroyed and his

life

seems to be right back where it started

from a big

mess a big confusion a big division

and david made the statement that is

when he makes this statement

i am this day

weak yet still

anointed king

did you know that it’s possible to be

weak and still be anointed

king the bible declares the royal

priesthood of the believer

the bible said in 1st peter chapter 2 in

verse 9

that we are a royal priesthood those of

us who have put our faith

in jesus christ we are a royal

priesthood

the bible said in ephesians 2 and 6 that

we sit

in heavenly places with christ jesus we

are a royal priesthood the bible said in

revelation 1

and verse 6 that he has raised us

to be kings and priests in his kingdom

god says and declares that the

christian is an anointed king

but notice that it’s possible that god’s

people

can be weak and still be anointed

they can be weak and still have

royal blood in their veins they can be

weak

and still have the authority of the

kingdom and what a contrast

weakness and divine anointing stand

together

sometimes when we’re groaning i am weak

god’s greatest purpose is on its way to

our life

when we’re at our lowest god intends his

greatest

marvels that he does in our life usually

come

when we’re at utter weakness and we can

say with david i am this day

when i’m needing god more than i’ve ever

needed him and facing more than i’ve

ever faced in opposition

i am this day week but i’m still

anointed king god’s people are often

weak in

faith but they’re still anointed

they have winters as well as summers

sometimes

they’re brought low god’s people you can

it’s possible to be an anointed king and

be oppressed

and be afflicted and go through sorrow

in the eye of faith them i’m telling you

today that the bible is full of people

with little faith with ready to quit

kind of faith despondent people much

afraid people

they were anointed people but they were

weak

on particular days and god didn’t cast

them away

and god didn’t give up on them notice

when david became

weak he felt his weakness because he was

in a new position

he felt his weakness because he was

about to take over

the nation of israel and when he faced

something

and had an opportunity like he never had

in a new place

in a new position he said i am weak

this day when i look at the

responsibility when i look at the

opportunity

when i look at this new place in this

new position

and i see this situation i feel so

inadequate

that i am weak this day though

i’m anointed to do this thing

you know whenever you make a change in

life

whenever you’re given a new set of

duties or a new challenge or a new place

or a new position

your flesh and your own mind will say

you’re not good enough you’re not strong

enough you can’t do this

you’re too weak on the eve of your

greatest triumph

the enemy will always come and try to

make you

feel like you’re a nobody and a nothing

but i want to remind you that this story

says that it’s possible for us to be two

things

at the same time i’m about to preach

because i feel this

i’m telling you it’s possible to be weak

it’s possible to feel overwhelmed

outnumbered out resourced it’s possible

to

feel discouraged it’s possible to be

going through

something that you’ve never gone through

and you if you were to be honest would

say

i am weak this day yet

i’m still anointed king

i still reign with christ jesus the

kingdom of god is one of opposites

it’s possible in the kingdom that you

can be poor and yet rich the man who

lives in a mud hut

is more wealthy than the fortune 500

companies

it’s possible to have joy in the midst

of sorrow it’s possible to have peace in

the middle of the storm

the opposite of big is small somebody

would say

the opposite of tall is short

the opposite of hot is cold somebody

would say

and you can’t have cold and hot at the

same time you can’t have big and small

you can’t have tall and short at the

same time

but in second corinthians 12 and verse

10

paul said i take pleasure in my

weaknesses

my infirmities my reproaches my

necessities my persecutions

for christ’s sake watch this for when i

am weak right then

not when i get out of this valley not

when i get over this trial

not when i come out on the other side

for when

i am weak then he puts the time on it

when i am weak david said i am this day

weak

then am i strong yet i’m anointed

i want you to know the moment of your

worst dilemma in the moment of your

worst

trial in the moment of your worst valley

in the moment of your lowest feeling

down and out and defeated

and beat up god said when i

am weak i am strong i am weak this day

david said yet i’m still anointed

i want to encourage you today

that when you understand who you are

you’re an anointed king and who your god

is

you don’t have to fear the enemy just

when david thought the battle was over

just when he thought peace was coming

finally just when

he reached a place of the promised being

fulfilled

it was in that moment that he felt his

weakest

it was in that moment when he felt like

that he couldn’t hardly go on

you may be weak but you’re still

anointed

david basically was asking and saying

and presenting

um he was presenting uh an attitude of

that that you can take when you are

feeling overwhelmed by what you’re

facing

he said if i’m king in so many words

why am i

so weak if i’m a child of god

why am i weak if i’m a child of god why

am i sick if i’m a child of god

why am i suffering if i’m a child of god

why are my children driving me crazy

if i’m a child of god why is my marriage

almost on the rocks somebody’s asking

if if i’m a child of god why do i have

financial needs

that are scaring me to death

i want to flip that around today and say

you know you may be going through the

fire you may be sick

you may be in financial need you may be

weak but you’re still a child of god

that’s the point

i’m weak but i’m still a child of god i

may be sick but i’m still a child of god

i may have financial needs in facing a

crisis

in my family but i’m still anointed king

that’s a powerful thing i may be down

and persecuted

but i am anointed

listen this is what i want you to get

this is a big point right here

