1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,440 Hello and welcome to the Arise Church Podcast. 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,520 We are so glad you're here and want to thank you for joining us 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,520 today for the audio version of our Sunday morning message. 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,960 We want to invite you to join us in person at our Sunday morning 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,360 celebration every Sunday at 10 AM. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,040 We are located on Old Jenks Rd. in Apex, NC. 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,640 Thank you Pastor Rob, really looking forward to this morning. 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,240 Some friends of ours have come into town and they've come by 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,440 way of California, but they're actually from Pakistan. 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,360 And Pastor Haroon and Esterbati, they are friends that we met 11 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:44,240 several years ago. In fact, How I Met them was 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,800 first Pastor Haroon would come through our church from time to 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,680 time and he just became real loved. 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,600 But after a couple times of coming, we got word that he and 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,120 his family were in danger and they needed to flee Pakistan. 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,760 So our pastor had me be in touch with him. 17 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,640 And because of the nature of what was going on, it had to be 18 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,040 pretty quiet and it was pretty quick. 19 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,880 So I think I remember, and you'll have to correct me, 20 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,000 Pastor Haroon, but it was real quick where he said we're 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,360 coming. And I think it was within a 22 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,880 couple days. Like basically we're on our way. 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,240 And I met them and their three children. 24 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,600 They were young at the time, you know, in the single digit sum. 25 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,680 And I think their son may have been an early teenager. 26 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,720 And I met them at Los Angeles International Airport, LAX and I 27 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,560 had a big car and they had everything that they had left 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,960 owned and they brought it with them and they had to flee their 29 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:42,280 country. And we welcomed them. 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,640 And that was how we got close. Was it was OK. 31 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,320 We got to find you a place to live. 32 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,120 We got to find, you know, just basic necessities. 33 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,760 I remember going again, gift cards so that they had something 34 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,240 because they had nothing to do, like nothing to, to, to be able 35 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,240 to sustain while they were here. And we just became close. 36 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,040 They ended up staying at that church and have been really a 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,600 part of that community. But throughout the time of human 38 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,240 being here, Pastor Haroon has stayed to the president of 39 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,200 Foursquare Pakistan. That was his role before. 40 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,440 He stayed in that role and he's still in that role now. 41 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,920 He's also leading a basically as a regional coordinator, an area 42 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,640 coordinator for South Asia. So he works with the other 43 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:29,120 presidents of the Foursquare churches of those nations and is 44 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,960 really a spiritual leader, an Apostolic leader for those 45 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,520 countries with Foursquare. And he is one of the most, he 46 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,520 and his wife, they're just the most humble, gentle people. 47 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,240 When you around them, you're like, I'm pretty sure this is 48 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,280 how Jesus is and this is what Jesus is like. 49 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,800 And they see miracles. They see the power of God flow 50 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,240 through them. So this morning I asked Pastor 51 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,800 Haroon if he would actually sit with me. 52 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,280 And we're going to teach you together and we're going to 53 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,760 teach you on the anointing of God and how to flow in the 54 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,200 anointing of God, how to receive the anointing of God. 55 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,280 And so before Pastor Haroon comes, I would love for Pastor 56 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,080 Esther. Would you stand so everyone can 57 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,200 greet you? Let's welcome Pastor Esther 58 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:18,400 Bhatti. Thank you for being here then. 59 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,960 Now, Pastor Haroon, if you'll join me, in fact, would you now 60 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,280 welcome Pastor Haroon Bhatti to come. 61 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,000 This is a man of God and a friend, and we're just so glad 62 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,160 that you're here. Crystal, will you help me get a 63 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,720 microphone to him? Thank you so much. 64 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,200 You may be seated. If you have a Bible, why don't 65 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,920 you grab it? We're going to definitely be in 66 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,040 the Scriptures this morning. But before we get into kind of 67 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,880 what we're going to teach today, Pastor Harun, will you just 68 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,160 greet everyone and maybe you just share a little bit about 69 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,280 the ministry that you have in Pakistan and some of the things 70 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,200 that have been happening recently in that country, 71 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,120 Because I think it will surprise people that God is on the move. 72 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,040 Yeah, greetings in the name of Jesus Christ. 73 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,800 It is a privilege for me and my wife, Esther, that we are with 74 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,640 you this week. And thank you Pastor Tai and 75 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,399 Pastor Lilia for your graciousness and love in 76 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,240 inviting us to your church and to your community. 77 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:27,560 Because me and my wife, we both were born in the country of 78 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,880 Pakistan. And when you say Pakistan, it is 79 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,920 all the time in the news. And the news that you get about 80 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:42,760 the country is mostly like not good things because you know, 81 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:47,760 news pick up only bad things. If you are doing great things, 82 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,120 good things for years after year, they don't present it on 83 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,640 the television. But if, if there is only one bad 84 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,200 thing happening, they present it on the television. 85 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,480 So there are many good things happening not only in the 86 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,640 country of Pakistan but around the world with the people of 87 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,360 God. Because the Spirit of the Lord 88 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:17,000 is moving on this earth. We have the availability of 89 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,880 power of God. We call it the anointing of the 90 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,000 Holy Spirit and people are moving under that power. 91 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,200 So marvellous things are happening. 92 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,840 We, I, I started early. I was nine years old when I 93 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,080 started walking with the Lord. I was 16 when I started my 94 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,680 evangelistic ministry with young people. 95 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,880 I was 21 when I planted my first church. 96 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,760 And through that one church, we eventually planted dozens of 97 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:55,480 churches in, in Pakistan. And also we, we realized that we 98 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,560 need to train more leaders. So the first church we planted 99 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,720 right away, we started a school with it. 100 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,360 And through the school, so far, we have trained through our 101 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,720 schools more than 5000 Christian leaders in the country of 102 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:15,880 Pakistan. And they are, they are from the 103 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:21,920 South where the Arabian Sea is up to the north on the border of 104 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,600 Afghanistan. And God is moving powerfully in 105 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,640 all those churches and in all those groups. 106 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,760 So this is a privilege for me to serve as the national president 107 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,360 or national leader in the country of Pakistan for four 108 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,680 square churches and in the region as the regional chair for 109 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,200 South Asia. So this is what we are doing. 110 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,800 Esther was there, I was there a month ago. 111 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:55,960 She just came back 3-4 days ago from Pakistan and she was 112 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:01,960 involved in encouraging women for ministry and for leadership. 