OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21ST 2016- THE ANOINTING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

Memorise: How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Acts 10:38
Read: Matthew 17:14-21 (KJV)
14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Bible in one year: Leviticus 15-16, Psalms 127-128

1. The word ‘anointing’ is often used in the Old Testament in recognition of the Lord’s divine calling upon the lives of individuals. In addition, the anointing was a physical recognition of the particular role or office of people such as kings, prophets, or priests. However, the anointing in the New Testament is not limited to prophets and priests, it is birthright of every born again Child of God.
2. I once told my spiritual children that the new anointing is so powerful, that it can repeat whatever it has done for your spiritual fathers. It can re-open closed doors and turn the mocked into a celebrity.
3. In 1st Samuel 16:11-13, when Samuel came to the house of Jesse while shopping for a kingly candidate, nobody presented David. It was until Samuel specifically asked for him that he was summoned. But after David was anointed in 1st Samuel 22:1-2, the same brothers who saw nothing good in him came to submit themselves under his authority.
4. Have people written you off as a nobody? Do they deny you your rights and consider you unfit for any meaningful position? The anointing of God will reverse that situation in your life this season in Jesus’ name. You will be sought after. You will be transformed into a very important personality by the anointing.
5. Furthermore, 1st Corinthians 12:7 says: “But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.” The above verse shows that God’s anointing is not for flamboyance, globetrotting, or to be made merchandise of. On the contrary, the anointing is for making a difference in this evil world by living in holiness and righteousness, healing the sick, setting the captives free, making the barren fruitful, replacing sorrow with the joy and moving the impoverished into prosperity so that the Name of the Lord may be glorified.
6. To what extent does the anointing on you impact those in need of it? To what extent are you making a difference in your community?

Anointing is one of the rights of every born again child of God. It is an essential birthright that every child of God should take note of its existence and utilize it rightly such that others around are blessed with it as well as the works of darkness is destroyed. When anointing comes on an ordinary man such becomes an extra ordinary being endued with power for the miraculous.
There is a striking paragraph in today’s devotional which says God’s anointing is not for flamboyance, globetrotting, or to be made merchandised of. Some anointed heirs of God have abandoned the good and healing our Lord Jesus did as recorded in our memory verse Acts 10:38 and fully engaged in flamboyancy, globetrotting and merchandising all because they are anointed. We are joint heirs with Christ and we should take on the good works of our Lord.
Jesus in John 14:12 says “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” This takes us to the fact that for us to carry out any good work and deliver those in bondage with the anointing deposited in us we must have faith and believe. Also Jesus told the disciples that they could not heal the boy because of their unbelief in Matthew 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief;[a] for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. For the anointing upon us to make difference we must first know that the anointing is present in us and we must believe. Blessed be God for our father in the Lord Pastor E. A Adeboye for the great insight in today’s devotional. May he continually increase in strength and grace in Jesus’ name.

Prayer Point
Father, wake me up to my responsibility of making a real difference in this world.
HYMN
1 O spread the tidings ’round, wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound.
Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound:
The Comforter has come!
Refrain:
The Comforter has come! The Comforter has come!
The Holy Ghost from heav’n, the Father’s promise giv’n,
O spread the tidings ’round, wherever man is found:
The Comforter has come!
2 The long, long night is past; the morning breaks at last;
And hushed the dreadful wail and fury of the blast,
As o’er the golden hills the day advances fast!
The Comforter has come! [Refrain]
3 Lo, the great King of kings, with healing in His wings,
To every captive soul a full deliv’rance brings;
And thro’ the vacant cells the song of triumph rings;
The Comforter has come! [Refrain]
4 O boundless love divine! How shall this tongue of mine
To wond’ring mortals tell the matchless grace divine –
That I, a child of hell, should in His image shine?
The Comforter has come! [Refrain]

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