You Are Enough // Marked (Part 8) – Pastor Michael Todd – Transformation Church

Introduction: You Are Enough

When God called you, He factored in your deficiencies and still said, “you are marked”
You can only reproduce what’s inside of you, so if you don’t get your self view right, then you surround yourself with the same deficiencies you have.
- 1 Samuel 17:32-33: David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
  - King Saul is projecting the same insecurities he has (“But I’m only …”) to David

When you’re marked, there is something that is ridiculous God will call you to do that is required for God’s glory to be seen in you.
You have to have the faith to do the thing no one else will do
People will not do what God called them to do because of the opinions of others, but we (as Christians) live by faith in God not the opinions of others
- Faith is ridiculous because it calls what nobody else sees into existence; God will make the ridiculous into reality
- Verse to Remember: 1 Corinthians 2:9
  - 1 Corinthians 2:9: However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” the things God has prepared for those who love him—

1 Samuel 17:34-37: But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”
- David’s confidence in fighting this “giant” obstacle is rooted in David’s previous experiences of God helping him with the lion and bear, even though the experiences of the lion and bear versus the giant are way different from each other.
God is trying to teach you in the “preparation place” that will not look like the platform He will later take you to. Do not be distracted by the dojo.
We are looking at the wrong qualifiers – we look to what qualifies us in man’s eyes instead of God’s eyes
Remember: If God brought us to it, He prepared us for it

1 Samuel 17:37-39: The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.” Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.
- David put on the armor that didn’t fit him, out of respect, but was real with himself to not wear it, because even though he knew that he would wear that armor one day, today wouldn’t be that day.
We need to not be disrespectful of our next season because we are not there yet.
- David wasn’t disrespectful because he knew that his authenticity was in his anointing; he did this by developing the spiritual discipline of self-awareness

What God has naturally given you that’s different, don’t apologize for that. You can’t back away from that.
1 Samuel 17:40: Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.
- David didn’t put on a mask or performance but took off the armor and picked up what was familiar to him.

The fundamental skills that David (and us) were taught in the pasture will become the most important weapons we could use in this position.

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