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Why? Because as Jesus’ partners in ministry, THE BLESSING and Anointing that was on Him came on them. Jesus even told them, before He sent them out, that through their ministry this anointing exchange would become available to others. As He explained it: “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward” (Matthew 10:40-41). God’s Anointing Distribution System Not everyone is called to the prophet’s ministry—or to the apostle’s, pastor’s, teacher’s or evangelist’s ministry. But according to Jesus, that doesn’t mean we can’t all partake of those anointings. We can! By receiving those who are called to such ministries and helping them get their job done, we can tap into the grace that is on them and receive the reward. This is God’s Anointing distribution system! “Well,” someone might say, “what Jesus said in Matthew 10 just applied to those who worked with Him in ministry and that was a very small group.” No, it wasn’t. Jesus had a large team of people that traveled with Him everywhere He went. According to Luke 8, it included not only the 12 disciples but also “certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, and Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance” (verses 1-3). Today we’d call those people Jesus’ ministry partners. They helped spread The WORD He was preaching. They testified about the miracles they saw. Plus they contributed to His ministry financially so that He could fulfill His call. What did they receive in return? Revelation, for one thing. As we see later in Luke 8, when Jesus preached the parable of the sower, unlike the multitudes who left the meeting wondering what on earth Jesus had been talking about, His partner team got inside information. They asked Him for further light, and He said, “Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God” (verse 10). Then He explained to them exactly what the parable meant. His partners were inside the revelation anointing! That’s part of the prophet’s reward, so it was available to them. It could have been available to others as well, because Jesus said to the whole multitude, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (verse 8). But the multitude that day didn’t receive Him as God’s Anointed, so they didn’t get in on the anointing exchange. The people in Nazareth made the same mistake the first time Jesus preached to them. When He said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor…heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Luke 4:18), they didn’t believe it. To them he was just a hometown boy. “You’re Mary and Joseph’s son. You can’t be anointed!” they said, and they refused to receive Him as God’s Messenger. As a result, the anointing exchange was short-circuited, and Jesus “could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them” (Mark 6:5). Partakers of My Grace The anointing is the burden-removing, yoke-destroying power of God flowing through a human vessel (Isaiah 10:27). It’s the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself as “the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD” (Isaiah 11:2). Those are all anointings. They’re all available to us, as believers, and there are two ways we access them. First, through our union with Jesus “who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30). And second, through our connection with other believers, particularly those who are called to fivefold ministry. BVOV : 7

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