Service Date: 12.27.18 8PM
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we’re gonna go on a journey today
God’s Word my message for those that may
be taking notes is in the field of faith
you see we are this is the last midweek
service of 2018 can we just praise God
for bringing us you see I love that we
the song that we worshipped into their
Lord you are faithful all your promises
are yesterday man you see around this
time when the air is ending we literally
have days away from 2019 we begin to
examine our lives begin to examine the
things that we begin to almost question
even the areas and the words that God
has spoken to us that we are yet to see
the manifestation we almost come into
this place where we are arguing our
using our intellect to argue with our
peace to say God I know I’m peaceful in
this place but we start using our
intellect to to question but this has
not happened that has not happened but
all the promises of God are yes and amen
and so as I was preparing for what the
Lord you know really had for us today
this evening it’s a simple message but
we’re going to also look at it through
the life of a man named David and that
word is to tell us that in the place of
your faithfulness everything assigned to
you would meet you there now sometimes
we may at the very place that the word
of God may lead us into may look up
scary may look insignificant to me
it may seem questionable it may seem
below what we know we are we are capable
of doing but the fact of the matter is
that God knows what to use to bring out
the best in us
he knows the places to position us and
to bring out the best in us he knows the
tools the equipment the people the the
positions to put us in that will pull
out our
truth it’s interesting the Word of God
which tells us that when you are
faithful with little God can trust you
over much and so what that says to me is
that when you start the little the
warfare on the little is as doing as
much because the enemy knows that if you
can be faithful in that you will
definitely access the more that God has
for you and so the warfare and the small
thing seems like what it would be when
it’s huge
and sometimes we begin to think that we
question what is little because of the
warfare and we walk out on it because we
think our disobedience doesn’t have that
much consequences but the very fact of
the matter is that that middle is what
takes you to the more that God has
assigned to your life and so in that
place that seems insignificant that
place that seems obscure is actually in
many cases more important than the
destination that you’re waiting for
because that is the place that God
prepares us that’s the place that God
prunes us that’s the place that God
sharpens us and that is the place that
the fertility of our hearts are tested
can I trust you with this word that no
matter the continent no matter that the
circumstances that you may be in would
your heart can you be fertile ground for
the Word of God that you will hold on to
the Word of God no matter what knowing
that the promises of God are yes and
amen
so I want us to look at the story we
this is a story that many of us may be
familiar with is a story of David and
we’re gonna look in particularly at the
time where he was first anointed to be
king and as we look in this story let’s
just take on it take it on the on a
whole new journey because as I studied
this the Holy Spirit opened my eyes and
in very unique ways and that’s what I
want to take in too because I believe
that what the Lord brought out of this
message is really gonna speak into our
lives and speak into this season of our
lives and so we’re gonna start in first
Kings chapter 16 verse 1 to 13 and the
scripture begins and it says the Lord
said to Sam well how long will you
grieve over saw
since I have rejected him from being
king over Israel fill your horn with oil
and go I will send you to Jesse the
Bethlem ight for I have provided I have
chosen for myself a king amongst his
sons you see what it’s taking place here
is that the king at the time was a man I
was a man named King Saul before King
Saul there was no king in Israel Israel
was like Africa was unlike every other
nation every other nation had a king but
they did not have a king because the
Lord wanted to directly reign over his
people but all of a sudden you know the
people said we want a king we want to be
like the other nations God give us a
king so in you know before they didn’t
have a king the Lord would speak to the
prophets and the prophets would give the
people instructions so at this time it
would seem as though they were rejecting
the Prophet the Prophet at this time was
a prophet named Samuel but the Lord
tells the prophet Samuel he says they
have not rejected you they have rejected
me as king but he tells him basically
that he would show him a man that he
would that he would choose as the king
over the people of Israel now the whole
point of this was that I believe it was
the desire of the Lord to pick a king
that would show that would be an example
to the people there will be an example
to them to say that you are you you are
led by the opinions of men because the
reason they wanted a king is because
they are seeing what every other nation
is doing but if the Lord put a king in
position that King was to be an example
to the people to show them that even as
you have an earthly king I am still
submitted to the voice of God and so the
purpose of King Saul being there yes he
was caught he was put as an earthly king
but he was to be an example to the
people that yes I’m your king but I am
still submitted under the voice of God
so king fall comes into position they
you know the the Kings I mean the
prophets am wall the Lord gives him
direction and this whole beautiful
things happen and he’s anointed as king
but all of a sudden he starts to deviate
he starts to compromise he lost his way
when he was he was
more moved by the applause of people he
was more moved by the validation of
people and he began to disobey the voice
of God for the people now this was kind
of productive because the whole point of
him being there the points of God
choosing him was that he would be an
example of what it means to be submitted
even though I’m giving you what you
think you want I want this person to
represent that you should always lead by
the voice that created you but King Saul
is doing what the very thing that the
people were doing all of a sudden
instead of listening to what the Lord is
