I'm Weak But I'm Anointed

I’m Weak but I’m Anointed

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

SCRIPTURE: - 2 Samuel 3:39 says, “And I am this day weak, though anointed king…”.

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 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 of 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 is says I am human, and I am dealing with some things.

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. Israel had been divided into two kingdoms, the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (Judah) and he is King of Judah or the Southern Kingdom, while Ishbosheth, another of Saul’s son’s is King of Israel.

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 accused Abner of sleeping with Saul’s concubine named Rizpah. 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 sent 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 had Abner captured and then he killed 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.

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 even 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 that will surprise Him. There is nothing you can say that will make Him say I don’t know. But I truly believe when you get to the point where you begin to question God that is the very point, He wants you to be. Because it is here that you begin to open your heart and open your mouth and begin to worship Him, and there is something about worship when you begin to worship God for who He is He begins to work something in you. 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.