113 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:07,640 And they last year she started a ministry among women that was 114 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:13,040 challenging and encouraging young leaders from all different 115 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,600 denominations and all different churches and groups in the 116 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,360 country. So this time when she was there, 117 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:24,480 they were expecting 300 women and registered 300 women. 118 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,200 But on the day of the event, 650 women showed up. 119 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:37,400 So it was, it was difficult to manage, but the even even the 120 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,880 venue we were using, they were so cooperating that they 121 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:46,840 accommodated everyone and placed more chairs and they they said 122 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,120 from where this these crowds are coming. 123 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,640 So they were astonished. So this is what God is doing 124 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:59,320 powerfully through us and in the country of Pakistan and using 125 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,160 many, many leaders there and they are getting stronger and 126 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,560 stronger. And the church in Pakistan is 127 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,600 not underground church. It's visible. 128 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:14,760 We have, by the constitution, we have freedom to, to do religious 129 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,640 activities and, and we try, we try to stretch it. 130 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:24,000 We have limits. There are restrictions, not by 131 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,920 the government, but sometimes some radical groups can make 132 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,080 some difficulties for the churches and the people. 133 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:36,919 But we try to stretch as much as we can and God is giving us His 134 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:40,520 grace to operate in that. Thank you Pastor Tai once again 135 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,760 for giving me this opportunity. Thank you for being here. 136 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:49,160 What's been just amazing and being around Pastor Harun and we 137 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:54,120 were even discussing the other night just about the power of 138 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,640 God, the anointing. And it's something that I have 139 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,040 felt stirred about lately. And so as we were discussing it, 140 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,280 I thought, OK, let's do this together. 141 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,520 But as we talk about the anointing, I think, and, and 142 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,080 even before we talk about what is the anointing, we both felt 143 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,720 like we need to start with having a hunger for God. 144 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,200 Because if if you skip having a hunger for God and you just 145 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,760 want, you know, all the outworkings and the power of God 146 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,160 and you want all the, the, the show kind of stuff, then you 147 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,240 really will miss the point and you really won't receive what 148 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,520 we're talking about today. And so we want to start by just 149 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:37,640 going there and talking about the need and the really the 150 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,040 priority of being hungry for God. 151 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,400 And even as I say that, I think if you just even paused and 152 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,840 examined your own life and heart, it would be OK for you to 153 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:55,480 acknowledge I'm not that hungry because at least you're dealing 154 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,600 in truth. You know, there's no need to 155 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,800 come into church and fake it and say, well, I'm hungry when 156 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,680 you're not hungry, you're not hungry for God. 157 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,520 You know, it's kind of like if we take you to a really nice 158 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,120 meal and it's a, you know, we lay out in front of you this 159 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,680 beautiful steak and mashed potatoes and carrots and all the 160 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:18,080 things. But all afternoon you ate 161 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:23,000 Doritos and the little pigs in a blanket. 162 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:31,280 You know, like the kind of what what they call it for a football 163 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:35,400 game or something, you know, where you're barbecuing out in 164 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,480 the parking lot or whatever and it's just junk foods. 165 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,000 Well, you're full. You're just full of junk. 166 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,800 And you know, many Christians are like that, so it's hard. 167 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,720 You come to church and we talk about being hungry for God and 168 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:50,840 you're like, I'm not really hungry. 169 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,320 And if you're not, if you're not, if you don't pause long 170 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,160 enough, you won't allow yourself to examine, why am I not hungry? 171 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,240 You're like, oh, I've been filling myself with other stuff. 172 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,280 So it's good just to start in truth, not to be condemned, not 173 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,800 to be like, shame on you. It's more of just at least we 174 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,320 now know. And just like with your physical 175 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:13,120 body, if you abstain for at least a period of time, you'll 176 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,360 get hungry again. And that's how our spiritual 177 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,680 lives work. That if you abstain from all 178 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,000 that junk that you're filling yourself with, some it's media, 179 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,920 some it's sports, some it's, you know, social media, some it's, 180 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,800 you know, it could be whatever is filling you. 181 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,480 That's not the Lord. If you abstain from that for at 182 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,760 least just, it could even be a short period of time, hunger 183 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,040 will start to grow almost immediately. 184 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,360 Amen. Some of you are like, I'm hungry 185 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,000 right now. Now see that's how it works. 186 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,720 You're ready for lunch. Well let your spirit man start 187 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,000 to get hungry in Jesus name. Amen. 188 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:55,400 Yes, we arrived here on the Thursday and since then we are 189 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,400 feeling that Pastor Tai and Pastor Lilia are feeding us all 190 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,800 the time, breakfast, lunches, dinners and I'm feeling too 191 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,800 full. And, and you know, this is the 192 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,600 condition of the church many times that we feel too full from 193 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:21,720 many unnecessary things and we need to empty ourselves and we 194 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:27,880 need to look for heavenly things because God has many blessings 195 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:35,160 for you in store from heaven. And if we are not seeking for 196 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:40,480 those things as Pastor Ty was explaining the verses that come 197 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:46,880 to my mind as you know, the Beatitudes chapter 5 of Matthew 198 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,960 and verse 6. It says blessed are those who 199 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:57,840 hunger and the thirst for righteousness for they shall be 200 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,440 filled. Not everyone. 201 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:06,880 And when I I tell my people, I I mentioned like blessed are those 202 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,920 who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness because they they 203 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,880 will be blessed. Not everyone here and there, but 204 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,040 they will be blessed who are thirsty and hungry for the God. 205 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,240 And, and most my, my most favorite verse about it is 206 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:32,160 Proverbs chapter 27 and verse 7. It says a satisfied soul, like 207 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,720 you were mentioning Doritos and other stuff. 208 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,680 A satisfied soul loads the honeycomb, but that is sweet and 209 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:46,440 good thing to take. But to a hungry heart, hungry 210 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,120 soul, every bitter thing is sweet. 211 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,800 So if you are too full, even if we present best meal for you, 212 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,200 you will say no, no, no, I don't want to eat. 213 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:02,560 I'm good, I'm good, but if you are hungry and thirsty, then you 214 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:05,400 say, oh, I need more, I need more. 215 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:10,040 And this is, this is we need to seek and desire the blessings of 216 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,360 God. So even as we're talking this 217 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,920 morning and we're sharing for some, you may need to start 218 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,840 here. God help me be hungry. 219 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,280 You know, busyness will fill you. 220 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,000 Busyness will fill you. Maybe it's not media and all 221 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,800 these other things and maybe it's not sin, but busyness will 222 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,800 keep you feeling full, fulfilled. 