saying he began to compromise because
any time it seemed like the people were
leaving him he would do the opposite of
what the Lord had instructed him to do
and so because of this the Lord says you
know what I’m gonna choose another king
for myself now the crazy thing and this
is that we see that the prophet Samuel
is mourning now there’s a lot of debate
some some theologians believe that it
was never God’s intention for king Saul
to reign forever I personally disagree
with this because in the Scriptures the
first time that King Saul actually
disobeyed the Lord in first time or 1313
I believe for those taking notes the
Prophet told him that what have you done
that you have done a foolish thing
because the Lord would have established
your kingdom forever
you see family God is not petty God will
not put you in a position to watch you
fail that every position that every
place every position that the Lord puts
puts you on that he knows that there is
something in you that has the potential
to be who he says you will be and that
speaks to us that every single human
being in life has equal opportunity to
work out the greatness of their life and
so God will give you access to those
opportunities out there up at their
points at time but it is up to you it is
up to your character and it’s up to the
things that you should have learned in
your process that would keep you there I
don’t believe that personally it was the
Lord’s choice to put to make Saul King
and then reject him as king for him to
reject in my skin
last Thursday I spoke about rejection
and one thing I have learnt about
rejection that rejection is not a
negative word rejection just reveals a
fact it either speaks that what you’re
going after that the person either
cannot accept you or receive you or your
gift because they don’t have capacity
for it or there is something that you
aren’t unable to receive because you
don’t have the capacity for that so
rejection is not this negative word that
we have brought it out to be it just
reveals a fact because capacity could
look like so many things capacity could
look like knowledge wisdom heart posture
it could look like so many things and if
someone does not have the capacity for
you or you don’t have the capacity for
it it will seem like rejection but it’s
just revealing that this cannot flow
together and so when the Lord rejects
all he’s saying that saw the very thing
that that made me choose you into this
position you have moved from that path
you see family in the beginning the
kinks all I believed was a humble man
because the Scriptures tells us that
when the Prophet had even spoken to him
that he would be the one that would be
king over Israel his response to him
actually were a bit different he begins
to tell him that don’t you know that I
am from the tribe of Benjamin that my
tribe we’re the least and in my tribe my
clan is the least and so there was an
awareness in that scripture that saw
you’re not be you’re not gonna be king
because of your influence you’re not
King actually you your tribe is very
insignificant where you come from would
not give you this position there was an
awareness that this is literally only
done by the hand of God and the favor of
God upon your life you see if Saul had
remembered that it was not the people
that put him in position because nothing
about him was actually significant
enough for the people to say this is the
one we want to choose if he had
remembered that god you are the one it
was your hands that brought me into this
position then when he actually became
King you see God would always equip you
God would always give you the
experiences and the memories and and
just the tools for you port that you
need in order to fulfill your destiny
the one thing that so needed in his life
was the awareness that God even in a
small place you would be with me even if
I am the least you would be with me that
was the thing that was going to shape
his destiny but he deviated from it and
all of a sudden when you read about salt
every time that it seemed like the
people were leaving him then he would
compromise but if so remembered that I
came from the smallest tribe I came from
the smallest clan and so even if only
two people stood with me the power of
God will show up with those two people
but all of a sudden saw lost focus and
he began to compromise you see God every
opportunity that God gives you God gives
you a fair shot at being the best but in
this case Saul was moving away from the
very will and purpose of God in the Lord
says you know what I have chosen a man
that would be after my heart I have
chosen someone that will carry out my
will and so he tells the he tells the
Prophet he says stop grieving over Saul
you see I just said that for some of us
in this house we are mourning I believe
that the Prophet may have been mourning
the potential of Saul because as a
prophet there were things that I believe
that God had revealed to him about the
identity of Saul and the Lord says look
you got to stop that because there’s
something new I’m about to do right now
you see I believe for some of us even in
this season we have to learn that we
there are certain things that God would
call us to walk away from and you cannot
argue the potential with the reality
because sometimes we want to argue with
God and tell him the potential of a
thing and the Lord is saying but they
have freewill and they’re what they’re
choosing with their free will is gonna
be against your destiny and so you have
to be okay when God begins to tell you
to walk away from certain things and
you’re over there argue with him because
you’re talking about potential and the
Lord said yes I’m aware of their
potential and that’s why I even gave it
a shot
but I would not go against free will and
free will speaks to the
reality of what a thing would do it in
what the impacts of thing will have in
your life every criminal has the
potential to be something much greater
every want someone that making that that
could even a murderer today someone that
even at this very hour has the potential
to be President
and we pray for them because we believe
that God can turn the hearts of men and
women and God can do great things out of
people because there at the end of the
day I don’t believe and someone just
wakes up wanting to be evil but you have
to know when to apply wisdom you have to
know when to apply because if God did
not call you to be the one who who
brings direct change you have to know
