25/10/2025
THE DAVID SERIES
PART 1
THE ELECTED AND THE REJECTED
1 Samuel 16:1 "And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for SAUL, seeing I HAVE REJECTED HIM from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I HAVE PROVIDED ME A KING AMONG HIS SONS."
We begin on the first of an exciting and spiritually uplifting series called. This is an amazing narrative of how God ELECTED an insignificant teenager from an insignificant town to make him the point man through whom His redemptive plan for mankind would unfold. The insignificant teenager was David, the son of Jesse, who was the son of Obed, who was the son of Boaz by Ruth the Moabitess.
David was chosen by the God of Israel to succeed King Saul, who had BACKSLIDDEN and was consequently REJECTED by God. In David and in Saul, we see the ELECTED and the REJECTED. In this segment, we will first learn of Saul the REJECTED so that when we turn to David the ELECTED, we will not have to be distracted in what we must learn.
David would become the point man through whom God's redemptive plan for mankind would unfold. When we speak of the redemptive plan of God we speak of Jesus Christ whom the Father sent to the world to die for sin so that by His death and shed blood mankind would be redeemed to God through faith in Jesus Christ. Now, David would become the ancestor of Jesus Christ in the flesh. David was ELECTED by God and ANOINTED to be king. David was to sit upon the THRONE, which Jesus would inherit:
Luke 1:31-32 "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call His name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: AND THE LORD GOD SHALL GIVE UNTO HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID."
David is called here, the father of Jesus Christ, and this is in respect of Jesus being born in the flesh. The word "father" here means ancestor. That Jesus would inherit the throne of David was a fact well known in Israel:
Matthew 21:9 "And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest."
Our story begins with a conversation God held with Samuel the prophet:
"And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for SAUL, seeing I HAVE REJECTED him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I HAVE PROVIDED me A KING AMONG HIS SONS."
God placed Saul on the throne of Israel, and God removed him. Though Saul left the throne by death about 17 years later, yet as far as God was concerned, Saul was no longer king of Israel. Look at the tenses.
"How long wilt thou mourn for SAUL, seeing I HAVE REJECTED him from reigning over Israel?"
God did not say, "I will remove Saul from the throne." He said, "I HAVE REJECTED him." Past tense. IT WAS A DONE DEAL. God was not going to do it; God had already done it.
So why did it take 17 years more to place David on the throne of Israel, especially since he was anointed soon after Saul's rejection? It's important to know this. DAVID HAD TO BE TRAINED AND TO BE PERFECTED FOR THAT GREAT RESPONSIBILITY that awaited him when he would shepherd the nation of Israel.
The ANOINTING is one thing. The TRAINING is another. Many have jumped into ministry on the basis of the ANOINTING without going through God's TRAINING to the detriment of God’s name. Saul was ANOINTED but not TRAINED. See what mess he got himself into.
"And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for SAUL, seeing I HAVE REJECTED him from reigning over Israel?"
God told Samuel to stop mourning for Saul. God had rejected Saul, and no amount of mourning would help any.
YOU NEED TO PRAY IN THE SPIRIT TO KNOW THE MIND OF GOD ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE PRAYING FOR OTHERWISE YOU WILL KEEP INTERCEDING FOR THE GOOD WELFARE OF THAT WHICH GOD HAS REJECTED. It will be a waste of time, breath, voice, energy, and strength.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PRAY IN THE SPIRIT AND HAVE THE SAME PRAYER LIST EVERY YEAR THAT HAS THE SAME OLD STUFF YOU HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR, FOR AS LONG AS YOU REMEMBER.
God is not static. God is not a MANNEQUIN. A mannequin is a DUMMY, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes in a shop. A mannequin stays where it is placed. It looks at the direction it is turned to. BY MAN. It has on it the clothes that man dresses it with along with the colours. It is moved here and there by man. No, our God is not like that. GOD MOVES WITH MOVERS; HE DOES NOT SLEEP WITH SLEEPERS. Only when you pray IN THE SPIRIT will you be guided by that same Spirit what you ought to pray for at any given time.
Ephesians 6:18 "Praying always with all prayer and supplication IN THE SPIRIT, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints..."
Samuel was ordered to stop mourning for a Saul that God had rejected. Many today are praying amiss, attempting to plant what God has uprooted or uproot what God has planted. May God remove our mannequins and our stereotyped ways of doing things, and may He by His Spirit grant us to be like the blessed children of Issachar:
1 Chronicles 12:32 "And of the children of Issachar, WHICH WERE MEN THAT HAD UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES, TO KNOW WHAT ISRAEL OUGHT TO DO; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment."
