The Anointing CLEARLY Explained

0:00 - What is the anointing of the Holy Spirit

0:02 and what does it do in our lives?

0:04 Let's take a look at the Word of God for answers.

0:06 (uplifting music)

0:11 The word anoint means to smear or to rub.

0:15 Now in the Old Testament,

0:17 there was something called the anointing ceremony.

0:20 And in this ceremony, a prophet of God

0:23 would pour oil over the head of an individual

0:27 or in other cases they would smear oil

0:29 or rub oil onto certain items.

0:32 Now this pouring of the oil represented the Holy Spirit

0:37 of God coming upon someone for a specific purpose.

0:40 For example, when David was anointed to be king,

0:44 this is how it looked.

0:45 1 Samuel 16:13, "So as David stood there among his brothers,

0:50 "Samuel took the flask of olive oil

0:52 "he had brought and anointed David with oil,

0:56 "and the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully

0:59 "upon David from that day on.

1:02 "Then Samuel returned to Ramah."

1:04 So again, this is an example of the anointing ceremony.

1:08 In this specific instance, David was being marked

1:11 by God as the next king of Israel.

1:14 So when the prophet poured the oil on David,

1:18 God was smearing his nature, rubbing his nature onto David,

1:23 so that he could be set apart to fulfill a purpose,

1:26 so that he could have divine backing,

1:29 divine authority, sanctification, being set apart.

1:33 The prophet marked David as the next king, and in doing so,

1:39 the power of the Holy Spirit was released,

1:41 not because there was power necessarily in the oil,

1:44 but there was power in that symbolic act,

1:47 in that as David was being marked with oil,

1:51 he was also being marked with the Holy Spirit.

1:54 And this, again, is a mark of sanctification.

1:57 When God anoints someone or when someone

2:00 in the Old Testament underwent the anointing ceremony,

2:04 it was a sign to everyone that this person is marked.

2:08 This person is set apart.

2:10 This person has been purposed

2:12 for a specific task that God has given to them.

2:15 And not only that, they are being given

2:17 the divine authority to carry out that task.

2:21 So as we just saw in the Old Testament, kings were anointed.

2:25 You can look at 1 Samuel 16, verses 1 and 13.

2:29 Prophets were anointed.

2:31 Just see 1 Kings 19:16.

2:34 Priests were anointed.

2:35 Take a look at Exodus 28, verse 41.

2:39 Special holy items and places such as altars were anointed.

2:43 You can see an example

2:44 of this in Exodus chapter 29, verse 36.

2:47 So in the Old Testament, whenever God wanted to set

2:51 apart an individual or an item as being holy

2:55 or purposed for something divine,

2:57 that person or item would be anointed

3:00 or have oil poured on them or rubbed on them

3:03 and this was a symbol that God was marking them

3:06 or smearing his nature on them.

3:09 Now let's take a look

3:10 at how this looks in the New Testament.

3:12 In the New Testament, we actually still use oil.

3:16 Take a look at Mark chapter 6, verse 13,

3:18 "And they cast out many demons

3:21 "and healed many sick people,

3:22 "anointing them with olive oil."

3:26 James 5:15 says, "Are any of you sick?

3:29 "You should call for the elders

3:31 "of the church to come and pray over you,

3:33 "anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord.

3:36 "Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick

3:39 "and the Lord will make you well.

3:43 "And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven."

3:47 So we see that in the New Testament,

3:49 nowadays, we still use oil.

3:51 We use oil when praying over someone

3:54 and commissioning them into ministry.

3:56 We use oil when praying over the sick.

3:58 We can use oil when praying for people

4:00 to be delivered from demonic power.

4:02 So the oil still works.

4:04 But why does it work?

4:06 It's not because there's power in the oil itself.

4:10 It's because there's power in the act

4:12 of obedience or the act of faith in using oil.

4:14 Now you don't have to use oil to pray for the sick.

4:17 You don't have to use oil to cast out devils.

4:20 You don't have to use oil for anything.

4:21 But when you do use it

4:23 and there's faith involved, God will back that.

4:26 Why? Because the oil represents something.

4:30 The oil is symbolic for something or rather, someone.

4:34 Acts chapter 10, verse 38,

4:36 "And you know that God anointed Jesus

4:40 "of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power.

4:44 "Then Jesus went around doing good

4:46 "and healing all who were oppressed by the devil,

4:49 "for God was with him."

4:51 So you notice here that the scripture says

4:55 that Jesus was anointed not with oil

4:58 but with the Holy Spirit.

