The Anointing
Pastor Phil 16 Mar 08
Luke 4:18
Jesus wasn’t anointed to be a father, a husband or a businessman. He was anointed to be a preacher. The anointing is for every single one of us today.
1 John 2:27
The Matrix: Neo says to Trinity – Can you fly one of those things? Not yet.
Do you know how to be a businessperson, a husband or anything that God calls you to be? Not yet. But the anointing will teach me all things!
God will call you to do things that you don’t feel adequate to do. Moses got a vision out of a burning bush. Eph: But it is in God. It is in your weakness that the power of God manifests. God is who gets the glory for everything that we do. The anointing will give us tiny instructions. Joseph had a pure heart, but everything that could go bad went bad in his life, but he kept his pure heart and so he was able to understand the anointing of God.
It is not us living on our skills, our intelligence, but us living on the anointing of the God. If we do the former, we will lose the anointing. God will test us and put us through trials.
Adam lost out on the trial and he lost the Lord’s anointing. Jesus went through 2 trials and when you emerge from a trial, you have an anointing.
If we need to grow a church, we need people who have gone through battles, criticism, things that the devil has thrown as us, who stand and fight, who emerge from the wilderness victorious. God is not building a weak church. He is building a world changing church. The overcomer is the one who gets the anointing, not those who know the Bible more or what.
God never brings fear into your life. He brings peace, not anxiety. What we do repetitively in our life makes our character. Jesus had a habit of going to church and He was handed to the scroll of Ish. It was because He had a habit that He was present when God spoke to Him.
1. The anointing is a tangible force
It is a spiritual life flow that can get into our clothes, our homes.
Life is resident as a tangible force in our life. When the force and the confession that comes with it aligns, it releases the power of God.
2. The anointing frees us
It is like oil on a rusted nut; it lubricates. There are some tight nuts in the church and need some oil to be poured on them, tap them on the head with some theology, to get them loose.
3. There is a great variety of anointing
You can be anointed for entertainment, acting, music, business etc. The anointing is an enabling power that enables us to do the impossible, the incredible, the life-changing, world-changing that God has called us to do.
4. Anointing gives us joy
Ish 61:3
The spirit of heaviness steals joy from us, but God’s answer from the heaviness is the anointing of joy, especially when we move out of trial.
5. Anointing is able to be imparted
Luke 6:19
The anointing is imparted to you from the laying of hands.
Hebrews 6
When you submit to a person and allows the person to lay hands on you, you allow the anointing in your life to increase.
6. It is imparted in a measure
Moses was carrying around a large portion of anointing on his life, and when God took part of it and divided it among the elders, they fell under the power.
7. The anointing will revive you
Acts 3:19
We need to make sure that we turn up a church every week and turn up for conferences because we need the anointing that revives us. The work we do wears us down. We won’t be worn down if we are revived every week.
2 Kings 4
Some of us have been out in the heat of the day, but you feel the heat, the discouragement. The Lord says that if you let His anointing come into you today, He will revive you right here and right now.
How do I get this anointing in my life?
1. Emerging from a trial in victory
2. Recognising where I am weak, and that is where God can move
3. By waiting on the Lord. Those who do so will find their strength in the Lord
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I know that Pastor Phil preached a different msg on Sat, so if anyone wants to post that up, you are very welcome to do so :)
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