The Anointing is Not Enough

What I'm about to say may come across as blasphemous or somewhat heretical, but I hope you have ears to hear what I'm about to say. We are in an age and entering a Season where the anointing is not enough. I know that sounds hard to believe, particularly considering the scripture that says, "it's the anointing that breaks the yoke" (Isaiah 10). However, I stand by my statement, the anointing is not enough. The word Anointed means "the Chosen One", which is Christ. The Anointing is the operation and activity of the Movement of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, any child of God who is operating in the spiritual gifts (1Corinthians 12) is operating under the anointing. Any minister of the Gospel who has been called by God to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ is anointed. Any pastor called by God to feed the flock of God (Acts 20) is anointed. Yet our families are falling apart. People are still getting shot in the streets by criminals as well as police. Perverted legislation like Same-Sex Marriage is still being passed, without sufficient resistance from the church. As I said, the anointing is not enough.

When we look at the Ministry of Jesus, we will find that the Lord operated in more than just the anointing. When Jesus is first Inaugurated in the Office of Sonship, when He was baptized by John the Baptist (Luke 3), the Holy Spirit comes down upon Him in the form of a dove and the Father says, in Him He is well pleased. This was when Jesus was anointed as the Son of God. But if we continue to read the text, the Holy Spirit then leads Jesus into the wilderness, to fast and be tempted of the Devil for 40 days (Luke 4). When Jesus comes out of the wilderness, the Bible says that He came out with power. This was not just "the anointing", at least not the limited anointing that the mainstream American church operates in. No saints. Yes, it was an anointing, but it was an anointing with Power! The anointing that the church is operating in today is enough to preach a good sermon and to maybe run a few ministries. But is it enough to heal the sick? Is it enough to raise the dead? Is it enough to give sight to the blind? Is it enough to make the lame man walk?

When Jesus performed his first miracle in Cana of Galilee (when He turned the water into wine), the Bible says in the 2nd chapter of the Gospel of Saint John that Jesus "manifested forth His Glory". There were some miracles that Jesus did under the Anointing and Power of the Holy Spirit (Luke 4). But there were other Miracles that Jesus did that were His Miracles of Glory. Turning water into wine was not the Anointing, it was The Glory. Walking on water was not the Anointing, it was The Glory. Making the winds hush up and the waves of the sea behave was not a miracle of Anointing, it was a Miracle of Glory. Taking five loaves of bread and two fish and feeding five thousand men plus women and children was not the Anointing, it was The Glory! Saints this is where God is moving us to. We've been called, not only to operate in the Power of the Spirit, but we've also been called to operate in the Supernatural Glory of God. The same miracles that Jesus walked in are the same miracles that the Father expects us to walk in, and Greater!(John 14). We can no longer settle for this traditionalized religion that today's society is calling the church. Wrong! No saints. God has GREATER THINGS in store for His people. Things that are going to turn this world upside down! But we have to go deeper into the Lord for what He has ordained for us. The anointing is not enough.