👉🏾 Saul began with the ANOINTING. He began as Saul the ANOINTED:
1 Samuel 10:1 "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because THE LORD HATH ANOINTED THEE TO BE CAPTAIN OVER HIS INHERITANCE?"
👉🏾 Then he became Saul the PROPHET:
1 Samuel 10:11-12 "And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS? And one of the same place answered and said, "But who is their father?" THEREFORE IT BECAME A PROVERB, IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS?"
👉🏾 After that, he became Saul, the CONQUEROR:
1 Samuel 14:47-48 "So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: AND WHITHERSOEVER HE TURNED HIMSELF, HE VEXED THEM. And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them."
👉🏾 But power went into Saul's head, and he became Saul the DISOBEDIENT and the REBELLIOUS. Watch:
1 Samuel 15:1-3 "Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
Did Saul obey this DIVINE INSTRUCTION? No, he didn't:
1 Samuel 15:7-9 "And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly."
Saul became prideful, irreverent, stubborn, and rebellious. He thought that with the power he wielded as king, he had no reason to listen to everything that Samuel said. He would especially not entertain anything from Samuel that would rub him the wrong way. That he had become prideful, disobedient, irreverent, stubborn, and rebellious is seen in the conversation Samuel had with him. Samuel said:
1 Samuel 15:19 "Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?"
Instead of showing remorse and repentance, Saul answered back to Samuel:
1 Samuel 15:20 "And Saul said unto Samuel, YEA, I HAVE OBEYED THE VOICE OF THE LORD, AND HAVE GONE THE WAY WHICH THE LORD SENT ME, AND HAVE BROUGHT AGAG THE KING OF AMALEK, AND HAVE UTTERLY DESTROYED THE AMALEKITES."
Samuel said, "You have not obeyed the commandment of the LORD." Saul retorted, "No, I have done what God told me to do."
Then, the verdict was announced:
1 Samuel 15:22-23 "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For REBELLION is as the sin of witchcraft, and STUBBORNNESS is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also REJECTED thee from being king."
👉🏾 Because of his disobedience, his rebellion, and stubbornness, he became Saul the REJECTED. Saul REJECTED the WORD of the LORD, and God REJECTED him. The greatest sin and one most grievous before God is to REJECT the WORD of the LORD for God has honoured His WORD above all His names:
Psalms 138:2 "I will worship toward Thy holy temple, and praise Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and for Thy truth: FOR THOU HAST MAGNIFIED THY WORD ABOVE ALL THY NAME."
And WHO is the WORD of God? JESUS CHRIST:
John 1:1, 14 "In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God.
And the WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
👉🏾 Saul, having been rejected by God, became Saul the POSSESSED:
1 Samuel 16:14 "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him."
And how did it all end for Saul?
👉🏾 He became Saul the SU***DE. He committed su***de:
1 Samuel 31:4 "Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. THEREFORE SAUL TOOK A SWORD, AND FELL UPON IT."
And this is the EPITAPH that the Scripture put on Saul's tomb:
1 Chronicles 10:13 "So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, EVEN AGAINST THE WORD OF THE LORD, WHICH HE KEPT NOT, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it..."
God, having dismissed Samuel from his mourning for a rejected Saul, commanded him to fill his horn with oil and then go to the home of Jesse the Bethlehemite. From that family, God had already provided Himself a king among Jesse's sons. That king was David.
We, too, like David, have been elected to be kings. We have been elected to salvation and to be partakers of a most glorious inheritance in Christ and with Him. We, too, have been ANOINTED.
1 John 2:20 "But ye have an UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE, and ye know all things.
1 John 2:27 "But the ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him."
We are not of the order, Saul. You see, Saul came to Samuel, and Samuel anointed him. But with David, it was not so. David did not go to Samuel; rather, Samuel came to David and anointed him. We did not come to Christ; Christ came to us:
John 15:16 "Ye have not chosen Me, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU, AND ORDAINED YOU, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you."
PART 2
THE SELECTION OF THE SEGREGATED
1 Samuel 16:1 "And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for SAUL, seeing I HAVE REJECTED him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I HAVE PROVIDED me A KING AMONG HIS SONS."
