-Help me, I'm anointed!
I know this may sound funny but a lot of young people that I meet
and not just young people but people who honestly feel like
there's a potential in them that's greater than the position
that the church is offering to them,
there is an anointing upon their life
that's greater than the church is recognizing,
and sometimes they're serving under ministers who feel like,
"Man, they don't recognize the anointing that's upon my life.
"And they're not giving me the platform,
"they're not encouraging me,
"they're not opening doors for me,
"and I have this gift to sing,
"I have this gift to prophesy,
"I have this gift to preach,
"I have this gift to lead,
I'm like this amazing person and nobody recognizes that."
So I want to deal with that.
Somebody will need to share this video with some of your friends
or your youth group or your young people.
Especially if you're a pastor
because I'm pretty sure you're going to deal with this
sooner or later.
So David was in actually a similar situation.
David was anointed way before he was appointed.
And this is what you have to understand is that God will always
anoint you before men will recognize you,
before men will appoint you.
David was anointed at a time
when somebody else actually was sitting on his throne,
on his title, if I could say.
Somebody else had his position.
And that guy, Saul, was not willing to retire any time soon.
And God did not look at that.
God just went and anointed David.
And of course, David went through some challenging times
of actually going from the anointing to the appointing.
When he was recognized publicly, it took some time.
But I want to actually highlight 10 simple things
that I believe that we will have to go through
or 10 things that we have to keep in mind.
You know, I had a similar thing that happened to David.
I really felt the vision from the Lord
of what the church would look like,
what my ministry would look like at the age of 16.
But honestly, it did not happen until at least like the age of 32 or 30
when God started to make it a reality of what I'd seen in my spirit
at the age of 16.
So what do you do if you're anointed
but you don't feel like the doors are opening?
You don't feel like there's an appointing,
a recognition that happens by men.
The first thing is we have to focus on our private victories
more than we focus on our public opportunities
or public corporate victories.
David, the moment he got anointed,
he went and started killing lions and bears.
He did not rule, reign; he wasn't having a position,
nobody offered him a job in the palace,
he simply went killing lions and bears.
Before Jesus cast out demons,
He was first dealing with the devil on a personal level
in the wilderness.
And so, don't focus so much on letting God
open the doors for you in front of the Goliath.
Because the moment the anointing of God comes upon your life,
the first thing God is going to allow
is to bring a lion and a bear in your personal life.
Certain attacks,
certain insecurities,
certain even honestly habits that will need to be broken,
certain...
maybe things that you're going to recognize,
"Man this needs to be defeated in my life."
And so, the anointing of God will help you to do that
before it will launch you into ministry,
or give you recognition,
or put you on the stage,
or give you a microphone.
The second thing that God wants us to keep in mind
which is one of the reasons I believe He doesn't let us
step into the appointing the moment we got the anointing
is that He wants us to know that if you're too big for the towel,
you are too small for the throne.
If you are too big for the sheep, then you are too small
for the success that God has in store for you.
You know, the moment David got anointed
his father sent him back to the sheep.
In fact, the moment he killed the Goliath,
the Bible says, he went back to the sheep.
David always stayed humble.
David always stayed low.
A lot of people the moment they get anointed,
and the moment they feel the prophetic word upon their life
and somebody recognizes that
and they feel like, "Man but I got a gift,
"I uploaded the video many people watched it,
I was singing at this place and everybody recognized it."
Please understand, God does not want you to grow your ego.
God wants you to grow your character
and God wants you to grow your humility.
If you are too big for the vacuumer,
if you are too big to be a greeter,
if you are too big to follow, you are too small to lead.
If you are too big to pick up a towel,
you are too small for a title.
God wants us to remain humble in our heart,
as we pursue that process of being promoted, elevated,
and for God to open the doors for us to utilize our potential
to our fullest capacity.
Number three,
your value does not come from visibility.
What does that mean?
A lot of times God keeps us hidden,
God keeps us in the shade, if I could say,
in the shadows for a long time
even though we are bigger on the inside,
we feel we got more anointing than we are entrusted with
we got more you know, grace of God upon our life
than we are currently being entrusted with certain opportunities.
And God does that to really test and refine our value system.
