What to Do When You Are Weak | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of jensen franklin media ministries i'm weak but i'm still a child of god i may be sick but i'm still a child of god i may have financial needs in facing a crisis in my family but i'm still anointed king that's a powerful thing i may be down and persecuted but i am anointed i'm going to speak to you today from second samuel the third chapter and it's a message that i've never preached before but i do believe that it's going to speak to your heart today i know it did mine and there is this verse in second samuel chapter 3 and verse 39. david said i am weak today though anointed king i am weak today though anointed king sometimes we fail to realize that when we are at our weakest we're still anointed david was secretly anointed to be king of israel by samuel but he had not yet worn the crown on his head as a matter of fact for a long time he was in exile running from king saul hosted and haunted and tormented by a remorseful cruel king who was trying to kill him from jealousy a band of men gathered in an area of israel called in getty and there in a cave he began to cause these men to become mighty men mighty warriors finally the day came when king saul and his son jonathan was killed in a battle david didn't have to kill saul there was another battle that took place with saul's enemies on mount gilboa and there saul the king of israel the first king of israel died and his son tragically died with him and so then israel reached a point where those of the southern tribes there were two tribes follow me just a moment the northern tribes and the southern tribes there was two kingdoms israel was not one kingdom they were divided like we were during the civil war and there you have the southern tribes and they anointed david as their king the northern tribes anointed another man as their king and both of them had war chiefs of military david's military leader was joe allen and the other king's military leader was a guy named abner now watch this abner and his king got in an argument and he secretly goes over to david and he makes a deal with him and he says israel ought to be one nation it ought not to be divided so what i want to do is i want to pledge to you all of the military support and we would just push him out of the way and david you can finally fulfill the prophecy that is over your life and you can become the king of israel not half of israel but all of israel finally in that moment david thought this is it this is what i've been dreaming for this is what i've been believing for this is what i've been anointed for this is all that i have gone through these many years running and hiding and living in exile and living in caves like some kind of animal now this is my big moment but the scripture said that joab david's man of war had a grudge against abner and right before the deal was sealed right before the deal to take over the other part of israel and have one king was finalized the bible said that joab because abner had accidentally killed his brother had unforgiveness and took abner and slew him and when he did the whole thing blew up suddenly everything that he had dreamed of and everything that david thought would happen if it fell to pieces and in that moment david realizes it's not going to happen and in that moment his dreams seem to be destroyed and his life seems to be right back where it started from a big mess a big confusion a big division and david made the statement that is when he makes this statement i am this day weak yet still anointed king did you know that it's possible to be weak and still be anointed king the bible declares the royal priesthood of the believer the bible said in 1st peter chapter 2 in verse 9 that we are a royal priesthood those of us who have put our faith in jesus christ we are a royal priesthood the bible said in ephesians 2 and 6 that we sit in heavenly places with christ jesus we are a royal priesthood the bible said in revelation 1 and verse 6 that he has raised us to be kings and priests in his kingdom god says and declares that the christian is an anointed king but notice that it's possible that god's people can be weak and still be anointed they can be weak and still have royal blood in their veins they can be weak and still have the authority of the kingdom and what a contrast weakness and divine anointing stand together sometimes when we're groaning i am weak god's greatest purpose is on its way to our life when we're at our lowest god intends his greatest marvels that he does in our life usually come when we're at utter weakness and we can say with david i am this day when i'm needing god more than i've ever needed him and facing more than i've ever faced in opposition i am this day week but i'm still anointed king god's people are often weak in faith but they're still anointed they have winters as well as summers sometimes they're brought low god's people you can it's possible to be an anointed king and be oppressed and be afflicted and go through sorrow in the eye of faith them i'm telling you today that the bible is full of people with little faith with ready to quit kind of faith despondent people much afraid people they were anointed people but they were weak on particular days and god didn't cast them away and god didn't give up on them notice