Pastor Nelson told a story of how his mother showed him one day several years ago that he needed to refresh his anointing oil. He said he stopped by to see her that day and she told him she wasn't feeling well. He carries a small container on his key chain of anointing oil. So he took it and put some on his finger tip and touched his mother. She said, "Oh, that oil stinks you need to get some new." He said he got that in his spirit and in meditating on it for about three years and then one day the Lord dealt with him about it. He found his answer in Psalm 92:10, "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil."
It is a good thing to give thanks and to sing to the Lord, but David begins to cry out of his spirit to be anointed afresh. Oil represents the Holy Ghost to empower those who stand in a position of office for the Lord. King Saul had backslidden and God told the prophet Samuel to go and anoint another. Saul had been selected but he lost out because of his hardened heart.
God tells Samuel to go to Bethlehem to the house of Jesse and anoint a certain one there. Look not on his countenance he told Samuel for it is his heart that has earned him the favor of God and the anointing. Whenever God finds a holy, submitted vessel he will anoint that vessel, and make it holy, sanctified and consecrated unto him.
Samuel looked at all the sons of Jesse, but none of them was the one. He asked Jesse if he had another son. He tells Samuel that he had a young son but that he was out in the shepherd's field tending sheep. I can just see David now at 16 out there with those sheep singing up a storm on his lyre his heart full of praise.
He was rejoicing before the Lord. David delighted himself in the Lord and he also encouraged himself in the Lord. Yes, he was a man after God's own heart. When David was come before the prophet, Samuel said, "Arise, for the anointing of the Lord."
God said, this is the one I have chosen. David wasn't too much in his family but God loved him and his praise. So praise can lift you above what others think of you. God isn't looking for qualifications the way we do, but he's looking at your love for him and how you express that.
In the old testament the spirit of the Lord came upon certain people to operate in a certain office. But today, God has poured his spirit upon all the sons and daughters. Some do not know this spirit but those that know this spirit can be sanctified and empowered. This power comes through submission to the Lord and giving everything of yourself to him. The world can not see the Holy Spirit. God is trying to get his church ready through the Holy Spirit's pouring out. This pleases the Lord.
God said of David, I have anointed you with gladness. David pleased the Lord and God was with him and anointed him. There is a place where we can be filled and refilled by the Holy Spirit. There is a place of untold resources we can tap into.
There's nothing to hinder us. God says you will find me if you search for me with all your heart. It's a place full of God's glory and unlimited power. One word from God can change your whole world. There's a place in God where we have power over the devil.
God has a place for his people and he desires for you to experience a fresh anointing. Think about when you were first saved. You had excitement for the Lord. You were ready and willing to work for him. You had a praise on your lips. Then after a while they backed off, because they didn't get refilled with fresh anointing.
You are anointed for ministry, the gift of the Holy Ghost to give to the people. He has to be endued with power to reach into darkness and pull somebody into the light. The Holy Ghost was a promise to us and he wants us to experience it.
Lets look at Acts 2:2-4, and they began to preach Jesus after the anointing. They were drunk with this power. The natural man cannot know or understand this. Those men looked like they had just left Joe's Place at about 2:28 a.m. and were drunk.
Let me tell you what the Holy Spirit did to these disciples. They were anointed to preach the gospel with power. Light had come into darkness. This was their message; Christ was buried and was raced from that make shift alter in the tomb. God manifested in the flesh. Jesus was exalted to the name above all names, above all principalities and is seated on the throne. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to the glory of the Most High God.
In Revelation 1:14-18, John tells of the glory of his power and majesty. John says, "His head and his hair were like wool, as white as snow; his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. Out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. When I saw him I fell at his feet as dead. He said unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death."
The purpose of Pentecost is to have power, to live in abundance. (John 10:10) And signs and wonders followed them. Peter said to the blind peddler in Acts 3:6," Silver and gold I do not have but what I do have I give to you. Fasten your eyes on me, and Peter raised that man up and said, "now be healed in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
You cannot be healed without an encounter with God. When you've been healed you've had a powerful encounter with the Master. Search me oh God and see if there's anything unpleasing in me, and allow God to change you, and you will be filled."
These men who were filled with the Holy Ghost in the upper room. That place was shaken and they spoke the word by the Holy Spirit. We must have fresh oil! If you haven't received this power then you need it.
Paul went to Ephesus and found twelve followers of John the Baptist. He laid hands on them and anointed them to preach. Paul said, "Have you received the Holy Spirit?" He's talking about the unction, the power on high.
How do you receive the power of the Holy Spirit? Well, what do you do when you hear a knock at your door? You go to see who it is and invite the guest in. Jesus says, "Any man who hears my voice and opens the door receives my power."
The men told Paul, "We haven't received the Holy Ghost and the authority of Christ." Paul laid hands on them and they spoke with unknown tongues.
There is an initial filling of the Holy Ghost. Just because you got filled twenty years ago doesn't mean you're still filled. If you haven't been refilled then you are spiritually stagnate. David sought refills, he said, "my horn I will exalt like the Unicorn and I will be filled with anointing."
Some people miss God in Pentecost. The heavenly bakery is still open. Now lets jump to Ephesians 5:19. Paul is still talking to the same men, " Be filled with the spirit, speaking to one another in spiritual songs and making melody in your heart to God."
The bible records Paul's instruction on how to be filled. Paul is energizing them here, the same people that gets filled and refilled. The early church was continuing to be filled. They were looking for Jesus to return and they kept praying and fasting in seeking refillings of the Holy Spirit. A spirit filled person is prepared for honor, sanctification, to be prepared for good works.
Don't allow the things in this world to draw the anointing out of you. Go to him and he will refill you!
This teaching is from my notes taken from a sermon by the Rev. Jerry Nelson, Westmoreland PHC, Wilson, NC. To hear sermons of his on CD go to: westmorelandphc.org
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