WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Trifecta- Faith, Anointing, Glory Publishing Date: 2021-02-27T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/trifecta-faith-anointing-glory/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.260 Hey guys, so today we start a new, not series, it's perhaps over by tomorrow, so we start 00:00:09.260 --> 00:00:20.480 a new Saturday Sunday topic and the title that we have and that you can use if you want 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:31.520 to is trifecta, as in something that happens one after the other, something that happens 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:32.520 together. 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:43.360 You can Google the exact meaning of trifecta later, but here's what we'll be talking about 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:49.040 for the next two sessions. 00:00:49.040 --> 00:01:05.040 If you want a title, it's trifecta, basically it's faith, anointing, glory. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:11.640 That's what we'll be covering over the next two days, faith, anointing and glory. 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:16.360 I call it a trifecta because I think all three are necessary in the season that we find ourselves 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:17.520 in. 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:21.720 All three are necessary in the season that we find ourselves in. 00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:27.080 They are determinant of how the season goes. 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:35.840 They are progressive, as in you go from faith to anointing to glory, and yet they are cyclical 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:41.160 or cyclical, so they keep repeating too. 00:01:41.160 --> 00:01:45.640 One of the scriptures that I read in John chapter 2 verse 11, particularly from the 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:52.720 NIRV, the reader's version, here's what it says, that was the first of Jesus' miraculous 00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:54.320 signs. 00:01:54.320 --> 00:01:57.200 He did it at Cana in Galilee. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:02.080 Jesus showed his glory by doing it, and his disciples put their faith in him. 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:06.720 The reason I like that verse, particularly from the NIRV, is because in that verse you 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:13.160 have the idea of anointing through which Jesus did signs, the disciples putting their faith 00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:16.480 in him, and he revealing his glory. 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:20.040 That's one of the reasons I picked on that verse and from that particular version, John 00:02:20.040 --> 00:02:22.840 chapter 2 verse 11. 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:26.080 These are the three things we're going to examine today and tomorrow. 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:31.480 Today will be part one and we'll stop when we need to stop. 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:32.760 Let's start with the idea of faith. 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:39.800 I know we've talked about it a lot, so that'll be perhaps the one that I touch the least. 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:51.680 I want to think of faith for the sake of this teaching as the law of expectation. 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.560 The law of expectation. 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:03.560 For what we are doing right now based on the promise that God has given and based on the 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.240 things he says he plans to do, I must have expectation. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:15.240 I must live by the law of expectation because there is power in expectancy. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:19.680 There is power in expectancy. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:24.440 There is power in expectancy. 00:03:24.440 --> 00:03:27.520 There is power in expectancy. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:34.520 The capacity of your expectation determines the largeness of your faith. 00:03:54.760 --> 00:04:01.760 Therefore, the outcome or exploit. 00:04:10.320 --> 00:04:17.320 The scale of your exploits is dependent on the largeness of your faith, which is dependent 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:24.480 on the capacity of your expectation. 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:34.160 Power is released in expectancy. 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:41.160 If people have questions, they can still put it up on the TV, right? 00:04:49.400 --> 00:04:56.400 For what we are doing right now, which is this idea of global revival, especially among 00:04:57.400 --> 00:05:04.400 the 12s to the 39s, that is a mighty exploit and requires the largeness of faith, which 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:20.800 requires a capacity for expectation, which requires the law of expectation, which then 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:28.600 is dependent on what God is saying. 00:05:28.640 --> 00:05:34.280 God will try you to see how much you can believe. 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:35.440 What can you believe for? 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:41.440 One of the questions that Jesus often used is, what do you want me to do for you? 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:47.760 It is a Jesus question that was loaded because it gauged expectancy. 00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:51.600 What do you want me to do for you? 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:58.600 It is a question Jesus often asked and the intent of asking was, hey, in asking you this, 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:05.040 let me gauge your expectancy. 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:12.040 The deeper my relationship and knowledge of who Jesus Christ is, the greater my response 00:06:12.140 --> 00:06:15.160 to that question. 