I Shall Be Anointed With Fresh Oil
By Pastor Jeff Arnold, Gainesville, FL

Most of the folks that attend this church come into contact with the HOLY ANOINTING that brings about the NEW BIRTH: we call it THE HOLY GHOST. In the past, folks had been touched by some one pouring OIL onto their heads, and the SPIRIT would come upon them.  While the OIL was symbolic and the SPIRIT was REAL, I am very concerned that many of us are living with the SYMBOLIC in place of the SUBSTANCE.  We have been given SPIRIT LIFE and only that life can accomplish the various acts and deeds needed to LIBERATE FOLKS. 

I read where JESUS WAS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND POWER.  Without that, nothing of any spiritual consequence would have happened.  We must experience a RENEWAL, A FRESH TOUCH OF SPIRITUAL EMPOWERING or all the scripture in the world will not move a devil or disease.  When Elisha went across the Jordan , that old river did not respond to the PERSON but rather to the ANOINTING, and nothing else.  Jesus told his crew not to leave the city until they had been filled with the SPIRIT, or if you please, ANOINTED WITH HOLY POWER.  After receiving the SPIRIT it can become very easy to learn how to OPERATE within flesh without requiring any touch of GOD.  Our own desires can dwindle into just dreams of what we once planned to happen, we just settle down into the LAND OF CONTENT .

Life has the ability of DRAINING us from what we need to impact our world.  We just cannot continue to just do as our flesh, money and ideas permit.  I implore all of you, please seek the FACE OF GOD and ask to be FRESHLY ANOINTED so that HIS WILL can be accomplished through the only means intended: NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER BUT BY MY SPIRIT.  Each and every impossible situation will not only recognize the ANOINTING but it will also bow to it and submit to it, no matter how long it has been or how bad it seems to be.  Let’s pray now.

Ó 2004  J.W. Arnold

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