Unlimited Anointing?
By Mark Stalnaker
would like to deal with something the Lord has seemed to keep bringing up lately. Many people in the church these days are asking for the double portion of anointing or a greater anointing. Many feel that only Jesus had the anointing without measure, that believers could not be anointed without measure. Why limit God?
This notion of a limit of anointing on the believer bothered me, it nagged at me. So I went to the Lord about it. I said, "Now Lord I know you said that the whole body rises into the full stature of Christ, but does that limit the amount of anointing on the individual believer? He quickly asked me a question, "What if I gave you all of my anointing, what would be left?" Before I could answer he said, "All of it, all of it would be left. That is the definition of infinite. I am an infinite God." I pondered this and realized that the Lord was able and desired to anoint every believer without measure.
He gave every believer all his Spirit, he did not hold him back. He poured his Spirit out on all flesh. He is a well spring that never dries up. He is more than enough. Where sin abounds, grace abounds more. Who can fathom the riches of his kindness; The breath, the width, the depth of his love. All scripture screams of his infinite nature, the God of more than enough. Yet we limit him. Why? Because we are looking at ourselves.
Paul said, "Let this mind be in you, that thought it not robbery to be called equal with God." Why can Paul say such an outlandish thing? Simply because it is by faith not works, so that no one can boast. Our righteous is of him not ourselves. We don’t qualify us, he qualifies us. We don’t look at us, at our qualifications. We look at the author and finisher of our faith, Jesus. He is the one who is faithful and true. Our life is hidden in God, in Jesus. We are one with God, because we are in Jesus.
So what holds us born again believers back from flowing in the anointing without measure? Simply the renewing of the mind. "Let (allow Jesus to reveal who you are in him) this (renewed) mind be in you, that thought it not robbery to be called equal with God." You cannot walk in what is not real to you, it is not real to you unless the Spirit reveals it to you. ("He who has ears let him hear what the Spirit is saying." Jesus was talking about revelation knowledge.) I dare say most of you walk in your salvation in joy and comfort, no one could even come close to challenging your salvation. Why? Because it is real to you, because your mind is renewed in this area. Because you know the truth, and in this area you are free. It is no different with walking in God’s full anointing. Once who know the truth of it and Jesus reveals it to you, it will be real to you and you will forever walk in it.
Someone may say God can’t give us his full anointing because we may miss use it. Really? Remember faith works by love. If you’re not walking in love don’t worry about misusing the power of God, you won’t have it. The greatest revelation is not of power anyway, it is the understanding and realness of love, the very nature of God, the image of his Son. So don’t limit God in your life, believe for him to reveal all he is in you, and walk in his unlimited anointing.
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