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.
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 because of what Joab has done.
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 God that will surprise Him. There is nothing you can say that will make Him say I don’t know. I know there maybe some that say Bishop I can’t believe you would say that. 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.
David said, “I am weak THIS DAY”. WATCH THIS: - This day is just a period of time. This day is different than other days. This day deals with a current situation at a certain point in time. This day does not determine your destiny. David was saying I already killed a Lion and a Bear, I already killed Goliath, I already been delivered from Saul’s attempts on my life, but this day I am weak. In other words, Devil don’t get it twisted I might not be up to par right now but I am anointed king, and another day is coming.
Let me explain this anointing.
The 4 Step Process of the Anointing.
You must understand what it means to be Anointed. Being anointed is more than coming up for prayer and the preacher putting some oil on your forehead in the shape of a cross that’s the act or the outward showing of the anointing. The anointing is a process, as a matter of fact it is a 4-step process. The number 4 derives its Bible meaning from creation. On the fourth day of what is called “creation week” God completed the material universe. On this day He brought into existence our sun, the moon, and all the stars Genesis 1:14 - 19. Their purpose was not only to give off light, but also to divide the day from the night on earth, thus becoming a basic demarcation of time. They were also made to be a type of signal that would mark off the days, years and seasons of which there are 4. Interestingly, the Hebrew word for “seasons” is moed Strong's Concordance #H4150, which literally translated is "appointed times". The 4 steps of the Anointing process are:
1. Chosen
2. Washed
3. Robed/Clothed
4. Anointed
Before the anointing you & I were chosen.
First, we are chosen. To be chosen is to be one who is the object of choice or of divine favor, an elect person, selected, and preferred for a certain and divine purpose, the object of choice. Oh, you didn’t catch that, an object of choice is something that when viewed stirs a particular emotion, something toward which thought, feeling, or action is directed, a cause for attention or concern. We are chosen, a chosen generation, when God looks at us it stirs His emotion of Love and compassion and He directs His blessing down upon us, WHY, because we are chosen, the object of His choice, and are the cause for His attention and concern.
John 15:16 says, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you”. We are chosen by God Himself, to fulfill a specific purpose in His divine plan and have been predestined (predestinated) to the culmination of that plan ever since the beginning of time, for the Bible says in Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations”.
Then we are washed. Ezekiel 36:25–27 says, “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.”
Titus 3:5 says, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost”. The washing of regeneration is a kind of reconditioning, remaking, or remodeling, with life. The washing of regeneration purges away all the things of the old nature of our old man, and the renewing of the Holy Spirit imparts something new the divine essence of the new man into our being.
Then you are clothed/robed in righteousness. Galatians 3:27 says, “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ”. Job 29:14 says, “I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem”. God clothes us in his righteousness as a gift of grace. This righteousness is not something we can achieve on our own but is provided by God. Isaiah 61:10 says, “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels”. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says that in Christ, we become the righteousness of God. We are clothed in His righteousness.
Then we are Anointed. We are made consecrated or sacred empowered or made effective for God's purposes by the special activity of the Holy Ghost. When Aaron was anointed, he was anointed with a mixture of blood and oil, on his ear, his thumb, and his big toe indicating he would hear from God to the work of God and go where God leads him. The blood, cleanses and represents ultimately the blood of Christ shed for our sins. The oil symbolizes God's Holy Spirit, so when we are cleansed from all unrighteousness through the blood of Christ, we are able to live a new life in Christ by His Spirit.
Being Anointed is having God’s presence with you and His favor upon you. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 says, “Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts”.
This anointing puts a mark or impression of royal ownership on our lives, which authenticates and guarantees who we are and to whom we belong. 1 Peter 2:9 says, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light”.
David said “I am this day weak though anointed king” – King that’s Royalty!
You are a royal priesthood and are already anointed but let me show you something that the anointing will get you.
Romans 8:15-17 says, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, (We are in the family) whereby we cry, Abba, Father (We are The Kings Kids – Sons and Daughters of God). The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together”.
Jesus says in John 14:12 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father”.
Focus on this – “the works that I do shall he do also”. That is a promise.
Let me explain what the anointing gets you.
As a royal priesthood we have conferred upon us an unlimited resource, God said He would supply all of our needs according to His riches in glory, regardless of how many come to Him, He has resources that have yet to be touched. I am reminded of a song we used to sing that said “There’s room at the cross, those many have come there’s still room for one, there’s room at the cross for you”. We have unlimited freedom, because He said whom the son has set free is free indeed, and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, we have authority over the devil and this world, for all power in heaven and earth is in His hands and we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. We have the ability to demand that the devil be bound and that the spirit of God be released in our lives, that is the authority that we have if we ask in His name. It is our prerogative rather or not to come under the subjection of satanic influences in our lives. Because we are a royal priesthood, there are things that are placed under us, they are our subjects and we are not to be bound by them, but rule and reign over them
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I am this day weak but anointed.
You may be depressed THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be weak THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be discouraged THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may feel hopeless THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be confused THIS DAY but you are Anointed.
You may be weak THIS DAY feeling like you don’t have the strength to make it. But I just want to encourage you and let you know you are chosen by God himself for such a time as this, you have been washed in the blood of the lamb through Baptism, you are clothed in His Righteousness and you are anointed having been filled with the Holy Ghost.
2 Corinthians 12:10 says “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong”. You may be weak right now but let me tell you something - You are stronger than you realize.
I am this day weak but anointed.
Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world.
WATCH THIS: - David was anointed 3 times. The first time he was anointed but Samuel to be King, the second time he was anointed to be King of Judah, in this text here David had been anointed 2 times when he said, “I am this day weak though anointed King”. After this he is anointed the 3rd time as King of all Israel. You may be weak right now, you may be going through some stuff right now, it may seem like everything in your life may be upside down right now but let me encourage you and let you know that there is another anointing coming and it is this anointing that is going to put everything in order the way it was intended to be.
Give God praise and say I’m weak but I am Anointed.
Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.
