Crises abound in this world, but as children of an omnipotent, loving Father, we can rely on His steadfast faithfulness to bring us to the other side of every storm. In this message, Dr. Stanley teaches from Paul’s second letter to Timothy, explaining what it means to face struggles with love, power, and a sound mind.
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thank you for joining us today you may
be in the darkest season you’ve ever
been in facing stuff that you never
dreamed you would go through you need to
listen you need to hear what i’m going
to preach today listen to this word and
i’ll come back in a moment and pray for
you
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i’m gonna worship
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clap your hands and give him a body
praise
oh
bless the lord o my soul
and all that is within you
bless his holy men
we love you lord
we really really do
smile at somebody and you may be seated
i want you to turn with me quickly to
first samuel chapter 16.
now the lord said to samuel how long
will you mourn for saul
seeing i have rejected him from reigning
over israel
fill your horn with all and go
i’m sending you to jesse the
bethmannight
for i have provided for myself a king
among
his
sons
samuel was grieving
because saul whom he had anointed
had fallen to great sin and been
rejected now by god
and had been removed and died on the
battlefield without the favor and the
blessing of god
and now samuel is weeping and mourning
and crying
i think that
there’s a powerful
lesson in this text that
there comes a time
when we are to mourn and we are to
grieve and we are to
have liquid pain of tears that express
the brokenness of our life or something
that has happened we don’t live in
denial
that life brings things that can crush
us and break us
but we also need to remind ourselves
that as sure as there’s a time to mourn
there comes a time when god says my
purpose and plan for you is never
to leave you in perpetual brokenness
to mourn and grieve and sorrow the rest
of your life no matter what has happened
to you
and he said to samuel fill your horn
with oil and go listen these words for i
have provided
everything that you’re mourning about
that you’ve lost i want you to know it’s
not back there i got stuff in your
future that i have already provided i’ve
already taken care of i’ve already lined
it up i’ve already opened the door
and you’ve got more ahead of you than
you do behind you
and you can’t live and mourn and grieve
over what went wrong when i’ve got such
a plan for your future that it’s already
provided i you had to go through that to
get to where i’m taking you
now horns in the bible he said i want
you to fill your horn with oil
and horns in the bible represent power
if you see and read some of the old
testament prophets they would prophesy
and they would see
visions and they would see a horn the
book of revelation talks about
you know his types his types and shadows
but it always horns in the bible the
horns of a ram or animal represent
power
horns were used in the old testament
like a realm’s horn
would be used and god commanded that the
old testament prophets carry the
anointing in that horn because the
anointing is powerful they kept the
anointing oil in the horn because it’s
powerful and he wanted to emphasize that
when you are anoint with oil
i don’t want you to do it routinely i
want you to do it understanding what
you’re doing is powerful
the power of the anointing was so real
in elisha that he got in his bones and
the bible said after he died a dead they
threw a corpse in on top of his body and
when the man the dead corpse touched his
bones the anointing in his bones raised
the dead the anointing was so powerful
in simon peter that the bible said they
lined the sick people up and when he
walked by his shadow touched them and
they were healed
it was so powerful in moses that they
had to put a veil over his face because
his face was shining with the anointing
it was so powerful in the apostle paul
in the book of acts that the scripture
said after he preached they would take
his clothing probably his prayer shawl
and they would cut it up and they would
send it to certain people who were demon
possessed or sick in their bodies and
when they would lay those calls that had
been anointed on those people they would
be healed
jesus many people say the woman with the
issue of blood in mark chapter 5 touched
jesus but she never touched jesus she
touched the hem of his garment
she never touched jesus she touched
something that touched jesus
and sometimes if you can’t touch jesus
if you can get around somebody who’s
touched jesus the anointing is that
powerful if you can’t touch him you can
touch somebody who has
that’s why you’re in a good place today
because there’s some people who’ve been
praying
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they would smear them with oil or pour
oil on them so powerful was the
anointing that that that that
they cherished it
and three times we’re told that samuel
poured the oil out
of his horn
of oil
owned something
and three times it was
rejected the first time is found in
first samuel eight
the bible said and i i’m gonna preach
i’m gonna preach to you for just a
minute on what to do
when you’re running empty
going to take me a minute to get there
and you’ve got a minute and i’m going to
take advantage of that minute because
i’m going to convince you
that you’re not going to leave here with
a grieving morning depressed i think the
whole world is trying i’m not a i’m not
denying the reality of the seriousness
of the times and the challenges that
we’re facing on every front it’s not one
thing that will cause you to feel empty
it’s multiple things that just drain you
and that’s the time we’re living in
for samuel chapter 8
the people gathered and they said
they actually said this to samuel behold
