The Anointing | Part 3 "Activating the Anointing" - Stephanie Ike

hey family i'm pastor torre i'm pastor sarah and listen you're getting ready to hear an incredible word for the lord i believe it's going to bless you i believe it's going to be timely do me a favor share the message if it moves you share the message and then also you have an opportunity to be a part of not only helping to spread this message but to be a part of our outreaches we're doing a lot of practical things to be a blessing to someone so feel free if god so moves you to use the information here in the video to support what we're doing we're being a blessing not just people spiritually we're being a blessed people practically we love you get into this message and change your life you know family i'm so blessed to be with you today because two weeks ago our pastor pastor ray roberts began a series on the anointing it has been such a blessing and if you haven't watched it i encourage you right now the part one well maybe not right now but today okay part one and part two it's on our youtube channel you need that in your life because the topic of the anointing it is too grand it is to this it is it is as though you want to describe god how do you do that it is too grand to fit in just the time that we have together and so when you watch that it would even give more context to what i'm going to teach on today and i'm going to be teaching on today activating the anointing you see when you receive the lord jesus what you received with the spirit of the lord and the spirit of the lord is the source of the anointing but having the source does not mean that you've activated it in your life you see for instance there's many arguments about you know do you become a believer when you start speaking in tongues or do you become a believer like what how do you what is the sign that you have the holy spirit and the sign that you have the holy spirit is that you have proclaimed that jesus is lord because you cannot do that without the spirit of god but having the ability i'm using speaking in tongues because there's even a personal story i have attached to that but having the ability to speak in tongues does not mean or not even speaking in tongues rather when you receive the holy spirit does not take away your salvation experience but that means that you have access to the source but yet you have not activated its ability you have not activated what is available to you through the spirit of god you see i gave my life to the lord at nine years old but it wasn't until many years later that i began to speak in tongues and actually it's a it's an interesting story this message is not about tongues but just stay with me is going to connect you see first of all this message on the anointing it is so critical to your life that you actually i i need right now your undivided attention and the beautiful thing family is that because the lord is with me if you feel like you are not blessed which i think will be impossible i will ask that he add this minute to your lifespan so nothing was lost but here's the thing right when we talk about speaking in tongues my experience with speaking in tongues was i was studying the word of god and i was studying how the disciples were speaking in tongues and and the people around them were hearing what and they could interpret what the disciples were saying and i became so intrigued by this because i was like wow there is the ability through the holy spirit to speak in tongues that already exist on the earth because the holy spirit is all knowledge and all wisdom he knows everything he knows every language that exists and there's also the tongues that we call our heavenly language the one that is discerned by the father and i was so intrigued by this i went home this is my story everybody's story is different i went home and i desired it i said lord i see that it's available right here peter was speaking in tongues i'm no different than peter and i'm like lord i want to speak in tongues and one of the things that the bible tells us is that it is unfruitful to the mind so it's not that your mind is like connected to what you're doing and so literally i was like you know what i need proof that what i'm doing is speaking in tongues so i want to start with speaking a language that exists on the earth this is this is hilarious right and i take out my laptop and i go to what every believer does we go to google google translate i take on my laptop and i go to google translate and i said lord i desire to speak in tongues for my spiritual maturity and you it's available in you and i have your spirit so i should be able to do this and i was like i'm just going to open my mouth whatever comes out i'm going to write it to the best of my abilities and so i did and however whatever i was saying i wrote it down to the best of my abilities and i put it right there in google translate english you know whatever it is to english figure it out google detect language and google being as wise as it is found the language that i was speaking and there was one particular thing that i said that stood out to me and actually i carry it until now and that was joseph is a position of circumstance just stay with me family we're gonna get to where we're going is that joseph is a position of circumstance and the the thing that was so intriguing about that is that when i began to ask the lord why was the spirit praying this because when you pray in the spirit the bible calls it a perfect prayer and i said why is why is this what came out and the lord began to show