4:59 So God anointed Jesus with Holy Spirit power

5:04 and you and I are anointed in the same way.

5:08 So that Old Testament ceremony,

5:11 that smearing of the oil, is symbolic for God

5:15 marking his people with the Holy Spirit,

5:18 and just as an anointing ceremony would set someone apart,

5:22 so the Holy Spirit sets us apart.

5:25 When God pours out his Holy Spirit on his people,

5:29 he's setting them apart for a purpose.

5:31 He's backing them with divine authority.

5:34 He's marking them and saying,

5:36 "This one is mine, set aside for a special purpose."

5:40 When we're marked with the Holy Spirit,

5:42 we're set aside as holy.

5:44 We are sanctified.

5:45 We are put into places of authority and power

5:49 when God pours out his Holy Spirit upon us.

5:52 So the Old Testament shadow, namely the oil,

5:57 represents the New Testament substance,

6:00 who is the Holy Spirit.

6:03 Now it's not charisma or good preaching

6:07 or an exciting personality.

6:09 That's not what the anointing is.

6:11 The anointing, quite simply,

6:13 is the power of the Holy Spirit.

6:16 The anointing is the power of God

6:19 in our lives used to do mighty work.

6:21 So what does the anointing do?

6:24 Before I answer that, let me make this clear.

6:27 There's only one anointing.

6:30 Now that anointing can affect your life

6:33 in many different ways.

6:33 That's the power of God.

6:34 So when I say anointing, just know I mean the power of God

6:37 and the power of God can affect your life in many ways.

6:40 The power of God can work in you.

6:43 The power of God can come upon you.

6:45 The power of God can flow through you.

6:46 It can work around you.

6:48 The power of God has many different things

6:51 that it accomplishes.

6:51 So there's this idea that some believers have

6:55 that they have to collect all these different

6:57 anointings to become the super-Christian.

7:00 So they think, okay, I want the healing anointing

7:02 and I want the prophetic anointing

7:04 and I want the deliverance anointing

7:05 and I want the preaching anointing

7:07 and I want the business anointing

7:08 and I want the favor anointing.

7:09 Oh, I want the Esther anointing

7:11 or I want a Joseph anointing.

7:12 Oh, I want a Moses anointing.

7:13 No, no, that's not how it works.

7:15 There's only one anointing.

7:17 That's the power of God.

7:19 Just as all vehicles these days are powered

7:22 by similar sources, namely gasoline,

7:25 so all gifts, all ministries,

7:27 all expressions of spirituality are empowered

7:31 by the power of the Holy Spirit.

7:33 It may be the same source of power.

7:35 It may be the same fuel, so to speak,

7:38 but that fuel empowers different expressions.

7:41 So you don't have to go

7:42 and do something special to get a prophetic anointing.

7:45 You don't have to go and do something special

7:47 to get the healing anointing

7:48 or say a special prayer to get the deliverance anointing.

7:51 Quite simply, if you want the power

7:53 of the Holy Spirit to work in your life,

7:55 you simply have to walk in obedience to the Word of God.

7:59 Have a prayer life, live holy, know the Word,

8:02 obey the voice of the Holy Spirit,

8:04 and then you become positioned

8:06 because you're surrendered to be used

8:08 by God for whatever purpose he has for you

8:12 and you make yourself available for the Holy Spirit

8:14 to flow through you and work his power

8:16 in any way that he wants to.

8:18 So there's no secret to getting this anointing

8:21 or a secret to getting that anointing

8:23 or a special prayer for this type of expression of power.

8:26 It's simply the power of the Holy Ghost working in you.

8:29 And as you obey God, love Jesus, and obey the Word,

8:33 that power begins to express

8:35 many different things in your life.

8:37 And so when we use terms

8:38 like the deliverance anointing or the healing anointing,

8:41 it's not necessarily wrong to use that terminology,

8:44 but what we actually mean is that the power

8:46 of the Holy Spirit, which is the same in all of us,

8:48 is working in a different way for that moment.

8:50 So people can say,

8:51 "Oh, the healing anointing was so strong."

8:54 And what they mean by that when they say that

8:56 is that people were getting healed

8:58 and that's how the anointing was operating in that moment.

9:01 Or they say something like,

9:02 "Oh, that worship team was so anointed.

9:05 "Oh, the preaching was so anointed."

9:07 And what they're really saying is the power

9:09 of God was very evident in what they were doing.