you are old
boy if y’all ever do that to me i just
want you to know
i’ll say you are too
behold you’re old and your sons walk not
in
your ways make us a king
you know what was taking place here
saw samuel had poured out his whole life
on the nation of israel and now they
were saying to him if you read the whole
story
we we
we don’t want that old stuff anymore
we’re tired of the old messages we’re
tired of the old way you preach we’re
tired of that oil and that horn of oil
and we’re tired of all that praise and
worship we want a new way we want a king
we want a king we’ve seen their parades
we’ve seen their inaugurations and we
want a king just like all the other
nations and we reject your all we want
to go a different way
you’re too old-school you’re way too
old-school samuel you actually
speak and you’re an old man and you’ve
got old ways and you like those old
moves of god
and we
we want something new and fresh
and there’s nothing wrong with new and
fresh and changed thank god for it
but you can never get away from the
anointing
you can never get away from the presence
of the holy spirit that makes church
effective
i don’t care what kind of building you
get i don’t care what you have i don’t
care what great musicians you have if
the anointing is not there is sounding
grass tinkling symbol good for nothing
not only that they said your sons don’t
walk in your ways
they said you poured your own port now i
want you to see it he’s poured it out on
his congregation the nation of israel
and they’ve rejected it
and now he filled his horn up again and
he poured it out on his sons he had two
sons and the bible said that those boys
did not walk in the ways of their father
and i wonder how many parents and
grandparents are listening to me right
now
and your heart is grieving and you’re
mourning because your kids or your
grandkids are not walking in the ways of
the lord you raised them right you
brought them to church you did
everything that you poured and poured
and poured your all on them and today
they seem to have turned their back on
god
don’t keep mourning the oil is going to
work you got to give it time but god is
faithful say amen somebody
the bible said that moses mother hid him
every mother understands that every dad
understands that there are things we
have to hide our children from you
cannot in with technology you cannot
just leave the computer on and let the
children look at anything and everything
and tv and satellite and music you you
hide them you hide them when you when
they’re young you hide them oh i gotta
hide them from drugs hide them from
alcohol hide them from porn
hide them from bad influences and you
can do that when they’re young and
they’re young and they’re young but
there came this point as they were
getting older teenagers still hide them
either got attitudes now they didn’t
have those attitudes you told them when
they were little to do it and they did
it but now they got attitudes
and all of you who are ready to write a
book on how to parent beautiful
wonderful obedient children wait until
you get teenagers don’t shut up i don’t
want to read your stupid book
i don’t i’m sorry
until you’ve raised five of them you can
come talk to me then and i’ll listen to
you
and even then you’re not coming in like
some know-it-all you’re coming in a
broken down something it’s all i can
tell you is the anointing is all that
really lasted
and so and so i mean i mean but there
comes a time there came a time even
moses mother hit him you remember
pharaoh’s spirit was trying to kill all
the boys two years of age and she hit
him she hit him she hit him and there’s
this amazing verse in
exodus two and verse three and when she
could no longer hide him
and when she could no longer hide him
parents this is why this is so important
that’s why being together in god’s house
is so important that what they’re
getting in kid pack is so important
because there will come a day when you
can’t make the decisions for them you
can’t hide them you can’t say no the
peer pressure you can’t hide them you
can’t pick their friends forever
you can’t pick you can’t pick their
dates forever you can do it while you
sit while they are you still in my house
do you want to eat would you like
do you
i told you one time we had one that was
acting big and bad and she kept uh kept
the door
locked all the time i i came home one
day and i went and
she didn’t even ask me to do it she did
sharice took the door off the hinges
took the door off the hinges
had it had to hold i i said where is the
door she said i’m tired of knocking on
that door and it being locked so i
removed the
door that’s what
that’s
yeah
but you can only cover and conceal and
preserve and guard for so long and then
they will have to choose for themself
they’ll go off to college they’ll go off
with their friends on a friday night
they’re going to choose for themself
and he poured his oil on his sons
and they didn’t they knew the way but
they chose not to go the way
i mean this is
this is two strikes he’s a two-time
loser he poured it on the congregation
they rejected it he poured the anointing
oil on his own sons poured his favor
poured his life into him his faith into
him his knowledge into him and they
rejected it
so now
there’s this guy named saul and god says
fill your horn with oil and go pour it
on him he’s he’s a tall
powerful
leader
and when he poured the oil on him the
bible said saul was turned into another
man
and began to prophesy and he was the
first king of israel and he was so
anointed and so powerful and now
uh
saul is living vicariously through his
through his through through saul he’s he
he’s poured his oil he thinks finally
finally i i poured it on the king
they rejected it my own children
rejected it but look look look saul has
got it but then the story ends
tragically that saul turned his back on
