ENHANCING THE ANOINTING OF GOD IN OUR LIFE AND MINISTRY

The Spirit of God revealed that there are five major keys that propel the anointing to be released, maintained and increased in dimension, power and strength. Five simple concepts that help get each of us into a place of submission to the Lord where He can move through us as if He were ministering and not us. Please note that if you walk like Jesus you will have experiences and results like Him and even be empowered to do greater works.

“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” Mark 16:17-18 

Whatever a man or woman of God or even any believers [in the now and biblical times] empowered by God can do, you can also do or even better because the Holy Spirit resides with us since Pentecost and empowers us to walk in the supernatural. Remember, “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me” [Phil. 4:13]. Through the anointing resident in the believers, Jesus proclaimed “these signs shall follow them that believes”. The word “sign” is the Greek word “semeion” which means supernatural miracles, signs and wonders.

 I believe there are principles we can deduce from encounters with God of “Men of Old” who walked with and desire to be anointed and used by God and see the price they paid to acquire, maintain and increase in the anointing of God over their lives. We must also be sensitive with what God is using to activate or input anointing over our lives and ministry. Moses had a rod of power but Joshua was given the effectual power in the Word of God as motivator of the anointing.

The first point here as the Spirit of God revealed is the attribute of “supernatural inheritance” of the anointing. The development of the anointing can start from an impartation through the previous generation. Elisha inherited a double portion of the anointing of God in the life of Elijah, Joshua got the spirit of wisdom from the laying of hands of Moses. The seventy elders were given a measure of the anointing in the life of Moses. Paul had laid hands on Timothy to receive a measure of heaven’s endowment for supernatural works and anointing.

In my case, my connection and association with Pastor Chigbo Ndukwe and several other mentors that excel in specific areas of ministry that I crave for, respect and draw from, was contingent for the translated of specific anointing into my life and ministry. Prophet Ricky Dent of blessed memory, was instrumental in imparting me with the teaching and seers anointing. I believe an element of the anointing can be transferred and there are many factors involved in it.

You do not have to have a personal contact with a person for the anointing upon their lives to rub on you, you can be ardent lover and reader of their books, sow either finances or service into their lives and ministry or even contact their anointing via internet, social media or even watching their program on television. There are people who had supernatural experiences in dreams or visions with patriarchs of old and they see themselves operating in the spirit or power operating in such patriarchs.

I now remember a Bishop who have written over a hundred books once laid hands on me by stroke of chance and divine arrangement as I was about to buy a book in the bookshop in his massive office complex. I saw crowd of people striving for him to lay hands on them or their sick loved ones but he laid hands on my head because I was closer to him and up to date I have written 26 published books and have at least 20 books some finished and some I am still writing on my laptop.

There are several men and women of God that declared publicly how they contacted anointing of God resident on other men. Kenneth E. Hagin declared how he righteously coveted the anointing on Smith Wigglesworth and he got it. Benny Hinn was imparted by the anointing on Kathryn Khulman. Apostle Joshua Selman was imparted by the anointing on Reinhardt Bonkke at a stadium meeting where he went to serve. Even the Lord God declared that the remnant in this third day shall operate and be imparted with the spirit and the power of Elijah.

Secondly, there is a key of righteousness in the anointing. It is directly tied to your comprehension of your right-standing with God, and His demand for holiness in your life. Holiness is key and pivotal to anointing because God uses clean vessels to pour out his power and love.

“He that walk uprightly, and work righteousness, and speak the truth in his heart. He that backbite not with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor take up a reproach against his neighbor. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swear to his own hurt, and change not” Psalms 15:2-4 

One of my favorite scripture that keep me in check is “without holiness you cannot see God”. We must be in right standing with God and always ready to mortify the deeds of the flesh while setting our affections on heavenly matters where Christ our Lord resides.

“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows” Hebrews 1:9 

Righteousness is a force that make heaven to release greater anointing and keep the doors of heaven open to rain down power of the age to come upon us.

Thirdly is compassion that plays a vital role in ministering as Jesus did. It is not just your compassion for the lost and hurting but compassion to see that we do all in our capacity to make sure that saints committed into our care are not hell bound.

“Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have COMPASSION on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children” Matt. 15:32-38 

It is a supernatural mixing with His compassion that permits His anointing to flow through you. Faith in the anointing cannot be emphasized enough. But I don’t mean just your faith toward Him alone—it takes a gift of faith, a divine instilling of the Lord’s faith in us to operate as He did. We must have faith in God or better still have the “God kind of faith” [Mark 11:22] to see release of anointing and mountain like challenges dissipate from the life of the people we minister to.

I am persuaded that it takes more than individual person’s own faith to be deepened enough to see creative miracles take place (i.e., toes to grow instantly where none existed a moment before, those kinds of miracles) does not happen without the added value of a supernatural degree of “God’s kind of faith” and the “gift of faith” imparted the moment a miracle like that occurs. Gift of faith is part of the nine gifts of the spirit [1 Cor. 12].

Most importantly and lastly, I believe one of the most important factors in the anointing shoots from humility. In the classic story of the woman with the issue of blood who touched the hem of the garment of Jesus and was healed there were several things that played out [Luke 8:44]. She bowed down in HUMBLE adoration of who Christ is and she touched the pomegranate and the golden bell. Pomegranate represents the fruit of the Spirit while the golden bells represents the gifts of the spirit. See humility, touching the nature of God in Christ [fruit of the spirit], before the gift of healing manifest in the woman with the issue of blood.

“But he give more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resists the proud, but give grace unto the humble” James 4:6 

It is time to come to the revelation that you have absolutely nothing in yourself to be able to minister to people, apart from your direct revelation, grace gifts and relationship with the Lord. Whatever you demonstrated is through the gift of the Spirit, it is not your own; lest any man should be boastful, arrogant or walk in pride.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he HUMBLED himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:5-11 

We must be trained to allow the Lord to minister through us. We must decrease, and He must increase [John 3:30]. Christians must also take a look at some of the characteristics required to develop this type of operation, to thicken the anointing, as it were; the fruit of the spirit is [Gal. 5:22-24] what God is looking for when those watching give their applause, and partake of Christ in you, the hope of releasing the glory of God in an ever increasing splendor.

It’s not just the manifestation, it’s the fruit behind the manifestation. However all the above is subjected to the entire council of the written or spoken [“dhavar” – Present Truth] Word of God that you know, embrace and declares, always remember that where the Word of the Lord is, there is power. Reading, studying, meditating and doing the Word of God must be paramount if we want to experience the anointing of God [Joshua 1:8, John 6:63]. Both the Word and the Spirit of God are twin towers that releases greater dimension of God’s grace and glory.

I pray that these truths here will benefit our relationship with the Lord and further enhance the operations of the Holy Spirit and God’s anointing in our life and ministry. We must allow the Holy Spirit to move through us, obeying His every dictates and walking in the spirit in such a way that we all can hear the applause of heaven and see the release of the supernatural in and through us.