Sunday AM July 31st 2011
TO WALK IN CHRIST’S ANOINTING:
WE SHOULD HAVE NO UNCONFESSED SIN.
WE SHOULD SPEND TIME IN HIS PRESENCE, SEEKING GOD (PSALM 63).
WE HAVE TO CRUCIFY SELF.
WE HAVE TO BELIEVE HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS.
WE HAVE TO COMMUNE (TO COMMUNICATE, FELLOWSHIP) WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT (II CORINTHIANS 13:14).
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A REAL PERSON, THE THIRD PERSON OF THE GOD-HEAD.
HE IS OUR GUIDE, COMFORTER, AND TEACHER. HE ANOINTS, SPEAKS, RENEWS, REGENERATES (BEING BORN AGAIN), INDWELLS, EMPOWERS, SANCTIFIES (SETS US APART), GIVES JOY, GIVES DISCERNMENT (I CORINTHIANS 10-16), BARES FRUIT THROUGH US, GIVES SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND REVEALS THINGS OF GOD.
TO COMMUNE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: WE MUST RECOGNIZE HIM AS A REAL PERSON: THAT HE IS PRESENT; WE MUST INVITE HIM INTO OUR DAY.
WE CAN SAY, “COME HOLY SPIRIT.”
“HOLY SPIRIT, COME AND TAKE FREE REIGN IN MY LIFE AND MINISTRY TODAY.”
“COME AND WALK WITH ME.”
“HELP ME RECEIVE WHAT THE FATHER HAS FOR ME.”
“HELP ME HEAR WHAT THE FATHER IS SAYING.”
YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE VOICE OF GOD IS ABSENT WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT SURROUNDING YOU.
HE COMES AND HELPS YOU RECEIVE THROUGH JESUS WHAT YOU HAVE ASKED OF THE FATHER.
HE DESIRES FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU.
HE IS SEEKING A MOMENT BY MOMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH US.
WE CAN’T FORGET HE IS HERE WITH US, IN US.
AS YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT’S PRESENCE, ISAIAH 10:27, READS THIS WAY …AND THE YOKE SHALL BE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THE ANOINTING.
AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL COME UPON THEE, AND THOU SHALT PROPHESY WITH THEM, AND SHALT BE TURNED INTO ANOTHER MAN (I SAMUEL 10:6).
WHEN THE ANOINTING COMES UPON US WE ALSO WILL BE CHANGED.
HE CHANGES OUR CHARACTER AND MENTALITY.
WE WILL: HAVE BOLDNESS, WALK IN LOVE, RECEIVE DELIVERANCES, HAVE PEACE,FLOW IN THE SPIRIT, HAVE FREEDOM TO PRAISE GOD, RECEIVE HEALING, RECEIVE JOY, AND OPERATE IN SPIRITUAL GIFTS.
RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL ENTER OUR LIFE NATURALLY; INTIMACY WITH THE FATHER WILL COME, AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE.
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A REALITY IN YOUR LIFE, HE PROVIDES AN AVENUE THROUGH WHICH THE ANOINTING, THE POWER, CAN FLOW.
CHRIST MEANS “THE ANOINTED ONE.”
TO UNDERSTAND THE ANOINTING, WE MUST INVESTIGATE THE “ANOINTED ONE” – JESUS CHRIST.
LETS LOOK AT JOHN 1:32-34. WHEN “JOHN THE BAPTIST” BAPTIZED JESUS IN THE RIVER JORDAN …THE SPIRIT DESCENDED AND REMAINED ON HIM…(I JOHN 1:33).
JOHN 3:34 DECLARES THAT JESUS HAD THE SPIRIT WITHOUT MEASURE. (WE DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT WITHOUT MEASURE.)
LUKE 4:1,2 – SAYS …AND JESUS BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST RETURNED FROM JORDAN, AND WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS, BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL…
JESUS WAS TEMPTED HERE WITH: THE LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF THE EYE, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE, THE SAME WAY THE FIRST ADAM WAS, AND FAILED.
JESUS BEING THE SECOND ADAM DID NOT FAIL.
WE SEE HERE, AS SOON AS JESUS WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT HE FACED THE DEVIL HEAD-ON.
WE CALL THIS THE “TEMPTATION OF JESUS.”
THIS WAS IN PREPARATION FOR HIS MINISTRY TO BEGIN.
JESUS WAS ALWAYS SUBMITTED TO THE WILL OF THE FATHER.
AFTER DEFEATING THE DEVIL ON HIS OWN GROUND, VERSE 13-21 READS – AND WHEN THE DEVIL HAD ENDED ALL THE TEMPTATION, HE DEPARTED FROM HIM FOR A SEASON.
