ROOTED IN HIM

2 Samuel 2:1-7 speaks of David being anointed as king over Judah. In the first anointing, David was a shepherd boy and after the anointing, he did not look different. His position did not change, but even so, Abigail could recognize the king as he was still in the desert sand. Only the men who followed him could feel and touch the anointing in his life. As the Lord has anointed us among the brethren, we still have the sand and the earth experience in our lives. People cannot see on the outside that we are different on the inside.

David was still a normal man and he asked the Lord where he should move and the Lord directed him to Hebron. The name Hebron means to be associated, to have fellowship, to be joined together. When David came to Hebron, he settled. This is important because God wants us to be rooted in Him. This is also very important in the growth process because without roots we cannot be established. We are like a tree planted by the water that needs the roots, that is what faith is all about. Faith brings a new rooting in Christ Jesus. In that rooting, after he was settled, David could build a family. Many of us are trying to build families and are trying to build homes, but I am talking about the inner things. We are trying to build families like teenagers inside without roots, and through the trials and tribulations of life, we have lived together without having a bond.

There are so many divorces and separation because there has never been a bonding. To establish a family there has to be a bonding. A husband has to be bonded to his wife, and the children have to be bonded to their family. That is why today there is tragedy after tragedy and crisis after crisis. There has not been an establishing of a bonding and that is what David needed to do. He had to settle in order to establish a bonding.

You and I have to be settled in the family of God so that we are bonded together and care for each other, so that we may be able to come into the second anointing, which cannot happen, without an association.

The difference between the second and the first anointing is this. In the first anointing, God gives us the power to act, but the second anointing does not come through action. In the second anointing, we have to show who we are. In the first anointing among the brethren, David did not receive the crown, and he did not receive a kingly robe. He was anointed, but he looked the same. However, in the second anointing, he received a crown and a kingly robe, and it was no longer an action, but it was his presence. The difference is that we still want to act, but we have no presence in The Church because there is no bonding in our lives.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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