Many young people and--
this becomes less when you become older I think, personally,
that they draw their identity from their influence.
They draw their identity from their impact.
They draw their value from their visibility.
And they don't understand that our value comes
from being loved by God.
Jesus died on a cross for us.
Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
We're going to heaven.
Spirit of God lives in us.
That is where our value comes from.
Our value does not come from how many people watch us, follow us,
how many people invite us,
how gifted we are,
how our gift and serving you know, gives us an opportunity
to be seen by more people.
Like look at your heart for example, right now or your liver.
You know, the value of your heart
is not determined by its visibility.
And nor do you promote your heart to a place of visibility
just because it pumps blood.
Like nobody in their right mind is going to pull their heart
out of their chest and stick it on their forehead and say,
"Oh, you've been doing such a great job pumping blood
"so now you deserve to be on the forehead
so that you can be always on every single photo."
Nobody does that.
And the heart stays comfortable being hidden
but it still is extremely valuable.
You don't have to be visible to be valuable.
You have to know your place
and you have to be in your place until God takes you
to another place.
And until then, know your identity in Christ
and never compare yourself with another person.
Never compare the fact that you are hidden
and somebody else is visible, that now you're less valuable.
You're less loved by God.
No, you are enough.
God is enough for you,
and your identity in Him must be secure.
Number four,
serving is not a stepping stone.
There is this problem that happens with us
is that a lot of times we serve, we serve,
but we really use serving as a stepping stone to something else.
We're like, "Man I'm faithful in little.
God is going to give me greater opportunities."
And it's true.
That God gives us and rewards us with greater opportunities
but it's not always on this side of eternity.
Sometimes you can serve in the same area for the rest of your life
and you will never get promoted for greater responsibilities
and opportunities on this earth.
There are people who were faithful to God in jail
and they got murdered afterwards.
They didn't necessarily get promoted.
There are people that served in one level or one way
for their whole life and they never got promoted.
But in eternity, God will reward them for their faithful service
by giving them greater responsibilities and rewards.
Like Stephen.
Look at Stephen for example.
You know, Stephen was put in charge of the church pantry.
He was taking care of the widows.
You know, he had a great gift to speak,
he had a great gift to--
The Bible actually says he was full of the spirit and full of faith.
He healed the sick.
He cast out devils.
On the streets, he debated like crazy.
And he had an amazing sermon that's in the Book of Acts,
but he never preached that sermon in the church.
Stephen got put in charge of the food industry.
And you don't see Stephen being promoted
after years of faithfulness. In fact, he got stoned.
Not like stoned like high but he actually got physically stoned.
And so, we need to remove this idea that we serve with the hope
that we get into more visible moments or opportunities
in the ministry.
More in the places where it's directly connected
to our potential and our gifting.
No, you need to serve so God's kingdom advances.
Not so your agenda and so that your gift gets utilized.
Don't see serving as a stepping stone.
See serving as an opportunity to serve.
Serving is for serving.
Jesus did not wash disciples feet to get promoted.
He washed their feet because He loved them.
And we need to keep that heart pure as we serve
in whichever capacity that we were entrusted with.
Number five is that God wants to have
some of His best people in the lowest positions.
Like for example, people look at things in the ministry
that are not as visible or maybe don't get as much recognized,
and sometimes we say, "Well you know, I am too big for that position."
Let's look at it from a human perspective.
Stephen was way more anointed,
than to be overseeing, you know, a food bank at the church.
You know, Stephen could be an evangelist.
He could do crusades.
Stephen could do a healing service.
He could do a Thursday night stream.
I mean, Stephen could you know, pump out sermon series.
Stephen could write books.
Stephen could you know, really bring a lot more benefit
to God's kingdom by using his gifts,
instead of being put in charge of the church kitchen.
But see, God doesn't look it like that.
See, that's us speaking humans.
And sometimes there's this leadership principle
that works in the world, we bring into the church
but it doesn't always work in the church.
Like make sure you put the best people in the best place,
and the right place and everything.
But what if God wants to have His best people
in some of the lowest positions, like greeter?
"Oh, but he's so anointed he shouldn't be a greeter.
He should be a preacher."
Why not?
Oh, he can't be a janitor.
Why? Because he's so anointed.
Why not?