223 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,920 It'll, it'll cause you to think like, oh, I'm doing good. 224 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,240 I have my meeting and you know, I got all these appointments and 225 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,560 you can tell sometimes when people live that way because you 226 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,400 come up and how are you doing? Oh, I'm just busy, busy, busy, 227 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,720 busy, busy. As if it's like some sort of 228 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,680 badge of honor, like, oh, that's and, and, and our culture kind 229 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,920 of celebrates it. Like, oh, that's great, great. 230 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:56,440 You know, that's good. You're glad you're busy. 231 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,200 Glad you got all that going on instead of pausing and be like, 232 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:05,520 well, what are you busy with? No one wants to say Amen. 233 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,120 That's OK. But sometimes it's good just to 234 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,800 pause and be like, I don't know if that's a good thing because 235 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:16,880 busyness can mask the deeper things that are going on and the 236 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,400 soul things that God wants to help and to heal and wants to 237 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,560 fill you with and the assignments that he has for us. 238 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,520 So sometimes when we're too busy for his assignments and then we 239 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,120 wonder, why don't we see the move of God? 240 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:30,760 Why aren't we seeing the Lord move in our life? 241 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,320 You're too busy for him. We just, our calendars just 242 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:38,680 squeezed him right out. And God's things take time. 243 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,120 Have you ever noticed that? Yeah, y'all can talk back this 244 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:44,960 morning. I'm asking good, easy questions. 245 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,920 Have you ever noticed God? Things take time. 246 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,760 TIME. Capital letters, highlighted, 247 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,160 underline, bolt. It takes time. 248 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,680 It's going to take your time. It's going to take calendar. 249 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,680 And some of us, we don't have margin, which again, if you're 250 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,480 looking at this from the angle of hunger, you don't have even a 251 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,040 little room for God to begin to move. 252 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,560 And so it's a catch 22. And that's, that's not even 253 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:15,200 including this. The enemy of your soul will do 254 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,800 everything he can to keep you from being hungry for God. 255 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,960 He will throw every kind of distraction your way to bait you 256 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:28,080 into filling yourself with that. It reminds me of the woman at 257 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,560 the well where Jesus came across this woman at the well and she's 258 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,160 drawn up water and Jesus asked her, will you pull me up some 259 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,320 water too? And then they have this exchange 260 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,440 and he's wondering, or she's wondering, why are you talking 261 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,160 to me, 'cause it was inappropriate at that time in 262 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,000 her mind for this man, a Jewish man, to be talking to her, a 263 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,400 Samaritan woman. And as they're talking, Jesus 264 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,360 perceived and really had a word of knowledge. 265 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,480 And when she said, oh, I don't have a husband, she says, you're 266 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,880 right that you don't have a husband, but you've had five 267 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,680 husbands and the man you're with right now is not your husband. 268 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,960 And she said, I perceive you're a prophet. 269 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,640 But this exchange they're having is around water. 270 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:17,119 And yet the Spirit of God is telling him she's thirsting for 271 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,359 something more than this water. And then he brings her to that 272 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:26,240 conversation, which is the one standing in front of you has a 273 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,600 water that if you drink of that water, you'll never thirst 274 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,440 again. And that's kind of the 275 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:37,320 conversation we're having today. Yeah, and Pastor Tai, I think we 276 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:44,400 are created by God and God has all checks and signs and marks 277 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:50,840 inside built in in our system. So, so there there is a like 278 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:55,000 great check. If there are any activities that 279 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,840 you are doing and those activities are making you tired 280 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:05,480 and you are feeling emptiness inside you, it means that you 281 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:11,760 need to cut it down. But when you are, you know many 282 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,720 things in this world. When we do it, we get tired 283 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,120 after some time. But as much as you grow in the 284 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:23,560 presence of the Holy Spirit, in the presence of God, you never 285 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,480 get tired. You are deciding for more every 286 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:32,680 day, every inch, every every, every moment. 287 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:38,400 You desire to go beyond your limits and boundaries. 288 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,440 You want to go more, you want to have more. 289 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,320 So so this is like a system check in US. 290 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:49,200 It's like a light that turns on or a red flag. 291 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:55,080 The things that are bogging us down are not the necessary items 292 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,840 that should be on our list. And we need to get rid of those 293 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:05,240 and seek the Lord and minister to, to, to him because even even 294 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:12,760 the precious good things like ministry sometimes bogs us down 295 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,440 because we are doing activities, activity after activity, 296 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:21,400 activity after activity. And we are getting tired of all 297 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,240 those activities. And God is saying no more 298 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:29,560 activities, come to me, surrender yourself to me, seek 299 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,960 me, talk to me because I am available. 300 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:38,120 And many times I, I believe in the West, the churches have 301 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:43,240 adopted so many activities, so many programs, this and that, 302 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:48,720 but there is very little connection with God himself And 303 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,480 he's he's inviting us to spend more and more time in his 304 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,480 presence. Amen. 305 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,200 Amen. By the way, I would be taking 306 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,400 notes because what he just did was prophetic. 307 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,280 So for those of you who may be new to this, there are sometimes 308 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,960 where someone will be sharing and they're saying something 309 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,480 that now transcends just good information. 310 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,840 But now it's God speaking. And so I really heard the Lord 311 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,520 when you were just saying there that that there's so many 312 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,920 activities. That and we lack connection with 313 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,840 God and God is calling us to have that more connection with 314 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,320 him and that will that is about what we're talking today. 315 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,880 And even what we're going to discuss about the anointing 316 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,960 cannot happen without this. And so in fact, let's just pray, 317 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,960 Pastor Haroon, will you pray over us that the rest of this 318 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:50,040 time that we're sharing. May each of us hear the Lord and 319 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,920 and take it to heart, and may it penetrate all hardness of art, 320 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,440 and may it create hunger in us for the things of the Lord. 321 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:04,720 Yes, Jesus, Hallelujah, Heavenly Father, we bless you, we praise 322 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,720 you Lord, thank you for these moments that you have provided 323 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:14,640 us, Lord, that we are learning from your word, Lord, and we are 324 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:21,160 discussing with each other's how we can desire more of you, Lord, 325 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:27,600 how we can surrender ourselves to the presence of you, O Lord, 326 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:33,640 the the glory. And Lord, I ask you to pour out 327 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:38,880 your anointing on your blessing and your glory to your people, 328 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,160 Lord, because we know you are available. 329 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,880 We are busy but You are available Lord we know that you 330 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,080 are the Creator, but even then You are making yourself 331 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:58,840 available for US 24/7. So Lord, help us to desire of 332 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:05,160 You more and cut down on things that are not heavenly Lord, so 333 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:10,000 we could seek You and we could spend more time in Your presence 334 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,600 and teach us Lord today through Your word in Jesus mighty name 335 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,080 we pray. Amen. 336 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,160 Amen. Well, some you're probably 337 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,160 already asking the first question that we want to 338 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,880 address, which is what is the anointing? 