The Anointing

I want to just flow on this one and talk about the anointing. All born again believers are anointed at varying degrees in order to walk in their gifts, and fulfill the callings, purposes and plans of God in the individuals life. What I want to focus on here is how God, though the Holy Spirit produces the Anointing in ones life. First lets take a look at the olive, The oil that was used to anoint various people and objects was drawn from the olive. Anywhere in the Bible you read about an olive or olive branch or olive oil it is dealing with the anointing. For instance, Jesus gave His greatest sermon on mount Olivet, or the mount of olives. When Jesus comes back to set up the millennial Kingdom He is descending upon the mount of olives. So the olive is a symbol of the anointing. How the oil was execrated out of the olive was by putting a group of olives in what is called an olive press. Branches were used with leaves on the end of the branches the olives were beaten with the branches till they welted up and began to bleed out the oil. This is what the Bible calls the pure beaten oil. Again the anointing oil would be poured over the person or object separating them unto the service of the Lord. We to have the anointing on the inside of us and its the same process used by the Holy Spirit to bring the anointing forth in ones life. So when one goes through hardships, difficulties, disappointments, let downs. When everyone looks like their getting blessed, but you. When your serving in the church and your lights are getting ready to get turned off, Your about to loose your job and there is no one to help. People in the church may think that you got some kind of secret sin in your life. they are talking about you. Yet, through all this ,if you are able to stand and say, “tho He slay me, yet I will still serve Him…”. Then one day God causes a situation and you rise up and open your mouth and the anointing falls, and everyone opens up their mouth in disbelief, or God causes you to put your hand to something that everyone else has failed at but when you do it it’s a success. The Bible says, “7 But we have this treasure (anointing) in earthen vessels (our bodies), that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. @Cor 4:7-11 All that Paul went and the other Apostles went through was the price they paid for the anointing to flow through their lives. Although they suffered greatly those that received their ministry were blessed. So there is a price to pay for the anointing are you willing to pay it…3