me that your spirit was actually praying for your ability to endure you see everybody wants to have the story the end story of joseph right and this is not joseph the husband of mary but joseph the one who was sold into slavery by his brothers joseph had a dream when he was a child a dream given him given to him by god one that showed that joseph would be in the position of authority and later on in his life that dream manifested but there was a lot of trials and tribulations before he got him there and so when he finally got there it's like there was the ability to endure so the lord began to show me he said your spirit was praying for your ability to endure because like you the place that i've called you to to get there is a position of circumstances you're going to go through a lot of things but you need to know how to endure it now this was fascinating to me because i said wow all along i had access to this but i had never activated it because you see the the apostle paul said something about spiritual gifts he said pursue love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts now why this is a big deal is because the apostle paul as an apostle one of the functions of their office is to teach on the mysteries of god and how the kingdom of god operates that is why there is a scripture when the apostle paul he told the people that you ought to regard me as one as a steward of the mysteries of god so when the apostle paul said this is how you you activate spiritual gifts in your life you pursue love your motivation should be that of love that which is selfless and you should desire it you should believe that you would receive it in your life now you see the reason that i'm sharing this is that in order to activate what is available to you through the holy spirit there are mysteries that have to be revealed similar to the spiritual gifts or what many people may call the manifestations of the spirit there is a mystery behind it it is not just that you god is not unjust there is a key there is a key there is an insight there is a knowledge there is a revelation behind accessing the things of god and so when we talk about the anointing it is one thing to have the source of the anointing and it's another thing to activate the anointing and that's what we're going to be talking about today and i want us to go to a scripture and this is in matthew matthew chapter 3 verse 16 to chapter 4 verse 1 and we're going to read it and it says and when jesus was baptized immediately he went up from the water and behold the heavens were opened up to him and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and coming to rest on him and behold a voice from heaven said this is my beloved son with whom i am well pleased then jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil now you may be wondering what does this have to do with the anointing but this has a lot to teach us about activating and understanding the purpose of the anointing you see first of all it tells us that when jesus was baptized the first key thing i want you to take there are four key things that we're going to extract from this scripture and the first key thing is this the cost of the anointing the cost of activating the anointing is death the cost of activating the anointing is death it says when jesus was baptized now today we understand that baptism means that the old life is buried in christ the old life is gone your old life is buried and when you come out of the water you are rising up to your new life in christ rather but the old life it's in the water it's buried in the on the cross with christ and all of that and when you rise up all of a sudden you're rising up to new life and that is why even as a church community we encourage people to be baptized when they're older and have an understanding of baptism because baptism is not just about going inside the water and coming out or having a sprinkle of jesus on your face baptism is much deeper than that and so we understand this in our time but in the when jesus was baptized by his cousin john john in the wilderness had one message that he was preaching one key message and that message was repent for the kingdom of god is at hand so when john baptized it was called that it was a baptism unto repentance now this was intriguing to me because i'm like but why would the lord need to repent but you see repentance many of us understand repentance to be about turning away from sin but it's not just about turning away from sin it's about what you are turning to because sin is bigger than your lying and your cheating and all that stuff sin is when you miss the mark anything that draws you away from the call of god on your life is sin and in this moment when jesus goes to john to be baptized by john it was a symbol of death death to the nature and the will of the flesh and life to the purpose and the will of god that is why you will often hear when jesus will later on say in his ministry not my will but yours be done yours he's speaking to the father because jesus had a will and it showed us that his will what the will of his flesh was not really the will of the father but when he said this this baptism it was not just about the water he said i would lay my life down i would appoint my life to the plan and the purpose of the father i will appoint my life to the reason i was sent on the earth that moment of the baptism was a symbol of death you see when you are seeking to be anointed by god you have to ask yourself am i willing to die to self because jesus later on will say something like this he will talk