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The Position Is Yours, Wait On God!
Do not be afraid to let go of what you used to do, to do what God is calling you to do now!
Do not be killed out of a seat that God has ordained another to sit in, because when your time is up, you will be moved if you do not vacate. Saul was told that God had anointed another one to take his place, but Saul did not listen. The prophet Samuel had given Saul so many warnings for various things, but his flesh was stubborn.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul.
David was anointed to be king, and Saul was still sitting in a seat that was no longer his, so Saul decides to keep his seat and kill David...how stupid to think that he would be able to fight against God's anointed and appointed one.
I Samuel 19;1, And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
Saul hunted David to kill him, but God kept David hidden. Eventually, it got so bad that David began to fear and forgot who he was in the Lord. Too often, anointed, and appointed people will forget who they are and run-in fear. David’s fear was so bad that he showed up at the gate begging to be let in. David was so afraid that he was spitting down his beard like a madman. The soldiers recognized who he was as a man who killed Goliath and saved all of Israel...a whole nation!
And David laid up these words in his heart and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
Fear will grip the very mind of the most powerful people! But before David went to the gate, he had showed up to the house of the Lord to ask for bread (the body of Christ) and wine (blood of the lamb).
God allowed David to eat the holy and set apart bread of the presence of God because God had called David and set him apart for Himself! Hallelujah!! David did a lot of dirt in his time but when God has His hand on you there is nothing that can separate you from Him! Glory to God or we would all be dead in the pits of Hell!! Jesus!!!
Romans 8:31-39, What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 31 made me weep at the love God has for us, and I wept at how powerful we are in Him!! My God!! NOTHING can separate us as we can see with David. David committed adultery, murdered, had a baby out of wed lock, fear, and lied, yet God kept David and appointed him king!!! Now this is not a license to go sin on purpose. We now have Jesus who strengthens us and redeemed us from all sins. God expects us to walk in that!! However, this writing is to encourage you to stand in faith knowing God’s got you and there is nothing you or anyone can do that will snatch you out of God’s hands! Our forefather David is a good example to help us to understand if God be for you, it is better than the whole world against you.
Romans 1:8, First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
The priest recognized David and the priest went to get the sword that David used to kill Goliath. The priest unwrapped the sword (word of God) and gave it to David the anointed king. Once the sword was placed in David's hands, he came to himself and stood tall and affirmed of who he was and still is. But David was in fear of Saul and this was after the sword was placed in his hands! I Samuel 21:10, And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
Isaiah 43:1, But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Sometimes we must be reminded of who we are to go do what we were called to do. David was called by God to be king; therefore, he had nothing to fear! If God be for you, it is better than the whole world against you!! When you are anointed and appointed by God, no one can touch you or do you no harm or God will deal with them.
In preparing to take over the seat that God has given you, you will have to occupy it until God presents that gift to you to sit in it. David understood that he could not just take the seat from Saul, because David honored the position of the ordained seat. It wasn't Saul he honored but God. We are never to be a respecter of a man or woman, but we are to honor God for the positions that He ordained.
And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Stand still in faith and occupy until the Lord comes and sits you, the gift in place! Hallelujah!! You will never have to worry about who is in your seat when you know the Lord is on your side! You are that gift through Christ Jesus, who has given you ALL power to tread upon anything that is dangerous or in the way of moving forward, but you must wait on the Lord to renew it all for you through, you in Christ Jesus!!!
Luke 10:19, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Matthew 28:18-20,
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
The position that Gos has ordained and anointed you for is not for you or for you to control people! Too often leaders think its all about them in saying, this is my office, this is my team, this is my stuff, and on, and on!! Liars!! It is God’s people and He allowed you to lead them and have everything because of the kingdom and not for your personal kingdom!! The gifts, talents and wealth are for building the kingdom on the earth and not for building your personal kingdom! Some leaders have such a grip of fear over the positions they were once anointed for but the anointing has left them because they took the position away from God for their own usage! Thieves and liars!! Repent and move out of the way while you have a warning or else face the wrath of God!!! As we have seen in this writing, God will remove you even if it takes death!
David came to himself and was bold and courageous! He found Saul and while Saul was sleeping from being worn out after chasing after David, he slept too hard. David was able to cut the skirt off of Saul with the sword that killed Goliath...the giant that was in his way (Uh Oh). But David understood that the ordained seat was God’s, and he shouldn't have touched the skirt. David repented to God for doing that.
When David cut Saul's skirt off his garment, he literally was undressing Saul as king, hence, dethroning him. Back in those days, when you went out in public as a high authority, you should never go out undressed. The garments that kings, priest, and high leaders wore represented Gods calling and position in the kingdom on the earth. David should have never cut the skirt, but it was already prophesied by Samuel when Saul grabbed Samuel by his garment and tore it. Samuel looked at Saul and said, the kingdom was torn from your hand!! Wow! You see, we will reap what we sow! Saul tore Samuel’s garment, and David cut Sauls garment off!
I Samuel 15:25-28, Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again me, that I may worship the Lord.
And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
David occupied until the death of Saul. Saul died by a sword and a sword was also what he was trying to kill David with. (reap what you sow) But even worse, ALL of Sauls sons died which cut off the generational blood line of Saul through his sons baring his name!! Wow!! But God!! Jesus!!!
