What to do When You're Running on Empty | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored in part by friends and partners of jensen franklin media ministries hello and welcome to kingdom connection thank you for joining us today you may be in the darkest season you've ever been in facing stuff that you never dreamed you would go through you need to listen you need to hear what i'm going to preach today listen to this word and i'll come back in a moment and pray for you [Music] [Music] this is [Music] is [Music] it may look [Music] this is [Music] i'm gonna worship [Applause] clap your hands and give him a body praise oh bless the lord o my soul and all that is within you bless his holy men we love you lord we really really do smile at somebody and you may be seated i want you to turn with me quickly to first samuel chapter 16. now the lord said to samuel how long will you mourn for saul seeing i have rejected him from reigning over israel fill your horn with all and go i'm sending you to jesse the bethmannight for i have provided for myself a king among his sons samuel was grieving because saul whom he had anointed had fallen to great sin and been rejected now by god and had been removed and died on the battlefield without the favor and the blessing of god and now samuel is weeping and mourning and crying i think that there's a powerful lesson in this text that there comes a time when we are to mourn and we are to grieve and we are to have liquid pain of tears that express the brokenness of our life or something that has happened we don't live in denial that life brings things that can crush us and break us but we also need to remind ourselves that as sure as there's a time to mourn there comes a time when god says my purpose and plan for you is never to leave you in perpetual brokenness to mourn and grieve and sorrow the rest of your life no matter what has happened to you and he said to samuel fill your horn with oil and go listen these words for i have provided everything that you're mourning about that you've lost i want you to know it's not back there i got stuff in your future that i have already provided i've already taken care of i've already lined it up i've already opened the door and you've got more ahead of you than you do behind you and you can't live and mourn and grieve over what went wrong when i've got such a plan for your future that it's already provided i you had to go through that to get to where i'm taking you now horns in the bible he said i want you to fill your horn with oil and horns in the bible represent power if you see and read some of the old testament prophets they would prophesy and they would see visions and they would see a horn the book of revelation talks about you know his types his types and shadows but it always horns in the bible the horns of a ram or animal represent power horns were used in the old testament like a realm's horn would be used and god commanded that the old testament prophets carry the anointing in that horn because the anointing is powerful they kept the anointing oil in the horn because it's powerful and he wanted to emphasize that when you are anoint with oil i don't want you to do it routinely i want you to do it understanding what you're doing is powerful the power of the anointing was so real in elisha that he got in his bones and the bible said after he died a dead they threw a corpse in on top of his body and when the man the dead corpse touched his bones the anointing in his bones raised the dead the anointing was so powerful in simon peter that the bible said they lined the sick people up and when he walked by his shadow touched them and they were healed it was so powerful in moses that they had to put a veil over his face because his face was shining with the anointing it was so powerful in the apostle paul in the book of acts that the scripture said after he preached they would take his clothing probably his prayer shawl and they would cut it up and they would send it to certain people who were demon possessed or sick in their bodies and when they would lay those calls that had been anointed on those people they would be healed jesus many people say the woman with the issue of blood in mark chapter 5 touched jesus but she never touched jesus she touched the hem of his garment she never touched jesus she touched something that touched jesus and sometimes if you can't touch jesus if you can get around somebody who's touched jesus the anointing is that powerful if you can't touch him you can touch somebody who has that's why you're in a good place today because there's some people who've been praying [Applause] they would smear them with oil or pour oil on them so powerful was the anointing that that that that they cherished it and three times we're told that samuel poured the oil out of his horn of oil owned something and three times it was rejected the first time is found in first samuel eight the bible said and i i'm gonna preach i'm gonna preach to you for just a minute on what to do when you're running empty going to take me a minute to get there and you've got a minute and i'm going to take advantage of that minute because i'm going to convince you that you're not going to leave here with a grieving morning depressed i think the whole world is trying i'm not a i'm not denying the reality of the seriousness of the times and the challenges that we're facing on every front it's not one thing that will cause you to feel empty it's multiple things that just drain you and that's the time we're living in for samuel chapter 8 the people gathered and they said they actually said this to samuel behold you are old boy if y'all ever do that to me i just want you to know i'll say you are too behold you're old and your sons walk not in your ways make us a king you know what was taking place here saw samuel had poured out his whole life on the nation of israel and now they were saying to him if you read the whole story we we we don't want that old stuff anymore we're tired of the