Anointing by Rodney Howard-Browne

Author:Rodney Howard-Browne
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Anointing of the Holy Spirit, Religion, Protestant, Anointing, Christianity
ISBN: 9780958306638
Publisher: Albury Publishing
Published: 1991-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

The Anointing on Every Believer

Every believer is anointed with the ministry of reconciliation but not every believer is anointed to stand in a fivefold office according to Ephesians 4:7-11. I am not trying to make it hard for any believer to be in the full-time ministry, but I would like the reader to understand that the fivefold ministries do not grow on trees. You cannot buy them down at the supermarket or the five-and-dime store or raise them up in a Bible school or seminary. These gifts are given by God Almighty. They come from heaven above and not by the hands of man.

Every believer is anointed when they are born again. God makes His home on the inside of them, and they become new.

They are set apart and bought with a price. They become a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Under the Old Covenant, God anointed three groups of people. He anointed the prophet, the priest, and the king. He would cause His Spirit to rest upon them. Today, we all have the opportunity to be anointed by God.

When Jesus cried, "It is finished," and the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the Holy Spirit came out of an earthly tabernacle made with the hands of man. Never again will He live there, but He will live in your heart and my heart. Now we become the temple of the living God according to 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 2 Corinthians 6:16.

In 1 Corinthians 12:7, the scripture says, "The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." Every believer can operate in any one of the nine gifts of the Spirit. God didn't say it was only for apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to operate in the nine gifts of the Spirit. But we know that the fivefold ministry will have a greater operation and a stronger anointing concerning the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

John 4:14

I want you to notice this scripture says a WELL. The well is the salvation experience. The Bible says, "With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation" (Isaiah 12:3).

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

John 7:37-39

In this scripture we see not just a well, but this is something deeper than a well. It's a river! In other words, you can have an anointing when you are born again, but you can have a greater anointing when you are filled with the Holy Ghost.

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