339 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,800 And throughout Scripture you'll see it referenced in many 340 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,080 different ways. There are words that are 341 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,360 interchangeable with one another, but a picture of it is 342 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:39,120 in the Old Testament when they would appoint a king, a new king 343 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,760 into position. Usually a prophet would bring 344 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,200 oil and they would bring a jar of oil or a horn of oil and they 345 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,640 would pour it over the head of the new appointed king. 346 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,120 And then that oil would represent now a new level of 347 00:22:55,120 --> 00:23:00,560 authority, a new level of power, a new level of position that was 348 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,960 being ordained and appointed by God. 349 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,120 And then so that was the, that was one of the initial pictures 350 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:08,560 of it. And then they would anoint the 351 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,280 priests in the service of the Lord and the Tabernacle and the 352 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,520 temple, and they would anoint them with oil. 353 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,680 And that was the same representation, authority, 354 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,920 power, position for what was assigned to them for the service 355 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,480 of the Lord. Well, that continues on to where 356 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,480 even David, who is king of Israel, he says the Lord, he 357 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,880 anoints my head with oil. Another scripture, he says that 358 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,960 he anoints my head with fresh oil and he's talking about 359 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,840 receiving fresh strength. So now we see, well, it's not 360 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,520 just for that initial appointment. 361 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,000 There's fresh anointing that comes to keep us in our 362 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,680 position, to keep us having the power of God, to keep us having 363 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,800 the authority. So it's not a one and done 364 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,960 thing. Then Jesus came and then he said 365 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,200 an axe. He said, but you shall receive 366 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,240 power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 367 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,440 And there's another representation, another way to 368 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,680 talk about that anointing, that power, authority position from 369 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,480 God. And he says when you do that, 370 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:10,160 when you receive that power, now you'll be witnesses to me in 371 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,000 Jerusalem, Judea, and to the Sumerian to the ends of the 372 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,920 earth. So the anointing is is 373 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,480 interchangeable throughout Scripture. 374 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:22,120 What it looks like, the oil that flows on you, physical oil that 375 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:25,120 God put there, but it's really a representation of the Holy 376 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:29,240 Spirit, of the power of God and the authority of God. 377 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,640 And so it's important that we distinguish that because it's 378 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,720 more represented in Scripture than just the word anointing it. 379 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,480 It weaves throughout. And this is one of the ways that 380 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,880 anyone that I have seen that operates in the power of the 381 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,440 Holy Spirit, they're also who I would considered anointed. 382 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,640 They're anointed people. They have received power, 383 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,400 authority and position from God to do his service. 384 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,440 And we believe every believer can operate with this anointing. 385 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,600 And this is available to every person. 386 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,280 So Pastor Roon, I kind of gave just a broad, quick overview, 387 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,520 but what do you see as the anointing? 388 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:23,440 Pastor, I believe the anointing is the empowering and enabling 389 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:30,520 power of God that sits on someone to do the work that he 390 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,040 is called to do or she is called to do. 391 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:40,960 So it's not just a force, it's just not any power. 392 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:48,160 It is a directed power because it pushes you towards the things 393 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:54,360 that you you are called to do. So it's not just a show of power 394 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,600 that you do something and people like it and you enjoy it. 395 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:05,600 It is for a purpose. So, so when it is released from 396 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:11,560 heaven, it pushes you towards your goal and target that God 397 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:17,200 has called you to do so it is enabling and empowering. 398 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:23,320 You know, Pastor Tai was mentioning about when the kings 399 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,920 and priests and the prophets were anointed. 400 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,640 So it is not just a position because people can operate in 401 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:38,000 positions and they can do stuff, they can do things out of their 402 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,160 position, but when they have the anointing of the Holy Spirit to 403 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,720 stay in that position, then they are really effective. 404 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:55,360 Many years ago God spoke to me and he, he He said that protect 405 00:26:55,360 --> 00:27:02,160 your anointing because people lose their anointing before they 406 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:07,000 lose their position. Say that one more time. 407 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,800 People lose their anointing first before they lose their 408 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,800 position. You know, Saul was like that 409 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,080 when he lost the anointing on his life. 410 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,920 His position was gone. And many times people try to 411 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:30,240 save and protect their position and they don't know that they 412 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:36,720 have already lost the anointing. It's gone and eventually your 413 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:42,920 position will be lost or you will be ineffective in what you 414 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,000 are doing. So in in the Old Testament, we 415 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,160 know the prophets were anointed, the kings were anointed, the 416 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:57,080 priests were anointed. But in the New Testament, we see 417 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:05,400 more ministry offices. We we see more graces to 418 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:12,800 function in and each grace, each gifting, each ministry needs the 419 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:19,560 anointing to operate in it. So like if you are a teacher and 420 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:25,440 you need to have the teacher's anointing on your life, if you 421 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,120 don't have, you will be muttering words, you will sing 422 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:36,360 philosophical things and people will try to calculate here, but 423 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:41,120 it will not be pushing them forward to grow in righteousness 424 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,040 or to grow where they are reaching out to heaven and 425 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:51,080 touching heaven and receiving from God only words. 426 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,000 And they are, they are like calculating things here. 427 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,600 But as soon as you operate under the teaching anointing, you will 428 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:05,040 see people, people's like I have experienced in other people's 429 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,840 lives in my own life. Like when you you start teaching 430 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:16,720 in the anointing of a teacher, the the problems, the questions, 431 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,120 the the reasons that people have in their minds are sorted out. 432 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,960 Not only what you are teaching them, they will understand those 433 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,960 things, but many more things behind their their brains and 434 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:36,160 minds and in their thoughts are solved and straighten up because 435 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,880 the anointing of a teacher is working and functioning there. 436 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:45,640 So every, every grace in the New Testament and in this 437 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:51,480 dispensation of the Holy Spirit we see and experience has an 438 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,040 anointing with it, and we need to operate in that anointing. 