"Anointed"

"Anointed"

"Is any sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of

the church; and let them pray over him,

anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord."

(James 5:14)

Have you ever been anointed with oil and prayed over for healing, for ministry, for direction, and for answers?  The anointing oil and the hands of the Minister will bring the victory to your life!  The answer, in obedience to God's Word, is to be "Anointed."

Samuel, anointing David to be king

It's not only for sickness and disease; the prayer and anointing oil is for position and ministry.  Samuel poured the anointing oil over David to bless him as king.  Our Pastor, Kenneth Phillips, anoints the ministers every year at the beginning of the year; it's always a very powerful service when this is done.  By the laying on of hands, and anointing with oil in the name of the LORD, one is appropriating His will, His authority, and direction in accordance with the Holy Word of God.

"They drove out many demons and

anointed many sick people with

oil and healed them."

(Mark 6:13)

I have been healed when anointed with oil and prayed over by my Pastor.  We need the medical profession, and God uses all kinds of methods for healing, including them, but many a trusting and faithful Saint have sought the holy hands and prayer of the "Anointed" and the anointing oil, "before" they take that trip to the doctor.  If one is truly healed, it will be verified and authenticated by the medical profession, and many, in that profession, have admitted, "This was, indeed, a miracle."  Thank You, Lord Jesus!  Our Pastor has anointed and prayed over ladies to have children, and one recent and others, had twins!  Hallelujah!  It works!  

Woman with alabaster box of precious ointment

                      "Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
                        For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good:
but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospelshall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."(Mark 14:3-9)  

The woman, with the expensive perfume, anointed Jesus for his burial.  Anytime an anointing takes place it is special, but this was a precious, costly, love deed by a woman for the lover of her soul.  She broke the box of perfume and poured it all upon the feet of Jesus Christ.  The beauty of this action remains beloved in the hearts of Christians today. 

One time when I was deep into prayer, and had been weeping and praying for many hours, I heard the Lord say to me in my spirit, "Break the box."   He wanted the sweet fragrance of "worship"  ... the made-up love song from a lovesick soul; the words of beauty describing His omnipotence, glory, and power; the incense from the depth of a heart after God; the sweet smell of phrases of poetry for my everlasting love; the tearful renderings of many hours of sitting at His feet  ...  That's what He wanted  ...  Break the box  ...

David being anointed

When you have been anointed, you know it!  There is an unction in your soul, a moving within your spirit; words come that are not your own; the Spirit of the Lord is significantly present in whatever capacity for which you were anointed.  If you were anointed for leadership, you have direction and guidance, ideas and plans, and blessings of all things in that regard.  If you were anointed for healing, you feel it immediately, and medical tests prove it. 

"And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken

away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the

yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing."

(Isaiah 10:27)

What does it mean to break the yoke?  The Hebrew is literally, "From the face of oil," and many render it as from the Messiah, meaning the Lord takes the burden away, removes it, breaks the chains that bind, and sets one free!  Ah, beautiful, is it not?  Gill's exposition about Israel and its enemies says it with clarity:

"the people shall be broken from before the Messiah; who was anointed

with the oil of gladness above his fellows, and for whose sake, and by

 whom, the yoke of sin, Satan, and the law, has been destroyed. Vitringa

interprets it of the Spirit of God, and his powerful operations, whose

gifts and graces are often compared to oil and ointment; and

makes the words parallel to Zechariah 4:6."

The hands, the oil, the Word still break the yoke today!  Break the yoke of what?  Whatever's ailin' ya!  ... whatever has you bound, whatever has wrapped its twisted fingers of depression and oppression around your body, soul, spirit and mind  ... the yoke is BROKEN by the anointing!  Oh, it's so very incredible to be delivered, to feel light as a feather, to have no more guilt or shame, to be well and whole, to be walking in a Called and Sent anointing, and to go forth in the power and Spirit of the Lord God Almighty.  There is nothing in this world like it!

Jesus Christ anointing the Apostles

Don't you want it?  You can have it!  If you live in another country, please send a request to promiselandchurch.net for an anointed cloth to be sent to you.  Our Pastor and staff will pray over it, anoint it with oil for you, for your need, or for your family's need.  Then, believe!

Jesus Christ, our Lord, considered the woman's perfume offering of her heart to be a precious, beautiful, welcomed, and blessed anointing.  Everyone who saw it grumbled, saying the woman was wasting a very expensive perfume by pouring it on Jesus' feet, but Hey; "those feet" walked on water, and "those feet" stepped up to Lazarus' tomb and said, "Lazarus, Come forth!"   It has been preached that if He had only said, "Come forth;" everyone in the graveyard would have gotten up!  Now, you know you wanna' shout!  "Those feet" stood on the grassy knoll when He fed 5,000, plus women and children, in a miracle food multiplication; "those feet" were on the boat, when He was asleep and they awakened Him in their fear and He said "Peace be still," and the oceans obeyed; "those feet" stood on the seashore as a chef, grilling fish for His pitifully hungry disciples; "those feet" were nailed to an old rugged cross  ... "those feet" ALL of YOU, who grumbled, are the Feet of the soon coming King, the Feet that will stand upon the Mount of Olives and rule the earth in a finale of Victory  ... 

We are in GOOD company when we have been "Anointed."

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PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)

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