This Might Be Your Day-- New Year's

This Just Might Be Your Day

January 3, 2021 1 Samuel 17:12-22 Luke 2:21-40

If you are believer, there are going to be situations in which you pray for something to happen, and you will have an assurance that God has said yes, or you may hear God tell you that God is going to do something for you, and you become excited about it. The only problem with God is that there is often a delay between the promise and the gift or the fulfillment of the word. What do you do in the in between times?

We serve an awesome and incredible God who can do all things. Yet God chooses to work through the everyday small events of life. We think if God said it, then it should happen tomorrow. But a lot times when God starts things in motion, it begins with something really small.

Let’s look at two people, one a teenager by the name of David and the other an older man by the name of Simeon whom God arranged to put them where they were needed when the time came for the promise of God to be fulfilled

Let’s start with David, first introduced as the shepherd boy. The leader of God’s people was King Saul. King Saul just would not obey God. He always thought he had a good reason for why his way of doing something was better than what God had told him to do. God finally rejected him as king.

God told the prophet Samuel to go and anoint David to be the next king. Samuel goes and has an impressive dinner, and he anoints David, who is the youngest of his father’s son, a nobody, with oil. He doesn’t tell David, he will be the next king. David thinks the anointing is for him to either be a better shepherd in the field or a better musician with the harp. He does not understand that God has a much bigger picture in mind for his life.

My friend there is an anointing on every believer’s life. God has a much bigger plan in mind for us than we are conceiving inside of ourselves. That’s why I’m excited about what the Lord will do in our church this year. We have received an anointing to tear down strongholds and set people free from the chains of Satan to know the power and love of God.

Our God works through small steps and by being obedient to God. David’s steps to entering into the power of God began with his father’s request for him to be a delivery boy. His older brothers had gone off to war and were soldiers in King’s Saul army.

His father told him, “Son I’ve got two things I want you to do. First take ten loaves of bread and give it to your brothers, along with ten cheeses and give it to the commander of their unit. Second, talk to your brothers and see how your brothers are doing and bring back word to me.”

Now David had been anointed by Samuel. He knew there were times when the spirit of God had come upon him in a mighty way. Yet his father wanted him to take the role of a delivery boy. Suppose for a moment, David had said, “I don’t want to go.” What if David had decided, “I’m going to send someone else to do the job.” After all, God had anointed him for something much greater. Sometimes we just need to humble ourselves and do something we rather not do for us or for the kingdom to move forward.

David had no way of knowing, that his father’s instructions, simple as they were, would put him on the path that would lead to his divine destiny. David looked at his day timer and scheduled in 2:00pm drop off lunch to brothers, 3:00pm return to the sheep. 10:00pm call it a day and go home.

David didn’t know that God did not have to follow his schedule. David did not know what was waiting for him at the 3:00 hour. David did not know, that his obedience to his father was going to change his life forever.

You see he made it at 2:00pm to drop off the bread for his brothers and the cheese for the commander. He searched and found his brothers to see how they were doing. He didn’t know that at 3:00pm instead of going back to the sheep, he would be going out to fight the giant Goliath. He didn’t know that at 10:00pm instead of calling it a day, there would be a victory party celebrating him as one of the newest heroes in the nation of Israel.

That morning when he got up, if someone had told him, “This Just Might Be Your Day”, he might have laughed and said, “Look at my calendar. What makes you think this day could be any different than yesterday.” I want you to know that when the will of God for you intersects your life of obedience, all kinds of things become possible. God is not limited by our ability to plan out things. God sees so much more on the table than we do.