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Do you want to receive and release the anointing? This is a most excellent read by the Chavdas. As I've said before they are teachers full of wisdom for the Body of Christ. I'd take heed to this key word and let's release the anointing together!
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Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda:
Receiving and Releasing the Anointing of the Lord
In this very hour in which we are living, the Lord is releasing His anointing on His people to a degree unseen since the first century. He wants to not only anoint us, but He wants to teach us how to steward it, how to release it, and how to increase it in our lives. He wants to give us spiritual victory. It is critically important that we be alert and ready to step into this season of divine appointment. God is calling us to welcome His anointing and take our places in the most glorious hour of the Church.
God is imparting His anointing to us for our own healing and deliverance, but there is more. He wants us to be so empowered and energized with His anointing that we become instruments of His miracles for others. It is the anointing that breaks the yoke. We are coming into a new prophetic hour, and God is calling us to become carriers of His glory that will break the yokes of bondage, sin and sickness and set His people free wherever we go.
The Breath of the Spirit
Simply stated, the anointing is the power of God manifest in our midst. It is the breeze of His divine and holy Presence, the breath of the Spirit. It is the light and life of Christ shining in us and through us. The anointing is the bubbling overflow from the wellsprings of God – the "rivers of living water" flowing out of our hearts.
Jesus walked constantly in the Spirit's anointing. He began His public ministry with the proclamation, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:18-19).
Jesus was dependent on the anointing to do the mighty works He did. Luke records that "on a certain day, as He was teaching… the power of the Lord was present to heal them" (Luke 5:17). The power of the Lord was the anointing. If Jesus needed it, how much more, then, do we!
Focus on the Primary Things
The Lord wants to fill us with His power. He wants us to walk in His anointing so He can pour out His love, His blessings, His compassion and His healing mercy over the world. For most Christians, receiving the anointing is not the problem; the challenge is keeping it. We receive the anointing when we come to Jesus in faith and repentance. The Holy Spirit comes to us and takes up permanent residence in our heart. As we learn to listen to and obey His voice, and as we are filled with the Spirit, we begin to see more and more of the evidence of the presence and increase of the anointing in our lives.
Keeping the anointing means learning to focus on the primary things. First of all, we need to focus on Jesus Christ. He is our Savior, our Lord and our all in all. Focusing on Jesus means getting to know Him better and better and growing to love Him more and more.
Second we need to cultivate a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. Get to know Him, welcome Him and drink daily and deeply of His water of life. The Holy Spirit is a Person. He is coexistent, coeternal and coequal with God. He is our Helper, Teacher, Comforter. He is the Resident Lord of the Church. He gives spiritual gifts to empower and anoint you to reflect our glorious Bridegroom Jesus. He transforms us from glory to glory.
One of the surest ways to diminish the power of the anointing in your life is to neglect your personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. We can grieve Him with our stubbornness, by gossip, by backbiting other Christians or by other unChrist-like words, actions or attitudes of the heart. Staying in tune with the Holy Spirit requires daily repentance – allowing the Holy Spirit to expose our thoughts and attitudes in His perfect light and turning to Him and His grace to transform us more and more into Christ's image.
It's All About Love
As we saw in Luke 4, the anointing of the Spirit led Jesus to the lost, the poor, the broken and the hurting. The fuel that fed His ministry was a burning heart of compassion. A key to walking in and releasing the anointing is love. Everything Jesus did was motivated by His compassion: "But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them" (Matthew 9:36).
In the same way, anyone who carries the healing anointing must also carry a heart consumed with compassion for those in need. The spirits of pride, criticism, condemnation, prejudice, legalism and judgmentalism are completely incompatible with the anointing of the Spirit. In order to do the works of Jesus, we must be like Jesus. The only way to be like Jesus is to let Him live His resurrection life in us.
This is not easy to do because it requires that we die to self. Only the smell of our burning flesh on the altars of our selfishness will release the full fragrance and potency of the anointing. We can't keep the anointing by hoarding it for ourselves. The only way to keep the anointing is to give it away!
Walking in the anointing leads us outward, away from ourselves, away from what the anointing can do for us, to paths of service and ministry – what the anointing can do for others through us.
Our nation, our culture, and the nations of the earth are starving for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The empty husks of humanism, intellectualism and false religions cannot fill the empty place, or hold back darkness. The world is hungry to see Jesus and His power. We, His Church, are the Bride of Christ, filled, prepared and anointed to share His life, His light and His healing power to a desperate and dying world. The Spirit of the Lord is upon us, and He has anointed us to preach, to heal and to liberate those who are in bondage.
Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda
Chavda Ministries International
Email: info@chavdaministries.org