From an insignificant town of Judah, God elected an insignificant teenager to make him the point man through whom His redemptive plan for mankind would unfold. The insignificant teenager was David the son of Jesse who was the son of Obed who was the son of Boaz by Ruth the Moabitess. David was chosen by the God of Israel to succeed King Saul who had backslidden and was consequently rejected by God.
David was elected by God and anointed to be king.
The circumstances around the choosing of David to become king in the place of Saul make interesting reading.
God, having dismissed Samuel from his mourning for a rejected Saul, commanded him to fill his horn with oil and then go to the home of Jesse the Bethlehemite. From that family God had already provided Himself a king among Jesse's sons.
The order alarmed Samuel. How could he go to Beth-lehem and preside over the anointing of a person there to be king over Israel when a king was sitting on Israel's throne? If Saul would hear of it, he would kill him, the prophet remonstrated to God.
A similar scenario played itself out when Jesus was born; a King brought forth in Beth-lehem when another king called Herod was already enthroned in Jerusalem.
And the Wise Men from the east came to pay homage to Him and to offer unto Him offerings befitting One born a King. But the Wise Men had to pass through the palace of an already enthroned King Herod to tell him that they had come to worship ONE BORN A KING in that same country. Hahaha, the Wise Men implied by their showing up at Herod's palace that Herod was an illegitimate caretaker king for a throne that rightly and legitimately belonged to ONE BORN A KING in that same country. THAT STIRRED UP TROUBLE FOR JESUS AND HIS FOSTER PARENTS. Look at this; unlike Herod who was INSTALLED king later in his life, Jesus was BORN King of the Jews:
Matthew 2:1-2 "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, WHERE IS HE THAT IS BORN KING OF THE JEWS? for we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him."
To a fearful Samuel, God said that he should take a heifer with him and announce that he had come to lead Jesse in worship of GOD with the heifer as a sacrifice. Then God would reveal to Samuel what he was to do and then Samuel was to anoint unto God him whom God would name unto him.
The arrival of Samuel to Beth-lehem alarmed the people there:
1 Samuel 16:4 "And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Beth-lehem. AND THE ELDERS OF THE TOWN TREMBLED AT HIS COMING, and said, Comest thou peaceably?"
As with Samuel, so it was with the birth of King Jesus, that the arrival of the Wise Men in Jerusalem stirred up the entire city:
Matthew 2:3 "When Herod the king had heard these things, HE WAS TROUBLED, AND ALL JERUSALEM WITH HIM."
When Samuel came to Beth-lehem, the people asked him, "Comest thou peaceably?"
Hahaha. There are people who dread prophets of God and who always associate them with some accompanying judgment of sorts. Is it, perhaps, because they aren't sure of their standing before God? Now, capitalizing on this dread in the people, _zhing zhang_ prophets come on the scene proclaiming thunder, fire, and brimstone upon their timorous congregants. The church folk, frightened out of their wits and out of their skins, are told to do any crazy thing like eating grass or carrying the crazy prophet on their shoulders or backs and they obey without hesitancy or question. They are brought into that subdued state in which they can do anything the prophet says, no matter how bizzare it is. Such congregants need ANOTHER DOSE OF THE GOSPEL, THE TRUE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST WHICH LIBERATES THEM FROM FEAR:
2 Timothy 1:7 "FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR; BUT OF POWER, AND OF LOVE, AND OF A SOUND MIND."
That it is possible to have a mad prophet among you is made plain when we read:
2 Peter 2:16 "But (Balam) was rebuked for his iniquity: THE DUMB ASS SPEAKING WITH MAN'S VOICE FORBAD THE MADNESS OF THE PROPHET."
Sometimes, a dumb ass is more intelligent than the stupid human being who follows a mad prophet who gives him sewage water to drink under the guise that it is holy water.
Samuel answered the fearful people and said to them:
1 Samuel 16:5 "...Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: SANCTIFY YOURSELVES, AND COME WITH ME TO THE SACRIFICE. AND HE SANCTIFIED JESSE AND HIS SONS, AND CALLED THEM TO THE SACRIFICE.
I must cause you to see something that wasn't quite right in all this. JESSE DIDN'T CARE TO CALL DAVID, HIS YOUNGEST SON TO THE OCCASSION OF SAMUEL'S VISIT.
Jesse allowed Samuel to sanctify him and his seven sons without David's presence. Being uninvited, David didn't share in that sanctification. To sanctify is to make sacred or holy, to set apart for holy use. Jesse didn't see it fit that his youngest son be sanctified also. The must have been a reason for that. David was considered ILLEGITIMATE.