when to move out the way because why if
you’re forcing it you may just get
something but hey that will hit you that
was not intended for you because you
were playing a road that God never
assigned you to and so we have to learn
because humility humility does not say
God I just want to be you know Mother
Teresa
god I just want to go out there I’m just
gonna put my life on the line and just
you know what I’m gonna be you know your
person God if God did not call you there
then you are walking in pride because if
the it is the grace of God it is a word
of God that would keep you in a place if
God called you that then by all means
have no fear because God will protect
you but if God did not PO you there and
you’re focused on the potential of a
thing the reality can destroy you and so
we have to learn how to move with the
beat of God we have to learn how to move
in alignment with his word because the
Word of God sometimes will reveal
something to you that you were yet to
see but because he sees the end from the
beginning he’s saying yes I know right
now it looks great but you if you only
see where this thing will lead you to
you will thank me and praise me now that
I told you to walk away
and I believe there are some people in
this house that there are things that
God has told you to walk away from and
you feel as though that maybe you’re
gonna be you’re gonna regret the
decisions you have made and there’s some
that you have walked away from things
and you’re in the place of your
faithfulness you’re in the place that
the Word of God has called you and
you’re questioning God did I make a
mistake no the faithfulness of God will
show up where you stayed and so it’s
really about this life there is no one
of the interesting things that I’ve
learned with God is that there is no
actual formula for your destiny the only
thing is really you’re being led by the
Spirit of God it says that sons of God
are those that are led by his Spirit
there is no actual because formula would
bring us on the law and say you do this
when you make a ride you take two steps
forward then you take two steps back
that’s the Spirit of God right there
while it’s being led by his voice it’s
being led by his word is being led
because what God may say to you may be
different from what he says to me and so
we have to be okay with saying that it’s
not about saying God but you didn’t tell
this person to do the same thing we have
to be okay with being led because we are
all called differently we’re called to
different things where our callings are
very unique and so that is why even
comparison is without wisdom because I
cannot compare my call to another when
we are called where we’re called to
touch things differently and so the
passage continues and it says and samo
said how can I go if Saul hears that he
will kill me and the Lord said take a
heifer with you it’s in the Bible y’all
it’s right there
it’s an old versions King James New King
James all of them take it this is an
animal
this is ticket if take a heifer with you
and say I have come to sacrifice to the
Lord the Lord has given him strategy and
he was not really telling him to lie
because actually he was gonna go to a
sacrifice he was just gonna disclose
important information and invite Jessie
to the sacrifice and I will show you
what you shall do when you shall anoint
for me him whom I declare to you and so
the reason he can invite Jessie to the
sacrifices that this this particular
sacrifice that the Prophet was going to
do was actually going to be like a
social feast and so the Prophet could
invite anyone he wanted at his choosing
without alarming anyone and so it
continues and says did what the
LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem the
elders of the city came to meet him
trembling and said do you come peaceably
you see Bethlehem was a place that was
not really an important city at the time
like that and it was not really a place
that the Prophet would normally go to
and so when they see the Prophet coming
they’re a bit alarm thinking that
something is wrong but it’s actually not
the case and so the scripture continues
and says and he said peaceably I have
come to sacrifice to the Lord
consecrate yourselves and come with me
to the sacrifice and he consecrated
Jesse and his sons and invited them to
the sacrifice when they came he looked
on Aliyah and thoughts surely the Lord’s
anointed is before him but the Lord said
to Samuel do not look on the appearance
or on the height of his stature because
I have rejected him for the Lord sees
not as man sees man looks on the outward
appearance but the Lord looks at the
heart
you see what is fascinating about this
is that the very again the same word
that the Lord uses for Saul he uses in
speaking about samos first son but even
in this case I wondered I said Lord when
you’re saying that you rejected his son
why would you reject his son then it
almost
it almost offers this notion that in a
way his son could have been chosen
because the scripture tells us many are
called but few are chosen it was almost
as if you see the interesting thing
about what is happening here Saul had
been chosen I mean so initially was
chosen as king when Saul
deviated he dropped his mantle when so
disobeyed the word of the God he
released his mantle in the earth you see
a man so represents the anointing of the
Holy Spirit to empower you for something
it represents when the Holy Spirit
appoints you for a kingdom assignments
on the earth and so when Saul who was
given the the appointment of king over
Israel when he chooses a different route
he drops what God has given him you see
as I studied as the Lord was showing me
that there are many mentals in the earth
that are waiting for one who has a heart
surrender to God because a picking up an
assignment does not change it it is an
add-on to what God has already called
you to do and it’s actually a blessing
not a burden because there is an
increase of the activity of the Holy
Spirit in your life you are empowered to
be more effective in life you see why I
believed that this was the case because
when we read Adam even read verse 8 to
11 it says then Jesse called Abinadab
and made him pass before Samuel and he
said neither has the Lord chosen this
one then Jesse made Shama pass by and he
said neither has the Lord chose in this
one and Jesse made seven of his sons
passed before Samuel and Summerset said
Jesse the Lord has not chosen these
because I said Lord if that if it was
