Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of David's seven-fold anointing as described in 1 Samuel 16, illustrating how God is raising a 'David generation' in the church today. He explores the seven dimensions of the Holy Spirit's power in David's life, including skillfulness in worship, courage, and divine favor, and how these attributes are essential for believers to confront the challenges of the end times. Bickle encourages the church to embrace a lifestyle of radical obedience and worship, as these are the keys to unlocking God's power and authority in their lives. He stresses that the anointing David received was not just for personal empowerment but for the purpose of impacting the world around him through worship and obedience. Ultimately, Bickle calls for a deeper understanding of the governmental authority that comes through worship, urging believers to seek the same anointing that empowered David.

Okay, 1 Samuel chapter 16. Father, I thank you for the word of God. And Lord, I ask you that you'd raise up a David generation in this hour of history in Jesus' name. Amen. Session eight, David's seven-fold anointing. Now, what this chapter 16, very, very important. I believe it's the most, you know, you don't want to say the most significant, but let's say it this way. It's one of the most important chapters in this vast amount of literature in the word of God about the life of David. It's how he was, the anointing operated and what he understood. And so that's what we spent so much time on this 1 Samuel chapter 16. But we're going to look at seven different dimensions of the Holy Spirit's power and grace on David's life. And we're going to look at him through the lens of the New Testament, the New Testament revelation of the new covenant. Because God's raising up intentionally a David generation, a church that has a heart after God like David. And the divine pattern of which he revealed in the scripture concerning David is supposed to be understood in this hour by the church is what he's going to do in the church. It's more about David than any man in the Bible besides Jesus. And there's more Christians in the generation, the Lord returns in any other time in history, all added up. There's more, there'll be more believers alive on the earth than all the believers of history added up together. Therefore, there'll be more believers on earth than there are the redeemed in heaven and God's training them by this model of David. And so move this in your thinking, if it is, from a kind of a cute children's story to a very sober prophetic promise and pattern for believers to actually ask God to operate in this. And it will happen especially in this hour of the great drama, the great end time drama where whether you want to call it the Goliath that stands, this eschatological Goliath who stands before the people of God to exterminate them. And God will raise up weak ones with no power, except the Holy spirit to withstand them. And there'll be many, many situations of which that scenario will be played out many, many different ways. Okay. First Samuel chapter 16, verse 13 says, uh, Samuel took the horn of oil and he anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. And then Samuel arose and went to Rama, which was his home in Rama, the Holy spirit, God, the father, God, the father is about to release the Holy spirit's anointing upon an end time David in a, in a measure unknown in history, unprecedented in history. Let's look at the next passage. First Samuel chapter 16, verse 18 to 19 and verse 22. We're gonna look at seven different dimensions. One of the servants of Saul said, look, I have seen the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite. Of course, that's David. He is skillful in playing number one. He is a mighty man of valor is a mighty man of war. Those are different. He is prudent in speech. He is attractive. He's handsome. God's going to make the end time church attractive. He's going to adorn them with the anointing of the Holy, the Holy spirit and unbelievers are going to be drawn to them and in a, in a, in a very, very powerful and compelling way. And the Lord is with them. In verse 22, Saul said to Jesse, David's father, let your son, David stand before me for he has found favored my side. The favor of God will be on the end time church, even manifest in, in, in all kinds of arenas, political, secular, economic arenas, the favor of God will rest upon the people of God, even in the, even in a time of conflict and resistance, God will supernaturally show his favor upon the church. Okay. The next passage for Sam, I mean, uh, Isaiah 55 verse three and four, Isaiah 55 verse three and four, David, Isaiah is prophesying. He goes, I will make an everlasting covenant with you. Here's what God says. I will give the sure mercies, the sure anointing, the grace and mercy I gave to David that did not fail. It was sure it covered David in his sin. And it would, and it qualified David in crisis. It's called the sure mercies of David in his own personal life, where he might have been disqualified. The mercy was sure. And in the crisis that confronted him where he had no power, the mercy was sure it was adequate to cover his failure because David was a man of sincerity with God. And it was adequate to release power for the crisis he confronted. It's called the sure mercies of David. It's sure in those two ways and other ways besides, and here's what the Lord says. I have given David as a witness, as a model, I've given him as a witness. I want the people to look at him as a prophetic witness and follow his example and believe me for the favor and the anointing that I gave him. That's what that passage is about. And Isaiah chapter 55, we are supposed to understand that he was given as a prophetic witness to the church. Okay, paragraph A. David is a picture of what God will release by the Holy Spirit on the end time David generation. And you can call the end time church by many, many different names. I'm just using that. I've heard that phrase over the years. He's a picture of the anointed church that operates in power and authority. But look, look at this. Some