Guest Speaker : John Gray
Author of : I Am Number 8
I Am Number 8
1 Samuel 16:11-13
We are reading about a coronation of sorts.
When Samuel talked not one word fell to the ground.
What happens when your gift is overlooked?
"God stops Samuel and says, "no I've rejected him."
Samuel was looking at looks and God is looking at hearts.
Even Samuel was wooed by the external.
God says no to all seven sons.
It's the invisible place that God prepares you.
God doesn't prepare you for the platform on the platform.
What do you do when the people closest to you can't see you?
Jesse thought so little of his youngest son that he didn't even invite him into the home at the possibility that he would be the anointed one.
It is in the lonely, broken, isolated moments that God seeds destiny.
David had no one to hang out with aside from he sheep.
So David would sing songs to God.
Anonymity : the condition of being anonymous.
David didn't apply to be king.
He was faithful in the field.
Some day will turn into one day.
We all want to do great things for God.
He's not hiding you, He's positioning you.
He found value in what everyone else discarded.
You won't even know it until it hits you.
God's not waiting for you to get clean.
I am a complete mess, but He loves me!
My shift isn't over, even though my life just shifted.
Kings don't think they need to be served, they know they are called to serve.
8 is the number of new beginnings.
7 was a complete no (7 brothers).
People don't like new until they need new.
Break a cycle to start a new cycle.
You can be anointed and not announced.
You can be chosen and challenged.
Never graduate from giving.
When God announced David, He had Solomon in mind.
Legacy.
Build up those who have lost their hope.
3 Things About A Number 8 :
1. Made for warfare
2. made for worship
3. Made to win
We are made to LOVE.
We are made to desire to be in the presence of God.
Always causes us to triumph.
Your worship is your warfare.
Whatever I am comes with me.
In the same way, when you worship, all of God shows up.
You may have been overlooked, but you are not forgotten by God.
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