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Ignorance
“I don’t think anybody on that platform is
anointed. Maybe they once were, but not anymore.”
I was listening to a couple of young women
talk, and this statement created some confusion in my
mind: Should
these gals even be talking like this?
But what was anointed?
And how could they tell if someone was or
wasn’t anointed?
I didn’t know.
The
Holy Spirit
Some years later, I was exposed to a good
teaching. The speaker explained from Scripture that the
Anointing is the Holy Spirit on someone to do what God
has called them to do.
Then, more years later, I heard Joyce Meyer say
that the Anointing gives her energy beyond her own
strength ~ so much that she said she could run around
that auditorium and not be winded.
And later, I heard Jesse Duplantis say that
he’s not a funny person off stage, but when the
Anointing gets on him, he becomes “like superman.”
Many years later when I had personal experience
of teaching with the Anointing, I found that my mind
was much quicker than it normally was.
Also, the Holy Spirit would often give
direction or information to my mind that He wanted me
to say. It
was fun! I
enjoyed it immensely.
Do
we prepare?
Joy Dawson told in one of her messages that
sometimes God doesn’t tell her what she’s to teach
until she’s behind the pulpit.
But she does prepare!
She said she has ready a briefcase of Bible
studies.
When I started listening to Joyce Meyer on the
T.V. every day, I heard her once say that she prepares
a lot, and then the Holy Spirit directs her what parts
to use, or what to skip over, or maybe to start at the
end!
Then I heard a man say he didn’t prepare at
all, and his talk was terrible!
That convinced me.
Bit by bit, the Lord was teaching me.
And then, He must have thought I was ready to
use it. It happened this way.
Necessary
Growth
The brochure called My Growth in Prayer will
give you more detail than I can here, but before God
allowed me to teach with the Anointing, I had been
praying about one hour every night, and spending time
in the Word twice a day for many years.
But please don’t take this as a law that
you have to follow!
Get my brochure called, God wants to
make your life beautiful, and do what it says to do.
You will begin to grow spiritually, and God
will teach you what you need to do to become what He
has planned just for you!
My
Experience
The church I was attending at the time was
having a doctrinal studies class, and I was part of
that class. Right off,
the teacher announced that he didn’t want any
arguing in this class.
If anyone had a different view, we were
encouraged to submit it in writing.
After only a few weeks, I realized that there
was an area where I believed them to be wrong, and it
was big enough that I thought I should do a paper.
So I went home and wrote a paper of several
pages showing from Scripture what I believed to be
true.
The leaders were so impressed with my work that
they gave me a teaching job. I and my family sought
God’s guidance about it, and when we were sure that
this was His will, I accepted. This was my first
experience teaching with the Anointing. I had that job
for two years.
What
makes it strong
The brochure mentioned earlier called God
wants to make your life beautiful gives the basic points of
spiritual growth. Those were worked into my life. Once
I learned to hear His voice, He taught me how to not
say everything I wanted to say, not try to run other
people’s lives, and to speak words that encourage
and build up my family and others too.
He led me about how to spend my spare time,
what T.V. I could watch, and how to not let my
emotions rule me. This is obedience on a stricter
level.
What
weakens it
Any failure to live like He’d taught me would
weaken it. If I got careless about spending time in
the Word or on my knees, I’d find that the Anointing
was weak on me the next Sunday. One day I got upset
and allowed myself a good cry. Even though I repented
and asked God’s forgiveness, my Anointing suffered
the next week. I don’t lose my temper, but I do get
tense inside when things or people don’t please me.
God had taught me how to stay in peace, so if I
allowed tension, then the Anointing would suffer.
Here is an example of how
I knew the Anointing was weak. I’d be teaching well, and then suddenly my mind would go
blank. It would come back quickly enough that the
students didn’t know, but I knew it! Another time, I
had one minute while teaching that the Anointing just
lifted off. I
stumbled for words, I forgot what I was saying, … it
was terrible (for me)!
This happened once when my only sin was being a
little too confident preceding class, and not
dependant enough on God.
A
surprise
There was one week that
was particularly busy, and I was away from home much
of the time. I had missed sleep so my prayer-times had
suffered. I did not have as much time as I usually spend in the Word
either. So when Saturday arrived, I was very tired and
near panic. I
told God, “I know the lesson material, so that’s
no problem. But
I need the Anointing!
I can’t do this without You!
You know I haven’t just been careless, and I
don’t know how I could have spent more time with
You. I desperately need You.
I can’t do anything without You.
You are my Strength, God.
I’m desperate for You.
You must come and help me, because I’m
nothing without You!”
God
came through with a stronger Anointing than I’d ever
experienced to that date.
It was wonderful, and I was still anointed about 30
min. after the class was dismissed.
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