just about David you told the Prophet
the name of his father you should have
just told them you know what I’m calling
you to go to the house of Jesse when you
get to Jesse ask him about his son David
and bring him with you to the sacrifice
but it’s that the Lord allowed every
sunset
passed by Samwell almost as if the Lord
is showing us that everyone had an
opportunity to grab this mantle but
something about how they responded to
process something about how they
responded to life made them not
choosable because when the Bible says
many are called but few were chosen in
me it’s not that God is like wow I’m
just gonna call a lot of you so y’all
can watch me audition people know many
are called but few make themselves
choosable few are willing to surrender
their lives before the Lord few are
willing to lose their lives so they can
find it in God that few I believe I’m
speaking to because I believe that I am
in a room of people that have made
sacrifices and that people question why
you were doing what you were doing but
you knew that’s something about this
very thing that the Lord has asked me to
do is connected to the very core of who
I am
you see family have you ever felt that
when you began to seek the face of God
all of a sudden they felt like God was
stripping you of everything you thought
you knew then when you began to speak
his face that even the desires that you
believe that God you put them in me all
of a sudden it’s like he’s asking you to
walk away from it and as you walk away
from it people begin to question your
family begin to question you what are
you doing with your life you find your
places and the very things that you were
never you never thought you were called
to do but then the Lord starts
positioning you and pin in strange
places even though you’re like God I
know there is much more to me than this
very thing but even in that place that
seems obscure and insignificant you have
peace and even when you want to fight
against as the Lord begins to show you
what he’s working within you you see
because the sons of Jesse they look the
part they they are on the outside
everything was great I mean they were
even some of them were soldiers so if
God was gonna pick another King I may
pick a person that is already he’s
already there
in the army but David was work was
allowing the Lord to work on his heart
while everyone was looking the part
David was being the part you see at the
top of this year our pastor said that
this is the year of becoming and
becoming in such a process that it
sounds amazing in the beginning of the
year we’re like whoa Lord Jesus I’m
becoming hallelujah we were dancing and
then becoming all of a sudden their
layers being stripped off your layers
that you found comfort in layers that
you placed your identity in and the Lord
they say no these layers were
contaminated because yes it had a piece
of the desires that I put in you but
they have been contaminated with what
the world wants you to be and so
sometimes I have to strip you down and
that when I begin to build you up you
would know that this is the hand of God
you would see purpose you would have
intentionality you would have vision you
would have strategy you’re not just
doing things randomly or for the glamour
of things now you’re driven by purpose
you see the sons of Jesse it looked the
fact that they look the part it just
speaks to how things appear to be the
glamour of life and the Lord says I’m
not I’m not into that I want someone who
can be connected to the purpose of this
position this mantle was available for
so many people you see even in your in
the different fields that you’re in
there are things that they’re Mansell’s
that are looking for a home there are
things that the Lord is saying I want to
assign greater to somebody I want to
place you that the very things that
you’ve been wondering why hasn’t anyone
done it the very things that you feel
like I’ve got I don’t even know if I’m
the one there’s already resources of
heaven waiting to back up someone who
has heart is surrendered before God you
see it’s interesting because the Bible
then tells us then Jesse called Abinadab
and made him pass before Samuel and he
said neither has the Lord chosen this
one
they await no so then the Lord had not
chosen these let’s go to verse 11 then
he says then Samoset said Jesse are all
your sons here and he said there remains
yet the youngest but behold he is
keeping the Sheep there’s another
scripture that translated that very
verse to that he is in the field
watching the sheep and I love what it
says here because it says and some–oh
set so Jesse send and get him for we
will not sit down till he comes here
everyone was in the right place either
what seemed to be the right time they
abandoned David in the field but the
interesting things families that that
was the field of his faith that he was
keeping the Sheep he was in the field
watching over the sheep and I believe
that this was even intentional that what
they thought the decision that they made
in seeing him as insignificant the
decision that made they made in in
overlooking him that I believe it was
actually the purpose of God for for
David to be sought out you see on Sunday
our pastors they spoke about faith favor
and family and there was something
unique that they said in regards to
favor that every that faith is required
for the manifestation of favor you see I
think I find it very symbolic that the
favor assigned to David found him in the
place of his faith you see David was a
shepherd boy but he was not just any
ordinary shepherd boy because David will
put his life on the line for sheep
that’s told me that there is something
unique about David because if you have
the ability to fight a lion and a bear
for a sheep then I’m sure you saw
yourself as a warrior that David it
would have even made more sense for him
to say you know what let me go try out
for the for the king’s army but he
stayed faithful as a shepherd you see
when you study about David you would
recognize that David had had a
familiarity with the voice of God that
they were that he was not
not unfamiliar with the voice of God in
his life it almost suggests that it
would appear that God was the one
keeping him as a shepherd that his
position as a shepherd in the midst of
being overlooked by his family the
scripture also suggests that Jesse his
father may have questioned his identity
because those of these are Psalms where
David says and sin did my mother