stop there. It's not enough to stop there. He's a picture of the church that operates in power and authority through worship. That's the key. That's the key. And I want to say this just to get people's attention, not to be negative. Most worship leaders I know do not have a revelation of the government and authority that God releases through worship. The church today does not understand the revelation of the government that God releases through worship. And so when God called David as a but he wants us to defeat the Goliath, many, many different scenarios, some international scenarios like David's was and some personal scenarios. It's authority through worship that comes through lifestyles of radical love and obedience. Some people get captured by the power on David's life, but they don't think about David's life. David was a man of radical obedience failure, but David would not camp out in his failure. He repented fiercely and believed in God's mercy when he repented. I've talked many times about David's failures, but I tell you, we have to say equally, David was a fierce repenter. And it's not just, he had power and it's not just, he was a man of obedience. He had a spirit of obedience on him. His methodology was worship. That was his primary power base. That was a that he had. He actually understood it by revelation. And a lot of the church today is getting excited. And I like this about power. They're saying, Hey, the power of God's for today, but it's a power separated from radical obedience. And so therefore it's a false, it's a false dream. And an obedience is not enough either. That's not enough. The methodology that God wanted David to reveal and establish in salvation history. It said it's power that flows through prophetic worship. Much of IHOP does not understand this. It's a radical revelation. It's a radical revelation. I I've been preaching on this, you know, for how, however long here and there over the years, and I still don't grasp it as I was even preparing this, it struck my heart in a new way. The, the Davidic witness is not just power through obedience. It's power through a lifestyle of obedience manifest through worship. That is the governmental center of the universe is the prayer room. We could call it the house of worship because prayer and worship is one thing. God's entire up in heaven at the heavenly symphony, the government goes out from a core base of worship around the throne. I believe that there's a correspondence to the worship ministry around the throne and a worship ministry on the earth. And they come into points of agreement when God loses things in history in ways that we don't fully grasp this life of, of, of authority through obedience, released through worship, released through worship is called the beauty of holiness. Or you could call it the tabernacle of David. It's the beauty of holiness that God will take a dark world and break in with fragrance through fragrant lives of obedience, manifesting their love sickness and worship and prayer and the power of God driving darkness away. It's called the beauty of holiness. The beauty of holiness is far more than one individual loving God in private. It's God's most fierce weapon against darkness on the earth. The beauty of holiness that comes from worship. It's his most powerful weapon. B we learn much about what God will do in this hour. As we understand the anointing that operated in David's life. I'm looking at these old familiar verses that I've taught on many times. And I said, Lord, give me new lenses for old verses. Let me feel this. I don't want to get a message ready. I want to be apprehended by God on these old passages that I'm so familiar with in my natural mind. And just even a day sitting there, just a several times, just a new freshness came on my soul. And the Lord was, it came on my soul this way. Like don't get ready to tell them I'm talking to you right now, my son, through this message, through this passage. So I've had a great time today. David was empowered with no, I really, my faith has been invigorated in a, in a fresh and a powerful way through first Samuel 16, which is the, again, it's the passage of the life of David, where you think, yeah, you know, the best, you know, but I've, it looks like I know what the least of the rest of the whole life of David's story. David was empowered with seven new supernatural abilities that we're looking at verse 18 and 19. Now these were abilities that here's the key that David did not possess these before the anointing came on him. I know we all know that, but I want us to get ahold of this. These were abilities that didn't, he did not possess until Samuel visited him and all seven of them operated in his life starting that day. And they grew and they increased and they remained with him until his final day. They did not go away. God wants to give 17 year old guitar players, boys or girls, young men, young women and 80 year olds. He wants to give us new abilities in the spirit. If we have faith for them, we're, we're so used to not having them. Many people have just kind of given up their pursuit of it. There's an anointing with new ability to operate it. And this, uh, anointing of the spirit rested on him. Okay, let's, let's look at the next pair. I just have them summarized here. I mean, just one sentence, the next paragraph down says a number one, the, uh, manifestation of the spirit spirit. I have them all listed there. He was a number one skillful in playing. He released, he was a man that released the Holy spirit to other people. Number two, he was a man, mighty man of valor that speaks of his courage. Courage. Valor is about courage. Courage is an issue in and of itself before difficulty, not just danger, more than danger, difficulty. Many people draw back from great things in God just because it's just too hard and they think they lose energy. What they lose is courage. It's a daunting task. I don't want to say this now that I've said that, but I am anyway. Uh, the most daunting thing I've ever done is I hop. And that's nothing compared to what the Lord is going to do in the church. We're all about what I mean by just in