WHAT?
Jesse made sure his seven sons were present. Surely, Samuel would anoint any one of them, he thought. They were the legits. And David wasn't.
Jesse had some stint out of wedlock with some woman somewhere. A child was born out of wedlock and he was called David, BORN WITH A STIGMA OF ILLEGITIMACY UPON HIM. You may be hearing this for the first time. I will help you see it. I don't know how old David was when his mother brought him to his father Jesse. She had probably got tired of assuming sole responsibility for the child. Or perhaps she wanted to lead her life without getting encumbered by a child that needed constant care. So the child was kind of dumped at His father's home by his mother.
David must have carried the stigma of being an illegitimate child. Being considered illegitimate, the child would be segregated, unloved and ultimately disinherited. He would be excluded from the inheritance of his father. You just have to look at Jephthah to see the severity of this stigmatization. Years before David was born, Jephtha, who became a judge over Israel bore that same stigma:
Judges 11:1-2 "Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, AND HE WAS THE SON OF AN HARLOT: and Gilead begat Jephthah. And Gilead's [legitimate] wife bare him sons; AND HIS WIFE'S SONS GREW UP, AND THEY THRUST OUT JEPHTHAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT INHERIT IN OUR FATHER'S HOUSE; FOR THOU ART THE SON OF A STRANGE WOMAN."
Jephthah was forsaken by his father and step mother and brothers. This was more or less the same predicament that David found himself in and knowing this, what he said in one of his Psalms will begin to make sense:
Psalms 27:10 (AMP) "Although my father and my mother HAVE FORSAKEN ME, yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child]."
The mother of David is unknown and perhaps she was unworthy of any kind of mention. Years later, David said something about the circumstances of his birth in his prayer of confession for his adultery with Bath-sheba and the murder of Uriah, her husband:
Psalms 51:4-5 "Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight--That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me."
People refer to this verse and ascribe to it a universal application about all men. David didn't intend such a universal application on it. He was confessing a sin that he had INDIVIDUALLY committed. "AGAINST YOU, YOU ONLY, HAVE I SINNED, AND DONE THIS EVIL IN YOUR SIGHT--," he said. David told God why he had committed such a heinous sin - HE WAS BROUGHT FORTH IN INIQUITY; AND IN SIN DID HIS MOTHER CONCEIVE HIM.
The sin he refers to in the last part here is not his sin but his mother's. He was born after his mother had sinned. HIS CONCEPTION WAS THE OUTCOME OF A SIN COMMITTED BY HIS MOTHER.
What could have been that sin but that his mother played the w***e with Jesse and in the act conceived David whose birth nine months later was perceived as illegitimate?
It is perhaps at some later stage when David was a little grown that the mother came to leave him at Jesse's home and thereafter disappeared perhaps to more freely engage in her trade without being hindered by a child that needed caring for. We are not at all surprised therefore, to see David excluded from the ceremony in which Samuel was to anoint one of the sons of Jesse to be king. Being considered unworthy of a father's inheritance, David was considered illegitimate and therefore unworthy of the more sublime inheritance of the anointing.
BUT IN TRUTH THERE ARE NO ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, ONLY ILLEGITIMATE PARENTS.
Every child born on earth is born by the express purpose of God and is known by Him even before being formed in the mother's womb.
Samuel raised up the horn of oil upon the seven sons of Jesse but none of them could be anointed. The anointing could not come upon any of them. The legitimate sons were bypassed. The anointing avoided them. The stunned seven experienced a circumvention of the anointing of the LORD. God certainly did not want any of them to later proclaim that it was on account of their legitimacy that they had been anointed, had any of them been anointed.
Samuel was perplexed:
1 Samuel 16:11 "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither."
"WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN TILL HE COME HITHER," said Samuel.
And so David was brought into the house and upon him, the anointing oil was poured:
1 Samuel 16:12-13 "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, ARISE, ANOINT HIM: FOR THIS IS HE. THEN SAMUEL TOOK THE HORN OF OIL, AND ANOINTED HIM IN THE MIDST OF HIS BRETHREN: AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah."
Hear the WORD of the LORD.
IT IS NOT THE SOCIALLY WORTHY THAT ARE WORTHY OF SPIRITUAL BENEFACTIONS.
David was LAST in everything.
👉🏾 He was the last to be born.
👉🏾 He was last in privilege; in fact, he didn't have any.
