There are different dimensions of the anointing of God.  There is the anointing within a believer, and the anointing that can come upon a believer. There is an anointing connected to spiritual gifts and an anointing connected to the Word of God. Are you hungry for the anointing and the move of God in your life? But, how does the anointing come?

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Isa. 55:1-2
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

• Being in continually contact with the Anointed One Jesus is how the anointing increases in your life.
• Because the anointing comes by association.

The Anointing Comes Into Your Life by Association

• It comes by proximity, by being near it.
• God’s anointing comes into your life by the relationships and the associations that you have with other men and women of God who are anointed.
• Stay close to people that Jesus anoints.

The Anointing Is Timeless.

• An anointed word from God spoken 100 years ago to a man and recorded in a book, you will find, is just as anointed today as the first day that word was spoken.
• If you soak in that anointing;
• If you apply the principle of saturation, and you soak in anointed thoughts and you immerse and read anointed words;
• If you pursue the anointing’s of God with intensity that anointing will come upon you and become part of the fabric of your life.
• The anointing is contagious!
• It is a highly contagious phenomenon.
• Here is an example of the principle in the New Testament.

Acts 4:13 (KJV)
13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

• The similarities that the religious leadership saw in the disciples were not physical or personality (soul) areas.
• They were spiritual.
• These men saw Jesus and heard Jesus speak and now these disciples look and sound just like Him.
• Where did they get that from?
• They got that from 3 ½ years of walking with Him. They got that through the principle of association.

John 3:34 (KJV)
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

• Jesus had the Spirit without measure.
• The more you come to Him, the more measure you have.
• Notice these words of Jesus.

John 7:37–39 (ESV)
37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

John 6:35 (KJV)
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

• Now, we know that the Bible is not just referring to our first encounter with Jesus because the language of food is used; hungering and thirsting.
• The nature of food is such that it is not a one-time event.
• Since eating and drinking is a continually thing, then ‘coming to Him’ must be a continual thing also.
• The act of ‘Coming to Him’ engages the anointing.
• There is more to this Christian walk than just being born again.

We are Supposed to Maintain a Constant Spiritual Experience.

• A constant coming to Him.
• This experience is supposed to be a continuous living one.
• How easy it is for us, though, to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life and even be involved in good things.
• And yet, you wake up one morning and you find that you are dry spiritually.
• If you are dry, you are not drinking.
• You walk around throughout the day feeling empty.
• If you are empty, you are not eating.

A Locator Question

• Is God’s empowering Presence more important to you than your net worth?
• Does God’s Holy Spirit power have more value to you then your valuables?

Isaiah 10:27 (ESV)
27 And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”

• KJV has ‘the anointing shall be destroyed because of the anointing’
• One translation uses the word ‘fat’ the other uses the word ‘anointing’.
• The word ‘fat’ here has a tie-in to olive oil which was used to consume as food and used to anoint.
• Isaiah inspired by the Spirit of God is using a metaphor in connection with an oxen.
• The Spirit of God uses this picture of an oxen that is both carrying a burden on it shoulder and yoke around its neck indicating a double problem.
• The problem Israel had was twofold.
• First, they were burdened.
• Second, they were yoked.
• Yokes and burdens are connected but they are also different.

The Burden

Isaiah 10:27 (ESV)
…‘his burden will depart from your shoulder AND his yoke from your neck’.

• A yoke is an instrument that causes an ox to stay in place.
• You can hitch anything to an ox once it’s yoked.
• Do you see the fact that the enemy has a hold on people, he has them yoked; once he has them yoked, he lays all kinds of burdens, all of kinds of garbage on them.
• Sometimes people pray that God will remove the burden, remove the weight, remove the garbage, when, in fact, it is not really the burden at all that is keeping them in check, it is the yoke.
• The truth is if you don’t deal with the yoke, if you are still yoked up after the burden has been lifted, it won’t be long until you end up right back in the same situation.
• You’ll end up carrying another burden.
• Just because a burden has been removed or lightened does not mean you are really free.

The Yoke

Isaiah 10:27 (ESV)
27 And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”

• Notice that this oxen in Isaiah has an eating problem!
• It got so fat that it broke out of its yoke.
• This ox gets so full and so fat and, consequently, its neck gets so large that it pops its yoke right off its neck.
• You don’t get fat by eating nothing, you know.
• Spiritually speaking, there is a tremendous truth here.

Now we come full circle to Isa. 55:1 again.

• Do you see that by a constant continual association with the Anointed
• One, you can so cause the anointing of God or ‘the fat’ to increase in your life to such an extent that you become huge in Him, so huge that the stuff you are yoked to just disintegrates.
• There are some problems in life that you cannot pray away.
• The only way to overcome them is to grow out of them.
• The only way to handle them is to develop.
• Some problems can only be overcome by growing your way past them; by destroying them with development.
• You have to grow up to get free.
• How do you get fat in God’s economy?
• By eating and drinking constantly.
• By constantly coming to Him.
• By getting so huge in Him that you will actually burst or pop the problem right off of you.

Episode Resources

You can find a more full treatment of the information on this subject by clicking on the link below.

1. What Can Jesus Teach Us about the Anointing [Post]

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