Like, well he can't be teaching kids because he's so anointed.
Why not?
I mean, who is it better to teach little children
than the most anointed people?
You know, why not have the best people
serve in the lowest positions in the church?
It's all about the kingdom of God.
God takes a huge pride when He notices His apostles,
His evangelists, His anointed men and women of God
full of gifts, talents, and blessings and character
and they are serving in the capacities that are maybe not
necessarily fully recognizable or 'noble'
in the eyes of other people.
Because it's all about God's Kingdom
And God takes pride in the fact that His best--
all of His kids are the best kids; they're serving in 'lowest capacities'.
Number six,
don't fear if your position is smaller than your potential.
Make sure your gifting is not bigger than your character.
See, God is far more concerned about your character
matching your gifting than make sure
that your position matches your potential.
A lot of people are like, "Oh, but this position they gave me,
my potential is greater, my anointing is greater."
God doesn't sit there in heaven and sweats about it.
You know what God is concerned about?
Make sure your character does not get smaller
and make sure your gifting does not outgrow your character.
And sometimes God will put us in places,
like David for example.
He goes as a musician to play music for Saul.
He doesn't get promoted into a kingdom right away.
And then he becomes an armor bearer,
and then he becomes a general, and then he becomes a fugitive.
And God wasn't there sitting in heaven like,
"Oh, poor little David, he has such a great anointing upon his life,
and look how he's being treated."
No, God was making sure that David's heart was right.
The time for promotion would come.
The time when he would be recognized, that time will come
but God wanted to make sure that the heart of David was right.
Make sure that his character was better than his gifting.
Bigger than his gifting.
So don't sweat if your position doesn't match your potential.
Make sure that your gift and your character are like two wings
of the same plane that are not too far off from each other.
Another thing, number seven, is that
when we go from the anointing to appointing,
God wants to develop honor within us,
with the authority we disagree with.
You know, sometimes what happens is when we begin to serve
like David did, he noticed that Saul wasn't a good authority.
Saul was not a good king.
He was not a good father and he was not a good father-in-law.
In fact, Saul not only he was not good, he was rejected by God.
He was disobedient.
Saul was demon-possessed, and Saul had a mental problem.
And Saul would throw spears at David
but you never see David disrespecting Saul.
He had to distance himself from Saul.
I don't think he respected him, but he did not dishonor Saul.
Like, he did not agree with his decisions
but you don't see David attacking Saul.
In fact, one time God gave David a promise and said that
I'm going to put your enemy, Saul, within your hands,
and I'll let you do whatever you want.
I mean, imagine that.
And God puts Saul right in front of him.
And David has an opportunity to take out Saul.
All of his problems would be over.
He would literally see the fulfillment of God's promise in a split second.
And like the next day, David is going to be the king.
One of his guys tell David, says,
"Hey, this was the moment the prophet prophesied.
"Go ahead, let's take Saul out.
If you don't want to take him out, I'll take him out for you."
And David says, "Do not touch God's anointed."
And he did not take out Saul.
In fact, he continued to live a miserable life for a while
because he refused to take Saul.
And I read that I'm like, "Why didn't he?
I mean, God gave him the green light.
God gave him that opportunity
but somehow David didn't see that as an opportunity.
He saw that as a test.
Because any time you take a jab
and you start attacking an authority that God placed you under
just because you disagree with them, it doesn't necessarily--
even if you are right, you're still wrong to dishonor.
Now respect is given--
respect is earned, I'm sorry, and honor is given.
Meaning person has to earn respect
but they don't have to earn your honor; you give it to them.
David wept on Saul's funeral.
I mean, the guy literally made his life living hell.
He wept on his funeral.
And when David cut a little bit of the robe of Saul,
just to prove to Saul, "I'm not out to get you bro."
The Bible says his heart convicted him
and he felt bad for cutting Saul's robe.
And so we have to live-- I really believe that in this season,
when you got the anointing but you're not yet appointed,
God will test you and develop your honor
and your attitude toward the authority.
Toward your parents,
toward your pastors,
toward your mentors,
and that attitude is specially shaped when you come into disagreements.
When you don't see eye to eye and you have to take the low road.
Like for example, Jesus is spending time in the temple,
Joseph comes in he's like, "Hey, we're going home."
