ANOINTING

I know I haven’t posted for ages but it’s definitely not because God hasn’t been SPEAKING, TEACHING, SHOWING me volumes or doing amazing things in my life… thankfully! J

In the natural world these past months I have been busy travelling (hence adversely limited by the vicissitudes of bad or non-existent internet connections, a hectic schedule, and most specifically my lack of abilities to tap type well on modern tablet technology which is akin to tearing one’s hair or having fingernails dragged down a chalkboard repeatedly!!!

Anyway this post is inspired by a relatively basic concept based about something I was heard about in theory but witnessed again in very convincing reality recently…

And that is one of ANOINTING. God has made us “wonderfully and fearfully”… we are all unique individuals with distinct characters and skill sets or abilities. In this way we each have unique gifts from God. Some of us may be fine speakers, some of us may have a compassionate and caring nature, some of us may be physically skilled, while others may be successful in making money for example.

When most people discover God and how wonderful He REALLY is they sincerely desire to please him…so typically they make a lot of concerted efforts…to serve at church, to lead a ministry, or to go to theological college and become pastors or preachers or missionaries as these are what most in the human mindset would recognise as the “ultimate” way for us to serve God in the human world. The problem is this.

If God hasn’t called us to do something but we have decided to do it our own mind without being led by the Holy Spirit, we ultimately lack His power or anointing to do that service…

I have witnessed this spectacularly now on two memorable occasions. One was a pastor who had just graduated from bible college…when I spoke to him of the spiritual realm and asked him to pray…he didn’t seem to understand that was THE most important way he could help….more worryingly he acknowledged he didn’t know much about these things and photocopied me some notes out of his bible college theological textbook on the issue :o!

Needless to say within a few months when I tried to recontact that pastor I found he had “moved on” and the church had virtually disintegrated. When a church cannot even maintain its numbers let alone increase them, I posit that there is some issue with the leadership there, namely that they are not moving in God’s power.

The second scenario I witnessed is when a visiting preacher came to speak at my church…as I looked around bored I noticed many other people were struggling to listen politely – many eyes were closed. This preacher was obviously very sound in knowing the bible for sure but he was trying to preach milk to a congregation who for the most part know God personally and at a depth and understanding which constitutes MEAT! Preaching the basics is fine as old and new believers can always benefit from hearing the basics however His words carried no power which is why people were struggling to be attentive and listen. As this was unfortunately very obvious, he kept trying to counteract this situation by projecting his voice more loudly and more enthusiastically…but unfortunately the sermon fell flat on its face! This was another most spectacular example of what happens when people try to move in their own efforts rather than in what God has called them to do and thus have the Anointing that carries success.

So at the end of the day these anecdotes illustrate a blunt spiritual principle:
Without God, we are nothing.

In this scenario it was like a man trying to lift a ten tonne truck with his bare hands – no matter how hard he tried the truck stayed on the ground.

GOD is almighty. As a comparative visual analogy God could do the same task without even needing to lift a finger-furthermore he could balance TEN ten tonne trucks on his finger just to amuse us if he wanted to! ^^

Finally we must have our hearts and minds open and receptive to be able to hear and understand what God is telling us, teaching us and where he is leading us…and then be obedient to do His way, His will not ours. When God is behind what we do, success will be guaranteed as failure is impossible!

The vast majority of people in the natural world are so busy so consumed by their own agendas, worries, desires and daily distractions and spiritually blinded by the enemy’s various strategies that they wouldn’t even notice God if he walked up to them and hit them on the head!

Which is why we believers need to keep on pressing on to get out amongst unbelievers and not just bubble within the comfortable confines of believer communities. Although our human minds are selfish and do not want to make the “annoying” sacrifice of getting out amongst the spiritually blind since we are assured WE are saved by faith, it’s actually God’s Will that we “go out into the nations” and share God’s Light and God’s Truth in all the dark places so that others can be saved too...

Not Our Way but His!!

Be Blessed!