pure, natural human energies and strength. I have people come from around to go, we want to do an IOP. And I say this all the time. I go, don't do it except at gunpoint. Don't run one of these whole full operations unless God puts you at gunpoint. I know when Billy Humphrey from Atlanta, he said, I thought you were going to talk me into it. I go, don't do one. I go, just get five permittees a week and just be a normal person. I said, this thing will kill you. This is the most difficult thing I've ever done. However, knowing all that I know about it, I would do it again for sure. But I'm saying this to say this, I've looked at this verse a lot because we draw back because the task is daunting. It's big, it's hard. It takes money, time and energy. And people don't do this and that. And the other is like, Oh, it's so much work. And people quit out of lack of courage, not out of laziness. Some quit out of laziness, but more times than not, it's lack of courage. And that's, I've never done anything real hard before until, uh, like, like, like this. And there's many other harder assignments in the earth. So I'm not trying to get sympathy. Don't send me encouragement cards. Please don't do that. That's not what I'm asking for. I'm just saying that what it struck me that valor is critical. It's an anointing of courage, boldness to stand before things where you just want to say, forget it. I'm just giving in and going the way the normal way. It takes courage, not just energy. Number three manifestation of the spirit on David was he's a man of war. Now, valor is courage. Being a man of war is a manifest power. I mean, have being successful, skillful in the anointing. This is the John G. Lake moving in power. This is the Charles Finney winning New York city to the Lord. This is being a man of valor. Of course, those are the extreme examples, the Reinhardt Bonnke. We can be a man of, or a woman of valor down at Westport tonight. It's moving in the, in the, uh, in the warrior spirit. I don't mean that you're acting militant per se. You may have the most gentle presentation, but it's warring against darkness, whether it's a cancer in somebody's body, whether it's unbelief in someone's heart at Westport or in the, or in the office place or in the neighborhood, it's becoming a man or a woman of war. And that's not the same thing as having a militant personality, though you might have one, but that's not the same thing. It's an anointing of war. I've heard stories of some of the most gentle, soft-spoken people that had a fierce anointing of healing against darkness. I mean, against sin and sickness, healing and evangelism, becoming a man of war, successfully operating in the power of God, not just having a vision to actually operating in the power of God. Now there's not too many that are doing that today, but this is the promise for the David generation. So we're not going to give up on it. Number four manifestation of the spirit is prudent speech. This is not a small thing. This is not, he didn't just become wiser through the years. Like the guy said, man, where'd you get all that wisdom? And the guy said, from pain, he goes, wow, where'd you get all, where'd you get all your pain from lack of wisdom? This isn't just accumulated wisdom of the years. This is a supernatural operation of the Holy spirit. Jesus told him in Matthew 10, he said, don't even think what you're going to say in these crisis situations. I think it's good to think what you're going to say many times, but in this particular thing he was describing when they would be brought before the, uh, the, uh, judicial system of nations, he says, the Holy spirit will give you supernatural wisdom. You will have an unction and you will say things you could not imagine prudent speech. That's what Matt was talking about just now. He says, I got to get out there in the evangelism. I don't even know out in Westport. I don't know what I'm going to say. And all of a sudden the words come, my goodness, where'd that come from? But there's prudent speech at many levels, not only in just the, uh, one-on-one ministry dimension, many, many dimensions where there's supernatural wisdom. They said this about Jesus that they, uh, his wisdom, he spoke with authority, not just, he had strength and power on it. When he spoke, there's a, that's one part of a prudent speech. There's a power on it. But another part of it was he had ideas. He said phrases that were so profound living understanding right there, live, live, you know, right there, uh, in flight, it comes number five manifestation of the spirit. It says he was handsome. God makes believers attractive. He makes them attractive to the church and to the world. That's a, one of the grand, uh, themes in the song of Solomon is the daughters of Jerusalem. The young ones were so attracted by the mature one. They, they just wanted to learn everything possible because there's an anointing. God has this Davidic anointing. You can call that, you can name it anything you want. It was upon the bride, the Shulamite and many of the young and the old said, I want what you have in God, spiritual attractiveness, Jesus. I mean, Paul called it being fragrant. God releases the smell of God, the perfume of God through you. And in Romans 11 verse 11, and when I got all this on the notes, uh, we'll look at in a minute, but I'm getting excited and ahead of myself. But, uh, the, the, uh, uh, Jewish unbelievers will be provoked to jealousy through attractive anointed Gentiles. They're going to say, we want what you have in God. That's the new Testament counterpart. It's not about, there's nothing wrong with being pretty, but it hasn't, it is not about a physical appearance. It is about a grace of God, a divine attractiveness that you cannot make happen. It's the fragrance of Christ. It's a supernatural operation. Number six, the Lord is with him. And one of the, uh, strong, strongest, not the only by any means is because the Lord being with someone is a big, is a big concept. There's many different things could fit in that. But one of the biggest ones is having the spirit of revelation. God's going to cause his, uh, and so that's the one