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:22.160 Because if he is infinite, omnipotent, can do anything he wants, sovereign, then he does 00:06:22.760 --> 00:06:28.520 ask this question not because he is unable to do whatever he wants. 00:06:28.520 --> 00:06:35.080 He asks this question to see how much you expect him to do. 00:06:35.080 --> 00:06:42.080 I met a man yesterday and he used to work for John Maxwell's organization called Equal 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:46.960 Equip. 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:53.960 When he met John Maxwell and John Maxwell was planning to hire him, they had covered 00:06:54.320 --> 00:07:01.320 about 170 or 175 of the 196 countries with their leadership course material. 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:06.480 There were about 20 to 22 countries left. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:13.480 These were really difficult countries like North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, places 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:17.040 like that, about 20 or 22 countries left. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:24.040 That was impossible to go into with leadership material that had strong Christian roots. 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:32.560 He meets John Maxwell and then they are doing this interview to see whether they should 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:33.240 hire him. 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:40.240 This man turns to John Maxwell and says, do not hire me if you do not intend to reach 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.380 every country in the world. 00:07:44.380 --> 00:07:47.240 If you have no intentions of reaching every country in the world, do not hire me. 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.240 It does not matter how much money you throw at me, I am not interested. 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:54.000 That is how the interview began. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:01.000 Maxwell said, we have spent the last 16 years covering 170 and since then these 20 to 22 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.520 countries are the hardest to get into and it is not possible. 00:08:05.520 --> 00:08:07.440 What makes you think you can? 00:08:07.640 --> 00:08:14.640 He said, either you will find me accomplishing what I said I will, that I will make sure 00:08:16.280 --> 00:08:21.520 that this material gets into every country or you will find me dead in one of those countries 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:23.720 trying. 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:27.360 That is the only way that I am going to be hired. 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:28.400 Otherwise, do not hire me. 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:31.960 It does not matter how much you give me, I am not going to do it. 00:08:31.960 --> 00:08:38.960 So John Maxwell said, sure we will hire you, but we will hire you if you do it in three 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:41.960 years. 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.720 The guy was sitting across and saying to me yesterday, he said three years and he thought 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:51.240 to himself, you took 17 years and you have given me the 22 most difficult countries, 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:55.280 how are you going to do it, why are you asking me to do it in three years? 00:08:55.280 --> 00:09:00.960 Instead of saying it cannot be done in three years, he said sure, I will do it. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:07.960 Sometimes expectancy has in it a degree of brashness because if you want to engage in 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:16.880 mighty exploits with your God, it requires a degree of, not bravado, but a degree of 00:09:16.880 --> 00:09:20.640 brashness as in, I do not know how this is going to work out, but I am going to step 00:09:20.640 --> 00:09:24.440 out of the boat first and then see how it is going to work out. 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:29.440 And there is absolute possibility that you might sink. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:35.000 He finishes the 22 countries in one year. 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.280 One year. 00:09:38.280 --> 00:09:40.040 He goes into every country. 00:09:40.040 --> 00:09:43.360 John Maxwell's material has reached 196 countries. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:49.640 I was listening to that story and I have known this man, I met this man only twice, once 00:09:49.640 --> 00:09:56.640 in 2000, I do not know when, Heidi and I met him once and then I met him again yesterday 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:02.560 and I thought to myself, Father, I need a degree of brashness that I do not have. 00:10:02.560 --> 00:10:08.640 My faith is so calculated as in, are you sure God is going to do this? 00:10:08.640 --> 00:10:11.960 My faith should be, this is what I think God wants me to do. 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:18.960 If it does not work, I will die trying. 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:23.480 I will die trying. 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:29.440 This is why Hebrews 11 verse 35 on has a list of people who died trying, which we never 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:34.120 go to. 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:35.880 So let's go there today. 00:10:35.880 --> 00:10:42.880 It is a not so nice part of Hebrews chapter 11. 00:10:42.880 --> 00:10:49.880 Verse 36 on was, Some faced jeers and flogging and even chains and imprisonment. 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.800 They were put to death by stoning, they were sawed in two, they were killed by the sword, 00:10:57.800 --> 00:11:02.280 they went about in sheepskin, goatskin, destitute, persecuted and mistreated. 00:11:02.280 --> 00:11:04.120 The world was not worthy of them. 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:08.280 They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. 00:11:08.280 --> 00:11:15.280 These were well-commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 00:11:15.280 --> 00:11:16.040 Crazy eh? 00:11:16.040 --> 00:11:19.960 None of them received what had been promised, and yet they were well-commended for their 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:26.960 faith and they died trying. 