about how that for this reason i believe this was in john 10 or so he would say for this reason the god loves me the father loves me because i lay down my life the laying down of his life we see the symbolic it was symbolic that moment of the baptism he said i lay down my life and to lay down your life is to appoint your life he said my life is not random that in this moment i recognize that the reason of me being here has an appointment it has a mission it has an assignment and i say yes to it that moment of the baptism jesus was saying whatever the flesh desires that is what i'm not saying yes to i'm not leaning into the way of my flesh i'm leaning into the things of the spirit i'm leaning to the reason the father sent me i'm saying yes to god this is a moment of surrender and truth the cost of activating the anointing is death the spirit of the lord is drawn to that which is dead in the flesh when your flesh is just so active and hyper first of all it's evil it's so difficult to even be led by the spirit because we're led by ego we're led by pride we're led by by whatever the society is drawing us to but that moment when you truly say yes to god it is a moment of saying god you have your way in my life i don't want to do this thing i don't i am tired of living a life beneath my special as our pastor would call it that there is something about me that i know and i don't want to lean in my own wisdom anymore you see when many of you i shared the story about how god just interrupted my norm and told me to leave all everything that was doing business and all of that and told me to move and led me to this church and and the first thing he told me to do was to be an usher in this house but the thing that i did not share with you is that before any of that happened i reached a point in my life that i was tired i was literally tired of living beneath what i know was what was in me it was hard for me to get out of bed yes money was flowing and all of that but inside of me something felt dead and i began to ask the lord i said god whatever it is whatever it is that you would need me to do i don't want to live this life this is not who you've called me to be something in me was aggravated and you have to get tired if you love living a lie then you are not ready to access and activate the anointing upon your life i got to a place that i said lord i really don't care what you asked me to do i don't care if you asked me to move to alaska even though you know i hate the cold [Music] it didn't matter to me family i reached the point that you see the moment of salvation is actually a bit different than the moment of your of of york of a consecrated yes because when you give your life to the lord there is a love attracts you there is a love of god that makes you say wow i want to know you jesus this is exciting who are you i received the lord at night but it did not fully change my nature it took me into the process of my nature being changed i was still doing my own thing very much but there was a moment there was a moment where it was not just about saying yes to jesus as my savior it was about saying yes to jesus as my lord lord i want you to lead me first i recognize that you saved me and that is beautiful i recognize that you are my family i recognize that you love me i recognize that you will protect me but now i want to be led by you so you can know the lord and still live a life that may not really look like him you can believe in god but yet you are not fully committed to his ways some of you watching you can say yes i love the lord but no one needs to tell you the things that you're doing that you know is not in full alignment with the ways of god you have to reach a point in your life when you truly say lord i am tired during the series our pastor talked about how the anointing is the guarantee of your progress if something is the guarantee of your progress in the things of god shouldn't you be curious about that when i got to that place it was not too long after that that the lord said to me stephanie leave everything and move here and i responded and did just that i knew was going to cost me but there was nothing i desired more than to walk out the version of me that god knows and when you get to that point when you get to the level that you say lord i am tired if i'm speaking to you put that in the comment right now because as as long as you love where you are you will not change as long as you love the comfort of your life you will not know progress you would not know true progress in god that moment changed everything for me you see it reminds me of the rich young ruler who came to jesus when he came to jesus he said look all these things i've done what else can i do he he was eager he there was something about jesus that he knew he was connected to ultimately when jesus told him sell everything you have give it to the poor and follow me what drew you to me in order for you to walk in it this is the requirement but the rich young ruler loved his life too much the bible tells us that he walked away and he was and this is the thing this is not even in my notes he walked away and he was sad his disposition changed because the truth family is that you can hunger for more but until that hunger becomes starvation until you reach the point that you recognize that nothing else satisfies you except the things of god you will not change and to get to that level you have to commit your ways to the lord you have to meditate on the things of god to realize why you need the lord many times we get comfortable in our ways that