when david became weak he felt his weakness because he was in a new position he felt his weakness because he was about to take over the nation of israel and when he faced something and had an opportunity like he never had in a new place in a new position he said i am weak this day when i look at the responsibility when i look at the opportunity when i look at this new place in this new position and i see this situation i feel so inadequate that i am weak this day though i'm anointed to do this thing you know whenever you make a change in life whenever you're given a new set of duties or a new challenge or a new place or a new position your flesh and your own mind will say you're not good enough you're not strong enough you can't do this you're too weak on the eve of your greatest triumph the enemy will always come and try to make you feel like you're a nobody and a nothing but i want to remind you that this story says that it's possible for us to be two things at the same time i'm about to preach because i feel this i'm telling you it's possible to be weak it's possible to feel overwhelmed outnumbered out resourced it's possible to feel discouraged it's possible to be going through something that you've never gone through and you if you were to be honest would say i am weak this day yet i'm still anointed king i still reign with christ jesus the kingdom of god is one of opposites it's possible in the kingdom that you can be poor and yet rich the man who lives in a mud hut is more wealthy than the fortune 500 companies it's possible to have joy in the midst of sorrow it's possible to have peace in the middle of the storm the opposite of big is small somebody would say the opposite of tall is short the opposite of hot is cold somebody would say and you can't have cold and hot at the same time you can't have big and small you can't have tall and short at the same time but in second corinthians 12 and verse 10 paul said i take pleasure in my weaknesses my infirmities my reproaches my necessities my persecutions for christ's sake watch this for when i am weak right then not when i get out of this valley not when i get over this trial not when i come out on the other side for when i am weak then he puts the time on it when i am weak david said i am this day weak then am i strong yet i'm anointed i want you to know the moment of your worst dilemma in the moment of your worst trial in the moment of your worst valley in the moment of your lowest feeling down and out and defeated and beat up god said when i am weak i am strong i am weak this day david said yet i'm still anointed i want to encourage you today that when you understand who you are you're an anointed king and who your god is you don't have to fear the enemy just when david thought the battle was over just when he thought peace was coming finally just when he reached a place of the promised being fulfilled it was in that moment that he felt his weakest it was in that moment when he felt like that he couldn't hardly go on you may be weak but you're still anointed david basically was asking and saying and presenting um he was presenting uh an attitude of that that you can take when you are feeling overwhelmed by what you're facing he said if i'm king in so many words why am i so weak if i'm a child of god why am i weak if i'm a child of god why am i sick if i'm a child of god why am i suffering if i'm a child of god why are my children driving me crazy if i'm a child of god why is my marriage almost on the rocks somebody's asking if if i'm a child of god why do i have financial needs that are scaring me to death i want to flip that around today and say you know you may be going through the fire you may be sick you may be in financial need you may be weak but you're still a child of god that's the point i'm weak but i'm still a child of god i may be sick but i'm still a child of god i may have financial needs in facing a crisis in my family but i'm still anointed king that's a powerful thing i may be down and persecuted but i am anointed listen this is what i want you to get this is a big point right here you might ought to write this one down you must define yourself not by what's going on around you but by what's going on inside of you because i may be weak looking at everything around me but i am anointed on the inside of me you know the devil loves to steal our identity they have companies that do nothing but try to ensure people that their identity will not be stolen on the internet there are people who steal people's homes and they put they they steal their documents and steal their credit cards it's called identity theft satan was the first person to ever spirit to ever steal identity try to in isaiah 14 and verse 13. he said i will ascend above the throne of god i will be like the most high god i will set up my congregations i'm going to steal god's identity and i'll be god and you know the devil wants to steal your identity because you've been anointed king you're not to just allow the enemy to beat you up and cause you to lose hope you've been anointed king you may be weak but you're anointed king your flesh may be weak but the one in you is greater and the way that the enemy wants to steal your identity is not so he can use your identity it's so you won't use your identity he wants you to walk through life not knowing that