1 Samuel 16:11 So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”
Are you feeling forgotten by God right now? Guess what? You are not! God knows exactly where you are.
I wonder if David ever felt that way when he tended his father’s sheep while his older brothers stayed in the house with their father.
Reading David’s story in the beginning appears to the natural eye that he was often overlooked and unnoticed. He was the herdsman who watched over his father’s flock of sheep.
One day, God sent the Prophet Samuel to the house of Jesse to anoint Israel’s future king. When Samuel visited at God's request, David was the last son anyone would have thought to be choosen.
When Jesse had paraded all seven of his older sons before Samuel, the prophet asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?”
Jesse replied, “There is still the youngest, who is tending the sheep.”
David, the one who appeared to be of little importance, the one not initially invited to stand before the prophet was called in. When Samuel began to pour the oil upon David’s head, it flowed freely.
To the person visiting here tonight who has convinced yourself that you are overlooked: God knows where you are, and He has an appointed time for your elevation. Keep praying, serving, worshiping, and giving God the glory! Your day of elevation is closer than you think.
Yes, it may look like you are an outcast right now because you too have been left in the fields, but God has another plan for your life. You may have been kept out of man’s plan, but what God has for you is greater!
Keep the faith and hold on, because your change is coming! Man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart of man!
Hold on! Change is coming!
God bless,
Minister Aiken
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