9:12 Luke chapter 4, verses 17 through 19, say this,

9:16 "The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him.

9:19 "He unrolled the scroll

9:20 "and found the place where this was written.

9:22 "'The spirit of the Lord is upon me

9:26 "'for he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.

9:30 "'He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,

9:34 "'that the blind will see,

9:36 "'that the oppressed will be set free

9:38 "'and that the time of the Lord's favor has come.'"

9:41 So we see just from that portion of scripture alone,

9:44 that the power of God or the anointing

9:47 is to empower our preaching.

9:49 The power of God or the anointing brings deliverance.

9:53 It brings healing.

9:54 It brings freedom.

9:55 It brings blessing and favor.

9:57 The anointing is what makes the difference.

10:00 You see, when we do things

10:03 without the help of the Holy Spirit,

10:06 when we do things in our own strength, by our own power,

10:09 or we rely on our charisma or our giftings

10:12 or our personality or something that we know,

10:16 then we're not relying on the power of the Holy Spirit.

10:20 But when you rely upon the power of the Holy Spirit,

10:24 there's actual ability to make a difference.

10:27 Only the anointing can break spiritual bondages.

10:31 Only the anointing can bring forth miracles.

10:34 Only the anointing can make our preaching

10:36 and teaching effective to where it brings transformation

10:39 in the soul, in the mind, and in the body,

10:41 and in the lives of those who listen to the preaching.

10:44 The anointing makes the difference.

10:47 So what is the anointing?

10:49 The anointing is the power of the Holy Spirit

10:53 and the anointing brings healing, deliverance,

10:56 power for preaching, freedom to the captives.

10:59 It brings blessing and favor.

11:01 The anointing makes the difference.

11:03 The anointing strengthens ministry.

11:05 The anointing makes your life more effective

11:07 for use unto the glory of God.

11:09 The anointing can be at work in you.

11:13 All you have to do is surrender to the Holy Spirit.

11:16 There's no gimmick.

11:17 There's no secret.

11:18 There's no information that only

11:20 some spiritual elite group knows.

11:23 It's as simple as loving Jesus,

11:25 obeying the word, having a prayer life, and living right.

11:30 Just obey and trust the Holy Spirit

11:33 and that power will begin to flow.

11:35 And I'm gonna pray that it flows right now.

11:38 Father, we thank you that you've anointed those who know you

11:44 and I pray today, Lord, that you would pour out

11:48 your spirit upon all of us in a fresh way.

11:51 Let that anointing begin to work in our lives.

11:55 Father, bring healing, bring deliverance,

11:58 bring peace of mind.

12:00 Bring refreshing as only you can.

12:04 Break every bondage in the name of Jesus.

12:08 And Lord, we also pray that you would cause us

12:10 to be vessels of your power.

12:12 Use our lives for your glory

12:15 and cause us to demonstrate your power

12:19 in love to those who need it.

12:22 Now I'm praying that a fresh anointing comes on you.

12:25 Father, pour out your spirit in a fresh way

12:31 upon each and everyone watching

12:36 in the name of Jesus.

12:38 I want you to say it because you believe it.

12:40 Say amen.

12:41 Here now is a question for conversation.

12:44 How have you seen the anointing work

12:47 for you and through you?

12:49 Tell me about it in the comment section right now.

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13:06 I wanna share a scripture with you

13:07 and it's found in 2 Corinthians chapter nine.

13:10 I'm gonna read verse 10 to you.

13:12 "For God is the one who provides seed

13:14 "for the farmer and then bread to eat.

13:17 "In the same way, He will provide

13:19 "and increase your resources

13:22 "and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you."

13:26 I think we have to be broken

13:28 from the mindset that we give to get.

13:31 Yes, when you give, God does increase your resources.

13:36 But notice that the scripture says

13:38 that the harvest God wants to produce

13:40 in you isn't just you receiving blessing.

13:44 The harvest God wants to produce

13:46 in you is a harvest of generosity.

13:49 This is why he blesses you.

13:51 This is why he provides resources.

13:53 God gives seed to the farmer.

13:56 Now whether you have a little bit

13:57 of resources or you have a lot of resources,

14:00 God has entrusted you with something, and God looks

14:04 and sees how we handle what he's given to us.

14:08 And if we steward well what God has given to us,

14:13 then God increases our resources, again,

14:15 not just so we can get but so that we can be generous.

14:19 So if you want to be one

14:23 through whom God releases resources,

14:26 then he has to be able to trust you

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