Get Ready For God To Use You

You can't disappoint what God has appointed.

You can't disappoint.

When God calls your name, when God gets ready to

use you, when God gets ready to do work in

your life, When God gets ready to raise you up,

when God gets ready to send you forth, when God

gets ready to stir up your gift, when God gets

ready to release your purpose. This new stage breach is

pretty good. I feel good about it. Shut somebody next

to you and tell him he's calling your name, and see.

I love God because he knew how to find David

even in the field.

He didn't need David to be in the line up.

Do you know what.

You don't have to position yourself in front of people

to be used by God. You don't have to convince

a committee that you're good enough for the grace of God.

How many are.

Grateful that God chooses sovereignly whom he wills, and uses

sovereignly whom he wills. And when God gass's ready to

use you, there's no devil in hell.

They touch your.

Neighbors say don't miss it, don't miss your turn. And see,

if it had been up to people, David wouldn't have

gotten his turn. But when God says it's your time.

He knows exactly where to find you.

Don't stress out about it.

Don't worry about whether or not people appreciate you. Don't

even worry about whether they notice you. Don't even worry

about whether they call you by your correct name. It

doesn't matter. You cannot disappoint what God has appointed. But

if David hadn't been in the field keeping sheep, he wouldn't.

Have been prepared to lead people.

What he's what he should have would have seen as

being very insignificant, was exactly the thing that he needed

to prepare him for his assignment. It's a funny thing, though,

because you know you would expect and after this moment

where David is anointed and pointed and called to be

a king, that the next scene we would see would

be that of David and his driver making a trip.

Perhaps Deniman Marcus, Come on, if God told you you

would be the next king, wouldn't you want to go

try on some robes and some crowns size forty two short?

Wouldn't you want to.

Try on some versace crowns? ARMANI Roe, I need to

get ready for this thing. And sometimes we expect that

when God announces a change in our life, it's going

to be activated immediately, and we get confused when God

says it's your time, but he makes us wait our turn.

Sometimes God is doing things. It was on that day

that David was announced to be a king, but it

would be many years later that he would wear the crown.

You know, when you give your life to Christ, in

a moment you're saved, in a moment you're forgiven, and

a moment you're cleansed, and a moment you're redeemed. All

of those things are true of you immediately, but all

of the changes that those new realities are meant to

produce in your life happen not immediately, but gradually.

You know what I see people do?

I see people become very discouraged in the process of

awaiting the change that God initiated, because we're a little

bit confused. I remember Elijah was so confused when we

gave the money to build Elevation Valentine. We bought the

land back in twenty twelve, and Elijah was six years

old at the time, and he gave an offering. Our

whole family was supposed to give, and so I let

Elijah give seventy dollars of my money that we pretended

was his. It's like all the money that he thinks

he has.

And after he gave the.

Money, he said, so, daddy, we're having church at Elevation

Valentine next Sunday, because in his mind I gave the money.

And so now it's four years later now and here

we are finally the land in one season, we built

the building in the next. And sometimes you walk away

from your initial investment because you don't see the immediate development.

I'm trying to say, sometimes you give up on your

calling too easily, and you miss your turn. David didn't

go on, try on crowns and practice is king wave

and practice signing kingly autographs.

David went back to.

The sheep field to do what he was doing before

until one day, everybody say, one day, one day he

was given.

An assignment by his father.

His father turns to him one day, and I don't

know if a lot of people know this part of

the story, because everybody knows about the slingshot, and everybody

knows about Goliath, and everybody knows about how Goliath fell.

And I'll tell you what, if you ever want to be.

A preacher, you should preach about Goliath. People love to

hear sermons about Goliath because everybody has something in their

life that's bigger than them. Everybody has something in their

life that's been intimidating them. Everybody has a fear and

anxiety and addiction.

I could go around the room. I think I could

probably point.

At people and look at them long enough and guess

what your goliath is. Some of y'all spend too much,

some y'all eat too much, some of y'all talk too much,

some of y'all judge too much. Can I keep going?

I won't do it, but I could. And everybody has

a Goliath. Right, preach about Goliath and makes for good preaching.

Man, And Goliath is gonna fall down, and you could

kill the giant. I believe that, man. But can I

tell you something that fascinating to me that the Lord

spoke to me.

Lord spoke to me.

I was studying this textan Lord said to me, most

of the people you're talking to never even get to Goliath.

You're trying to teach.

Them how to kill an enemy that they're never even

going to meet.

So when he said that to me, you.

Know, not out loud, just kind of this impression I got.

I was like, what do you mean?

And I went back to the text and I remembered this.

I saw this back in college. In fact, I used

to share about it in college because I thought it

was important to talk about faithfulness in the small things.

And it was one day everybody say one day, say

a loud or say one day taught your neighbors say.

This could be your day for a turnaround.

Now, Jesse, this is for Samuel seventeen seventeen. It says

that this giant from Gath named Goliath was confronting and

defying the people of God for forty days, and every

day he would taunt them.

But Jesse, he said to his son David, huh.

Verse seventeen is kind of confusing because Jesse must have

forgotten that he was talking to a future king, because

what he asked him to do was so menial. He said,

take this etha of roasted grain, and these ten loaves

of bread.

For your brothers, and hurry to their camp.

And David could have said, who do you think you're

talking to? Didn't you hear what Samuel said about me?

I am a man of potential and purpose?

I don't have time to run your little errands.

I'm not trying to take bread and cheese to the

same brothers who didn't he and bring me into the

room when Samuel came to choose a king. But this

is the test, see to see if David will do

the basic things. Sometimes we want God to use us

to do a big thing, and.

We won't even do the basics.

Talk to me, somebody, how in the world can God

use us to do something big and we won't even

do something basic. I love David's heart because the story

could have stopped right here if he had said, I'm.

Not doing that. I'm a king, I'm not doing that.

I'm not your demeaning to me. I'm not doing that.

You know all the ways that we disobey God, these

little things.

That he asked us to do.

Call your sister and tell her you're sorry. Reach out

to somebody who looks different than you and listen to

them about their struggle.

It's funny to me. Some of us want to kill Goliath.

But we don't want to tend sheep, and we don't

want to make deliveries.

We want to see big victories.

But how in the world can God use us to

kill giants if we can't even follow simple instructions. The

Bible says that David, and I think this is why

God used him. You know, every time we see David

in the scripture, he's moving. Now. He says at first though,

that he ran to Goliath. But you got to understand

before he ran to Goliath.

Look at verse twenty.

He says, early in the morning, David left the flock

in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out.

Now here's what David didn't know at the time, because

we know it, and it's much easier to interpret what

God is going to do when you know the ending.

But can I tell you something David did not know

that this was for Samuel seventeen.

From his perspective, this.

Was just another day. Sometimes God raps destiny in what

we perceive is just another day. The same day that

he was told to take Brad to the battle lines

was the same day he stood over Goliath. But he

didn't know that, and he would have missed his turn

if he did not obey.

Hey, thank you for watching.

Make sure you subscribe to this channel so you don't

miss a single video or live stream and share this

video with a friend and don't forget you can join

me live every Sunday.

Thanks again for watching