old messages we're tired of the old way you preach we're tired of that oil and that horn of oil and we're tired of all that praise and worship we want a new way we want a king we want a king we've seen their parades we've seen their inaugurations and we want a king just like all the other nations and we reject your all we want to go a different way you're too old-school you're way too old-school samuel you actually speak and you're an old man and you've got old ways and you like those old moves of god and we we want something new and fresh and there's nothing wrong with new and fresh and changed thank god for it but you can never get away from the anointing you can never get away from the presence of the holy spirit that makes church effective i don't care what kind of building you get i don't care what you have i don't care what great musicians you have if the anointing is not there is sounding grass tinkling symbol good for nothing not only that they said your sons don't walk in your ways they said you poured your own port now i want you to see it he's poured it out on his congregation the nation of israel and they've rejected it and now he filled his horn up again and he poured it out on his sons he had two sons and the bible said that those boys did not walk in the ways of their father and i wonder how many parents and grandparents are listening to me right now and your heart is grieving and you're mourning because your kids or your grandkids are not walking in the ways of the lord you raised them right you brought them to church you did everything that you poured and poured and poured your all on them and today they seem to have turned their back on god don't keep mourning the oil is going to work you got to give it time but god is faithful say amen somebody the bible said that moses mother hid him every mother understands that every dad understands that there are things we have to hide our children from you cannot in with technology you cannot just leave the computer on and let the children look at anything and everything and tv and satellite and music you you hide them you hide them when you when they're young you hide them oh i gotta hide them from drugs hide them from alcohol hide them from porn hide them from bad influences and you can do that when they're young and they're young and they're young but there came this point as they were getting older teenagers still hide them either got attitudes now they didn't have those attitudes you told them when they were little to do it and they did it but now they got attitudes and all of you who are ready to write a book on how to parent beautiful wonderful obedient children wait until you get teenagers don't shut up i don't want to read your stupid book i don't i'm sorry until you've raised five of them you can come talk to me then and i'll listen to you and even then you're not coming in like some know-it-all you're coming in a broken down something it's all i can tell you is the anointing is all that really lasted and so and so i mean i mean but there comes a time there came a time even moses mother hit him you remember pharaoh's spirit was trying to kill all the boys two years of age and she hit him she hit him she hit him and there's this amazing verse in exodus two and verse three and when she could no longer hide him and when she could no longer hide him parents this is why this is so important that's why being together in god's house is so important that what they're getting in kid pack is so important because there will come a day when you can't make the decisions for them you can't hide them you can't say no the peer pressure you can't hide them you can't pick their friends forever you can't pick you can't pick their dates forever you can do it while you sit while they are you still in my house do you want to eat would you like do you i told you one time we had one that was acting big and bad and she kept uh kept the door locked all the time i i came home one day and i went and she didn't even ask me to do it she did sharice took the door off the hinges took the door off the hinges had it had to hold i i said where is the door she said i'm tired of knocking on that door and it being locked so i removed the door that's what that's yeah but you can only cover and conceal and preserve and guard for so long and then they will have to choose for themself they'll go off to college they'll go off with their friends on a friday night they're going to choose for themself and he poured his oil on his sons and they didn't they knew the way but they chose not to go the way i mean this is this is two strikes he's a two-time loser he poured it on the congregation they rejected it he poured the anointing oil on his own sons poured his favor poured his life into him his faith into him his knowledge into him and they rejected it so now there's this guy named saul and god says fill your horn with oil and go pour it on him he's he's a tall powerful leader and when he poured the oil on him the bible said saul was turned into another man and began to prophesy and he was the first king of israel and he was so anointed and so powerful and now uh saul is living vicariously through his through his through through saul he's he he's poured his oil he thinks finally finally i i poured it on the king they rejected it my own children rejected it but look look look saul has got it but then the story ends tragically that saul turned his back on god and started dealing the occult and going to to to a witch and a fortune teller talking to the dead you better stay away from that stuff because it brought the curse of god on saul's life so much so that god said this these words i regret making him king god's bless you don't make god repent for having blessed you with great great blessings because you didn't steward it and you didn't handle it right the climate of rejection steps into samuel's life and he's been rejected by saul and he's been rejected the oil that he poured by his two sons and now the nation and he gets to