Private Ceremony
1 Samuel 9:27
"Now as they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to go on ahead of us". And he went on, "But you stand here awhile that I may announce to you the word of God."
I stopped at this scripture and meditated on God's way of dealing with things. Read carefully and ask God to speak to your heart too. Prophet Samuel asks Saul to leave his servant and come aside alone and when Saul separates himself from the servant and walks to Samuel, when there was no witness, Samuel takes the oil from the flask and anoints him as the king of Israel and kisses him. If you truly desire for a divine intervention with God then you need to “separate” yourself and sever ties and bondage with people and move closer to God for heavenly revelation. Are you listening to me?
Samuel anoints him as king in a private ceremony. So now Saul has been made king, but he has some growing to do yet before the time comes for God's choice to be revealed to the people. Here is one of the most critical moments in the history of Israel, and it all happens in secret. I can imagine Saul with oil running down his face but unable to tell everyone that he was anointed as king of Israel.
God does something secretly for you before He brings it to everybody's notice. May be a promise made to you, a vision, a dream, a prophesy, hold on to it, it would come to pass. Saul discovered in this series of events that nothing happens by accident. There's no such thing as a coincidence where God is involved. Did you get that friend! The search for those donkeys was merely the setting for something much more marvelous happening to Saul. He's God's chosen King. No-one knows about it yet. Isn't it amazing?
Once I read a book of the great man of God Bro. Kenneth Hagin who gives his testimony of being healed from tuberculosis. He tells us something amazing in that book, one day while he was lying in the bed absolutely devastated and weak in the bed with advanced tuberculosis, suddenly his room was magnificently illuminated with bright light and he found Jesus standing in the room in front of him. Jesus stretches out his hand that day and pulls him out of his sick bed, he never again went back to that bed but was healed completely. But Bro. Hagin did not share this beautiful and divine experience and his encounter with God even with his own mother, he kept this memory only to himself for many years. While he was writing his book on "divine healing", God placed it in his heart to mention about the healing that he received in his room in the book. It was only after many years that even people close to him came to know about his encounter with Jesus. Dear friend, sometimes God speaks into our heart or gives us a dream or gives us a promise which we deeply know "it is for us". We need to hold these close to our heart and pray for it and never reveal it unless and until God impresses us to do it.
I remember as a teenager sitting in an evening service in the church and that day was a special day of 'song service' when people came as a family on the stage and sang a song and worshiped the Lord. While the eldest son played the guitar, one particular family sang a song and the lyrics were from the book of Joshua which says, "As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord". I was sitting alone in the church and it was a painful moment in my life as I was going through poverty and uncertainty in my life. But this song made a deep impression in my heart and I was never able to erase the memory of that family singing that song. I wondered would I be able to say that also one day! At that moment I felt the Holy Spirit speak deep down in my heart that "we would serve the Lord also whole heartedly one day." I had never dared to share this experience with anyone. But after nearly two decades, the Lord did keep His promise and made our family serve the Lord and made me His servant. Glory to Jesus! God does something in secret before He brings it to the open.
Sis. Bala Samson
www.worshipjesusministry.com
[Shared by Shalini Paul]
1 Samuel 9:27
"Now as they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to go on ahead of us". And he went on, "But you stand here awhile that I may announce to you the word of God."
I stopped at this scripture and meditated on God's way of dealing with things. Read carefully and ask God to speak to your heart too. Prophet Samuel asks Saul to leave his servant and come aside alone and when Saul separates himself from the servant and walks to Samuel, when there was no witness, Samuel takes the oil from the flask and anoints him as the king of Israel and kisses him. If you truly desire for a divine intervention with God then you need to “separate” yourself and sever ties and bondage with people and move closer to God for heavenly revelation. Are you listening to me?
Samuel anoints him as king in a private ceremony. So now Saul has been made king, but he has some growing to do yet before the time comes for God's choice to be revealed to the people. Here is one of the most critical moments in the history of Israel, and it all happens in secret. I can imagine Saul with oil running down his face but unable to tell everyone that he was anointed as king of Israel.
God does something secretly for you before He brings it to everybody's notice. May be a promise made to you, a vision, a dream, a prophesy, hold on to it, it would come to pass. Saul discovered in this series of events that nothing happens by accident. There's no such thing as a coincidence where God is involved. Did you get that friend! The search for those donkeys was merely the setting for something much more marvelous happening to Saul. He's God's chosen King. No-one knows about it yet. Isn't it amazing?
Once I read a book of the great man of God Bro. Kenneth Hagin who gives his testimony of being healed from tuberculosis. He tells us something amazing in that book, one day while he was lying in the bed absolutely devastated and weak in the bed with advanced tuberculosis, suddenly his room was magnificently illuminated with bright light and he found Jesus standing in the room in front of him. Jesus stretches out his hand that day and pulls him out of his sick bed, he never again went back to that bed but was healed completely. But Bro. Hagin did not share this beautiful and divine experience and his encounter with God even with his own mother, he kept this memory only to himself for many years. While he was writing his book on "divine healing", God placed it in his heart to mention about the healing that he received in his room in the book. It was only after many years that even people close to him came to know about his encounter with Jesus. Dear friend, sometimes God speaks into our heart or gives us a dream or gives us a promise which we deeply know "it is for us". We need to hold these close to our heart and pray for it and never reveal it unless and until God impresses us to do it.
I remember as a teenager sitting in an evening service in the church and that day was a special day of 'song service' when people came as a family on the stage and sang a song and worshiped the Lord. While the eldest son played the guitar, one particular family sang a song and the lyrics were from the book of Joshua which says, "As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord". I was sitting alone in the church and it was a painful moment in my life as I was going through poverty and uncertainty in my life. But this song made a deep impression in my heart and I was never able to erase the memory of that family singing that song. I wondered would I be able to say that also one day! At that moment I felt the Holy Spirit speak deep down in my heart that "we would serve the Lord also whole heartedly one day." I had never dared to share this experience with anyone. But after nearly two decades, the Lord did keep His promise and made our family serve the Lord and made me His servant. Glory to Jesus! God does something in secret before He brings it to the open.
Sis. Bala Samson
www.worshipjesusministry.com
[Shared by Shalini Paul]
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