conceive me it was almost as though he
also questioned that could this really
be my father with the way they’re
treating me but yet David stayed
faithful and it was in the field of his
faith that he was sought out he didn’t
have to go to them they came to him
you see family there are places that God
has positioned you in there are things
that God has called you to and even
though many may not understand it in
that very place favor will find you you
may question that you may wonder God it
seems like nothing is working out for me
I came here to be an actor and I’m a
salesperson but in that very place
there’s something that God is actually
using to prune you maybe the Lord is
saying I need some help I need to to
make you a people person you’re a little
stiff and I don’t want people to dislike
you when you go into the room you the
ways of God it blows our minds family
but God knows how to shop and how to get
the best out of us and so while David
was a shepherd he was actually learning
how to be King he was learning how to
put his life on the line for the people
that he’s assigned to lead he stayed in
the place that actually was even that
would seem like it was beneath him but
his ability to handle warfare and that
level is what made the story that we
know of when he fought against Goliath
made it a breeze he didn’t he never even
flinched once when he’s fighting a giant
because he had experienced warfare in
the small thing and he overcame it and
so he knew that God the big thing would
not be my problem the place that you
have been faithful family
there you may want a question in this
season and wonder and access god god I
don’t know if this thing is fruitful I
don’t know if I see fruit in it yet but
the Lord is showing you be patient be
still because that very place is where
the favor of God is gonna come after you
you see favor makes you sought out you
may think that God I need to you maybe
you may try to compromise and say you
know what I need to be here I need to be
there and the Lord says just be still
because you’re forgetting that I opened
the door when you did not even have the
ability to get in and if I did that why
do you think that you have to compromise
to stay in the room when the very person
that opened the door for you was not the
people that is telling you to change I
did that and so why is it that when you
get in the room you think that you have
to compromise to stay there some things
are gonna seem harder some things that
will make you feel as though you’re
alone or you make you feel lonely but
the Lord is saying just be patient stay
faithful in the place I have called you
because the field of your faith is where
favor will find you you see it’s
interesting in this passage II then says
that and he went and brought him in and
he was Rudy and had beautiful eyes and
handsome and the Lord said arise now I
found this fascinating because we just
read where the Prophet said we will not
sit down till he comes but then the Lord
says arise and anoint him and I’m like
Lord what are they doing is there a
different way to stand up or weren’t
they already standing and so I
researched this world and I said what
does that word actually mean because
it’s it’s it it definitely tells us that
they were standing if they said that we
will not sit down till he comes here and
so when I studied that word arise
actually has them it deals with the
meaning of establish or confirm you see
as I studied this and as I was in prayer
the Lord said two things to me that is
about
happen in the lives of in the lives of
many and I believe by faith in
everyone’s life he said that your
miracle and the answer hallelujah he
said your miracle and the answer to your
prayer is gonna come in that there are
three folds and that the first part of
it is that the Lord will confirm what he
said to you in the dark first amongst
those in your inner circle that
questioned you you see when the Lord
tells him arise he’s telling that the
the prophet confirmed my world establish
this man it’s almost as though
confirming not just to the prophet
because to confirm something means that
there was something David also knew
about himself and now he’s gonna confirm
the Word of God in the presence of his
brothers in the presence of the people
that have looked down on him in the
presence of his inner circle that
question that David you know what you’re
just uh uh uh uh uh uh you know in a
wild goose chase or something and the
Lord said that the first thing that he’s
gonna do is that he will begin to
confirm who you are to those in your
inner circle that had questioned you you
see many of you people are gonna talk
about you in meetings that you’re not
even in but the people that spoke
against you will be in that meeting and
somebody will begin to talk about your
work ethic they’ll begin to talk about
your your your your character they’ll
begin to talk about your heart posture
they’ll begin to talk so how many of you
that all of a sudden and this is already
happening to many of you that you’re
receiving calls from people that you
know where one’s not really for you even
though you guys were once close because
all of a sudden the Lord says I’m gonna
begin to confirm I’m going I’m gonna
create an audience to see who I’ve
called you to be and so everything that
you feel like you have been in a hidden
place you feel like God this word that
you have given me is just between you
and I that this word has lived in a
secret place for so long that I’m coming
to you know give it a secret like a name
something like it’s not my secret best
friend you know my but the Lord is
saying it’s funnier in my head but as I
praise family I saw this so clearly that
there are things there are people even
family members that have questioned and
did not understand the decisions that
you made because the truth of the matter
is that while you were making those
decisions there were other offers that
came that looked better and because you
knew what the Lord was saying because
your hearts could not even allow you to
make that decision you stayed right
where God called you and people laughed
at you people made a mockery of you
people said you were foolish people said
you did not know what you were doing but
deep down you knew that Europe you had
that there was such an unshakable peace
that you had concerning the matter you
knew that you were not even doing this
because you desired it but there was
something greater than you that was
leading you into those decisions the