this place in his life where he's grieving that's where we picked up the text i'm almost where i want to be and he's mourning and he's crying and he can't get over stuff in his past and that's where many of you are today because the enemy loves it when you stay grieving too long saul failed saul broke his heart and he's mourning and god came down and said how long will you mourn over saul i have rejected him from reigning over israel how long this is a broken man and his horn is empty he's poured it out and poured it out and poured it out and he is drained and he thinks i'm gonna die an old man and and it just didn't work but watch god said fill your horn with oil one more time you know what i've been doing i've been devouring this word i just decided that if my horn is empty i'm going to fill it up with the word i'm going to fill it up with prayer i'm going to fill it up with worship and here's what i heard the lord say he said samuel one more anointing you've got to have because david is coming you know there's just something about life that can empty your spirit and the horn is empty you're still carrying on still going about still moving around but inside spiritually you're empty you know sometimes family can empty your horn sometimes marriage can just drain you sometimes the job can just drain you sometimes the pressure can just drain you sometimes the children can just drain you and you finally get to the place that you still love god but you don't have anything on the inside and so here's what you do this verse has always been one of my favorites because i'm a saxophone player and i call my sax a horn and psalms 92 and verse 10 has always been one of my favorite verses but my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn listen to this and i how how's that gonna happen i shall be anointed with fresh oil did you hear what i just said i said every one of you who say jesus is lord of my life you've got to feel that horn with fresh oil there has to be experiences in church and with god that you just don't keep standing there drained inwardly of all the joy of the lord because of all of the guts and the knicks but you come and you say with sincere hunger god i'm empty on the inside would you feel me the oil is the holy spirit which means the oil is jesus [Applause] would you feel me again on the inside would you this sunday morning pour your oil on me and fill my horn because if i don't get it and here's here's the significance and i close with this he had one more anointing left in him and it was the greatest thing it looked like all it hadn't worked but here comes that final filling of the horn with oil and when he got it in him then he could pour it out and the bible said that he anointed david to be king of israel why because david i need you to have he said samuel i need your horn to be full of oil why because there's a guy named david that you're going to pour the anointing on and he's going to take a city from the from the gibbonites that's going to become jerusalem and by the way in that city there's going to be someone who is going to carry a cross and die on that cross and he'll be known as the son of david and by the way that david that you're going to pour the anointing on is going to have a great great great granddaughter by the name of mary and mary's going to have a little lamb and his name will be called jesus and the reason that the enemies fought you so much is because this anointing that you're gonna pour on the final generation i believe that god is saying uh to us our young people our teenagers our children they must have the all poured on them and i'm not talking about the physical oil i'm talking about what is in you if you're empty nothing's getting on them so you must claim psalms 92 and 10 lord fill my horn with fresh oil this morning i need more than outward religion i need life inside of me and if your head is down and if your praise is down and if your heart and spirit is down god wants to raise you up and fill you with fresh oil this morning if you feel god moving in your life while you're watching this program and you want to make jesus lord and savior of your life or maybe you need a miracle in your body or someone in your family needs healing maybe you're listening to me today and you're watching in a hospital or a rest home or a jail cell or the apartment or home that you have and it feels so lonely and it feels so empty i want you to know that god is for you today that god is with you and he sees you he sees and hears your cry and i today want to encourage you to turn to him so just pray this prayer with me say lord jesus i give you my life i give you my family i give you my disaster whatever situation that i'm in that feels overwhelming i give it to you you're the master of disaster you're the lord of everything that i'm facing and i praise you that i'm not alone and you are for me somebody needs to say that you are for me say this lord you are my redemption you are my savior i turn to you with all of my heart oh praise god praise god he's been waiting on you to call on he's been waiting on you to whisper and say his name and mean it from your heart welcome to the family of god the bible teaches us that jesus is a friend that sticks closer than a brother and we want to help you learn more about your new relationship with jesus so go to our website if you can and fill out the form under the salvation tab and we'll send you a free devotional that'll walk you through the next few days in the next few weeks in absolute victory in the word of god i tell you the word of god is our strength and you may not understand it that's why i love this devotional it really breaks it down in understandable ways and you can apply it to your own life we care let us know what god has done call the number that's on the screen we would love to hear from you we have an amazing audience 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Length: 26min 35sec (1595 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 05 2021