👉🏾 He was last in honour and respect; he didn't have those either, being considered illegitimate.
👉🏾 He was last in consideration; his brothers were in the army while he was a mere shepherd.
👉🏾 He was last in inheritance rights; he would be lucky to get even a pin of the inheritance.
BUT BECAUSE OF THE GOD WHO IS GRACIOUS AND BENEVOLENT, GOD WHO RAISES THE POOR OUT OF THE DUST AND THE NEEDY OUT OF THE DUNGHILL, DAVID BECAME FIRST:
Psalms 113:7 "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill."
David became FIRST in the house of Jesse. He became FIRST in Beth-lehem and he became FIRST in Israel. THE LAST BECAME FIRST:
Matthew 19:30 "But many that are first shall be last; AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST."
For David, it was an experience of one sought for by the ANOINTING. He didn't seek it; it sought him, found him and came upon him.
You too have been sought after by the anointing even though you were in this world unimportant, insignificant and inconsequential. Christ found you, saved you, washed you by His precious blood, sealed you by His gracious Spirit and put in you and on you His priceless anointing:
1 John 2.20, 27 [NIV] "But you have an ANOINTING from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth... As for you, the ANOINTING you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His ANOINTING teaches you about all things and as that ANOINTING is real, not counterfeit-just as it has taught you, remain in Him."
That anointing IN US has made us WORTHY. It has bequethed upon us an inheritance that is heavenly and that is more valuable than any earthly treasure that one can think of. WE HAVE BEEN EXALTED AND MADE FIRST TOGETHER WITH CHRIST THE FIRSTBORN.
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PART 3
THE FLASK ANOINTING VERSUS THE HORN ANOINTING
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1 Samuel 10:1 (NIV) Then Samuel took a *FLASK* of oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the LORD anointed you leader over his inheritance?"
1 Samuel 16:13 "Then Samuel took the *HORN* of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah."
As we embark once more upon this exhilarating series, we must garner some lessons on the manner that Saul and David received their anointings. Both were anointed by Samuel the Prophet, yet the circumstances and manner of their anointings were markedly different.
Saul came to the home of Samuel the Prophet, and there he was anointed. As for David, Samuel went to Bethlehem to the home of Jesse, and there he anointed David. Saul went to the anointing, but the anointing came to David.
Look at this amazing thing about the peculiarity of the anointing of Saul and the anointing of David.
First, the record of Saul's anointing:
1 Samuel 10:1 "Then Samuel took a FLASK OF OIL and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the LORD anointed you leader over his inheritance?"
Did you see it? THE ANOINTING THAT SAUL RECEIVED CAME FROM A FLASK.
Now, look at the record of David's anointing:
1 Samuel 16:13 "Then Samuel took the HORN OF OIL and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah."
THE ANOINTING THAT DAVID RECEIVED CAME FROM THE HORN.
To put it in another way...
SAUL WAS ANOINTED FROM A FLASK BUT DAVID WAS ANOINTED FROM THE HORN.
What's the difference? It's a very simple difference:
MEN MAKE FLASKS BUT GOD MAKES HORNS.
A horn is an ORIGINAL object, but a flask is a man-made article.
Why did Saul receive his anointing from a flask?
Saul was made king after Israel clamoured for a king:
1 Samuel 8:4-5 "Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: NOW MAKE US A KING TO JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS."
Saul was not GOD'S CHOICE; he was MEN'S CHOICE. And so he was anointed with oil from A MAN-MADE FLASK.
But David wasn't men's choice; he was God's choice:
Psalms 89:20 "I HAVE FOUND DAVID MY SERVANT; WITH MY HOLY OIL HAVE I ANOINTED HIM."
And again, Stephen said:
Acts 13:22 "And when He had removed him, He raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also He gave testimony, and said, I HAVE FOUND DAVID THE SON OF JESSE, A MAN AFTER MINE OWN HEART, WHICH SHALL FULFIL ALL MY WILL."
Because David was GOD'S CHOICE, he got anointed with oil from a God-made HORN. David would FULFIL ALL GOD'S WILL.
Saul was made king of Israel from what can only be called a DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. The nation willed it and pushed for it. For David, no democratic process was required. God Almighty elected him and imposed him to be king over Israel in the place of Saul. A theocratical God imposed His will upon His people.