I'm putting on here because it's such a critical part of David's life. As he wrote the Psalms, David saw the end of the age, David saw eternity, David saw the Messiah, David saw, uh, what was around the corner, even in a battle, he would seek the Lord to get divine. He operated in divine, uh, divine information, divine intelligence, critical. And they would say the Lord's with you. You know, when, when a Daniel would prophesy before Nebuchadnezzar and then later his son, they said, you're the one that God's with. You're the one that God lives in you. You know, secrets who God's with you. And they would say, they said that about Jesus as well. They said, God is surely with him because of the power manifestations, but because of the information as well, he'd say things as it, God is with you. It's going to happen as well. Far more than it is now, man. I'm not trying to make you David or anything, but you, I thought of that when you were talking to do it, you know, he said, Hey, you know, your grandmother prayed for you. You think, well, simple little phrase, Hey, it pierced the guy's heart. It doesn't have to be the most ingenious phrase. It's the phrase that the spirit's on. And the guy, uh, you know, out on the street, tears came to his eyes, you know, he said, wow, how'd you know? And I liked how he shared it too. He goes, you know, I say these things, some of them are wrong. He goes, I think I missed a couple of them. That's just awesome. Just keep doing it. Go for it. And the Lord, the Lord will be with you. And then finally, David, uh, was a man under the favor of God. He had blessed circumstances. That doesn't mean every circumstance is right. Cause David had very difficult times in the midst of the blessing. It's kind of a paradox. You got to read the whole story of David to get it, but it was clearly an invisible hand was setting things into motion in David's life. It doesn't mean his life was easy. Doesn't mean everything landed, right? A clear favor, establishing him with an invisible hands, going ahead of him, setting things into place before he got there. It's called the favor of the Lord. And it manifests in circumstances and it manifested in people opening doors and granting favor to you. Those seven things are meant to be understood as what God intends to give every single believer that will go hard after God in radical obedience and love and use the worship methodology to loose the activity of God. Many people look at those seven things that go, I want the supernatural power and they'll read a faith book, which I think is a good thing to do, but they need to read a worship book too. And they need to read a holiness book to get the life of David. It's the three together. It's not just the faith book, but we need more of those. Okay. Top of page two, see David was empowered. Okay. I've already said that with supernatural qualities that he did not possess in his natural personality. It's critical to say it though here, here I'll, I'll just kind of make it real personal to us and our little ministry here. We have, we got a hundred people making up the number. Of course, we have a hundred people, young people in our midst that are just so eloquent. They, they are excellent communicators. They have a natural endowment in communication. I think they get on the microphone and pray and they sound like they're orators. They've been doing it like, you know, you know, I've looked over at Gary Weems and all the time I go, they didn't make them that way when I was 18, I go, where on earth are these guys, this fluid, eloquent, some of it is natural, which is totally fine. But my point is we've got some of the greatest singers. It's natural. We've got some great musicians. Of course, you've got to work on your skill, but they're born with a temperament. Some of them have a natural aptitude for technology or, or science or math or, or, uh, numbers, you know, the whole realm of accounting, all that. And that's important to do that. But the Lord has more than a good voice, a good, eloquent communication, because there's no supernatural power in that. And David was good looking in the natural verse 12. He had natural endowments pre anointing, but it couldn't set up the kingdom, a good voice, a good guitar lick, a good sermon with all the right stories, a good, you know, intelligence and administration and strategy is not the unction of God, setting things into order. And those things are not bad in and of themselves. It's not like throw them away. My point is, because we might have some endowments naturally in our midst of those things, we must not allow that to dampen our desperation for the supernatural realm is in verse 12, David was ready with bright eyes. And the point of it was he stuck out in his natural endowments. But the, the story of first Samuel 16 is that was not near good enough. There's people that got, that are good at, especially the, the, the music and art realm is so moving in the natural there. And that is powerful that it is. There's nothing wrong with that, but moving in the natural is not the same thing as moving demons and angels in the spirit. People can cry through a sermon, a right story, a right song, and not repent of anything an hour later. And I'm not interested in meetings that don't bring people into greater agreement with God and losing the spirit realm of the holy spirit. I'm not interested in moving meetings. If these meetings don't cause people to repent of pride and lethargy and covetousness and darkness, I don't want these meetings. I don't want to fill up conferences so people can buy tapes. That's the last thing in the world I'm interested in. I'm interested in people repenting an hour later and sticking with it for a while after they repent it. I'm all for them needing another hit, you know, another shot at it. But our ministries are only as powerful as it makes angels and demons move and sin move in human hearts to say no to it. If our, if our endowments do not produce that we are not entering into our inheritance as a David generation. It's not, it's not about they cry. Cry is fine. I want them to repent. I want them to break their allegiance with