Anointing

"Everywhere we turn, we should see God, see His heart."

WHAT DRAWS the eye, what draws the ear, and makes an implant on the heart is the anointing. A writer can write, or a speaker can speak, something they’ve prepared from their own knowledge, and this applies to musicians as well, but anything done from the mind and the will of the flesh will not have the impact of something done from the will of God. This is not to neglect the size of the crowd. There are famous names who draw large crowds without an anointing. We won’t debate how and why this happens except to say it happens in the secular world. This is not a history lesson of famous persons. But take writing, for example, millions of people have written material and released it and drawn very few readers. The talent to write and the know-how are not anointing. Anointing is the presence of God, and it comes only through the Holy Spirit.

“But the Holy One has anointed you and you all know the truth.” (1 John 2:20)

Why is the Word of God, the Bible itself, the most publicized, the most printed book in existence? And why were men’s efforts to stamp it out so unsuccessful? It cannot, in effect, be done. At one point in time, the church refused to allow the Bible to be written in everyday English, and when one man attempted it, they had him put to death. Yet, the King James Version was later translated by the King of England’s orders and is the most widely read today. God writes books, fiction and nonfiction. He writes songs through people of all genres and cultures. He writes in all languages, and I’m sure when all knowledge is revealed one day, we’ll be surprised by a lot of it. We must be open to Him and continually seeking Him for His presence in our work. We must be willing to lay down what we know how to do and allow Him to direct it.

I write spontaneously, even when writing fiction. I do very little planning, although I do read for history and facts. Yet, even for me, who can take three objects and make an opening scene, for me to write His words takes me into places in my ways of thinking and methods of writing that ask for great patience and for me to pause and reflect. The Spirit is apt to say nothing when more is being asked of me, and I’m left there, sometimes with my fingers ready and not one word being spoken. Where I like to “get done with it,” He will go slowly and ask me to wait. He also doesn’t want me continually travel the same roads. Meaning I cannot always write what I would normally write next. What is easy for me to “come up with” isn’t always what He wants to say.

I have found by pressing onward, that our relationship has strengthened. This applies to our prayers as well. Jude 1:20 says, “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.” Prayer is our spoken words, our communication and conversation with God. To pray in the Spirit means both in our native tongue and in our Spirit language. Our Spirit language or tongues, as it is called, is crafted by God and speaks only the perfect will of God (Romans 8:27). In short, you cannot mess it up in what is spoken. In how it is spoken, however, we can drone on, without thinking. The Spirit of God is asking us to listen. Minister Lance Wallnau also teaches that we can grow up in our heavenly language; we can mature and the style of it will alter. I have seen this in my own prayer language, another word for prayer in tongues. But our prayers in our native tongue are also to be filled with God’s presence.

God hears all prayers from anyone, even those addressed to false gods, spoken in arrogance and ego, or without one drop of faith. He is of such great lovingkindness. We cannot be content to stay in that place of childishness or ignorance, though. Just as the apostle Paul asked the church at Corinth to grow up, we, too, must read the Word consistently, and as we do, we will develop a hunger and a strong desire for revelation of it. That hunger will push us deeper into the presence of God, to higher places. A student begins at one grade and through acquired knowledge, advances to gain a degree in their profession and to having a job. They don’t start as a professor or the manager of an office. The same is true of supernatural things. Both our experiences and the revelation of God’s Word draw us into more intimacy in our relationship with the Father, with Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit, and greater intimacy produces a more advanced anointing on our results.

There is a neverending heaven within and sights and sounds we will glory to see and hear, there are things He desires to do through us in the lives of people, and both require our maturity. We must move from fleshly tantrums of the emotions and mind to that steady calmness which carried Christ through Calvary. Where we use anger to speak the Word of God to the devil, He uses peace. While we’re casting demons out, sending them in new directions to harm other people, He’s pulling their strongholds down. Never allow yourself to believe God tolerates the devil. Just look at Jesus who committed Himself to become human, knowing for a time, He would not know anything about heaven. He was an infant; He had to grow up.

In order to die on the cross, He had to go all in. It is God’s goodness that leads us to repentance, not His vengeance (Romans 2:4). We’ve got that all wrong. What will cause men to mourn in John’s Revelation is seeing how beautifully merciful He is and their own state, that they deliberately gave that up for selfishness. We, the body of Christ, must commit to being the bride, who adores Him so much she will submit all of herself – spirit, soul, and body – for His benefit. A bride does not live separated from her husband but they two become one flesh. There is a deep truth to this I ask you to seek, and it is not about flesh-driven, carnal marriage teaching, but growth and maturity. Everywhere we turn, we should see God, see His point-of-view, see like Him, and see His heart in what He wishes to accomplish. There should be, as so many have said, all of Him and none of me. When we think this way, we won’t see what we lack anymore but only what He’s given us.

“That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;” (Ephesians 4:14)

“So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;” (Ephesians 4:14)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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