Had Saul been wise, he would have acknowledged that he was anointed to be king from a people's push and thrive to PUT GOD'S INTERESTS OVER MEN'S. HE HAD TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN. Did he learn anything about that? No:
1 Samuel 15:1-3 "Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and UTTERLY DESTROY ALL THAT THEY HAVE, AND SPARE THEM NOT; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
Saul didn't obey these plain instructions from the LORD:
1 Samuel 15:9 "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly."
Friends, do not flask the anointing upon you? Do not make your anointing a FLASK ANOINTING. It's not difficult to detect a flask anointing.
📯 You know you have encountered a flask anointing when the one anointed cares little about God's will but carries out the will of the people.
Galatians 1:10 "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
📯 You know you have encountered a flask anointing when the one anointed ministers for his belly and personal gratification:
Romans 16:18 "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."
📯 You know you have encountered a flask anointing when the one anointed modifies his gospel to suit men's desires:
2 Timothy 4.3 (NIV) "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."
📯 You know you have encountered a flask anointing when the one anointed lies, as the dunderhead Saul did and with boldness, that he is carrying out God's commission when, in fact, he is not:
1 Samuel 15:13-14 "And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: *I have performed the commandment of the LORD.* And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
📯 You know you have encountered a flask anointing when the one anointed refuses to take responsibility for his faults but passes them away as other people's faults:
1 Samuel 15:14-15 "And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? And Saul said, THEY have brought them from the Amalekites: FOR THE PEOPLE spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."
Saul made a futile attempt to exonerate himself by passing on the blame to people. He had obeyed what God commanded, he said, but THE PEOPLE decided to spare the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the God of Samuel. O, the undesirable outcome of a FLASK ANOINTING..
Each of us is anointed to fulfil a God-given mandate and mission.
Everyone is anointed? Yes, Sir:
1 John 2:20 "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things."
John wrote to believers and said, "You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things."
Another word for unction is "anointing ." This anointing in us is an anointing that teaches us:
1 John 2:27 "But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."
The anointing in you will teach you. One of the great lessons the anointing in you teaches is that you are not anointed to please men or to do what men tell you to do. You have been anointed to fulfil GOD'S ASSIGNMENT AS IT IS UNIQUELY GIVEN TO YOU.
Saul didn't do that, and God rejected him. Saul parted ways with God as he sought to PLEASE MEN from whence came the idea that Israel be governed by a king like the rest of the nation's around them.
When David was anointed from the HORN, it was to fulfil HIS OWN ASSIGNMENT as prescribed by God. What the HORN ANOINTING teaches us is that we are anointed to fulfil the assignments of God uniquely given to every person.
*You are anointed to fulfil your own peculiar assignment, not another's assignment.*
Saul received the FLASK ANOINTING, and with it, he fulfilled men's wishes and desires. The people wished for a king and demanded one. God fulfilled the desires of their hearts because He often does that to rebellious people:
Romans 1:28 "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND, to do those things which are not convenient..."
Here is the Word of God to you:
DO NOT FLASK YOUR ANOINTING; HORN IT.
Never abuse the anointing in you to carry out another's assignment at the detriment of your own. If by the anointing you have you only serve men's agendas, then you are FLASKING the anointing. Far be it from you to fulfil another's man's vision and another man's assignment while your own vision remains unfulfilled and your own assignment remains undone. Alas, this scenario will continue to prevail until you die or until you decide to do something about it before you die.
DO NOT FLASK YOUR ANOINTING; HORN IT.
What is flasking the anointing?
📯 Flasking the anointing is allowing men to give you a church to pastor when what you ought to be doing is evangelizing and winning the lost.
📯 Flasking the anointing is getting yourself all cosy by having a title affixed to you at the expense of what the anointing teaches you to do.
📯 Flasking the anointing is allowing yourself to minister under imposed restrictions by those that own your calling.
📯 Flasking the anointing is being subjected by men to a lunch box ministry from which you are not permitted to operate outside of.
📯 Flasking the anointing is when God tells you to go to location A, but organizational structures sidetrack you to location B.
📯 Flasking the anointing is eliciting for a city church to pastor by bribing someone to see to it that you get a city church.
📯 Flasking the anointing is preaching for gain and getting into the ministry as a means of getting employed.
May the ANOINTING teach you the ways of God, and may the ANOINTING teach you your mission as you abide in it.
SCRIPTURE READING AND MEDITATION:
Acts 4:18-20 "And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
Enjoy your time in christ Jesus
Your The senior Pastor of Bethel El Shaddai Ministries
Bishop Maonazvangu Joshua Nhakura