darkness at the heart level and come into a greater allegiance with the king of glory at the heart level. And then that creates highways of holiness. It creates the, the whole movement in the realm of the spirit. So it's not enough to have a moving gift on a stage that makes people cry. That's not what David had. He was anointed. He had ability to do special tasks in the will of God, special tasks. That's what it was. And it's called the spirit of might. Isaiah talked about it, talking about Jesus, Isaiah chapter two, verse Isaiah chapter 11, verse two, the spirit of might will come on him. God released the spirit of might on David. The prudent speech was the spirit of might operating on him, not he didn't stay up late memorizing clever things in difficult situations. Just like, Oh, what was that again? I can get it. Hang on, hang on soul. I'll be right there. No, no, it's not that one. Give me one more minute. No, he, he was operating in the spirit of might. And as I was reading this, the Lord was challenging my heart, Mike, I want you to operate in the spirit of mind. I don't want you to operate just from, uh, you know, uh, learning how to do a little of this or a little of that. There has to be a present unction or the thing is not going to go anywhere. Now it's not worthless because today's unanointed labor is putting us in line to get anointed tomorrow. We're faithful with little, and then he gives us more. So unanointed labor today is not worthless because it really does put us in the right path of desperation. It trains us. It humbles us. It does have redemptive, you know, our unanointed ministries have redemptive value in them. I just wanted to encourage you on that. It's true because it makes us hungry. It makes us humble. It makes us, our spirits meek or unanointed labors do. And we get desperate for breakthrough. I can't, you know, man, you know, I've had so much practice at this. When I have a bad message, I just said, God, I can't bear to waste the time of God's people. I mean, I don't look, I don't like looking bad, but even worse than that, I hate to waste the time with people of God. Either I want something that's fresh and alive in my heart. I don't want to do it. And I've had so many times over the years where that didn't happen. It just made me cry out, cry out for something that moved hearts to God. And the Lord says, you just keep doing that. You just stay with it. That unanointed labor is getting you somewhere. Number one, this, uh, spirit of might. Uh, there's many things that relate to the spirit of might. It's a supernatural grace to receive divine information. It's a grace to operate in power. It's a grace to gather people. You know, it's one thing to gather people. It's another thing to sustain them once they're gathered. One of the grace I need more than anything nearly, there's about five of them that are in first place of what I need the most. It's the grace to sustain an anointing, to sustain IHOP, not keep doing their worship sets. No, to sustain us in pursuit of the highest things. I need grace. I need the anointing to do that. I can't do that by, by, uh, prophetic stories and cool verses and the force of personality. You cannot gather and sustain the human heart in the force of darkness coming against them. It takes supernatural grace. And my point in saying that is somewhere later. Oh, no, I guess it's the next one. There it is. Number two is that understanding this, that the, how the spirit of works. I really want you to grasp this. No matter what role you have in the kingdom, when you understand if this, that it takes grace to, to make your job work, takes grace for a worship leader to have an anointed worship team, not anointed set. It takes grace to call the people to God and sustain, keep them sustained in God. It takes grace to live right. It takes anointing to do the whole thing, whether you're, you know, whatever role you have. And if in the more that I understand that the more I am, uh, I have, I become afraid in the right sense of being presumptuous with the anointing of the Lord. I've seen this happen over the years where a guy would be under the favor of God and the anointing of God. And they'd build a certain momentum, a certain ministry. And then five, 10, 20 years ago by whatever I, you know, there, I got a dozens of stories and they would get kind of used to the momentum and they began to grieve the Holy spirit because they were not afraid to lead what they built without grace on them because they lost the revelation that grace was on them and the grace lifted and they couldn't sustain the people walking with God. They couldn't keep it going and they didn't know what happened. And I've seen many, uh, many, I don't mean thousands, but tens build something under the anointing, uh, began to live in secret sin and grieve the spirit, lose the anointing. And the very thing they built began to implode on them in a very horrible way because they didn't realize what they built was really had an invisible hand working with them. I, I can't think of a, well, I don't want to overstate it. When I think of IHOP, I have to say it this way. I can't imagine trying to lead IHOP without an invisible hand helping. And it, you know, just even sanctified selfishness. Lord, you know, I love you, but I'm scared to death to lead this thing. If you're not moving, I can't afford to get out of sync with you. I mean, I want to, for other reasons, cause I love you. But if that goes a little weak on a bad day, I can't afford to get in a place where you're not moving by your invisible hand. This it's way too much chaos. And so the Lord sets up our lives that way. We're all, all of our lives are that way in certain ways. I mean, maybe if you're just at the very beginning, it's not yet, but where, where we've had a little bit happened in the favor of God, and then we get careless and sin. And we're, we're, we're forgetting that what's happening in front of us, though. It isn't stunning kind of, you know, they're writing books about it to the whole world and how great the measure of the power of God is. But beloved, there's been a measure of the power of God that's got