you might ought to write this one down

you

must define yourself not by what’s going

on around you

but by what’s going on inside of you

because i may be weak looking at

everything around me

but i am anointed on the inside of me

you know the devil loves to steal our

identity

they have companies that do nothing but

try

to ensure people that their identity

will not be stolen

on the internet there are people who

steal

people’s homes and they put they they

steal their

documents and steal their credit cards

it’s called

identity theft satan was the first

person to ever spirit to ever steal

identity try to in isaiah 14

and verse 13. he said i will ascend

above the throne of god

i will be like the most high god i will

set up my congregations i’m going to

steal

god’s identity and i’ll be god

and you know the devil wants to steal

your identity because you’ve been

anointed king

you’re not to just allow the enemy to

beat you up and

cause you to lose hope you’ve been

anointed king you may be weak

but you’re anointed king your flesh may

be weak but the one in you is greater

and the way that the enemy wants to

steal your identity is not so he can use

your identity

it’s so you won’t use your identity

he wants you to walk through life not

knowing that you’re still anointed king

just because you’ve gone through laws

just because you’ve gotten laid off

just because you’re a single mother that

has needs and you don’t know what you’re

going to do you may be weak

but you are still anointed hallelujah

i may be weak i’m going through

something

but it doesn’t change who i am what i’m

going through

does not change who i am

i am an anointed king

no weapon formed will prosper

i shall arise again

the world’s getting crazy we’ve never

seen anything like this

we feel so weak as a nation america is

weak

is weak in our economy and weaken our

love for one another and weaken unity

and

people ripping each other to pieces even

on the internet the body of christ

and christians even in this church just

ripping each other to pieces

we’re weak but i want to remind the

devil yeah i will weep

but the blood of jesus can bring quick

healing and

we are still anointed and we are the

church

and the gates of hell will not prevail

against

it hallelujah

well pastor it seems like the devil’s

just getting things and

times are getting worse and worse well

the bible said they would

somebody said well the devil’s just

getting more and more powerful

and they said the way that you know that

is you read in genesis

and he was a snake he came as a snake

and then you read over in peter and

peter said he’s like a roaring lion so

he grew from a snake to a roaring lion

then you go to the last book of the

bible the book of revelation

and it calls him a dragon

so the devil as time is progressing

has moved from a serpent to a lion

to a dragon in the end times and you and

i are not fighting the snake

and we’re not fighting the lion

unfortunately we’re

feeling the breath of the antichrist

we’re dealing with the spirit of the

antichrist like never before

you can see it all getting ready the the

things that we never dreamed we’re

dealing with the dragon but watch this

i want to give you something in the word

of god in psalms 91

and verse 13. this is what it

says it says for thou

shalt tread on the adder that’s the

snake

then he said the lion and

the dragon hallelujah i don’t care

what the devil is doing we’re going to

tread on the serpent

we’re going to tread on the lion and

we’re going to tread

on the dragon you may be weak

but you are anointed

i’ve still got my faith

i’ve still got my praise i’ve still

got the holy ghost i’ve still got the

blood of jesus

the name of jesus and the word of

almighty god

david watch this david said

i’m not just weak

but he said i’m weak i love this

this day did you catch it look at that

verse again

he said i’m weak this day implying devil

you caught me on a bad day

he never said he was weak when he went

out to fight goliath

that was a good day he he never said he

this day of my week when he was in the

cave

but for some reason david was so

discouraged and defeated

that he admitted i am but he put these

words in there

this day weak

it’s almost like he’s saying i just want

to put you on warning devil weeping may

endure for the night you know he wrote

those words

that’s in the book of psalms weeping may

endure for the night but joy

this day i’m a little weak but don’t you

think

that this day is how my future is going

to be don’t you think that this day

is how i’m going to always be this won’t

last

forever do you hear me devil we may be

weak our nation may be trembling

people may be watching the death rate go

up all of that

we may be weak but we are this day

anointed

this day this day

does not define who you are

you’re still anointed king

so if you’re going through a struggle

i want you to know that you’re anointed

the devil is messing with you you’re

still anointed

if people are laughing at you you’re

still

anointed if somebody broke your heart

you’re still anointed if your family’s

kids are acting crazy you’re still

anointed

your marriage is on the rocks but you’re

still you can’t quit

you can’t give up i am weak this day

there’s another day coming there’s a

change coming

yet i am anointed

king david declared ii samuel 3

39 you ought to write that one down and

when you go to work tomorrow

when you face fear when you are dealing

with situations that you never dreamed

you would be dealing with in 2020

you need to open your mouth and when you

feel overcome with fear and worry

discouragement just say i am weak this

day

i’m not afraid of it because when i’m

weak then right

then god comes with strength then am i

strong

it’s his strength now

even weak faith is okay sometimes

it’s enough to carry you through

say i’m still anointed say it again i’m

still anointed say it right there in

your home say it right there in that

small group

say it right there in that hospital room

say it right there in that sick bed

say it right there when you don’t when

you’ve been laid off

say i’m still anointed i may be weak

but i’m still anointed

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