we lose sight i was comfortable i was making great money i was writing devotionals and sharing them online and i said hey this is great but something in me needed to be unleashed and i couldn't silence that noise any longer maybe that's where you are and what i'm telling you is that you are in the right place because to truly activate the anointing that you have you you're connected to you have to reach that point of saying lord not my will but yours be done whatever that looks like whatever that looks like because the moment you reach there the lord will take you through a process to test your heart he will take you through a process to test your character he will take you through a process to test the loyalty of your yes you see it's interesting with the israelites the word of god tells us that they were in the wilderness why because the lord was actually testing their heart when the lord talks about david he said this is one that i have found that would be loyal to me that his heart is loyal to me could it be that david being a shepherd boy and being despised by his father was a test of god could it be that you may be in a place right now that all god is doing is testing your heart that i'm talking to some of you and you have said that and what god led you to do is not what you thought it would be but what if god is testing your obedience he is testing where does your loyalties truly lie jesus told that rich young ruler all he said was sell everything and follow me he didn't give him the he didn't give him a scope of what would take place you know i will make you a disciple i will make you an apostle i would anoint you with the ability to cast out demons he didn't say any of that he said just follow me walk away from it all and follow me and we will go on a journey together because you see the interesting thing family god is taking over this message when jesus selected 12 of the disciples to be apostles it wasn't only 12 disciples that followed him there were many disciples that followed the lord there were many people that followed jesus that is why in the scripture it talks about how jesus went up to the mountain to pray he went to seek counsel from the father that out of all these people that follow me who should be the apostles and the father revealed 12 out of the bunch you see when when you be when you come to a place and you say lord i am tired of living a lie the instructions god gives you is the test of your heart i know that david was one who truly said lord whatever it took because for david to put his life in danger to protect sheep that was not natural sheep could be replaced it could be bought life cannot be bought i mean you know sheep they're they're animals and they they have life in them but just follow me the purpose of the sheep could have been replaced but david would risk his own life to protect his father's sheep a man that despised him he was not moving in a natural mindset he was moving in the mindset that that was to please god that everything he did he did it as it was unto god when the lord took me from everything and he gave me certain instructions it was to test the loyalty of my heart he said how loyal would you be to me there were things that the lord asked of me and if you know me if you know if you if you knew me in my past it's things that i mean like this is this is a lot for my ego that for me to subject myself to certain things i felt like god this this this the same me you know when you want to you don't want you want to tell god like look i you know where i came from where did we really come from this is just pride but god was saying look i'm going to test the loyalty of your heart i'm going to test what you think you are too big to do or to whatever to do i'm gonna test that and god began to break me everything that would ever keep me bound every lie every pride every ego he began to break that in me because honestly i didn't care what the lord asked me to do if the lord asked me to go clean the bathroom at 7 11 i would do it with a smile because at that point i said god whatever it is that you desire you may be in a position right now and all the lord is doing is testing the loyalty of your heart because to truly activate the anointing you have to choose death death to the flesh and yes to the things of god the second thing i want you to write down is that the anointing it prospers you you see the bible tells us in the scripture that we read it says the heavens were open to jesus the heavens were open to jesus and when the heavens were opened it was not a natural thing like the clouds just kind of like separated and all that it was a spiritual thing because what came as a result was spiritual he says when the heavens were open all of a sudden the spirit of god descended and came upon the lord to rest on him when the heavens are open to you it means that all of heaven's resources is behind you to back up the very thing that god has called you to do you see when i was studying this there was something that the lord said to me that it stood out to me so much about the anointing and i want you to write this down first of all that the anointing is the power of god to accomplish his purpose in your life but there is something so beautiful about why the anointing it doesn't just prosper you randomly you see we we know the scripture our pastor even taught on this scripture when it talks about and david wrote this when it said that you know when it talks about the blessed man in psalms 1 that anything he does prospers but when you look at the life of david anything is not a random