you to the place where you are. Well, a little pornography, you know, a little bitterness, just a little immorality, a little of this, not so much that. Beloved, we can't, we cannot sustain it. I'm talking about just purely on a sanctified selfishness level. Now I'm not even talking about the glory of just loving God in and of himself. That's good enough reason. We need more and more of God's servants, understanding the peril of our, all of our worlds are so little, but they begin to implode. No matter how little our sphere is, it can't sustain without the favor of God on it. But we forget it because normally that's a, that little swirl, that little sphere is, was burst in a time of when we were fervent and sincere. And then we kind of get weary through the years because we process, normally people get weary because they process their disappointments wrong and they get a growing callousness in their spirit towards God. Because we've all been disappointed so many times, the older you are, the more chances you have. And it's that mostly people get out of the presence of God because they either get condemned, but more times than not, they're sincere, but the people didn't treat them right. The money didn't come in right. The opportunity didn't come in right. God's anointing didn't show up right. They're disappointed that God didn't show up more in one of 10 areas, you know, didn't keep the relationships going, the money going, the this going, the health going, the anointing going, the opportunity going, and they get that growing callousness in their spirit. It's terrible. I've seen that over the years. And then they get in a place, then they get into sin after that. Disappointment's what they, what they fall first to. And that kind of builds on it for a few years. And then they stumble in little sin and then they get themselves into scandalous sins a couple steps later. It's a real clear process. I've watched it over the years. Okay. We are going to go to top of page three. So it's about, it's a big chunk later. Top of page three, it's Roman numeral two. Now, wait, did they get there on the overhead? Top of page three, Roman numeral two called the manifestation number one, skillful in playing. I'm going to look at these seven, giving you a minute on each one of them. And again, we have this on the internet now, so you can get it a lot more notes and verses than we'll cover tonight. Now this skillful in playing of the seven, I really want you to get this. You can put skillful in playing, or you can put skillful in praying. Because what it really means is releasing the spirit. That's what it means. They're not talking about how good David was on the harp. They're talking about how anointed David was on the harp. That's, that's the point here. And the first manifestation of the anointing of David is the releasing the presence of God to others. Now, there's two basic ways that we release the presence of God. I mean, the most common ways in our world here is through, or in David's world as well, through worship, through, through the prophetic worship, through the singing the song, the presence of God moves. It's a very powerful biblical concept. And the second is through laying hands on people and doing it that way. Let's go ahead and pray for them and just speak in the words to them. And both of them, both of them could be categorized in this first manifestation. Now, this first manifestation of the seven, it's the one I'll spend a minute or two more on than the others. It's the first one mentioned on David. That's important. It's the one most emphasized. Each of the others have a, have a phrase or two and a couple examples. This worship one has so many examples. This is the one emphasized over and over and over in David's life. And it's the one most important for us here at IHOP. I'm going to say it again. Most worship leaders worldwide. And I'm not saying this negative. I'm not saying this like, aren't they bad? No, nothing like that. I'm saying is that there's something very big coming around the corner. That's the point I'm trying to say. Most worship leaders I know, certainly most preachers I know as well, do not have 1% revelation of the power of government in worship. They just can't, they do not come. If they understood it, they would do everything in their might. Pastors would to get worship leaders anointed and worship leaders. I'm talking about worship leaders at every level. I'm not just talking about just our context here. I'm just talking about a global level would do anything in their power to flow in the greater anointing because that is the governmental center of the universe that we call it the prayer room, but it's the worship room. It's because they're one thing in God. And David exemplifies this revelation. Again, it's really grabbed me in a new way. Just reading over it again today. This is not only just the first of the seven mentioned, it's the one most mentioned throughout his entire life. And that's the one that's most needed in this hour. The revelation, the revelation of government in prophetic worship. Okay. Let's read verse 16 to 23. This is the big one. I mean, they give a big description of this one. The other ones get a phrase or so. So a soul's, you know, the context, these, this, uh, distressing spirit from the Lord is a judgment on Saul. So we looked at last week. And so Saul's servant said, let's seek out a man who's skillful, meaning not just skillful in the technical sense, but that as well meant anointed effective is what it meant. Effective that I will go find him. So when he plays the distressing spirit, that's been sent from God as a judgment on you, Saul, you will be well. So again, they were not looking for a technical classical musician, although that's an awesome thing. That's my, I'm just thinking of them as the best. That's why I'm using classical, not talking about just the best. They're talking about effective in the spirits where they're talking about not just skillful at the highest standard that you could imagine, which I would think as being classical. It's more than, it's more than a skill. It's talking about effectiveness. And this servant