You Are Anointed!
by Kenneth Copeland
Do you know what most people would say if you asked them what Jesus primarily did during His ministry on earth? They’d say that more than anything else He worked miracles. That, as He traveled from town to town, He mostly healed the sick, made cripples whole, cast out devils, and did signs and wonders.
Even a lot of Christians have that idea. They think Jesus’ primary focus when He was on earth was doing the miraculous.
But that’s not true.
Although Jesus was indeed a miracle-worker, first and foremost He was a preacher! He did more preaching when He was ministering on earth than anything else. In the three years before He went to the Cross, it’s the No. 1 thing He was called and anointed to do. He said so Himself in Luke 4. Reading from the book of Isaiah, He announced to the people in Nazareth: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because HE HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, 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, emphasis mine).
Notice those verses say three times that Jesus is anointed to preach. They put the greatest emphasis on that aspect of His ministry. So do other New Testament scriptures. Matthew 9:35, for example, describes Jesus’ ministry by saying, He “went about all the cities and villages, TEACHING in their synagogues, and PREACHING the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.”
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