439 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:01,520 So it is empowerment from the Holy Spirit to operate in your 440 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:06,560 ministry, in your grace, whatever God has graced you 441 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:07,840 with. Yeah. 442 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:15,280 And I will also say that there is this also for your role as a 443 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:22,680 wife, as a husband. This is for, of course, church 444 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,960 ministries we're talking about. But it's you're called when 445 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,520 you're a husband, you're called to be a husband, a godly 446 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,080 husband. And there's an anointing for 447 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,600 that. There is an enablement for that 448 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,920 also to be a wife. There's an enablement and a 449 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,960 power for that. There's an enable that to be a 450 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:43,240 parent to parent your child to parent to parent them to there's 451 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:48,200 so when when you tap into that and you're now flowing in the 452 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,480 power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit for these God-given 453 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,240 roles and assignment, it is a game changer. 454 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,960 Listen to me, it's a game changer because now you're not 455 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,680 operating in your own strength. I love what Isaiah says. 456 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,240 Those that weighed upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 457 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,360 They shall mount up like wings, like eagles. 458 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:08,720 They shall run and not grow weary. 459 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,080 They shall walk and not faint. That's supernatural. 460 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,880 This is not just talking about, well, we just do our best. 461 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,200 We just try. You just trust the Lord and 462 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,360 wait. All that just sounds lazy to me. 463 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,600 That's not it's not a lazy waiting. 464 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,800 This is an eager expectation that the anointing is going to 465 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,440 flow. And when it flows, I will have a 466 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:34,520 supernatural ability to soar, to go from strength to strength, 467 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,160 from faith to faith, from glory to glory. 468 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,400 And when you try to do it in your own strength, you will get 469 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,840 so tired. And you ever, anybody ever tried 470 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,080 to do something in your own strength and then later you 471 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:51,400 realize, oh, that was a mistake. In modern terms, we call it 472 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,440 burnout. You ever felt burned out? 473 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,680 I know I felt burned out. And usually the burnout came 474 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,960 from I was trying in my own strength. 475 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,680 But what you'll notice about people who are operating in the 476 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,840 anointing, yes, their physical body will sometimes get tired, 477 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,360 but you'll wonder how do they do all that they're doing? 478 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,000 And if you're not careful, you'll take your own approach 479 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,040 and your burnout mentality and you'll project it on, on an 480 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,360 anointed person and you'll think, well, something must be 481 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,760 off and you're projecting your own weakness on them. 482 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,800 But when you get around a real anointed person, which I can I I 483 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,000 consider Pastor Sarun and asked her to be that you're like, 484 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,800 there's a supernatural ability you're operating at in. 485 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,120 And it's like, I want to lean in and be like, talk to me more 486 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,720 about that rather than be like, are you OK? 487 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,760 Are you balanced? Do you have a balanced life? 488 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,600 You know, and there's important pieces to that. 489 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,720 But man, there's something that even as you're talking, I'm 490 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:56,440 like, Oh, man, this is this is so rich and we need it right 491 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,760 now. The world and the assignment 492 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:04,440 that we have requires us to operate in this anointing and in 493 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,640 this power of God. Yeah, I will use two 494 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,120 illustrations here. You know, the school of prophets 495 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,080 with Elijah and they took him to another place. 496 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:22,160 And there was a person who was using an axe and the axe head 497 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,880 was fallen and he was, he cried. Oh, it was borrowed. 498 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,560 It was borrowed. The axe was borrowed. 499 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:38,320 So I believe sometimes the people and even the ministers 500 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,560 are operating without the axe head. 501 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:51,720 The axe head is lost and they are playing with the stick and 502 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:57,760 what will happen if they are like smashing that stick on a 503 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,800 tree? It will not be cutting the trees 504 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:06,160 and secondly it will make noise and thirdly it will be hurting 505 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,199 the hands. So many people are hurting their 506 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:16,840 hands in ministry because the anointing is already lost or it 507 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,520 was never there. So, so we need. 508 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,400 So this is 1 illustration. Then I also like the 509 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:31,560 illustration of running a car without tires because you you 510 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:37,239 are like putting lots of gas in it and you are trying to run it 511 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:42,000 as much as you can and it is squeaking and making scratch 512 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,400 scratches on the street and making so much noise. 513 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,840 But it is not really going where you want to take it. 514 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,159 But when you are under the power of the Holy Spirit, moving in 515 00:34:55,159 --> 00:35:00,120 the anointing of the Holy Spirit, you are on tires and the 516 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:06,160 the right amount of air in it and it is just flowing or like 517 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,240 flying. So, so anointing with anointing 518 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:12,200 when you serve it is not hurting you. 519 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:16,520 It is it there is protection in the anointing of God. 520 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:22,280 And you know, I want to clarify, many times it's like people 521 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:29,080 create hype about anointing and they think like noisy worship 522 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:34,840 could be a symbol of anointing or sometimes good or perfect 523 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:41,640 worship depicts the anointing. You know, anointing is not an 524 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,160 abstract thing. It's not something here. 525 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,080 Oh, I'm perceiving it as anointed. 526 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,440 I'm perceiving that God is moving powerfully and nothing is 527 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:57,240 happening. And that's why we see like dry 528 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:02,280 services, we see ministers not operating in the power of the 529 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:07,000 Holy Spirit and nothing is being achieved because they are trying 530 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,240 to do things without the power and anointing of the Holy 531 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:14,280 Spirit. So remember, anointing is 532 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,160 tangible. It is tangible. 533 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:22,480 You feel it. If I touch past the tie here, he 534 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:28,240 cannot say, oh, I, I don't feel anything because it is tangible. 535 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:35,880 So when God's power is on you, you feel it on your skin, you 536 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,640 feel it on your head, all over your body. 537 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:45,360 The veil is over you because God is blessing and doing things 538 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,520 with you. So it is tangible if I say you 539 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,440 don't feel. So sometimes people are mistaken 540 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,280 about it, that maybe I'm talking about feelings. 541 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,360 It's not feeling. Sometimes you feel things, 542 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,080 sometimes you don't feel things. But I'm talking about the 543 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:10,840 tangibility of the anointing. When it is over you on you, you 544 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,360 really feel it on your skin because you are created for that 545 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,400 touch. That's why God gave you skin to 546 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:22,040 feel things. And anointing is a tangible 547 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,960 substance that you feel on your skin. 548 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,240 Sometimes on early stages, initial stages, people don't 549 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:33,560 feel it, but eventually when they spend more time in the 550 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,840 presence of the Lord, they feel that anointing and the touch, 551 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,640 tangible touch of the Holy Spirit. 552 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,480 I want us to look at Luke chapter 4. 553 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,000 If you have your Bible, why don't you go there? 