The Flow of God's Anointing
GOD loves you to love others. He forgives you to forgive others. He blesses you to bless others. That is how His anointing flows.
Genesis 1:27 says man was created in God's own image and man possessed certain qualities that reflected God's 'character'. But just a single disobedience caused man to lose that character and got separated from Him. It took God's Love to reconcile man to Himself by the 'one obedience of His Only Son Jesus through His death and resurrection (Romans 5:19).
By this, anyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sin, His Holy Spirit Anointing and also obtain His blessings. (Read Acts 10:43, Acts 2:38, Ephesians 1:3)
It is also His desire that we extend His love, forgiveness and blessings to others to advance His kingdom.
God's anointing flows through the one who avails himself to be used by Him to the one He wants to touch. The Anointing is on every 'born again Christian' (1 John 2:27). It is suppose to flow for others to benefit and we can achieve this by loving, forgiving and blessing one another with all that God has bestowed on us.
Things that block the anointing in us as Christians are unforgiveness, hatred, envy, bitterness, greed,stinginess etc. We must be mindful of these evil characters.
Jesus commanded us to love one another in John 13:34 and to love our enemies and even to bless those who curse us (Matthew 5:44).
The World English Bible translates the passage as: But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you.
The above command seems difficult to comply but when we submit ourselves entirely to the Holy Spirit, '...out of our hearts will flow Rivers of living waters (John 7:38)'. That means, we will have a wellspring of the Holy Spirit within us, constantly flowing out to others and empowering their lives.
May God continue to increase the flow of His Anointing in us to advance His kingdom for His Glory.
AMEN!!!
©Isaac Opong, 2017
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