Staying With Your Anointing

15 Pages·2016·0.64 MB·English

by  Charles Capps

STAYING WITH YOUR ANOINTING
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God anoints His people for
specific purposes and different
ministries. I have seen ministers
and some laymen become
frustrated in life because they
leave their anointing and try to be
like someone who was called to
and anointed for a different
purpose.
If you don’t wait on the
anointing to give you direction in
life, you will be frustrated and
misdirected by your own desires.
Paul put it this way:
For I say, through the
grace given unto me, to
every man that is among
you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought
to think; but to think
soberly, according as God
hath dealt to every man the
measure of faith. For as we
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have many members in one
body, and all members
have not the same office:
So we, being many, are one
body in Christ, and every
one members one of
another. Having then gifts
differing according to the
grace that is given to us,
whether prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the
proportion of faith; Or
ministry, let us wait on our
ministering: or he that
teacheth, on teaching.
(Romans 12:3-7)
Paul told us not to think more
highly of ourselves than we ought
to think. For instance, I am an
ordained minister, but I mostly
operate in the office of a teacher.
Over the years, I’ve had some say
that I am a prophet, but I’ve
stayed with what I know God has
called and anointed me to do. So I
always caution people to be careful
that they shouldn’t allow someone
to prophesy over them and get
them out of their anointing and
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God’s timing.
Many years ago, a man even
tried to convince me that I was
Elijah. No, I’m not Elijah, but I am
a son of God, and I am anointed of
God to teach His Word. I operate
on the edge of some of the other
ministry offices from time to time,
as the Spirit wills, but my
anointing has been in the office of
a teacher for more than 30 years.
God created in me a desire to
teach the revelation of His Word.
HAPPINESS IS DOING GOD’S WILL
If you’re willing to do what God
calls you to do, God will not only
create in you the desire to do His
will, but He will also furnish the
anointing to get the job done.
God told Israel,
If ye be willing and
obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land... (Isaiah
1:19)
There are some who are
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willing, but have never been
obedient, and there are others who
are obedient, but they have never
been willing. They drag their feet
all of the way. Both of these
individuals will be miserable in
life and will never enter into the
full blessing of the promised land
of God’s perfect will.
If you are willing and obedient,
you will have confidence that God’s
calling will supply the anointing
that will guide you into His perfect
will.
In Psalm 37:4, David said,
Delight thyself also in
the LORD; and he shall
give thee the desires of
thine heart.
Now, you could take that two
ways, but I’m convinced that this
verse is saying: If you'll delight
yourself in the Lord and His Word,
THEN He’ll create the desires in
your heart that are of God. In
other words, your desires will be
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directed by the Holy Spirit rather
than by your own fleshly desires.
Paul said,
... let us wait on our
ministering.... (Romans
12:7)
I believe there are some who
have billed themselves as apostles
and prophets prematurely. This
may have been what Paul had in
mind when he said that people
should not think more highly of
themselves than they ought to
think.
If that kind of calling and
anointing is upon a minister,
others will be aware of it. They
won’t have to advertise it. Then,
on the other hand, if they are not
called and anointed for what they
are trying to do, that is very
obvious also.
John gives us some insight on
this matter,
Little children, it is the
last time: and as ye have
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heard that antichrist shall
come, even now are there
many antichrists; whereby
we know that it is the last
time. But ye have an
unction from the Holy One,
and ye know all things. I
have not written unto you
because ye know not the
truth, but because ye know
it, and that no lie is of the
truth. (I John 2:18, 20-21)
John states that you have an
unction of the Holy One, and you
have the ability in you to know
your calling. God wants you to
think highly of yourself. Don’t be
deceived into thinking more highly
of yourself than you ought to
think; but think soberly. In other
words, use some spiritual common
sense and think in line with your
calling and anointing.
These things have I
written unto you
concerning them that
seduce you. But the
anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in
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you, and ye need not that
any man teach you: but as
the same anointing
teacheth you of all things,
and is truth, and is no lie,
and even as it hath taught
you, ye shall abide in him.
(I John 2:26-27)
The anointing within you will
teach you about your calling in life.
You don’t have to have someone
prophesy over you to know what to
do. However, sometimes God will
use a prophetic word to confirm
the calling that He has already
revealed to you.
But personal prophecies are
not to guide or direct your life. I
think most of us know that, but
it’s good to be reminded of these
things. There are some who have
said: “Thus saith the Lord,” when
the Lord didn’t say it.
Learn to draw from the
anointing that abides in you, and
you won’t be deceived. When
someone speaks a word over you
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about something God hasn’t talked
to you about, and it doesn’t bear
witness with your spirit, just
forget it!
You have an anointing to know
on the inside of you ... in your
spirit. You may not know it in your
head, but you will in your spirit.
Draw from that anointing by
confessing daily that you have the
wisdom of God until you know
beyond any doubt what is of God
and what is of man.
James said, “If any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask...”
Jesus said, “... ask, and ye shall
receive...” John said, “... the
same anointing teacheth you
all things...” So draw from that
anointing. Start confessing you
have an anointing to know, and
trust in that anointing to give you
insight.
When it is time to make
decisions, even if you don’t have
any great revelation concerning
the matter, just stop and ask
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