554 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:56,680 Luke chapter 4 and in Luke chapter 4, Jesus speaks to this 555 00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:02,440 and he quotes out of the book of Isaiah and this prophecy that 556 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,640 was in Isaiah was him and Jesus recognized it as that. 557 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,920 He pulled out the scroll and let's look at verse 18 of Luke 558 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,360 chapter 4. It says the Spirit of the Lord 559 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,240 is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel 560 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,520 to the poor. He has sent me to heal the 561 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,280 broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, to 562 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,040 recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are 563 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:30,680 are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. 564 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,400 So the second question we want to answer is what is the 565 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,560 anointing for? So what is the anointing was our 566 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,720 first question. Now it's what is the anointing 567 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:41,280 for? Jesus knew what his anointing 568 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,360 was for. The Spirit of the Lord is upon 569 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,800 me. Notice he puts these two things 570 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,880 together, which later he would do for us as New Testament 571 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,440 believers. When this Holy Spirit comes upon 572 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,520 you, you shall receive power to be my witnesses. 573 00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:01,040 So it's similar type flow that he's quoting now here from 574 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:05,120 Isaiah and he's identifying this anointing is to preach the 575 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:10,440 gospel to the poor. This anointing is to heal the 576 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,320 broken hearted. This anointing is to proclaim 577 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,480 liberty to the captives. This anointing is to to have 578 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:23,560 recovery of sight to the blind and to set those to set at 579 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,920 liberty those who are oppressed. There was a purpose for the 580 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,080 anointing. This is very, very, very 581 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:31,840 important. And it's very important in our 582 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,200 charismatic Western mentality because many people think the 583 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,800 anointing is for goosebumps or the anointing is so we can hop 584 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,680 from conference to conference to conference and just whoop it up, 585 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,320 woo, woo, woo, woo woo. And no one gets healed. 586 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,520 No one gets set free, no one gets delivered. 587 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,680 Our blind eyes aren't opened. And we call that the anointing. 588 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,200 Jesus did not model that the anointing. 589 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,520 That was on him. He said it's for them. 590 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,760 It's not for me, It's not for me to roll around in Holy Ghost 591 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,320 gold dust. Oops, I just stepped on toes. 592 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,720 Sorry, let's roll back. But it's not for us, for these 593 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:14,160 these experiential kind of euphoria that I think could 594 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,560 really be distracting from real purpose. 595 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,720 The real purpose for the anointing that we're talking 596 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:23,520 about is for other people. It's for them to be saved. 597 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,240 It's for them to be healed. It's for them to be delivered. 598 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,360 And it does all that we've talked about. 599 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,760 It protects us, the the, the minister, it empowers us. 600 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:33,960 But why? Why? 601 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,560 For them, And that's how Jesus functioned. 602 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,480 He functioned in this, obviously, as the highest level 603 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,840 of anointing possible. And that's why when he would 604 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,560 show up on the seams, people would get healed. 605 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,600 When he showed up on the seams, demons screamed and ran. 606 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,560 When when when he showed up on the seam, demonized, people ran 607 00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,640 to Him. And so this is good for us to 608 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,960 wrestle through that. Could it be that one of our main 609 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,960 obstacles in the church right now is we grossly lack the 610 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,600 anointing? And I'm talking about all of us. 611 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,320 And because we haven't been around people who are really 612 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,000 anointed, who are functioning at that level, we've just kind of 613 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,440 all been lulled to sleep. And so we talk about hunger. 614 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,720 It's like we don't even know that we're lacking. 615 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,520 So you need scripture. We need this to paint the 616 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,560 picture of what the anointing looks like on a human, on a 617 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,160 person, and what it looks like when they're operating in that 618 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,720 anointing and to remind us what it's for. 619 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,360 It's not for charismatic shouting, you know, services, 620 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:44,880 though. I, I love to be encouraged. 621 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,360 I love to be with the people of God, but the anointing is for 622 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,560 like yesterday I went to a hospital room with somebody in 623 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:56,000 our church and we began to pray. And as we began to pray, the 624 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,800 power of God started to flow in the room. 625 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,960 And then that person was able to do things after that prayer that 626 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,040 they weren't able to do before. And so we're just contending 627 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,280 that that power is going to keep working until they're fully and 628 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,200 completely healed. So that that's the beginnings of 629 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,640 what we're talking about. And so we both have many 630 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,720 testimonies that where we could say how the anointing showed up 631 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,240 and it was for other people, it was for the assignment in the 632 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:24,920 moment, it was for the God appointment. 633 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,200 We show up on the scene demonized person, they need 634 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,320 freedom and the thank God we showed up with a level of 635 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,480 anointing to address the issue or the the demonic presence. 636 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,600 Amen, as you mentioned Luke chapter 4. 637 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:47,600 I see the the first verse of this chapter says then Jesus 638 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:52,840 being filled with the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan 639 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,440 and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. 640 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:05,520 So I believe the baptism of Jesus Christ was like the peak 641 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:10,320 moment for him, because Father is saying, oh, this is my 642 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,640 beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. 643 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:18,640 And the Spirit of the Lord is like a dove on his, on his 644 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,920 shoulder or upon him. And he is standing there as an 645 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:28,000 obedient child of God, as a obedient son of God. 646 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:36,400 So Triune God is showing himself there, but I believe this time 647 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,080 was the receiving time for Jesus. 648 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:44,600 Jesus received that power, being filled with the Holy Spirit, 649 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:49,920 returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the 650 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,040 wilderness. But if you go to verse 14, it 651 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:59,120 says then Jesus returned in the power of the Holy Spirit, in the 652 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,440 power of the Spirit. So there is a time to receive 653 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,280 and there is a time to go with go in that power and minister to 654 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,760 people. There was a minister he was 655 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:16,000 praying on on the toilet seat and he was bleeding. 656 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,520 God, Lord, pour out your anointing. 657 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,600 Pour out your anointing. And the Holy Spirit spoke to 658 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,800 him. Bobby Jaw, the toilet is not 659 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:31,400 sick. Toilet is not sick. 660 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:37,000 So sometimes we we are putting lots of pressure and we are 661 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,160 asking for anointing, but God is saying go out and touch the 662 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,600 people in your community around you. 663 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:51,120 There are lots of people on your doorsteps here from different 664 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,440 nations and God has brought them here. 665 00:44:55,480 --> 00:45:00,520 Even remember the the people who did atrocities in this nation, 666 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:07,200 911 those, all those people were here in this country, but they 667 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,360 were never reached out by any Christian around them. 668 00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:13,760 Otherwise the situation could be different. 