And Jesus is like, " No, that's my Father's house.
I need to be here."
And Joseph says, "No, we're going home."
And Jesus, He submits to His father and He's God.
I mean, He has the world to save yet He submits.
And for next 18 years, we don't see nothing.
Jesus is humbly serving with His earthly father.
And I think that's a lesson for us as young people.
Wait until God recognizes the authority and anointing
upon your life and you walk under authority.
Serve the people God places over you in Jesus' name.
Now number eight,
anointing of God is like a magnet.
It will pull you toward your appointing.
Don't push,
rush, manipulate or cut corners.
Like David, the anointing upon his life,
started to draw him to the palace.
Like, he didn't even have to apply.
He simply went on the field bringing cheese and crackers,
I mean, bringing food to the general and to his brothers.
And boom, he gets an opportunity to fight the Goliath.
And then boom after that people are asking questions about him.
And boom, after that he gets employed in the palace.
Boom, after that, he comes closer and closer and closer.
He did not have to cut corners.
He didn't have to sleep his way to the top.
He did not have to manipulate.
He did not have to cut corners.
Let God take you to your appointing.
If He anointed you, He will take you there.
Joseph was the same way.
The dream that God has given him,
Joseph did not had to sleep his way to the top.
He did not have to lie, cheat, manipulate or dominate,
or literally crush people on the way.
That anointing, that calling, will draw you like a magnet.
You just have to trust God - His process
and don't push yourself ahead of the rhythm that God has you on.
Number nine,
don't let your position in the church limit your anointing.
Find an outlet outside of your position,
for the anointing you carry.
Be like water that does not need an open door
to get into the room.
Water can get into the room through a crack.
It can get from under the door,
from beside the door,
water needs a crack.
It does not need an open door.
Many people have a very stiff personality.
Like for example, "The church doesn't let me minister."
Well, you can minister on YouTube.
You can minister on Facebook.
You can write books.
You can write blogs.
You can go to the park and preach.
You can go to homeless shelter.
You can go to other places.
"Well, they don't recognize my gift."
Nobody let Stephen preach in the apostolic church,
not that we know, yet he went on the streets and he preached.
Don't wait for your pastor to recognize your gift
and begin to give you a microphone.
Most likely the stage in your church is already too crowded.
And so, if you really feel there's an anointing upon my life
do not see the fulfillment of that anointing
only on the pulpit in the church. You have your own pulpit
and that pulpit is your sphere of influence.
You don't need to shine on the stage in the church
to make an impact for the Kingdom of God.
We need to stop seeing the only fulfillment for our calling
is on the church stage.
Jesus took Peter's boat and from the boat,
He preached to the crowds.
None of the Pharisees gave Jesus a microphone,
they didn't give Him a pulpit in the synagogue,
He just simply borrowed somebody's boat.
And you can use your own boat to preach the gospel
and to use your gift to make an impact for the Kingdom of God.
Don't be so stuck and stubborn that you only need a church
to recognize that for you to be effective in serving God.
And a lot of times you begin to serve outside of the ministry
of your local church without neglecting your local church.
And you begin to make an impact for the Kingdom of God
that the local church will recognize that
and give you the opportunity. And even if they don't,
as long as Jesus is glorified,
and you are serving people and glorifying Jesus,
you will be alright.
And last one, number 10,
don't serve at the altar of your potential.
Live to fulfill your purpose.
Remember, God and church is not obligated
for you to fulfill your potential.
You and I have given our life,
make sure that we fulfill the great commission.
And so, don't think the church exists
is make sure that you don't die with your gifts unfulfilled.
Know you exist,
I exist,
make sure the kingdom of God reaches as many people as we can.
Church does not owe me to fulfill my potential.
God does not owe me to fulfill my potential.
I owe God my life and my potential,
the one He's given me so that His kingdom is advanced,
His name is glorified and He gets all the honor,
and as many people as possible can come to know Jesus Christ.
I hope that you were encouraged by this short video.
I just wanted to share my heart with you,
especially with you young people, young adults,
who maybe feel like you're just restricted in your calling right now.
Hey, let me know what's your favorite thought
or something that really stuck with you
from this short little exhortation.
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