"AND WHO WILL GOD ANOINT?"

Post date: Aug 7, 2018 3:46:46 AM

“Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord? Who may enter your presence on your holy hill? Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts. Those who refuse to gossip or harm their neighbors or speak evil of their friends. Those who despise flagrant sinners and honor the faithful followers of the Lord and keep their promises even when it hurts. Those who lend money without charging interest and who cannot be bribed to lie about the innocent. Such people will stand firm forever.” Psalm 15:1-7

The Lord will not anoint someone He had not chosen for His specific work; He will not anoint someone He had not called and equipped for any specific mission, and He will not give His inheritance to the one He had not approved. Every Christian is anointed for a specific duty for the Lord and the anointing speaks through the services rendered. The anointing enables us to be functional, to be effective, and to be consistent in the service. While the eye of men admires what is physical before giving their approval, God admires the heart and what is the heart first before giving His approval. The physical appearance of men is good but it does not represent the true picture of the heart and does not speak of the intent of the heart. The outcome of the anointing is God being glorified rather than being glorified; it God being honored and not man; it God being elevated above all else and not man; it God being worshiped and not man; it God being praised and not man; it God being seen, known and accepted and not man. The anointing we receive is to show the world who, what, and how God is and not to show the world who we are.

When God is working in us through the anointing, He is leading us in the services and things He had ordained for His glory though He blesses us therein, but the focus is not on the blessing or in the honor we will receive, the focus is on the service we render in the name of the Lord. When we in any way loss that focus through any kind of compromised or replace the focus for something else, we loss the covering in the anointing and become our own instruments in our own hands doing our own things rather than instruments in the hands of the Lord, doing the Lord’s work and giving Him all the glory He deserves. While working under the anointing, we are working under the control and leadership of the Lord and we have to obey His instructions and follow His steps in whatever we do. While working with the anointing by the Lord, we have to show a consistent form of faithfulness, obedience, and submissiveness. We have to always remember that we did and cannot anoint ourselves or call ourselves into His services, God is the one who calls and He is the one who anoints and He is the one who takes the glory.

While we love the anointing and what flows from it, we also must love the Lord in practical ways and not be compelled only by circumstances to do His will; we have to do it voluntarily and diligently with love and with all our passion and focus from the heart and with our physical being. We must also love unconditional obedience to His words not being selective in what we obey while being His servants, we must love being submissive to Him in private and in public, fully submissive to His words, to His plans, and to His purpose even when such submissiveness does not advance us in any way before men and are contrary to our personal desires for own immediate or long time benefit. We must show consistent faithful to Him, to His words, and to His services and give Him the honor He deserves publicly and privately in our lives. God is still saving souls, He is still forgiving sins, he is still giving grace, He is still calling men and women into His services and He is still anointing people for His services. Are you truly ready for the His service or are you already in His service with a submissive heart? Ask Him for the anointing and He will freely give you. For prayers Click here