statement it doesn't mean that you could just you know hey just you know flip the coin and choose one when you look at the life of david you have to even look at where it who said it david did not live a random life david would be one that when he's going to somewhere he will say lord shall we go is this a battle that you have appointed for us what david talks about that anything this blessed person does prospers is that anything that is assigned to you by god is guaranteed to prosper that is the power of the anointing you see the lord said something to me and i love it and he talked about that when that the anointing is when he god obligates himself to the progress of your life and this is why because there is a shared interest when you can appoint your life for the things of god when you say yes to god you have a shared interest with the father because now your mindset is about establishing the kingdom that you're saying lord i share in what you desire i share in what your heart longs for and when you get to that point the lord himself would obligate himself to your prosperity to your progress in what he's called you to do that's why whatever you do under the word of god it cannot fail and fail is what is is the out is the end outcome many times we're calling the trials and tribulations of failure but that is not a failure sometimes that is to strengthen you that is part of the process at the end of it it cannot fail you see it's so beautiful because this experience of the of the spirit coming upon jesus david actually had a similar experience and i want to read this to you i want you to see this so you can make note of it and first samuel um chapter 16 verse 13 it talks about then they then samuel rather took the horn of oil and anointed him david in the midst of his brothers and the spirit of god came upon david from that day forward the moment that he was anointed the spirit of god came upon him but i was intrigued by that because i said but david always had the spirit of god with him because when he was fighting the lion and fighting the bear it was the spirit of god that was with him so what what changed what was different when i studied what this actually meant you see when the spirit came upon him that actually translates to it prospered him that the spirit prospered david from that day forward and it was not a random prosper it was to prosper him for the what the word was released for the lord said to samuel anoint david to be king there was a purpose for the anointing similar to the lord jesus he said that you know the spirit of the lord is upon me i believe this is in luke the spirit of the lord is upon me for he has anointed me and the lord began to describe the different things that he has been anointed for so david was anointed to be king and the anointing is what marks the guarantee of your progress in that that david no matter the trials and tribulations you see in life at the end you will sit on that throne the anointing cannot be stopped the beautiful thing about the anointing is that it is when god empowers what your life has always been set apart for the lord said to jeremiah he said before you were born i set you apart and i appointed you a prophet to the nations before you were born you were set apart for something your life is not random there is something that the lord sets you apart to do and the anointing is to establish you in that very thing but it begins when you stop leaning on the wisdom of your life when you say lord i surrender all what is it that you would have me do where is it that you would have me go i say yes to your leading who do you say i am when you become curious about what god knows about you you cannot fail in that you see the beautiful thing again about the anointing and i want you to write this down is that the anointing the mark of the anointing is the revelation of your i am it was said in the scripture that we read that and behold a voice from heaven said this is my beloved son it was a moment of identity a moment of identity just like i said with david david was not just anointed randomly it was not just about the prophet coming to him and saying i just put oil on you he was anointed to become king you may not need someone to touch you with oil actually you don't it's nice but you don't need that what you need is a word what word has god spoken to you about who you are what conviction have you felt in your heart about your i am that is a mark of the anointing when you begin to have an understanding about the mystery of your life that is a mark of the anointing that is the anointing at work in you you see there is a story i've never shared with anyone but when i was in this house i was serving as an usher there was a particular day that pastor ebenezer was preaching and he was talking about his story and he was talking about what god has done how he encountered the lord in this house and how he's been raised in his gift and his anointing in this house and when he was preaching my heart was on fire because i could connect with him i understood that lord i i this is even further confirmation that you are calling me to be one who speaks of your word you are calling me to be one who proclaims the gospel who speaks of the kingdom you are calling me to make the name of jesus no i connected with that in that moment i didn't need anyone to lay hands on me to let me know i already understood it in my heart and god kept giving me further confirmations at the end of the service i waited for mostly everyone to leave and i came right around here i came to the altar and i