Then said Saul to his armourbearer, draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.
My God this was bad and unnecessary because Saul could have just stepped down! Obedience is better than your own will and desires!! Touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm.
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
(Touch not; taste not; handle not.
We can’t even think a thing concerning God’s anointed or His prophets! He said touch not my anointed and people have missed that part and though God was only talking about the prophets who are anointed! NO!!! Touch not my anointed means just that. Do my prophets no harm means just that! REPENT if you have been speaking bad about God’s anointed and His prophets. Wow!!
1 Corinthians 10:12, Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
God knows ever thought that we have and there are no SECRETS!!
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. (good or bad)
Do good and live!!
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Saul messed up big time when he touched Samuel’s garments and caused harm to David. My God!! The word of God is tried, and truth and it will not return voided by no one in the heavens or the earth. Satan tried to void God in His own house, but he got kicked out and his angels that had joined him.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
What ever God has ordained and called you to do will be done and do not let go of what He gave you because of fear or someone trying to destroy you over that ordained and anointed position, no matter who is sitting in your seat. The thief shall be moved out of your way!
Too many people think that just because they were anointed to sit in a position last season, that they are supposed to keep sitting in it. The ONLY WAY we keep sitting in a position is if God said so and not man. I don’t care how anointed you were, the river will dry up and there will no longer be any anointing flowing from what you are doing if your season is over!!!
What God has for you is for you! If you are called to be an Apostle over a ministry and that seat is being held up, don’t fret thyself over evildoers, wait on the Lord! If you have been called to lead a ministry and the wrong person is holding it up, do not fret, God will deliver it into your hands in due season! If you are called to fill a job position, don’t you fret over it, God will cause them to be moved out of the way and make a way where there seemed no way!!
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Where most people are falling short is they are still standing on old ways, standing in an old house of things, and just plain stubborn to change! The ways of your parents were of the old and those ways will not work in this new disposition of time in this new season! It is hard to teach older people new things, just as it is hard to teach stubborn people new ways!
Behold, I (God) will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
If God is doing a new thing, why are so many still trying to run God’s business the old ways??? Because they have dethroned Him from the heart and place themselves in charge! Uh Oh!!! Yes, I said it! If the old ways are still in existence and God is doing something new, how can he still be on the throne of your heart??? Hmm??? Yoy are rebelling! Let’s get real about the kingdom, and repent therefore and be delivered from self-righteousness and get redeemed by the blood of the lamb, washed in the blood, purified in God’s water and set on fire by the Holy Ghost!!!
Here is what God said about stubbornness, rebellion, self-righteousness, and a man/women/teens/ and children left to themselves…
Stubborn/rebellion - 1 Samuel 15:23,
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.
Self-rightousness – Romans 19:2-3, For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
For if a man (women or off spring) think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
This word spoke to me too! It is a strong word that spanks and convicts! If anyone reading this rebukes it, you will need to make haste to take heed least your days on the earth be shorten, as we well saw in this written. I am left trembling in my body and weeping with tears at the word God has delivered through me to His people. I tread softly and lightly in these hours I have spent at the Lord’s table as His scribe at His gate, to write for Him unto His people. I am at such a humility in the closing of this writing and spotlighting a mirror in front of me with a magnifying view that I be found blameless for what I write that it be from a pure place in God’s love and compassion. This writing is not condemnation or to get those in error told, no this is God’s grace unto the people on this earth to get it right! God is not playing this season, no!!! He is moving forth and so are the ordained, anointed, appointed, prophetic people…His holy remnant that He has hidden for Himself in this hour of time, where He is sending them forth in a force that the world has not known!!!
Oh Lord, find me blameless and strengthen me to continue in a place of fire with you to burn to the paper your words unto your people, my Lord. In Jesus name
God is opening the silk screen that leaders have put in front of them, while they try and tell everyone else how to live and how to do what God has called them to do, as if they are sinless, but in doing so, they have greatly sinned against God!
Finally, but not least because the words of God are endless, here is what God is saying again…
Romans 10:2-13, For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
7Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
11For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
13For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Wow!!! We are not allowed to try and tell people to live by the laws of the old anymore, yet ministers and lay people are still teaching the old laws, which Jesus did away. Romans 10: 4, For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Here it is in the Holy Bible!! Yet, people are still basing everything on the old law, which was our school master until Christ rose again. If you choose to live by the law, you will have the laws portion and don’t you dare get mad at God when things are not going your ways!!
My God, Jesus changed the law and we do not follow after it, we follow Jesus the High Priest that will never die again!! We are now under grace and we move and have our being in Jesus through God’s grace. Why can’t some leaders see this?? It is right in the Holy word of God, that we no longer are under the laws of old.
12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
16Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
17For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
20And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
22By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Romans 10:17-21, So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Lord, I pray the strength of Jesus for all those you have ordained and anointed to sit in the new seat for this new season. I pray that those who are now illegally sitting in positions that are no longer theirs will move, in Jesus’ name May your anointed ones move into the positions by you and not try and take them before they are emptied out. Peace Be Still and watch the salvation of the Lord, in the name of Yeshua (Jesus).
Amen