AND JESUS RETURNED IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT INTO GALILEE: AND THERE WENT OUT A FAME OF HIM THROUGH ALL THE REGION ROUND ABOUT. AND HE TAUGHT IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES …
HE NOW GOES BACK TO NAZARETH WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP, …AND AS IT WAS HIS CUSTOM, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP TO READ.
(WE SEE HERE HE WENT TO CHURCH WHERE HE TOOK AN ACTIVE PART.)
SOMEONE HANDED HIM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.
HE OPENED THE BOOK AND FOUND THE PLACE WERE IT WAS WRITTEN IN ISAIAH 61:1,2:
“THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD GOD IS UPON ME” BECAUSE HE HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREAH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR: HE HATH SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKEN-HEARTED, TO PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED, TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD (LUKE 4:18-19).
VERSE 21,32 – AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM, THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS.
AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS DOCTRINE; FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH POWER.
IMMEDIATELY, THROUGH THE ANOINTING, HE CAST OUT AN UNCLEAN DEVIL, AND HIS MINISTRY “TOOK-OFF.”
NOW, WHAT ABOUT US, AS SPIRIT FILLED BELIEVERS?
WHEN JESUS ASCENDED BACK INTO HEAVEN, HE SENT US THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO ARRIVED HERE TO ABIDE WITH US FOREVER, AND GIVES US POWER (JOHN 14:16; ACTS 1:8).
JOHN 14:12 – VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, HE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME, THE WORKS (GREEK, ERGON – TOIL {AS AN EFFORT OR OCCUPATION}; IMPLIES AN ACT, DOING, LABOUR OR WORK.) THAT I DO SHALL HE DO ALSO: AND GREATER WORKS THAN THESE SHALL HE DO; BECAUSE I GO UNTO MY FATHER.
JESUS SENT US THE HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTING: TO CHANGE US INTO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST, WHO IS OUR PATTERN, AND THAT WE MIGHT DO THE WORKS OF CHRIST.
Luke 11:13 – If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask?
We are Gods children if we have accepted Jesus as our saviour. We are told we can ask the Father for more of the Holy Spirit. More of the Holy Spirit in our lives, means His power and influence is greater in measure inside us.
His desires begin to consume our thoughts and wishes.
The glory of His presence is changing us and filling us with a hunger for His Word and even a greater thirst for His Spirit.
As the Holy Spirit directs me to his Word, I begin to understand the Lord’s purpose for my life.
Great faith and peace overcome my thoughts.
The Love of God overwhelms me.
It now becomes easy to love those with whom I have a problem loveing.
His presence fills me with love.
The Holy Spirit will give us revelation of all things paid for by Jesus Christ, and belongs to us.
The Holy Spirit will not only reveal those things to us; but will show us how to believe and receive.
I Corinthians 2:9-10 – But as it is written, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM. But God hath revealed them by His Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
The Holy Spirit will reveal to us the power, authority, and blessing we have in our spiritual birthright in Jesus.
The Holy Spirit can do so much and longs to do it for us.
I Corinthians 3:21b – For all things are yours.
Ephesians 3:20 – Now unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
That power is the Holy Spirit.
We must be full of Him for Him to work in us.
When we are full of the Holy Spirit, the power is flowing, our thinking is great, and our asking is greater.
God is bigger, our faith is bigger, our receiving is bigger.Our fruit grows big.
Be filled with the Spirit –
Ask – Seek – Knock
Luke 10:2 – Therefore saith He (Jesus) unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers, into his harvest.
God’s harvest is large, but the labourers are few. We pray for souls, but do we pray for labourers ? Prayer and harvest are inseparable.
God never lays people off. Gods servants have job security. His call is without repentance. Unemployment doesn’t exist in the kingdom of God.
The benefits are eternal.
The Lord’s kingdom never closes it’s doors.
The Lord never goes bankrupt. There is always work, but not enough who seek purpose for their gifts.
Some labourers take a vacation and never come back. Some labourers are hired but never go to work.
They are always saying, Someday I’ll work in God’s fields. But they wait all their life and the hearse comes and carries them to the graveyard.
The graveyard is full of buried purposes. The graveyard is full of buried dreams and visions. The graveyard is full of buried gifts.
The reason many people never pray, Lord send forth labourers into the harvest, is because they know God has a purpose for them and they know what it is. They bury their call, they bury their gift, their life is full of excuses. Well, you may have raised your hand, but you are not excused.
God wants you doing something he has gifted and called you to do.
Roll up your sleeves and get to work, your past does’nt disqualify you. Surrender your life to Jesus, He will forgive you, train you, and hire you. He will fill you with his Spirit, teach you his Word, and put you to work in His harvest.