knelt down before the altar and i called on the name of the lord and i said lord i know without a doubt what you've called me to and i still say yes the anointing comes with the word nobody touched me but my body was on fire i couldn't there was something i couldn't contain in me because when god's word comes to you it is his anointing there was a man who had insight about this when it came to jesus he had a servant the bible tells us he had a servant that was sick and he came to jesus and jesus is like oh let's go to your house he said i don't need you to do all that i just need you to release a word the scripture tells us again that he sent his word and it healed our diseases you may have been waiting for someone to come and lay hands on you you don't need that you may feel like in this time that of covid lord there are restrictions that that keep me away from knowing about who i am you don't need that you need the word from god that shows you who you are it may come from a friend it may be sent to you even through a message like this it may be a conviction in your heart it may be something that echoes to you this is who you are the foundation of your identity is that you are a child of god and more layers begin to be revealed when you know what god has said about you you cannot fail at it it is impossible to fail at what god has set you apart to do because literally all of heaven is backing you up the lord himself is obligated to you because there is a shared interest in manifesting the kingdom what word are you convicted by and are you leaning into it because this brings me to the final thing that i want that is so critical that you have to take note of that the anointing operates where the spirit leads you see in that scripture it tells us then jesus was led up by the spirit he was led by the spirit he wasn't forced by the spirit to be led by the spirit means that he followed the spirit you see before jesus had followers he was a follower of the spirit before he had disciples he was a disciple to the spirit he was led by the spirit are you leaning in the direction of your anointing can you imagine if david when goliath showed up he said you know what i don't want to fight no more this looks too big for me i don't know i might not win but he was already anointed for it the anointing would only operate where the spirit leads it's not going to operate where your fear leads it's not going to operate with offense unforgiveness comparison it doesn't operate there it operates where the spirit leads when david did what was led by the spirit he saw victory in everything that is why even jesus jesus would be in a town i love jesus man there's so much you learn from his his walk on the earth and just who he is jesus would be in a town he's healing people he's doing all this stuff it's amazing teaching the people the word of god and then all of a sudden he tells his disciples he's like okay i'll wrap this up we have to go to more towns so that i can preach there also for this is why i came jesus was never one who was distracted he had a focus he had an assignment he didn't care what if the people applauded him if he had another mission he was leaving the place of the applause to go to the next town that he may continue to do the work of god don't be led by the sound of the applause be led by the spirit of god lean into the thing that god has anointed you for the anointing is attracted to battles there may be some battles and challenges in your life leaning to it is the anointing that is drawing you the battle is actually what should be afraid of you you see true story there was a time in my life i don't know where this fear came from but i used to have this fear of being kidnapped like literally i just had this like it was just like this paranoia about being kidnapped maybe because i don't know i don't even know what to tell you maybe why i just had this thing about being kidnapped and then when the lord began to speak to me about the anointing all of a sudden there were all these fears that were breaking off my life because what i understood is that the anointing is the guarantee that i will be fine the anointing is the guarantee that i don't have to be i'm not worried about a sickness i'm not worried about premature death i'm not worried about oh i'm not worried about it because i recognize that whenever god is going to call me home it will be my time because i have given my life i have appointed my life to the things of god my life is not random he is obligated to my life because we have a shared interest i have laid my life to say lord you have your way not my will but yours be done and when you operate from that place it gives you a sense of confidence about life there might be an obstacle in my way but it wouldn't stay in my way because i recognize that where the anointing is the power of god shows up and lord if you have called me somewhere whatever that obstacle would be it must move that's why jesus told the disciples he said say to the mountain move you know what even have fun with the mountain just throw the mountain into the ocean the mountain should just do a jump because jesus understood that when you are walking in the anointing nothing is a limitation to you when jesus was moving in the anointing when there was no boat he began to walk on water when you move in the anointing you stop being afraid of life you stop being afraid of what is on the news what is being reported it's not that you live a foolish life no but you recognize that i am under something that this world does not understand it's different