Lord said I will start with the people
that surrounded you and made and
questioned your your ability see the
Lord did not need us all the sons of
Jesse to be present he could have given
the Prophet specific instructions and
that would be it but the Lord created an
audience for what he was about to do and
then if second thing he did he says
arise anoint him for this is he then
some Oates of the horn of oil and
anointed him in the midst of his
brothers and the Spirit of the Lord
rushed upon David from that day forward
you see when it says that the Spirit of
the Lord rushed upon him this was the
anointing of the Lord that empowered
David to do greater than he has ever
done before you see many of you are
going to walk into rooms and God is
gonna put you on platforms that really
you even though you have been groomed it
seems like God has groomed you in the
secret place for it there are things
that you’re gonna need for those
platforms that you’ve never practiced
before David had never
practice how to talk like a king David
had never practiced how to lead actual
people he was leading sheep but you see
when the Spirit of the Lord begins to
rush upon you then there is a wisdom
that God puts within you and so for some
of you it’s not about questioning God
you know what you’ve prepared my heart
but you’ve not really given me the
wisdom or the strategy I’ve never really
seen something like this before
and God says really all I need is your
heart because when you picked up that
mantle
there was an anointing that will come
upon you and all of a sudden you will
know things that you had no idea how you
knew it that you would have strategy
that you would speak even if you’re
speaking in Ebonics people will be like
wow that’s some wisdom the spirit of
Lord would rush upon you the anointing
of God will come upon you you see the
Bible says it is the anointing that
breaks the yoke it is the anointing that
brings change is the anointing that
causes deliverance so when the anointing
of the Lord comes upon you it’s not even
about whether you knew how to lead
people or sheep God will just turn what
would give you the wisdom for the people
God would give you the wisdom for the
positions God would give you the wisdom
for the roles and so yes you may feel so
far away from the things that God called
you to but family the moment that God
begins to prepare the way he says you
don’t need what you think you need oh
you really need is my anointing because
you see the Holy Spirit is knowledge the
Holy Spirit is wisdom he is
understanding he is mighty he is courage
you may have been in a place where you
were all by yourself in you’re like God
I don’t know how I’m gonna function
around people or in front of people and
God is like don’t worry about that my
anointing is there for that because in
my anointing there is boldness do you
know that there was a time where the
disciples prayed for boldness and they
actually and then the scripture tells us
and they prayed but in boldness because
the Holy Spirit is all these things and
so when the Lord when the anointing of
God’s rushes upon you do not
question why I’m saying this family is
that never question where God is calling
you based on where you are do not think
because the enemy would want to deceive
you that you’re so far away from the
promise of God because they’re studying
things that other people have gone
through to get to where it looks like
God is calling you but the truth of the
matter is that where God is calling you
you don’t even have a clue you see you
have to understand that even though
David knew that there was something
great about his life there was a king at
the time so it was it would be on it
would be it wouldn’t even make sense for
David to imagine himself as King because
there was already a king only it was
only between the Lord
the prophet Samuel and saw that knew
that look the Lord has rejected Saul
nobody else knew that David could not
even think that wow God I just can’t
wait to be king you know he was not
Simba he was not even connected to the
bloodline of Saul and so when God is
calling you you may not even have a clue
because the place is calling you may
even look like a place that it’s
occupied and the Lord said let me just
work on you because you don’t even know
you think you you I wondered I really
took my time I said I wonder if David
was just hoping for the day he would be
a soldier not knowing he would be the
one to lead the people he would even
lead the soldiers and this is why we
have to be patient the Lord will do
exceedingly abundantly far above all
that we can think or imagine according
to the power that works within us
according to the power of his spirit
there are things that the Lord will lead
you into that is far beyond your belief
and all the Lord requires is a heart
that is surrendered to him that yes
where you may be and even as we end in
the year there are things that you
celebrate up about your life and you’re
celebrating that God is doing for you
and there are also things that you may
question God I’m just waiting to see the
fruit the fruit is going to blow your
mind because the Lord is with me
you see the third thing because when
they anointed David later on in the
scriptures we would read that this was
almost what prepared him to take on
Goliath
there was a bonus David had there was a
knowing David had that I will kill this
man
they were there it was such a relentless
spirit about David and it was the
anointing of the Lord upon him that
empowered him and equipped him right
before the battle that would put him on
the platform of Nations
you see family things are gonna look so
different for your life and I know we
always like to say this you know a year
from now wow I’m just gonna have my
Lamborghini my gosh and then a year from
now you upgrade it to a bicycle that’s
it but now I’m serious family things are
gonna look so different for your lives
because there is something you see what
one of the things that I love our path
always says is that if you’re called to
this church if you’re drawn to this
church there is so much greatness in
your life that is about to just be
untapped you see there are voices the
reason why it’s not like we have just
there’s just this one you know God calls
one pastor at a time in the world
because if it’s about it’s not just we
come together to study the word we learn
the word but there are certain prophetic
messages that are for DOL’s that are
