"Anointing Vs. Talent"

1 John 2:27 - 'But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in
you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing
teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught
you, ye shall abide in him.'



Many times we tend to throw the word "anointing" around like it is a something that gives a person an extra edge over others when they are singing, performing, or preaching. We sometimes say when a person sings good, they have talent, but when their singing makes us cry, then it's the anointing! Or, often times we feel that when a preacher teaches good, he is talented. But when he hollers and sweats a lot, he is anointed. Many of us are so backwards on some things in the church today. Church people sometimes get careless and we begin to repeat what we have heard all our lives and never look it up in the Word. But that's why the EX Daily Word is here. I refuse to believe a lie and I refuse to just repeat stuff without looking it up for myself and knowing the truth about it. Let's look at this for a moment. The bible talks about the anointing in the Old Testament as mostly an act of blessing and selecting someone by pouring oil upon their head. The passage in Isaiah 10:27 that says that the "yoke of bondage shall be destroyed by the anointing" is talking about a God's people being enslaved by Assyrians and the word anointing in that passage is speaking of a certain grease that could make the yoke slip off of the slaves neck! I have heard that the anointing of God "destroys the yoke" all my life and I thought it was talking about some special gift that preachers and musicians had to break bondage off people while they sang or preached. But it means to be greased so that chains of slavery or yokes would not hold you.



The anointing of God is not some talent that a person possesses. Just because you felt what they were doing deep inside does not mean that it was God's anointing. Talent can make you cry. Talent can make you shout and dance. Talent can tickle your emotions and make you feel something that resembles the presence of God. Remember when you went to secular concerts or listened to secular artists like Luther or Prince? Remember how they could make you cry and give you emotions that resembled the same feelings you get at church? That's because it probably is the same feelings you got at church! That's why we can't rely on what we feel. But we have to know what we know about God. You see, it's getting very hard to tell the real from the fake. The enemy has come into our churches and has started to mimic what we felt was anointing and has made it easy for us to believe a lie. We even call homosexuals, secular artists, immoral preachers, and sinful Gospel artists "anointed" because they have talents that resemble what we feel the anointing is. But that's not God's anointing because you cry when they sing or you feel something. God's anointing dwells within you and has nothing to do with feelings. The anointing is merely the power of the Holy Ghost that empowers you to be what God has destined you to be. It's not a feel good potion or a tear jerking magic that good singers and preachers possess. It's God's leading and guiding power that teaches you his truth. This is what the anointing of God is for. Not to make us more talented and to make us preach harder. Not to make us sell more records or sing with better runs and riffs. Not to make folks fall out or foam at the mouth when we touch them. The anointing of God is the power of the Holy Ghost and his purpose is to teach us how to be what God desires of us and to also empower us to do supernatural acts according to his purpose in us. Notice I said "his" and not "it's". Many of us have made the person of the Holy Ghost an "it" like he is just an act and not a personality. But he is the third person of the Godhead and HE leads and guides us in all truth. When a person refers to the Holy Ghost as an "it" then they are talking about their emotions. You know when a person really knows the Holy Ghost and is anointed by him. They have a relationship with him and he leads and guides them!



Suggested Reading: Isaiah 10:27, John 15:26, John 14:17