Live By The Anointing! · Wednesday, August 29th

                                                                                 Pastor Chris

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you… (Acts 1:8).

There’s no such thing as Christianity without the anointing of the Holy Ghost. Without the anointing, what you have will be mere religion, and religion gives you nothing. We must operate under the anointing of the Holy Spirit all the time. The anointing is real and it’s for us to live by.

The anointing is also transferable. In the book of Acts, there were various accounts of how the anointing was communicated through material mediums as handkerchiefs and aprons and even through the shadow of Peter (Acts 19:12; Acts 5:15). If the anointing could be retained on inanimate objects, how much more on your physical body!

Therefore, it’s important that we operate in the arena of faith in God’s Word where the anointing becomes something that we’re not only acquainted with, but what we relate with and enjoy. Too many Christians don’t care about the anointing, and that’s wrong. You have to realize that nothing you’ll ever do for the Lord would be acceptable to Him except done through the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus had to offer Himself to God through the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 9:14). No matter how religious and respected by men you might be, without the anointing of the Holy Spirit your life will be empty. For your services and devotions to the Lord to be of eternal significance, you’d have to carry them out by the power of the Holy Ghost. The Lord Jesus is concerned about the works that remain; works that are of eternal value. No wonder He said, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain…" (John 15:16). This is something more real than religion.

Your life as a Christian will be a day-to-day experience of the miraculous if you’d learn to live by the anointing of the Holy Spirit as the Prophets, Apostles and even the Lord Jesus did in Bible days.

Confession

God has anointed me with the Holy Spirit and power, and I’m impacting the lives of those in my world with the presence of God and the Gospel, thereby bringing glory to the Name of the Lord, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

f u r t h e r s t u d y:John 15:16; 1 John 2:27

Daily Scripture Reading

1 Year Reading Plan : Proverbs 1-2 1 Corinthians 13

2 Year Reading Plan : Colossians 4:10-18 Jeremiah 15