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Messed Up But Still Anointed
Contributed by Bishop Talbert Swan on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Regardless of our faults God can still use us.
So I can’t use broken hands…I also don’t want anybody working for me with a HUNCHBACK. Being a spiritual hunchback is a sign that they can’t handle the weight. They’re bent over from their circumstances. God says …I need some people that while they have the weight of the world on their shoulders…you can’t tell by looking at them. There is someone today who is carrying 3000 pounds of stress but you don’t wear it on your face and in your demeanor…as a matter of fact..you look better than what you’re going through…you didn’t come to church to show off or to be a part of a fashion show…you just had to let the enemy know…you didn’t break me…you didn’t take my joy…you didn’t take my pride…I’m still standing up..even when I feel broken on the inside. God put a weight on you back to see whether you could stand under the pressure….so many people in your family…so many people that you grew up with …so many that you used to run with have fallen by the wayside..bcuz they couldn’t handle the pressure…when life got hard they got swallowed up in drugs and swallowed up on the streets and swallowed up by alcoholism and in depression…some of you have seen people that you knew from back in the day and they look 20 years older than you and you’re trying to figure out what happened to them that didn’t happen to you…When the pressure started mounting you refused to lay down and play dead..but you lifted up your head bcuz the Bible says lift up your heads o ye gates…and be ye lifted up……and the King of Glory shall come in…
Who is the King of Glory…the Lord Mighty in Battle. Somebody said He’ll never put more on you than you’re able to bear.. YOU CAN HANDLE IT! God made your back stronger than you think it is……you can tell the enemy…give me some more…add some more and see if I don’t still walk out of it.
Not only do I not want a hunchbacks…But the text says…I don’t want any DWARFS ….. Let’s not look at this in the physical…let’s look at it in the spiritual…I don’t want anybody who refuses to grow into their full potential…anyone who cuts off where they’re supposed to be by small thinking and a small perspective and a small mindframe. How are you waddling around like a dwarf when you were created to be a giant? Some of you feel that the walls are coming in on you…that’s just God reminding you that the place that you’re in is too small for you….that check that they’re paying you don’t match your anointing…those friends around you..you’ve outgrown them and they cant even catch up to where you’re going..You’re supposed to be hanging in a valley of giants but you keep limiting yourself with dwarf thinking. God wants to know is there anyone here who is tired of low living, small planning and mundane talking and colorless dreams…..Is there anyone tired of sight walking and tiny times and midget management…is there anyone who wants to grow past where you are. I don’t have time to spend with folk who want to stay at the same level…if you don’t want more for your life you will never be an asset to the kingdom. If you don’t think you can get better than life is right now you will never see the fullness of God’s glory. People who have dwarf thinking get don’t understand those of us who think outside of the box…..As a man thinketh so is he. I don’t have ten dollar thoughts….hundred dollar thoughts….I have multi billion dollar thoughts because I serve a great big God…..I know…folks keep telling you “slow down…you’re doing too much”…why you going after all of that? If I was you I would be satisfied…well you aint me! And bcuz you aint me you don’t understand that there’s a hunger inside of me…I want to know more of God…I want a deeper level of anointing ….a higher level of success…more wisdom,,,,more knowledge…clearer thinking……more understanding…..I want higher heights…deeper depths…I want more…but too many of us have been acting like snow white…hanging out with the seven dwarfs…..God wants to make you a giant!