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I am more than "my" anointing « Thread Started on Dec 24, 2008, 7:12pm »
I've been gone for a while, and in the time that I've been gone, I've really had some time to think. And one of the things I've really been thinking about is this "thing"...this phenomenon...called "anointing." I guess the first time I heard it was about 10 or so years ago when I joined Canaan...
WOW...has it been THAT long ago?
I come from a very traditonal Baptist up-bringing, and words like "anointing" were reserved for the Pentecostals or Apostolics--the Holy Rollers. Joining Canaan, I heard for the first time (and witnessed) the POWER of God to transform a life. I saw people in action operating under what I would come to understand to be the anointing. Soon everything and everybody was anointed...
"Did you hear Alice sing? That woman is anointed!"
"Did you hear the word Pastor gave? That was an anointed message!"
...that song was anointed! ...those children are anointed! ...the choir is anointed!
And it's not that it cheapened the word or anything like that. No, in fact, I came to have a peripheral understanding of what it was to be anointed. It was kind of like smelling food that was cooked and eaten just before you arrived home. You can smell it; you know it was there, but just as you go to grab ahold of it...it vanishes; it's all a mist. For years, I nodded in agreement and "amen-ed" my way through conversations I barely understood full of verbage and phrases that were alien to me because I didn't want to appear spiritually dumb. Now, here's the clincher: at the time I was NO MORE than 16 or 17...18 at the most. I was allowed to be spiritually dumb. I was still a child. Children (even know-it-all teenagers) are allowed to make mistakes because that's exactly what children (particularly know-it-all teenagers) do. But I digress...that whole sentence is an entirely different post (smile)...
Anyway, I didn't understand the cost of the anointing. Even as I sung about the woman's alabaster box...I still didn't know the price of the oil. Even as I preached messages talking about the price of the anointing...I hadn't even begun to total the entirety of it all. Then something happened...LIFE! LOL...life came at me guns blazing and all cylinders going, and I came to understand the price of the anointing. How precious it is and why some people hourde it. I mean, honestly, if you had to pay for something with your very life...wouldn't you be careful how you spent it? And so I shifted to the other end of the paradigm.
I went from not understanding it...to not sharing it. I didn't sing. I didn't preach. I didn't minister. I didn't do anything with the thing that I had paid with my life to obtain. I kept it all to myself. I only sung in the comfort and privacy of my own room when in worship. I went half-mast through praise and worship during corporate gatherings...I didn't want any of it "leaking" out I guess (lol). And then...something else happened...LIFE...AGAIN! (ROFL!!!) It came again and beat the brakes off of me. And there I was wounded and broken before God...again, and this is what God said to me. (Well, some of it...some of it is waaaaaaaay to personal to share...)
He said:
I broke you once so that you would appreciate what it takes to be My servant. I continued to break you so that there would be less and less of you to contaminiate the work I was doing through you; that was the purpose of the anointing. Not to hourde or preserve for yourself, but to share with those who would receive it.
In essence, He told me that I am not to live off of the anointing that I have been given. That is for those who I come in contact with; the anointing is for ministry to God's people and would-be God's people. What is to sustain me is God's glory.
That's why I say that I am more than "my" anointing. Because, in truth, it's never been for me in the first place. I am convinced that I am not to even minister to the Spirit of God through the anointing...but rather the glory. Clothed in the anointing, I can touch the heart of the wounded and broken and be an avenue of healing. But clothed in God's glory, I can touch the heart of the King and continue to be broken in His presence.
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Re: I am more than "my" anointing « Reply #1 on Dec 28, 2008, 9:41am »
I saw this post the first day you posted. Thank you for sharing your own experience and the word from the Lord. It is excellent, true, accurate, exciting, touching, and more, more, more.
I remember many years ago when I said, "I don't want to preach anymore. I want to minister." Ahhh, yes Lord. There is a difference in all that we do when all that we do glorifies our Father. It is the essence of Jesus' ministry as he repeatedly stated that He did nothing of Himself but what He did was to glorify the Father. We would all be better for it if we could re-focus to do the same.
Above all else, stay humble, repent when necessary, apologize and be at peace. Give God the glory. Walk in praise. Let your life be your greatest sound of worship. Appreciate family. Say please and thank you. Prayer is really the most important thing. Pray.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
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Re: I am more than "my" anointing « Reply #2 on Jan 8, 2009, 7:04pm »
Wow! Wow! Wow!
To God be the glory for this powerful Word. "I am more than my anointing!"
Everyone that the Lord has allowed to speak to me prophetically have told me about the cost of the anointing. I kinda just thought that if I was just obedient to the call of God then it wouldnt be that hard. Well wasnt I so wrong! Saying "yes" aint that easy either. I know though that we all can save ourselves a lot of trouble by being obedient to His call.
I am saying all of this because I believe that the Lord has "anointed" us with a peculiar anointing for this season and its a season where there is no room for "no's" because no questions are being asked - just commands given. Its not the season to question who we are in God but to just walk in what the Lord has placed in us.
What is happening to us now affects the whole - the body. The transition is happening - yes the breaking is happening and we cant run anymore. Its time!
Re: I am more than "my" anointing « Reply #3 on Jan 12, 2009, 1:14pm »
Heyyyy LadyG! Good to see you. Glad you posted a response on such a great topic...
I'm going to sit back and soak in everybody's response. Ahhhh....the anointing....All I know is that I want some of it, want to recognize it my own life and want it to be more than just a churchy cliche....
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
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Re: I am more than "my" anointing « Reply #4 on Jan 19, 2009, 4:49pm »
You know Lowkey, you said something profound that brought back memories of my experiences last year. One of the conditions of God's increase in my life was that I couldnt ask for anything personal. It was a period when all I wanted was spiritual increase that would make me more effective in the body and ministry.
You see, we have to know our season and ride the wave of that season. There comes a time when something rises in our spirit to ask in a specific way or to ask according to the will of God. We know that sometimes when we ask for some things we are NOT going to get it because our timing is off and its not God's will for it.
Let me share this: I kinda have been in hiding for last year (spiritually). I spent practically the entire year fixing me spiritually. I truly desired nothing personal. All I wanted was more of God. More and more and more and much more of God's anointing so that I could come out of the yearly cycle of fluctuation. I got tired of me. I got tired of killing the anointing on my life. I literally asked God to strip me of anyone and anything that had been a hindrance to me walking in the fulness of who I was. What a request, huh? People of God... when the stripping began - I surely was the one to run back to God to say no I take back my request..lol. But truthfully as the months rolled by through many tears and pain of stripping I rose into my true self according to God's order. My life was transformed.
I knew I was going to go through hell but I just wanted more of God. Now I would not exchange a thing to go back to where the enemy had me. I now see all those prophetic words that I got here at Adullam coming to past in my life. There comes a time when righteous indignation arises within us about us and we just got to nail that flesh to the cross. Glory to God! My mandate is set and there is still a "Yes Lord" in my spirit.
There is so much I want to share but the thoughts of my heart are running too fast for my fingers to type...LOL. Love you all here at New Day Ministries. Ministries of this kind will forever be in my heart and prayers. Its a blessing.
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