He has an assignment for you. Sit under a pastor who is gifted by Jesus to train you.
There is a cause, Jesus needs you. Progressively, he will lead you into his purpose for your life. The word of God and prayer will become natural to you. The grace of God will come into your life to fulfill the ministry he has called you to.
In 1975 God called me to preach. To tell you the truth, it filled me with fear. I told the Lord I couldn’t do it. But the Lord would wake me up and ask me How long before you preach my Word, I would cry and tell the Lord I want to but I can’t, Lord I’m shy. Actually I was full of fear. One a pastor preached on II Timothy 1:7 For God hath no given you a spirit of fear. I didn’t get rid of the fear but I told Jesus if you will help me I will preach Your Word. I claimed the Word, and preached with a shakey voice and shaking legs: with sweat running down my legs. I preached in the presence of fear and then one day I preached in the absence of fear. No more fear for me. The word of God is stronger than fear. When we stand on Gods promises, our will to overcome kicks in and the devil has to loose us.
You may not be called to preach, but God has a purpose for your life. Surrender to Jesus and ask him to have His will in your life. Seek Him with your whole heart and knock and He will open a wonderful door in His vineyard. Blessings in your journey.
PSALMS 41:1-3
BLESSED IS HE THAT CONSIDERETH THE POOR: THE LORD WILL DELIVER HIM IN TIME OF TROUBLE.
THE LORD WILL PRESERVE HIM, AND KEEP HIM ALIVE: AND HE SHALL BE BLESSED UPON THE EARTH: AND THOU WILT NOT DELIVER HIM UNTO THE WILL OF HIS ENEMIES.
THE LORD WILL STRENGTHEN HIM UPON THE BED OF LANGUISHING: THOU WILT MAKE ALL HIS BED IN HIS SICKNESS.
THREE TIMES THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THE LORD WILL, IF WE CONSIDER THE POOR, THE LORD WILL CONSIDER OUR NEEDS.
HE SAYS WE WILL BE BLESSED. BLESSED IS HE THAT CONSIDERETH THE POOR.
THE CONTEXT OF THIS HEBREW WORD HERE IS A PERSON WILL ENJOY THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, AND THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL BLESSING IN THAT RELATIONSHIP. MY WIFE AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT BLESSING. ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD IS PRECIOUS BUT THERE ARE SPECIAL BLESSING IN HELPING THE POOR.
THE LORD ALSO SAID HE WOULD DELIVER US IN TIME OF TROUBLE. THIS IS A PROMISE. GOD SAID I WILL. GOD NEVER LIE’S BUT ALWAYS KEEPS HIS WORD.
PROVERBS 19:17
HE THAT HATH PITY UPON THE POOR LENDETH UNTO THE LORD: AND THAT WHICH HE HATH GIVEN WILL HE PAY HIM AGAIN.
GOD SAID I WILL PAY BACK TO THE PERSON THAT GIVES TO THE POOR. IF I NEED DELIVERANCE OR HEALING I DON’T NEED MONEY, I NEED SUPERNATURAL HELP. SOME TIMES GOD GIVES US FINIANCES IF THATS WHAT WE NEED. HE BLESSES US WITH MONEY OR FAVOUR. GOD NEVER FORGETS OUR ACTS OF LOVE TOWARDS THE POOR.
THE LORD ALSO SAID HE WOULD PRESERVE US AND KEEP US ALIVE. THE DEVIL WOULD LIKE TO KILL US, BUT GOD SAID I WILL KEEP THEM ALIVE. I BELIEVE THRE ARE SPECIAL ANGELS ASSSIGNED TO THOSE WHO HELP THE POOR.
GOD SAID I WILL KEEP HIM ALIVE: HE SHALL BE BLESSED UPON THE EARTH, AND HE WON’T BE DELIVERED UNTO THE WILL OF HIS ENEMIES. OUR ENEMY’S WILL IS TO HURT US, BUT GOD WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN.
THE LORD PROMISES TO STRENGTH OUR PHYSICAL BODIES, AND IF SICKNESS COMES, WE WILL MAKE OUR BED, PUT ON OUR CLOTHES AND WALK AWAY HEALED, CLAIMING THESE PROMISES.
PROVERBS 29:7
THE RIGHTEOUS CONSIDERETH THE CAUSE OF THE POOR: BUT THE WICKED REGARDETH NOT TO KNOW HIM.
WE AS CHRISTIANS CAN’T HELP EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD, BUT THOSE THAT GOD HAS PUT ON OUR HEART. WE MUST BE LED BY THE LORD TO THOSE HE DESIRES US TO HELP.
GALATIANS 2:10
ONLY THEY WOULD THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR: THE SAME WHICH I ALSO WAS FORWARD TO DO.