drawn to the voices that God has put in
the house and so sometimes we may
question you know when when you hear a
prophetic word you may question it and
say well is that for everybody because
we’re all so different but there are
some prophetic words that are genuine
because the Lord knows who is drawn to
the voices in the house and so when the
Lord begins to release certain words we
just have to be have fertile our hearts
need to be fertile enough to catch it
because you see the interesting thing
about Jesus was that Jesus anyone who
came to Jesus as he walked the earth
they received their healing
but the truth is that Jesus did not go
to everywhere Jesus went every place he
went to he was very aware and
tensional about the places that he was
going to and so when he was going to a
place he was already prepared that
everyone that would be drawn to him
would receive exactly what they were
they they believe by faith for and so
there are places that you would be drawn
to and there are places that God will
send a person to with a word that can be
general if you have the faith to catch
it and so if you can begin to look at
your situation differently
if you can begin to look at it with joy
because joy is the evidence of faith
when you can say that you know what Lord
I may not understand where this is going
but I believe that you’re making all
things work together for my good I
believe that your promises and my life
would be fulfilled I believe they are
yes and amen
when I begin to do what seems
insignificant with joy I have tapped
into the field of my faith and in that
place favor will rush upon you you would
be sought out by the things you were
looking for when God revealed to me the
timing that he said I’m gonna raise you
as a minister he had me walk away from
everything that I thought almost
everything that I believed that was part
of what God was calling me into and it
was so confused and my family was just
like what are you doing with your life
and it was one of the most difficult
times and one of the most beautiful
times it was beautiful because they were
there was a joy in me that could not be
shaking and it was very difficult
because no one could understand the
people that the people it they were
close to me and my circle could not
understand what I was doing and it was
crazy because I’m in a place where I’m
seeing God bring those very things back
but he’s bringing it with his hand on it
he’s not now I’m not being led in lessly
anymore I’m not being led it’s not about
the glam but now I’m walking into things
and it’s because of the purpose and the
beautiful thing family is that the
things that I thought that God stripped
away from me it found me in the place of
my faith
and so this is what I want to share with
you as we’re getting ready to go into
2019 the field of your faith that is a
play it would attract everything
assigned to your life and more because
all this happens in stages and stages
there there there are things that would
test the fertility of your heart and
stages
God wants to know can I trust you for
the next thing can I trust you for the
next thing their processes their words
their places that he would put you
through because not only is he pruning
you but he’s testing to know can look
and my word survive in you despite your
circumstances around you can my word
live in you would that be the thing that
guards and guides your life even when
everything looks everything just looks
like it’s not speaking to what I said
can you live by my word even when you
don’t see how it’s gonna come together
can your heart be fertile ground for me
and if that is the case I will plant so
much in you that would it would overflow
it what it wouldn’t even make sense how
you can contain it but the Lord would
make room because he would enlarge your
territory and so let us be faithful let
us be faithful you have to treat where
you are like where you’re going you
cannot wait for where you’re going to be
more disciplined you cannot wait for
where you’re going to be to be more
effective you have to treat where you
are like where you’re going and I
believe that’s what David did he treated
the place the field of his faith the
field that he was a shepherd he treated
it like where he was going even though
he may not have known the magnitude of
where he was going he was faithful in
that place he was effective in that
place despite the challenges around him
David stay true to the Word of God in
his life and that is a question I have
for us all
is your heart fertile ground for the
Word of God is your heart fertile ground
for the things that the promises and the
plans of God is it fertile ground for it
do you have the capacity to receive what
God wants to give you and so as we take
time to to you know on to look
back and observe and and look into the
year and what we are goals ahead let us
have the goal to be surrendered let us
have goals to be more surrendered before
the Lord let us examine the areas in our
lives that we were hesitant when the
glory the saint move and we didn’t want
to move let us examine those areas and
say lord I want my heart to be fertile
ground for your word because if your
word can live in me then you can
position me naturally in the places that
that word has been called to be produced
families stand with me thank you Jesus
thank you lord thank you lord
thank you
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family God has some great plans for you
in this house some great plans
and there’s a lady I just want to use I
want to speak into your life but I want
to use you as a sign for what God is
doing and it’s a lady in the back you
have a beanie on your head
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can you come forward I want to pray with
you and just connect my prayer with you
to everyone in this house
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I just wanted to use this I just wanna
as a as a point of contact I know but
the Lord you the Lord really highlighted
you to me you have been faithful
you have cried many times to sleep
asking God when and in many times you’ve
asked him why there were a lot of
questions you would say why God why is
this happening and God when those were
the two major questions of your life why
and when and I believe that that speaks
to many of us in this house God why is
this happening and when will this happen
and the Lord is going to use you’re such
a powerful example on the earth because
as I saw you it may look like you may be
