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And that anointing is the power of God that enables you to live a life free of all burdens and all yokes of oppression. All you have to do is feed that anointing with The WORD of God and connect your faith to it so it can be released into your life. First John 2:27 goes on to tell us that this Anointing of God inside us will also teach us. I call it the “knowing anointing.” And it has many applications in life. For instance, when this knowing anointing is fully engaged in your life, you do not need someone to tell you what you believe. Neither do you need to be told if someone is accurately preaching The WORD or not. You can know these things by the anointing. The Holy Spirit will give you an inward witness as to whether or not someone is teaching the truth. This anointing to know can also assist you in times of crisis. Let’s say your child is in the backyard and gets hurt while playing—and it’s not really a time when you can call your pastor for a “word from God.” Don’t panic. Just turn inward to the Holy Spirit. Get counsel from the Counselor Himself. Find out from Him how you should minister to your child in that situation. I cannot tell you how many times I have done that where my own children were concerned. Apart from all the crises in life, this knowing anointing can help you in raising your children, conducting your business affairs, keeping your marriage on course and so on. And it’s all by the Anointing of God that abides within you, enabling you to live everyday life. But now there is another aspect to the anointing. And that is the anointing that comes on us to minister God’s burden-removing, yoke-destroying power. The anointing to meet the needs of people. Remember what Jesus said in Luke 4? “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” (verses 18-19). We know God’s Spirit had been in Jesus since forever past—long before He was born of Mary. Yet, the Spirit of God came upon Him after He was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River (see Luke 3:21-22). This anointing that came upon Jesus was the anointing to minister. It was the anointing to lay hands on the sick, cast out demons, raise the dead. It was the anointing to preach The WORD in power and to prophesy. It was the Anointing of the gifts of the Spirit and the manifestations of the Spirit. It was the anointing of the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher. So where is all that anointing to minister today? Ministry Within Your Reach The power of God to meet the needs of people lies predominantly in the men and women called by God to fill what we usually refer to as the fivefold ministry offices—apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher (Ephesians 4:11-12). Though no one minister of the gospel carries the fullness of the anointing for all five of those offices, all of us together have every bit of it. And here again, if only the apostles had been anointed by God—as many people have been deceived into thinking in the past 2,000 years—we would still be in one, big mess. And what if in today’s Church only the pastors were anointed, and maybe a few evangelists? It wouldn’t be any different. In fact it’s that kind of religious tradition that has cheated the Church out of the full manifestation and demonstration of God’s Anointing. Meanwhile what about the majority of people sitting in the congregation? Where is the anointing for them to minister to the needy people they encounter every day? What about the farmers and business managers, the police officers and schoolteachers in life? Where is their anointing to minister—like the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, the teacher? The answer to these questions is found in partnership. The Apostle Paul wrote to his partners in ministry at the church in Philippi and said, “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now” (Philippians 1:3-5). Here the word fellowship is an Old English translation of the Greek word for partnership. It means “equal part in a single endeavor.” +++++++++++++++ Download PDF The Protection of Angels by Gloria BVOV : 16

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