god and started dealing the occult and
going to
to to a witch and a fortune teller
talking to the dead
you better stay away from that stuff
because it brought the curse of god
on saul’s life so much so that god said
this these words i
regret
making him king
god’s bless you don’t make god repent
for having blessed you with great great
blessings because you didn’t steward it
and you didn’t handle it right
the climate of rejection
steps
into
samuel’s life
and he’s been rejected by
saul and he’s been rejected the oil that
he poured by his two sons and now the
nation
and he gets to this place in his life
where he’s grieving that’s where we
picked up the text i’m almost where i
want to be
and he’s mourning
and he’s crying
and he can’t get over
stuff in his past
and that’s where many of you are today
because the enemy loves it when you stay
grieving too long
saul failed saul broke his heart
and he’s mourning
and god came down and said how long will
you mourn over saul i have rejected him
from reigning over israel
how long
this is a broken man and his horn is
empty
he’s poured it out and poured it out and
poured it out and he is drained and he
thinks i’m gonna die an old man and and
it just didn’t work
but watch
god said fill your horn with oil
one more time
you know what i’ve been doing
i’ve been devouring this word
i just decided that if my horn is empty
i’m going to fill it up with the word
i’m going to fill it up with prayer i’m
going to fill it up with worship and
here’s what i heard the lord say
he said samuel one more anointing you’ve
got to have because david
is coming
you know there’s just something about
life
that can empty
your spirit
and the horn is empty you’re still
carrying on still going about still
moving around
but inside spiritually
you’re empty
you know sometimes family can empty your
horn
sometimes marriage
can just drain you
sometimes the job
can just drain you
sometimes the pressure
can just drain you sometimes the
children can just drain you and you
finally get to the place that you still
love god but you don’t have anything on
the inside and so here’s what you do
this verse has always been
one of my favorites because i’m a
saxophone player
and i call my sax a horn
and psalms 92 and verse 10 has always
been one of my favorite verses
but my horn
shalt thou exalt like the horn of a
unicorn
listen to this and i how how’s that
gonna happen
i shall be anointed
with fresh oil
did you hear what i just said
i said every one of you
who say jesus is lord of my life you’ve
got to feel that horn with fresh oil
there has to be experiences in church
and with god that you just don’t keep
standing there drained inwardly of all
the joy of the lord because of all of
the guts and the knicks
but you come and you say with sincere
hunger
god i’m empty on the inside
would you feel me the oil is the holy
spirit which means the oil is jesus
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would you feel me again on the inside
would you this sunday morning pour your
oil on me
and fill my horn because if i don’t get
it and here’s here’s the significance
and i close with this
he had one more anointing left in him
and it was the greatest thing it looked
like all it hadn’t worked but here comes
that final filling of the horn with oil
and when he got it in him then he could
pour it out
and the bible said
that he anointed david
to be king of israel
why because david
i need you to have he said samuel i need
your horn to be full of oil
why
because there’s a guy named david that
you’re going to pour the anointing on
and he’s going to take a city from the
from the gibbonites
that’s going to become jerusalem
and
by the way in that city
there’s going to be
someone
who is going to carry a cross
and die on that cross and he’ll be known
as the son of david
and by the way that david that you’re
going to pour the anointing on is going
to have a great great great
granddaughter by the name of mary
and mary’s going to have a little lamb
and his name will be called jesus
and the reason that the enemies fought
you so much is because this anointing
that you’re gonna pour on the final
generation i believe that god is saying
uh to us our young people our teenagers
our children they must have the all
poured on them and i’m not talking about
the physical oil i’m talking about what
is in you if you’re empty nothing’s
getting on them
so you must
claim psalms 92 and 10 lord fill my horn
with fresh oil
this morning
i need more than outward religion i need
life inside of me
and if your head is down and if your
praise is down and if your heart and
spirit is down god wants to raise you up
and fill you with fresh oil this morning
if you feel god moving in your life
while you’re watching this program and
you want to make jesus lord and savior
of your life
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or someone in your family needs healing
maybe you’re listening to me today and
you’re watching in a hospital or a rest
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home that you have and it feels so
lonely and it feels
so empty
i want you to know that god is for you
today
that god is with you and he sees you
he sees and hears your cry
and
i today want to encourage you to turn to
him
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lord jesus i give you my life i give you
my family i give you my disaster
whatever situation that i’m in that
feels overwhelming i give it to you
you’re the master of disaster you’re the
lord
of everything that i’m facing and i
praise you that i’m not alone and you
are for me somebody needs to say that
you are for me say this lord you are my
redemption you are my savior i turn to
you with all of my heart
oh praise god
praise god he’s been waiting on you to
call on he’s been waiting on you to
whisper and say his name and mean it
from your heart
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