What is anointing the power preachers talk about now
adays?
Anointing, as described in the Bible, can be defined as "God on flesh doing those things that
flesh cannot do." It is God doing those things only He can do, and doing them through a
flesh-and-blood,earthly vessel (see II Corinthians 4:7).
The basic meaning of the Bible word "anoint" is "to pour on, smear all over or rub into." In
the OldTestament, someone who was anointed by God for special service to God had oil poured
or smeared on him. For instance, Saul, and later David, was anointed with oil by the prophet
Samuel when God revealed He had chosen him to be king of Israel. When King Saul rebelled
against God and tried to kill David, David refused to harm him because Saul was "the Lord's
anointed" (I Samuel 24:6).As David Knew the value of anointing.
The anointed David couldn’t stay passive when he saw the enemy(lion and the bear) trying to
snatch the sheep from his fathers flock or when Goliath was challenging the armies of Israel.
His anointing got stirred up and he destroyed the enemy.That is the mark of an an anointed
person.When he sees the devil binding people he will spring into action.
To be anointed by God is not only to be picked, but also to be empowered by Him for the task
or position to which He has called you. The Hebrew word "Messiah" and the Greek word "Christ"
both mean"the Anointed."
Anointing was a sign of Israel's coming Redeemer. The prophet Isaiah, looking forward in time
by theSpirit of God, saw One through Whom "the yoke [of Satan's oppression] shall be
destroyed because ofthe anointing" (Isaiah 10:27). The word destroyed means absolutely
corrupted beyond use, destroyed,no good for (the devil's) use.
Jesus, reading from another Messianic prophecy in Isaiah, said, "The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me,because he hath anointed me...." What had the Spirit anointed Him to do? "To preach
the gospel to the poor...heal the brokenhearted...preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind...set at liberty them that are bruised..." (see Luke 4:1819).
Jesus had the burden-removing,yoke-destroying power of Almighty God all over Him.
News of the Anointed and His Anointing was the "good news" or "gospel" the early Church
ministered.
When Peter was asked to preach the basic, gospel message to the gentiles for the very first
time, the first thing he told them was "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power:who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil; for God was with him"(see Acts 10:38-39).
When Philip preached Christ (the Anointed One and His Anointing) in Samaria, "the
people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the
miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that
were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed" (see
Acts 8:6-8).
They received and heard the good news that the Anointed One and His Anointing had come to
destroy the yokes from their backs. From the moment they received it, God confirmed it, just
as He did in Jesus'ministry.
The anointing is God's presence by the Holy Spirit. The anointing on Jesus was by the Holy
Spirit (see Luke 4:18; Acts 10:38). The anointing we have received from Jesus is by the Holy