669 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,520 So there are people around you, they are studying here in 670 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,560 universities, they are working here, they are doing things 671 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,600 here, and they have been sent by God for the church to be reached 672 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,000 to, to reach them out so that they may receive salvation from 673 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,160 God. Your anointing is important. 674 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:41,080 If you are going to speak dry words, if you are going to 675 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:46,040 preach dry sermons to them, they won't come, they won't be 676 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,520 reached out. But when you go seeking your 677 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:54,560 Lord and Savior in the power of the Spirit, then they will be 678 00:45:54,560 --> 00:46:00,160 reached out. So don't preach to people your 679 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:05,480 empty theology. Speak, speak the power of God. 680 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:10,040 Because wherever Jesus went, he went in the power of the Holy 681 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:14,440 Spirit and it destroyed the yokes. 682 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,920 It released the people from bondage bondages. 683 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,200 It it blessed people with healings and lots of 684 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,600 testimonies. So wherever he was going, people 685 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,760 were being raised from dead, People were receiving healing 686 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,760 and they were being restored. Even the poor people were being 687 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,560 blessed. The poor at heart were being 688 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,480 blessed. So there are people around you 689 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:46,480 that you need to reach out. So church, don't only warm up 690 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,520 the pews, go out and reach out to the communities around you 691 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,760 because this is your call. Amen. 692 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,640 Amen. The last couple days we actually 693 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,520 rode around and just, you know, they got a picture of all the 694 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,800 people that God has brought to our doorstep. 695 00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:09,640 In fact, we went to an Indian food truck a couple nights and 696 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,920 let's just say I couldn't hang with the spice level that they 697 00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,280 could hang at. When my eyes started watering, I 698 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,520 dipped out. I was like, OK, I don't know, 699 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,800 this white guy can't hang with the Indian, the Indian spices. 700 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:30,160 But it's so true. I mean, and, and, and when you 701 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,160 feel like you're not empowered, it's intimidating. 702 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,760 But when that anointing is flowing in your life, it's not 703 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,480 intimidating because with anointing comes the love of God 704 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,640 and the heart of God. And these all work together. 705 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,840 You don't, you can't have the real anointing of God and lack 706 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,960 the love of God. They work together, they're in 707 00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,560 tandem. They they're poured out 708 00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,640 together. It's his love that's been poured 709 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,520 out in our hearts. So it's, it's, it's the mixed 710 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,000 together with one another. I remember when we moved to the 711 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:07,000 East Coast five years ago and we moved first to Maryland and I 712 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,480 had been used to being on a wonderful pastoral team, but and 713 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,200 I wasn't the senior pastor and we would have meetings together 714 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,080 all the time. And you know, in those meetings 715 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,960 we would pray, we would read scripture together. 716 00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,480 And it was just a powerful environment to be in. 717 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,600 And when we moved in it, I was just me. 718 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:30,760 Now I, I heard the Lord tell me one one day and it was very 719 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,680 clear. He said you need your own 720 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,360 anointing now. And I knew what he meant. 721 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:37,760 I knew what he meant as soon as he said it. 722 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,120 I knew what he meant that I had the benefit of many years and I 723 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,320 believe it was the Lord. I had the benefit of many years 724 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:46,760 being around people who they themselves were functioning and 725 00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,560 anointing. So I could draw off of theirs. 726 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:54,200 And, and I could, if I came to church kind of empty or, you 727 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,480 know, in a bad mood or in a bad day or whatever, you know, I 728 00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,280 just rub up on them for a few, few few minutes in our meetings. 729 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,520 And I just, you know, I would get the benefit of their 730 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,240 outflow, their outflow, their outflow. 731 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:13,080 So some of it, it could mask my inadequacies of not fully 732 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,920 receiving from the Lord on my own. 733 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,200 So I was, you know, I could come not really ready for the day, 734 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,600 not really full for the day. But by the time I'm done 735 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,640 spending some time with him, I, I got filled up. 736 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:28,600 So when I was by myself, I realized, oh, I realized my 737 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,880 inconsistencies. I realized, you know, the, the, 738 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,320 some of the challenges that I had in myself. 739 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,680 And so I heard the Lord tell me, you need your own anointing now. 740 00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,080 And I knew what he meant. He meant you don't have that 741 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,080 anymore, but you do still have the anointing. 742 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,120 And so I knew I had anointing before I knew I functioned in 743 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,040 it, but I had to grow in maturity. 744 00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,240 I had to grow inconsistency. I had to grow in knowing like 745 00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:58,800 right now is you and me, Jesus, and I had to build a pattern and 746 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,160 I had to build a rhythm and a habit of constantly receiving 747 00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,640 that power of the Holy Spirit because I watched. 748 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,720 If I didn't do that, it it, it would not go a day before I 749 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:11,080 could. I would feel it because that 750 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,720 outflow was still there, still ministering, still operating in 751 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:16,280 that. But I realized, oh, I got to 752 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,680 increase my personal input. And so we want to just talk for 753 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,040 a couple moments of how to receive the anointing. 754 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,120 How do we receive that anointing? 755 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:35,440 Yeah, Pastor Ty. I think when our misconceptions 756 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:40,200 about the anointing are gone, then we better understand what 757 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:47,600 it is and how we can have it. Bible talks about anointing and 758 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:54,560 it gives the the symbol of oil. So it comes like oil in our 759 00:50:54,560 --> 00:51:02,240 lives. He blesses me, my cup runs over 760 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:08,320 and he anoints my head with oil. And that anointing is the 761 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:13,200 anointing of the Holy Spirit. So I personally, the way I see 762 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:18,480 it, I believe that you are seeking the Lord with your cup 763 00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:24,120 and you're asking Lord pour out your anointing and he pours out 764 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:28,040 one drop in your cup and you receive it. 765 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:33,640 And sometimes people have holes in their cups. 766 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:39,480 There are many things going on, hidden things that they don't 767 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,560 want to reveal to anyone, but God knows it. 768 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:49,120 So your cup should be sealed and there should be no holes 769 00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,920 underneath so that you could contain it. 770 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:57,240 Because anointing is the power of God and it fades away very 771 00:51:57,240 --> 00:52:03,120 quickly. You know the manner that people 772 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:09,160 were gathering every day, It was vanishing after 24 hours. 773 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:15,560 It was only for one day and anointing vanishes and fades 774 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,960 away very quickly. That's why I was inquiring God 775 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:23,960 and I was asking him, why Lord, why we need to pray every day? 776 00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:28,600 Because you know, Bible tells us about First Thessalonians 777 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,920 chapter 5, verse 17, pray without ceasing. 778 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:37,800 Another translation says pray every day or pray regularly. 