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    What exactly is the anointing?

    Someone asked this on facebook...how would you answer these questions:

    We often talk about being anointed or having the anointing, but what exactly is the anointing? How do we obtain it? How do we properly operate in it?

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    Luke 4:18 “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;"

    Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

    1 John 2:27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

    In the Old Testament they anointed God's servants with oil as a sign that they were set apart for a specific ministry. The Holy Spirit came upon some of them. A woman anointed Jesus with oil for his task of dying for the people but he wasn't anointed with oil for his ministry prior to that, he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power, as an example to us. We are also anointed with the Holy Spirit and power and are capable of demonstrating the gospel through those mediums, as Paul talks about in 1 Cor 2. That anointing also teaches us all things.

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    OT anointing - The power of God on a man.

    NT anointing - The power of God running through a man.

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    The answer I gave on FB:

    Anointing a person with oil has always represented the Holy Spirit coming upon them and empowering/gifting then to perform a certain function, accomplish a certain task, and fulfill a certain office/service (ministry). Rather than trying to get God to give us an anointing for something we should seek Him as to what He has called us to do and then receive His anointing to do it..
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    Quote Originally Posted by victoryword View Post
    The answer I gave on FB:

    Anointing a person with oil has always represented the Holy Spirit coming upon them and empowering/gifting then to perform a certain function, accomplish a certain task, and fulfill a certain office/service (ministry). Rather than trying to get God to give us an anointing for something we should seek Him as to what He has called us to do and then receive His anointing to do it..
    Wouldn't you say that we receive an anointing when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit and then the flow of that anointing can be increased ? Gifts operate in that anointing but gifts are not the same as the anointing.

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    Wouldn't you say that we receive an anointing when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit and then the flow of that anointing can be increased ? Gifts operate in that anointing but gifts are not the same as the anointing.
    Yep. I would agree with that.
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    what exactly is the anointing? How do we obtain it? How do we properly operate in it?
    The power of God running through a man (or woman). The anointing is His ministry to others, you don't necessarily "obtain" it, you already have it, all believers are anointed. I think the question might be more along the lines of how to discover it, get the revelation of Him in you, operating through you.

    So, in a simple way, here is what it is ... He loves people, He can use you to express that love in a supernatural way via healing, deliverance, miracles, etc.

    To operate in the anointing one must operate in the character of Jesus Christ.

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    There are special anointings for specific purposes. Yes, we are all anointed, however, there are times a preacher who is anointed has a special anointing more than at other times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
    There are special anointings for specific purposes. Yes, we are all anointed, however, there are times a preacher who is anointed has a special anointing more than at other times.
    The anointing is for the benefit of the one being ministered to, to touch, heal, deliver, etc. So yes, the anointing (Him operating through you) is not static or rigid.

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