in a position where it seems like you’re
by yourself and you’re alone but you are
not alone
because there is such there if there is
a
there is a light on you that is
beautiful I’m saying this because I want
you to know that God is it’s very what’s
the word I’m looking for what’s the word
you know that song records love there is
a reckless love that God has for you
because there are things that he has put
you through he has allowed you to go
through that to someone else I don’t
want to release going to the deeds about
what to talk to you after but there are
things that he had allowed you to go
through that for someone else I would
actually make them walk away from their
faith but a lot that I could trust you
with that experience I could trust you
with it because rather than you rather
than it working against you because you
see family everything that God does in
your life there is a way for you to see
how is gonna work for you and that’s why
not everything happens to the same
person and so in a way you’re asking God
why did this happen
but you actually had the capacity for it
and so that’s why you asking why you
still come faithful in the house of the
Lord
and the Lord some about to do something
in your life that goes way beyond what
you could have ever asked me for and I
want you guys to remember a face cuz God
is gonna move greatly in her now but I
want to use you as a point of contacts
because what the Lord is speaking to me
about you he’s gonna do in this house
for us that God that the questions that
you’ve had God why and God when that he
is answering it in the place of your
faith in the place of your faith you
have been faithful you have been
faithful and God sees it he knows it and
he’s about to do some mighty works in
your life
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family let us pray lord I thank you for
your daughter and I thank you for all
those in this house I even use her as a
point of contact to your people
because love Lord Oh Lord he’s as well
Lord you’re about to open some mighty
doors in her life I see where you would
even begin to you you you have such a
big heart to give and almost to the
point that not everybody you know we all
say when we’re rich oh I’m just gonna
buy all my family members a house big
again when the money comes but but
actually see you buying homes for people
and it’s actually a desire you have but
the Lord said that the desire is
actually it’s not it’s not vague it’s
actually real and I see that the Lord
will empower you to do that oh god
you’re amazing you’re amazing guy father
God we thank you you know what I’m
talking about right
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hey I love Jesus I love Jesus you see
because he will seek you out he will
seek you out that is the word we’re
talking about today favor will find you
Oh family let us pray lord I thank you
for what you’re doing in the life of
your daughter because you are confirming
what she you have already put in her
heart the very things that she is
already desired and lord I love the fact
that she even says how I’m even here
lord favor was seek out your children
favor was seek them out Lord Jesus and
they will bring them to the place that
they would receive a word from you lord
I just thank you for this moment that as
the prophets am well spoke into the life
of David that you sought him out and you
brought him to the place that a word and
an anointed will change his life Lord I
speak to your daughter as a point of
contact Lord God that an anointing will
come upon her it would give her the
wisdom it would give her the resources
of everything that you have assigned to
her life Lord that I thank you because
where she has been overlooked long as I
see her as the head father god you’re
gonna raise this woman you’re gonna
establish her financially in ways that
would go beyond her understanding lord I
thank you for your power that will come
upon her life
and I thank you for your anointing that
is even flowing even now Lord Jesus even
now Oh God we thank you and we know Lord
God that you are moving in this same
capacity in the lives of all those
around Lord God that made this see her
as a point of contact so what you are
doing in the room the Lord Jesus I thank
you that some desires that we have we
think it’s far-fetched but Lord you said
you know it you hear it you see it and
that you are not man that you are not
able to bring it to pass Lord there is
nothing impossible for you and so Lord
as we stay surrendered to you as we
trust in you as we believe in you Lord
God in the field of our faith favor
would find us favor will find us and so
we would be faithful we will be faithful
father God we love you thank you Jesus
for what you’re doing in this room thank
you Jesus for what you’re doing in this
room it is almost like there are you
know it’s not to be cliche because it
will sound like it’s bigger Christmas
but it’s almost like your gifts all
around the house it’s almost like I can
seek gifts on the heads of people and
the Lord is endow me with something
fresh and something new and so family
wherever you are in life
sky trust God be willing to humble
yourself you know you you you you don’t
need to move beyond the Word of God in
your life be willing to trust his word
and you’re gonna see great and mighty
things done in your life we love you
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praise God
can we just worship God
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thank you Jesus thank you Jesus I don’t
know if this person is here watching is
there an Emily in the house
Emily if there’s an Emily just wait
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maybe this person is watching because I
just keep sensing that there is an Emily
and you feel as though that you see one
of the things that the devil tries to
trick people with and that is a lie
because the devil would want to make you
feel like you’re not seen because God
highlighted someone else that is never
the work of the Lord rather God would
use that which he highlights to increase
your faith and to let you know what he’s
already doing in the room and so the
Lord is speaking to me about an Emily
and you feel as doe based on the Lord
speaking to someone you feel like the
Lord is ignoring you and I’m saying your
name right now because for you to know
that no the Lord sees you and he is with
you and he is not far from you
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