says, I mean, this guy, this guy was one bold little guy. I like to figure out who Saul's little servant is. It's unnamed. He shows up at some really key times. I mean, him and David must've like been buddies at the backside. He was, you know, white was also done. He was in David's band out in Bethlehem. I mean, he knows David. I go, how did he know this? David's only been anointed maybe a year. I I'm scratching my head. He was on his worship team back with the sheep. You know, his no, there's a story to be told here. I assure you of this. He says, I'm telling you something. I know this guy. It's only about 17. Number one, it doesn't say that, but, but we know comparing the whole life of David, you will become well, when that guy plays, that's the part I go, this guy knows David for sure. He's talking to the King of the nation who has an anger problem, a serious noise, serious anger problem, telling him you have a demon spirit, a distressing spirit, and God allowed him to come on you. But I'm promising you could get well. If you get my, this guy, I don't know him. I just heard of him. I'll tell you, he was the drummer on that team. I guarantee you when we get up there, something like that. Verse 18, Saul said, get him, go get him. If he can play well, if he's effective in the spirit is what it means. If he can make this distressing spirit, leave me, get him. And I talked about last week, God's going to set it up where there's such an anointing on the prophetic, uh, on the, on the prayer movement. Again, prayer movement, worship movements, one reality that the, the insane oppressed Kings of the earth, even on the wrong side will ask for the services of God's anointed for this tormenting spirit to leave them that that day is coming. So one of the servants said, well, now that you've asked, I know who it is. It's the son of Jesse, which is David. He's skillful. The Lord's with him. Verse 23. And here's, here's the power of David's, you know, for a year or two there, whenever you want to underline the word, whenever, whenever the spirit from God, because it was, again, it was a judgment. Whenever the spirit of God came upon Saul, David would take a harp and play it and Saul would get refreshed and well, and the distressing spirit would be driven away that that's the anointing on this young guy. David's getting introduced into the purpose of God this way. Now by, I mean, David's operating in government right there. Now people, we think about David being in government when he's King, David is in government right here, meaning he's still a shepherd boy visiting on weekends to the palace, to the white house. When he plays the King gets changed. He is already operating in a governmental way. I have no doubt Todd and others that your CDs are being played by Kings, maybe not Kings of nations and maybe, but Kings in other areas of life. I have no doubt. I I've heard many times. Listen, you know, I love it, you know, to put on Misty CD and just drive or, oh, we got a, we got 10 or 12 of them like that. I mean, where am I? Oh, Pablo's. Oh my goodness. It just, I put that thing on and just cried every time, you know, nearly. And, uh, it's already happening, but that David was functioning in government long before he was even appointed full time to join soul staff. And we think of King David as his government in Jerusalem. And God thinks of King David as before an audience of one with the sheep singing those songs, operating in communion with God's heart before an audience of one building his history. And God, he was moving in government right there before any prophet called him out suddenly and said, you're the King of the nation. And before any King a year or two later, finally laid eyes on him. We've got young Davids. Some of them are 14 and 15. Some are girls and summer guys on the worship thing of the folk, the whole Faulkner family. There's a Davidic spirit on that family. They are moving in government and little 1999, you know, they're, you know, they all started, they just got older, you know, but they were all shorter and little. They're all up there. All of them singing, worshiping, you know, nine, 10, 12, whatever, you know, Truman right through. I'm looking at him going, there is, this is government. This is David in the backside of the hills of Bethlehem operating in an audience of one. Nobody's even in the room. Does it matter or night watch people? Oh, plenty of them. I don't want to go down the list. Plenty of them. That's where David began government. And that's when David got the understanding that the songs of God would drive out darkness. I have no doubt. That's when he understood. We think of David when he was 30, yay, then 37 in Jerusalem, restored the tab, I mean, established tabernacle. David started the worship order when he was 37, when he's King of Jerusalem, the worship order, David says 37. That was in my heart when I was 17, before Samuel ever visited my heart. I had a dream of a worship order. David was moving in that long time ago. Okay. Running out of time here. See one of David's greatest revelations. This is really important. Whether you're worship. See, I'm not a, I'm not a skilled. I'm not, I'm not nothing, whatever. I got a heart for it, but musician singer, I have no ability in that, but I have a revelation of worship, a little one. I need a lot more. So this isn't just, I'm not just talking to worship leaders and musicians and singers. I'm talking to everybody. Cause if you're not one, do what I'm doing. Use your energy to go get them going. And I said, well, Lord, I'm stuck. You know, I'll never make the worship team. And so the Lord all, but whispered in my ear and said, well, go get worship teams going. Then if you can't lead one, go help them start. Encourage them. Go get money for them. Go get a building, get some sound system, give them some messages, write some little outlines to get them going. Help them get in their place. You don't have to be a worship leader to help the worship movement in a dynamic way. Help them get in place, encourage them, bless them, given money, stand with them, you know, uh, uh, have a, a, a support with them. You know, the, you