THE ANOINTING

"We too can receive that same anointing!"

Jesus came with a special intent and purpose. His sovereign plan was to redeem mankind from the fall, and He determined to do it in the face of evil, AS a man, but as a special, set-apart man. He was born of a woman just like us, but He was anointed, thereby set apart. A New Man, like us, but without the baggage of sin and its inherited nature. He started with a clean slate.

The Glory in the Mystery of what He accomplished is the Truth that we can now, by faith, be regenerated into a similar condition! The manifold Grace of God has chosen to no longer look upon our sin nature, when we shelter ourselves under the work and the shed Blood of the Anointed One. Best of all, as the Father promised long ago, we too can receive that same anointing!

The Promise of the Father is the indwelling of the same Holy Spirit that filled Christ in His human body! Jesus seemed to glory in the fact that He was like us, and like God at the same time! Son of man, and Son of God, because of the Anointing. It's that same Anointing, now available to us, that breaks every chain and every bondage!

In the 23rd Psalm, when the psalmist said he had been anointed with oil by the LORD, his God, it's as though he laid down his quill and said in a wave of splendor, My cup runneth over! To be anointed, set apart by God, is an overwhelming, enabling, and humbling privilege. And we should note, for David, it was an occasional blessing. For us, because of the work of Christ, it is to be a continual thing! Indeed, MY cup runneth over!

Let us recognize, receive, and confidently walk in the Anointing He has provided for us, today, and every day. Surely goodness and Mercy will follow us all day, every day, wherever we go!

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And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ,(Anointed One) the Son of the living God.
~Mathew 16:16 KJV

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
~Isaiah 10:27 KJV

Wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
~Acts 1:4b-5 KJV

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
~2 Corinthians 5:19 KJV

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
~Galatians 5:25 KJV

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
~Ephesians 5:18 KJV