just put in the comment i'm different i'm different yeah i'm different we're going to pray for the anointing on that song maybe i'm not sure can't remember the rest of the lyrics but this is the beautiful thing family when you operate under the word of god there is a guarantee that you would make progress in all that you do and this is your portion and this is your inheritance and i want to pray for you because there was something in particular the lord showed me concerning you you see as i was preparing for this message and as i was praying for you the lord gave me this vision and in the vision i saw the sons and daughters of god in a room and there was a ceiling it was a low ceiling in the room already there was a limitation there was something that was keeping them there but it was not just that on the ceiling were these huge webs thick webs like spiderweb it's like spiderman showed up in that vision it was really thick that you and it was not even recognized that was the interesting thing at first glance you don't even recognize that there are webs on the ceiling but the moment you try to put to push the ceiling up the webs like they they hold whatever you're trying to use so somebody was trying to use a stick like a rod to hit the ceiling and the webs just kind of like grabbed the rod like you could even go through the webs they were so thick and so i began to ask the lord i said lord what are you showing me and what is it that you want me to pray concerning your people and he began to talk to me about a web of lies he said what you should be under is an open heaven jesus was under an open heaven open heaven like like i said to you is when all of heaven's resources is ready to back up your life because you have submitted your life to the very purpose of god on your life but instead they were under a web of lies and i said lord what is this lie what is this deceit what are you showing me you see there are many people right now some some of you there was a lady in particular the lord showed me who would actually watch this message from a hospital room after an attempted suicide there are many of you right now and you feel like life is not worth living there there are lies there all these lies from the enemy that to cloud your judgment about who you are and what you have access to you've been wondering but god i have given my life to you what is taking place this word is sent forth to break up these webs because your life matters you may feel like lord i'm in this position i'm in this place that i just want to end it i kept seeing this deep is a deep attack of a suicidal spirit and you may not feel like actually taking your life but you you you've shut you it's like you've shut down from life because you can be living like someone who's dead and not the not the type of death i was talking about you can be living as someone who is just not even interested in anything at all you're on you're on some sort of pilot mode and the lord began to show me you and he said what is over them is this web of lies and we're going to break that because there is a call on your life there was something you have been set apart for before you were even born and the anointing is attracted to that and i want you to understand that the obstacles that come against you they don't mean anything the anointing is drawn to battles the anointing because it is the power of god the power of god in it in order for you to understand it is the power of god it has to manifest itself it is drawn to battles it is drawn to obstacles it is drawn to reveal what you are under you have a calling and you have a purpose you have been set apart for an assignment by god and there are some of you when you you have this fear of what is it going to cost me it's what it would cost you is what you desire for it to cost you it will cost you everything that you are not that you would become who you truly are i see some of you who have been in that testing ground there are things that there are unique things that the lord has requested from you there are unique things about your business that the lord has said you should do and you shouldn't do all of it is to test the loyalty of your heart that is your heart loyal to me hang on and just like the spirit of god was praying for through me for my life that day i also pray that you would endure every season that looks like hardship because it's going to lead to somewhere don't don't subscribe to the lies of the enemy the lies that say well if god if god is really good why is all this happening where is god in the midst of all this he's right here he's right here with us the bible says that his ways are not our ways and his thoughts and other thoughts that as high as the heaven is from the earth that so are his ways higher than our ways god is a strategist you may not understand how a and b create will connect to c but god knows god understands how this puzzle piece and this puzzle piece would create the outcome that is actually for your good you have to make a decision to unsubscribe from the lies because what is keeping you bound it is the lies of the enemy that you are believing the reason in the vision why no one could see the webs is because they have believed it they didn't even realize what was oppressing them they didn't realize that what was limiting them was the lies that they have subscribed to your portion is an open heaven not a web of lies not to be oppressed because you are believing the lies of the enemy your portion is to know that heaven is backing you up and heaven is going to back up what the lord has