I'm Weak But I'm Anointed Part 2 The Process Of The Anointing.

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 believe tears make us seem as though we are weak and without a backbone. We believe that circumstances make you appear as if you don’t have a clue as to what is really going on. So, then 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 our 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 it says I am human, and I am dealing with some things.

The devil, who is a master at deception will try to make you feel that the way you feel right now or what you are going through right now is the way it is always going to be. He tries to say see you are defeated, you don’t have the strength to make it through this, and he will even try to convince you and say see God has forsaken you. What he doesn’t want you to realize is that you overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of your testimony. Because of the Blood of the Lamb my sins are forgiven because He was bruised for my iniquities, the chastisement of my peace was upon Him and by His stripes I am healed. Also, I can stand assured because if He delivered me out of what I went through before I know He will deliver me out of this also.

I am weak but I am anointed.

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. Saul was now dead, Jonathan was also dead, David should have been made King over all Israel. However, Israel had been divided into two kingdoms, the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (Judah) and he (David) is King of Judah or the Southern Kingdom, while Ishbosheth, another of Saul’s son’s is King of Israel.

BACKGROUND: - 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, who was one of Saul’s sons accused Abner of sleeping with Saul’s concubine named Rizpah, which was forbidden because that was the King’s concubine and to sleep with her was to disrespect the King. 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 agrees with Abner’s plans and sends 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 and had Abner captured, brought back to Joab thinking it was all peaceful and then Joab killed Abner by stabbing him in the side.