you're still anointed king just because you've gone through laws just because you've gotten laid off just because you're a single mother that has needs and you don't know what you're going to do you may be weak but you are still anointed hallelujah i may be weak i'm going through something but it doesn't change who i am what i'm going through does not change who i am i am an anointed king no weapon formed will prosper i shall arise again the world's getting crazy we've never seen anything like this we feel so weak as a nation america is weak is weak in our economy and weaken our love for one another and weaken unity and people ripping each other to pieces even on the internet the body of christ and christians even in this church just ripping each other to pieces we're weak but i want to remind the devil yeah i will weep but the blood of jesus can bring quick healing and we are still anointed and we are the church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it hallelujah well pastor it seems like the devil's just getting things and times are getting worse and worse well the bible said they would somebody said well the devil's just getting more and more powerful and they said the way that you know that is you read in genesis and he was a snake he came as a snake and then you read over in peter and peter said he's like a roaring lion so he grew from a snake to a roaring lion then you go to the last book of the bible the book of revelation and it calls him a dragon so the devil as time is progressing has moved from a serpent to a lion to a dragon in the end times and you and i are not fighting the snake and we're not fighting the lion unfortunately we're feeling the breath of the antichrist we're dealing with the spirit of the antichrist like never before you can see it all getting ready the the things that we never dreamed we're dealing with the dragon but watch this i want to give you something in the word of god in psalms 91 and verse 13. this is what it says it says for thou shalt tread on the adder that's the snake then he said the lion and the dragon hallelujah i don't care what the devil is doing we're going to tread on the serpent we're going to tread on the lion and we're going to tread on the dragon you may be weak but you are anointed i've still got my faith i've still got my praise i've still got the holy ghost i've still got the blood of jesus the name of jesus and the word of almighty god david watch this david said i'm not just weak but he said i'm weak i love this this day did you catch it look at that verse again he said i'm weak this day implying devil you caught me on a bad day he never said he was weak when he went out to fight goliath that was a good day he he never said he this day of my week when he was in the cave but for some reason david was so discouraged and defeated that he admitted i am but he put these words in there this day weak it's almost like he's saying i just want to put you on warning devil weeping may endure for the night you know he wrote those words that's in the book of psalms weeping may endure for the night but joy this day i'm a little weak but don't you think that this day is how my future is going to be don't you think that this day is how i'm going to always be this won't last forever do you hear me devil we may be weak our nation may be trembling people may be watching the death rate go up all of that we may be weak but we are this day anointed this day this day does not define who you are you're still anointed king so if you're going through a struggle i want you to know that you're anointed the devil is messing with you you're still anointed if people are laughing at you you're still anointed if somebody broke your heart you're still anointed if your family's kids are acting crazy you're still anointed your marriage is on the rocks but you're still you can't quit you can't give up i am weak this day there's another day coming there's a change coming yet i am anointed king david declared ii samuel 3 39 you ought to write that one down and when you go to work tomorrow when you face fear when you are dealing with situations that you never dreamed you would be dealing with in 2020 you need to open your mouth and when you feel overcome with fear and worry discouragement just say i am weak this day i'm not afraid of it because when i'm weak then right then god comes with strength then am i strong it's his strength now even weak faith is okay sometimes it's enough to carry you through say i'm still anointed say it again i'm still anointed say it right there in your home say it right there in that small group say it right there in that hospital room say it right there in that sick bed say it right there when you don't when you've been laid off say i'm still anointed i may be weak but i'm still anointed [Music] hey [Music] hey [Music] me [Music] foreign [Music] hey [Music] [Music] we're so honored that you decided to join us for kingdom connection today if you have never invited jesus to be lord and savior of your life and you feel him drawing you today while you've been watching this program then i want you to repeat this prayer after me lord jesus i thank you for the cross the blood that you shed 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Length: 28min 29sec (1709 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 16 2020