Absent Anointing (Part 1 of 2)

The Church is supposed to function with anointing from God. However, most churches locally don’t seem to even know who God is.

On Saturday night, the Lord said to me that He was sending me to a church the next morning. I tried to get Him to tell me which church, but He was keeping that information to Himself. The next morning, after typing the daily ministry post, I got ready to go to an unknown place. The Lord allowed me to go have breakfast at McDonalds. While I was sitting there, the Lord told me exactly where He wanted me to go for church. It was a new church that I didn’t even know existed, so I was hopeful. I’m not going to mention the name of the church because they are currently going through a construction transition, but I wanted to expand on a topic that the young youth pastor presented in his message on Sunday.

The senior pastor opened the service praying to God with His Son seated next to Him. Can you hear me rolling my eyes? As I have said many times, but can’t be said enough, Jesus is God. Jesus is not God’s Son. There are not multiple Gods on a throne in heaven. Just one. His title is God, and His name known to us is Jesus. God is Spirit.

The youth pastor was the one to present the message on Sunday. He impressed me with his insight for his young age despite that he too didn’t seem to know that Jesus is God. But he asked the question “Who is Jesus to you?”. His sermon was from the book of Acts. The young man asked some inspiring questions about our willingness to wholeheartedly make Jesus the center of our lives. He questioned why we don’t see the miraculous gifts of the Spirit like were evident in the book of Acts. Why no speaking in tongues? Why no obvious anointing? Do we spend time in prayer and Bible reading? Do we study apologetics? (That question got my attention.) Are we making Jesus the center of our lives? The young pastor also asked this question “How selfish do you have to be to know the truth but not to share the truth?”

The young man talked about his personal encounters with the voice of God through his years. I think he said that there were three separate occasions when he clearly heard God speak to him. I love that! That says to me that God is making Himself known to him. But, the one false doctrine that the young man seems to have accepted in his training is that Jesus is not God, but instead that He is a separate Son of God. And that’s why he isn’t seeing the anointing as was displayed in the first church as recorded in the book of Acts. Personally, I have experienced all of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, and regularly the Spirit speaks through me in tongues of angels. I hear God speak to me clearly every day from morning to night.

We don’t see much of God’s anointing in the local churches because they don’t seem to know who God is. Which means that they are not hearing God’s voice in prayer. If you are not hearing God’s voice in prayer it is because you are not doing it right. You must first be sure to be in covenant relationship with God where you have promised on oath for Him to be your one and only God. If you don’t know that Jesus is God, how can you do that? Until you confidently get that understanding in your belt of Truth, you are rarely going to encounter the anointing from God. God can show up as He chooses, but why would He put His signature on bogus doctrine? I’m sure that God wants to make Himself known but to whom? Could it be that He wants to make Himself known to you? Then maybe seek Him about who He is … and study apologetics!

Please see the attached two (of four) study pages from the June 2021, Mark of Excellence Newsletter. The remaining two pages will be presented in part 2 of “Absent Anointing”.