know, some folks who come in and say, well, you're the leader of IOP. I go, well, whatever. All I am is just a big cheerleader for worship leaders. That's all I'm doing. I'm using all my strength to help worship leaders. You can do it. You don't have to lead. I have to do it. That's all I'm doing. I just, and you know, whatever on the org chart, that's all I'm doing is I'm a cheerleader for worship for, for, for worship leaders and anybody you can be a homeschooling mom. You can be a, an 18 year old in college, become a cheerleader for the worship movement. And we're doing the same thing. Really? Anyway, David's greatest revelation. Psalm 22 verse three, one of his greatest revelations. One of them is that God is enthroned in praise. He said, God's enthroned in praise. That means that God's throne, his government is loosed through praise. We've heard that for so many years. The church has heard that for so many years, it doesn't mean anything to most people. I want to tell you, let's go the other way around. If the worship stops, the authority of the throne is held back. We look at the worship movement in our nation, the strength of it. And that is the measure of the enthronement of God's power. If you will, being released in the church, you want to see more power in our, in everything, in our home groups, our inner healing, our outer healing, our evangelism, our prophecy teams are everything. And all of them are very important. We need more anointed worship leaders in place. And I tell when I go to do conferences here and there, I don't do much anymore, but I would tell pastors in all of thy getting get prophetic singers. And they would laugh at all. No, I am as serious as can be. And all of thy getting don't just wine and dine all the millionaires go after the 18 year old prophetic singers. That's where the power of God is coming. I'm telling you, and all of I getting get singers that love God and get them in place and sell your churches. You have to, to fund them, go get them in their place. And I'm telling you, there'll be an open heaven in time because David saw this enthroned in praise. God's throne government is released through praise. I've said this to pastors and they go praise God. I go, I am not joking. I am absolutely serious. So your house, so your church building mortgage, this and that get worship teams full time and get deadly serious about it. And one guy said, man, you mean it. I said, not only did I mean it, I did it. I'm serious about this and I will do it again and again and again, necessary. All of us can jump in at this level. Those of you visiting go back home, get three, get three fingers and say, Hey, I don't have a clue what to tell you. I'm just going to help you do it. You know, here's some money. I'll buy you some books and I'll get you some sound equipment. And I'll let you use my garage anytime you want to start doing it by him, a computer to D David sang his way out of trouble. He talked about songs of deliverance. You know, he used to, he was surrounded. So can you imagine being surrounded with songs or deliverance his own, but he also hung around with other worship leaders. He was in a company of people. Worship leaders, but get worship leaders. If, if, if, if they're got the heart of David, they inspire worship leaders. He, he lived in a company of men and women. He was surrounded with songs. This is literal. He was there singing his songs and then his other guys were singing songs and they'd brought deliverance to David's life. That's a powerful verse. The next verse second Samuel 23 verse one E David's last words reveal how we saw himself. He goes, these are the last words of David. The very end, he goes, I'm the sweet Psalmist of Israel. He could have said many things. I'm the great greatest warrior in Israel's history. He goes, I am the sweet Psalmist and all that I am. I am first and foremost, mostly I stand to the presence of God as a Psalmist. That's who I am. Like, Oh, David, you're the wealthiest man in the nation. You're the most powerful King in the middle East. You got the mightiest army. He goes, I am first a singer. That's who I am. If you want to be like David, that's who he has. I've tried that. And you know, they shut the door, but I can still do it. I have to take the word sweet, but I can say, I'm a Psalmist of Belton. That's when the prayer closet shut the door. It really comes in effective F Jehoshaphat. We said this last week, he sang, we know it, but it routed the armies. G the next one, Elisha. Let's bring it. Let's go to, to, to the verse. Yeah, you got it there. Elisha. You can read the paragraph later if you want to, again, you can get this on the internet. He's a national crisis and the King comes to him and says, I need a, I need a word. We are in a crisis. He goes, if you need a word right now, then I need a musician right now. If I'm going to give you that word, he goes, what? He goes, you bring me a musician and I'll give you a word. And the King, the King of Israel had no relationship. He had no comprehension. When he's talking about it, I says, I can't move in this. You get the, you get the prophetic. He goes, I want to pick the musician, by the way, I want that one, that guy, the spirit moves on every time he plays, not even a singer, just the musician. Meaning because David was, we think of David as the singer. Well, of course he's musician as well, but this is a person that he just played the melodies under the anointing and the spirit of Elijah comes in a double portion on Elisha. And he gives the King the prophetic word that, that, uh, directed so many things. Okay. We're going to end with that. And we're going to give up on this seven anointings because it's my second week. I just, but I got, I wrote out quite a bit more on it. So I think, I think maybe you never know. We might try it again next week. I just can't seem to get to it, but I think the notes will cover it. I think we'll probably move on from there. You can look at those, those seven different manifestations of the spirit. I want every one of them. I look at those, I go, I'm, I've got to release the presence to people. I've got to have courage.