Your Gift Unveils Your Type Of Leadership| David’s Powerful Anointing

Our gifts signify the domains we’re called to operate in. The story of David’s anointing by Samuel as the future King of Israel is momentous in the Bible. We get to see profound lessons about God’s gifts and his purpose for us.

Have you ever been overlooked? Your credentials and capability disregarded? Your ideas over passed because you lacked power and positioning? It’s not pretty. David, one of the greatest kings was despised a couple of times.

Jesse seems to me like one of those parents who favor some of their children for whatever reason. I mean, he proudly presented each of his sons for Samuel to anoint but ignored David. Talk of bad parenting 101. Funny that none of them were the Lord’s chosen.

The most interesting part for me was that God chose David to be anointed as the next King of Israel. David, who seemed to his family as too inconsequential to have been invited to the sacrifice had to be brought in from shepherding the sheep. Everything stopped. Everyone stopped- waiting for David’s arrival. Hail little David smelling like sheep but anointed to be King!

1 Samuel 16:11. So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest," Jesse answered, "but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives."

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Here are 5 lessons we can learn about God from David’s anointing:

1. You maybe small and insignificant but I see you. People value and treasure anyone and anything that seems valuable and powerful but God looks at the heart. God chose David because he values what is presumably limited and irrelevant.
2. God gives master leadership training. David seems to have been a teenager when he was anointed. As a shepherd, he was led by the Holy Spirit and learned leadership skills in the wild including slaying lions and bears- this would come in handy later. We can trust God’s promise even when the task feels unattainable.
3. It takes time and patience. David waited many years to become king after his anointing as a teenager. These years of waiting were crucial to David’s development and are what is packaged as personal and professional development today.
4. Sometimes, the demands of leadership require facing conflict or crisis alone. David only had his sheep and faced the lions alone.
5. God is not concerned with what’s on the outside of a person, their looks, but what’s on the inside- the heart.

1 Samuel 16: 7. But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

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• Through waiting and growing, God shapes our character, our purpose and makes us stronger physically and spiritually.
• David after years of waiting became one of the greatest of all Israel’s kings.
• God develops our gifts for His glory.
• David’s lifelong purpose was a desire to serve God and restore Israel civically and militarily. He triumphed beyond measure.

1 Samuel 16
1 The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king."
2 But Samuel said, "How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me." The LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, `I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'
3 Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate."
4 Samuel did what the LORD said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, "Do you come in peace?"
5 Samuel replied, "Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me." Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
6 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before the LORD."
7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either."
9 Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, "Nor has the LORD chosen this one."
10 Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, "The LORD has not chosen these."
11 So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest," Jesse answered, "but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives."
12 So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint him; he is the one."
13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.
14 Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil  spirit from the LORD tormented him.
15 Saul's attendants said to him, "See, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you.
16 Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the harp. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes upon you, and you will feel better."
17 So Saul said to his attendants, "Find someone who plays well and bring him to me."
18 One of the servants answered, "I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him."
19 Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."
20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.
21 David came to Saul and entered his service. Saul liked him very much, and David became one of his armor-bearers.
22 Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, "Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him."
23 Whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

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