Called, Appointed, Anointed: Prepare Your Life to Be a Vessel for the Annointing and Glory of God by Janny Grein

Author:Janny Grein
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Worship
ISBN: 9780892743544
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1981-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

DAVID'S ANOINTING

I want to talk about David, because he was a musician first, and that anointing went over his life into other things as God called and set him in the highest offices of the nation of Israel—the office of prophet and king.

Like a lot of musicians, David developed a skill and then he answered God's call on his life. While he was tending sheep, he played his lyre or harp. He sang songs unto the Lord and got himself musically prepared. He didn't know what he was preparing for, but he applied himself to what he was doing. He didn't have any idea the glory of God was going to come upon him in such a way. He was just a little shepherd boy. But he loved God and sang to Him out of the abundance of his heart day after day. He was just preparing to have the call of God on his life fulfilled, and once he was ready, he was appointed to the task.

In I Samuel 16 we see how the Lord took notice of David's love and devotion and also of his diligent preparation and sent Samuel to anoint him. It's interesting, isn't it, that God didn't even tell his own prophet who it was going to be, except that it was one of Jesse's sons. He had to be led by the Spirit, too.

So Samuel went to Bethlehem to find the one he was supposed to anoint. Jesse must have had a good looking crew. They must have been really strong-looking men. That outward appearance tried to fool even Samuel. He walked up and down and looked at them. He looked over their physique, and boy, they looked just right. Each one of them looked like a king. Can't you just see these big, strong, handsome men? They looked like they would be mighty men of valor, but God kept Samuel moving down the line. "No, not him. " That must have puzzled Samuel. Finally he asked Jesse, "Is that all your sons?" And Jesse said, "No, I've got another boy, my youngest, but he's down tending sheep. He's just a boy, not even a man yet. I didn't want to bother him. "

Don't you know that when Samuel saw him, he was looking through the eyes of God? When you are prepared to do something and you are obeying God like Samuel was, you're about to be the vessel for the anointing of God on somebody else.

You know that had to be exciting for Samuel when he laid his hands upon David and poured the oil over him and anointed him to be king. David had reddish hair, fair skin, and beautiful eyes. He was fine looking.

The Lord spoke to Samuel and confirmed what rose up inside him.

"Jesse sent and brought him. David had reddish hair, and fair skin, beautiful eyes, and was fine looking. The Lord said (to Samuel), Arise anoint him; this is he." (I Samuel 16:12).

Notice that Samuel didn't rely on what he thought in the natural.

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