declared whatever god has told you to do it may seem random it may seem foolish lean into it say yes to it and you will see what god will do because what you've been anointed for cannot fail it can't and you can fail whatever fear you used to have trust me in the anointing it doesn't matter there are moments i tell you that i'll be preaching and i'm in excruciating pain but i get up here anyway and it would just be pain that comes from nowhere because i understand that lord i'm under the anointing this pain is going to leave at some point it's not going to stop me from doing what you've called me to do because you have guaranteed that i will succeed in the thing that you've called me and all of a sudden the pain leaves because you have to learn how to fight back the anointing is a fighter you said no no i'm not subscribing to these lies i am anointed for this and what i am anointed for i deliver because it's not me who delivers it is the lord who is by my side is the lord who is with me it is the power of god through me that delivers so let us pray heavenly father i thank you for your children o god i thank you that they would know that what is their inheritance is an open heaven and open heaven over the things that you have called and appointed them to that they would understand that even before they were born that they were set apart for an assignment they were set apart for a purpose and lord that purpose would be established in their lives i thank you lord jesus that as they lean into you as they lean into your wisdom and your strategy and your divine knowledge oh god that they would know that this is home that the place of my safety is in the place of god is in the place when i lay my life when i appoint my life to the things of god that they would know that they are not losing or missing out on anything when they say yes to you i thank you lord jesus many have been waiting for oil to come upon their heads by someone but they would know that all they ever needed was the word that the word was the anointing at work in their lives precious lord thank you lord you see i just see the lord kadaba i see where the lord it's a it's a different oil it is a spiritual oil that is coming upon your head because anything we do in the natural is only to show what god has already done thank you jesus thank you jesus i see this well of oil it's like a stream of oil and it's so beautiful because it's it it's interesting because it's rising up and it's a and it's a sign it's like the oil is going forth and it's just drip falling on the heads of the sons and daughters of god in your home in your car i thank you jesus because some of you are listening to this i'm seeing some of you even in your car i see some of you you're sleeping even in your car right now you don't even have a home but you have appointed yourself to say lord it doesn't matter what my life looks like i am submitted to you i'm telling you all you need to do is endure this season of your life and lean into what the word of god says about you i see someone and the lord is showing me you and he's showing me tyler perry there was a point where tyler perry was homeless and today we acknowledge and applaud tyler perry the billionaire do not downplay what the lord has said to you because of your circumstance the anointing works the anointing works david was was kalabashi david was looking after sheep he was cleaning the poop and the whatever nonsense of sheep and all of a sudden not knowing that david you would go from being this boy this this boy that is despised to being king over the same people that despised you do not downplay what the word of god is upon your life the anointing is guaranteed to work the anointing is what is guaranteed to establish you i see many of you your life there is a turning point in your life the lord is showing me thank you jesus i see a clock this is beautiful you see what's so beautiful about time and the the hand of the clock is at midnight and it's stained at midnight and then all of a sudden it just moved it is a sign of a new day that is coming to you you have felt like your life has been in limbo for so long and you're just like god when is things gonna shift but what you didn't realize you see there's a there's a song that talks about you know late in the midnight hour god's gonna work in your favor or something something something you know it's not on my head right now but the song is a beautiful song and as the lord is showing me this clock there is a turning point coming for you just endure the season that you're in the anointing works whatever god said to you don't look at the the limitations of your surrounding don't look at yourself like oh i'm just in this car and don't even be comfortable with what you think is a success because what god has for you is what you really need to lean into thank you jesus there are some of you and you're watching this and you need to come to the lord you need to make the lord not just the one you declare as your savior but you need to declare that the lord is your lord the one that you submit your life to if that is you just put in the comment that's me that's me and just say this prayer with me heavenly father i say yes i say yes today to everything that you say i am i'm laying down the way of my flesh i'm laying down the desires and the nature of my flesh to say yes to your will have your way in and through me in jesus name amen family we love you you

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Length: 53min 49sec (3229 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 19 2020