779 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,960 So I was asking why every day? Why every day? 780 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:45,560 And God spoke to me and he said, when you come into my presence, 781 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:51,880 I pour out my blessing and my oil on your life and it sticks 782 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:59,480 with you, on you. It stays on you for one day and 783 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:06,360 you need to bring another layer of oil on your life before the 784 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,760 previous one is broken. So if you put another layer on 785 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:15,640 top of it, it becomes double. It's not broken, it's not fading 786 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,400 away. Next day it is 3 times, 4th day 787 00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,960 it is 4 times. So it is becoming thicker and 788 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:27,080 thicker and thicker. So, so when you go to a service, 789 00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,880 when you go to a church service or an evangelistic service, 790 00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:35,400 people are worshipping, everyone is praising the Lord. 791 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:40,640 So God pours out his blessings on people and everyone sitting 792 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:45,720 there receives a portion and they they go out and there is 793 00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:51,840 nothing because it fades away. And as soon as this anointing 794 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,880 starts staying on you, it becomes your anointing. 795 00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:03,760 Otherwise it is a anointing. It is, let give me the freedom 796 00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,120 to say it. It is a borrowed anointing 797 00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:09,680 because you are borrowing from from a group of people. 798 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,480 You are borrowing from your leadership or your pastor or the 799 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,600 people in the congregation. But it is not yours anointing. 800 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:23,320 It become yours if it is sticking with you and it sticks 801 00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:27,320 with you 24/7. If it is your anointing and you 802 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:32,200 have to keep that flow running all the time and praying on a 803 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:37,040 daily and frequent basis so that it is sitting on you. 804 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,800 So how to receive it? By coming into the presence of 805 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:45,360 the Lord and seeking God. You have it because it is 806 00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,120 heavenly commodity. It it comes from heaven. 807 00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:54,320 I give an another illustration. When you rub your yourself 808 00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:59,400 against a newly painted wall, what happens? 809 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:06,040 Yeah, the paint sticks on you on your clothes. 810 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:13,480 So when you rub against God and heaven, the power, the marks, 811 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,920 the stains, the paint that sticks on you is called the 812 00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:22,320 anointing of the Holy Spirit. So it stays on you. 813 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:27,760 So it will stay if you are continuing with it, but if you 814 00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:31,040 are leaking the oil, it's not there. 815 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:35,600 Your cup will never run over because you are wasting the 816 00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,960 anointing. So you getting it and utilizing 817 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:44,000 it on people around you it, it will fill you up more and more 818 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:48,320 and again and again. Really good. 819 00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:55,800 My brain's going. Yeah, It's, it's so important. 820 00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,800 And then even Jesus, you know, would often withdraw himself 821 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:05,160 from the crowd and he would keep the connection with the source, 822 00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,760 which is Father God. And then when he would come from 823 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:13,680 that time, that's when we saw him operate so powerfully with 824 00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,320 the people. So talk for a moment about that 825 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:22,120 regular daily connection with the Lord and how that connects 826 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,480 with staying full. Yeah, that daily connection, 827 00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:33,880 even I was looking at the verses in the Bible, you know about 828 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:37,360 Jesus Christ. In Mark chapter 14, verse 49, it 829 00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:41,040 says I was daily with you in the temple teaching. 830 00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:47,480 So why Jesus was there, number one, teaching and secondly, to 831 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:53,520 receive more, because Jesus Christ, whatever he did on this 832 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:59,440 earth, you can explain it under the umbrella of the gifts of the 833 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:06,720 Holy Spirit, because he didn't use his divinity to perform 834 00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:10,480 miracles. He used his humanity and the 835 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,120 gifts of the Holy Spirit to operate so that we could also 836 00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:20,320 operate in, in those anointings and in those gifts so that no 837 00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:26,200 one could say that, oh, Jesus was divine and I am not. 838 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,200 He could do it, but I cannot do it. 839 00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:34,760 You can do it because it is provided for you from heaven and 840 00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:39,440 it's not you, it's your Father, It's your heavenly Father who is 841 00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,760 providing that anointing for you. 842 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:46,240 So he said I was daily with you in the temple teaching and you 843 00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:51,000 did not seize me there. So it means that if Jesus needs 844 00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:57,000 it daily to go into the temple or into a place where he could 845 00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,080 pray, because Pastor Tai mentioned that he withdrew 846 00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,840 himself. So whenever he felt that I need 847 00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:08,400 recharging, he withdrew. Whenever he felt that I need to 848 00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:13,240 go back to my Father's feet, he went back and he withdrew 849 00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:16,600 himself. And we need to do it more often 850 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:21,760 so that we are receiving infillings during the day and 851 00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:27,520 day after day, so that we are not operating empty and we are 852 00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,160 operating in the power of the Holy Spirit. 853 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,880 You know, in another passage, Jesus, when he's talking about 854 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:40,520 the Holy Spirit, he said that there was a place where you 855 00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:45,160 could be where I could be, where out of you will flow rivers of 856 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,720 living water. So there will be a place where 857 00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:54,400 you're so functioning and flowing with the Holy Spirit 858 00:58:54,400 --> 00:59:00,080 that it's, it's like you're a well where out of you will flow 859 00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:03,960 rivers of living water. So on, on, on demand, really on 860 00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,320 the need rivers, on demand rivers. 861 00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:11,960 And that's a place that the Lord would have us head together as a 862 00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:16,440 church, as a community, as individuals, so that we get off 863 00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:20,440 the roller coaster that we no longer accept the lie. 864 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,560 Well, we're just living. We're just doing our best till 865 00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,480 Jesus returns. And it's kind of like, you know, 866 00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:26,880 we're just going to hopefully squeak by. 867 00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:31,280 I don't know about you. I want to be in a place where I 868 00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:35,320 get to where Jesus said was available that I'm, I'm living 869 00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,200 from overflow. I'm living from out of me will 870 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,760 flow rivers of living water. So whether that's I show up at a 871 00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:45,000 hospital room or whether I show up in a meeting or whether I 872 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,800 show up on a phone conversation or whether it's meeting, you 873 00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:49,320 know, I run into you at the grocery store. 874 00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:53,560 And in that moment, I pray that you find a pastor who has rivers 875 00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:56,640 of living water at his disposal ready to go. 876 00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:01,520 And that's not just for pastors. That's for every spirit filled, 877 01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:06,240 Holy Spirit baptized believer. And so this morning we had more 878 01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,400 we're going to we wanted to cover, but that'll be for the 879 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:13,120 next time you, you come. But I felt very, very strong 880 01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:19,880 that we need to pray for any person that's asking for the 881 01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,080 anointing of God to be poured out on them. 882 01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,640 So I want us to all stand to our feet, if you would. 883 01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,000 We want to thank you again for joining us for the Arise Church 884 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,120 podcast. We hope you were encouraged by 885 01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:33,920 what you heard today. You can find 886 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:38,720 us.online@arisechurchn-c.com and on Instagram at Arise Church NC. 887 01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:42,120 If you need prayer or support or are interested in learning more 888 01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:45,800 about Arise Church, we encourage you to connect with us online or 889 01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:47,840 in person at our Sunday morning service. 890 01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:49,400 Thank you and God bless.