WORD FROM REDEEM ZION

Friday, July 14, 2006

THE PLACE OF THE ANOINTING IN YOUR LIFE

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me, to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19)
God usually anoints His people for several reasons. God does not anoint people for nothing. The anointing of God works in so many ways in different people based on who you are, your relationship with the Lord and the needs or desires of your heart.
The anointing is an act of God signifying the separation of a person or object to God. It is an act associated with bestowal of divine favour manifesting with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. “Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the mist of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah” (1 Samuel 16: 13).
The anointing has a tremendous role to play in your life and the people that come in contact with you. The anointing has been given as a gift from the Almighty God to help you in one or all the various ways highlighted below:
· The anointing breaks the yoke of limitation, oppression, obsession and roll off heavy burden that can weigh you down perpetually. The Lord promised that your yoke or chains of limitation shall be destroyed by the reason of the anointing (Holy Spirit).
· Anointing the sick with oil, point to the Holy Spirit as the life-giver. (James 5:14). If you receive the anointing into your life and you allow Him to rest upon you, you will discover that sickness and disease will become a stranger to you.
· The anointing of God is to secure you and all that is yours. When you carry the oil of God, you receive divine protection and you are preserved and all that belongs to you “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm” (Psalm 105:15, Psalm 23:5).
· The anointing of God is given unto you for an effective and productive Christian service. Christian service, not in the sense of a full time pastor or worker, but in all that you do for a living do as unto the Lord. See it as an avenue to serve the living God. The anointing releases unto you the power for productivity and high efficiency in all your endeavours.
· To be promoted and exalted, the anointing of the Holy Spirit has a tremendous role to play in your life. The anointing is capable of making a Mr or Mrs Nobody to become a Mr or Mrs Somebody. When the anointing of God comes upon you, He is capable of bringing you from the rear to the forefront, from the horrible pit to the mountain top. He makes the rejected to become the accepted, as in the case of David. (1 Samuel 16:13).
· The anointing of the Spirit gives believers insight into the dangers facing the church or the individual and makes a way of escape for you in the face of the danger. “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things; But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him” (1John 2; 20, 27).
· The anointing of the Holy Spirit releases into the life of the carrier supernatural strength that makes you to be established and prevail over the wicked and the foes and equally to execute judgement over the Lord’s enemies. (Psalm 89:20-23).
· The anointing of God brings a difference in the life of His children to make you to flourish like the ubiquitously useful palm tree and grow in all realms to unusual heights like the cedar of Lebanon. Age is not a barrier to your flourishing and fruitfulness, the flow of the Spirit and the oil influences your productivity to the end.
The ultimate goal of the anointing of God is to make you a showpiece to the world, that is, establish you gloriously like a city built on a hill that can not be hidden. God desires to do a work in you and through you in this season that will cause people to fear Him, and put their trust in the living God.
So henceforth you must decide to respect the anointing (The Holy Spirit) and the anointed of God who daily give you divine instructions from the Lord. The anointing flows from the hand through His messengers; for example Elisha obtained the double portion of the anointing of God in Elijah.
To be anointed of God you must be loyal, committed to the kingdom’s business and be persistent in your hunger and thirst for the anointing of God. The entire nation is waiting for the man and woman that carry the awesome presence of God and you can be that one in this generation. Walk in obedience and in love in the Lord and you will be overwhelmed at the changes that will take place in your life, environment and nation by the reason of the overflowing anointing.
Read and Meditate on Luke 24:49

The Anointing is something that makes a nobody into a somebody. The secret is the anointing of the Holy Spirit, His presiding and residing on you and in you will give your life a definite meaning and purpose.







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