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:34.320 The law of expectation, faith must have expectancy. 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:35.680 I have been with this revival. 00:11:35.680 --> 00:11:39.360 If you hear me saying things during worship and the words, if you hear them, they are 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:40.960 always full of expectation. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:45.400 I never shrink back from the fact that it is a global revival. 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:49.840 I never shrink back from it. 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.600 Not because repeating it many times will make it happen, but because repeating it many times 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:59.040 will help you and me understand what God is up to. 00:11:59.040 --> 00:12:06.040 Because here's the thing guys, what hollows out faith, what hollows out faith is low expectancy. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:20.360 What hollows out faith is low expectancy. 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:27.600 Lower your expectations and it detracts from faith. 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.640 God will still meet it, but you don't get to know God. 00:12:32.640 --> 00:12:36.600 Faith gets you to know God better. 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:40.480 Faith gets you to please God and faith gets you to know God better. 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:45.600 Both happen through faith. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.720 All expectancy has an expressed starting point. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.560 All expectancy has a starting point. 00:12:51.560 --> 00:12:58.560 Whenever you have expectancy, there is a visible starting point. 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:07.840 Or there is a starting point that you make visible. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:14.320 That's the best way to put it. 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:16.680 There's a starting point that you make visible. 00:13:16.680 --> 00:13:20.240 What do you mean by that? 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:27.880 Abraham is being given a promise saying, listen, you will have children that will completely 00:13:29.640 --> 00:13:31.120 populate the earth. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.760 Abraham is important. 00:13:32.760 --> 00:13:33.760 What does God do? 00:13:33.760 --> 00:13:38.040 God says, listen Abraham, I want you to go out and count the stars. 00:13:38.040 --> 00:13:40.440 So there's a counting of stars that happens. 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:44.920 With Moses, there's this red sea, there's an army behind him. 00:13:44.920 --> 00:13:49.680 There is this expectancy in Moses' heart based on who Yahweh is that the sea is going 00:13:49.680 --> 00:13:50.680 to happen. 00:13:50.680 --> 00:13:52.360 So what does he do? 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.080 He stretches out his stuff. 00:13:55.080 --> 00:14:02.080 When it comes to the Passover, Israel had an expectancy in Egypt that if we put the 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:11.000 blood of the lamb upon our dopes and lintels, that it is possible for the destroyer to skip 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.200 our homes, pass over our homes and we will not be affected. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:20.520 When the woman touches the hem of Jesus' garments without going into the details of 00:14:20.520 --> 00:14:26.440 it, there was this expectancy that this action is the starting point of what I will get. 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:30.960 In the same way, if we look at the revival, one of the things I keep looking back at is 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:36.520 there is a point of visibility that we must establish on the earth. 00:14:36.520 --> 00:14:42.320 Sometimes it is with words, sometimes it's going back to January, December 31st and remembering 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.180 this idea of disruptive glory. 00:14:45.180 --> 00:14:50.020 Sometimes it is referring to the Hebrides' revival and this is 2.0 version. 00:14:50.020 --> 00:14:57.020 Sometimes it's going back to 2005 and remembering the words spoken over this church that, listen, 00:14:57.580 --> 00:15:03.300 you will be forebringers of revival, that, listen, apostolic ministries, bishops, young 00:15:03.300 --> 00:15:09.700 men and women will rise up from amongst you, that it will be a revival that is known not 00:15:09.700 --> 00:15:12.780 just for its power but for its purity and devotion. 00:15:12.780 --> 00:15:18.220 These things that are repeated again and again is so that we make visible the starting point 00:15:18.220 --> 00:15:22.020 of our expectancy. 00:15:22.020 --> 00:15:24.420 It must be done again and again. 00:15:24.420 --> 00:15:30.220 Most of the things we are doing are not just attempts to fill air. 00:15:30.220 --> 00:15:33.940 It's very deliberate. 00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:36.540 Throughout the Bible, God recommended this. 00:15:36.540 --> 00:15:39.940 Sometimes so that they would remember, sometimes so that their children would remember. 00:15:39.940 --> 00:15:46.940 Take 12 stones out of the jar and set it up so that when your kids come back here, they'll know. 00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:54.940 Memorialize this idea of Passover with unleavened bread. 00:15:55.100 --> 00:16:02.100 Break bread and as you do remember what I did for you on the cross, the idea of memorializing 00:16:02.300 --> 00:16:08.540 the expectancy that you have of God, from God, for God is so critical and you must do 00:16:08.540 --> 00:16:13.500 it during the week in your own homes, for things that are corporate like the revival 00:16:13.500 --> 00:16:18.460 and for things that are personal. 00:16:18.460 --> 00:16:23.460 What evidence is there for your belief? 00:16:23.460 --> 00:16:30.460 Learn to stay in expectancy, not in diluted hope. 00:16:31.740 --> 00:16:34.300 Learn to stay in expectancy, not in diluted hope. 00:16:34.300 --> 00:16:40.420 A farmer, when he sows, expects a harvest. 00:16:40.420 --> 00:16:44.980 He hopes the weather will cooperate, but he expects a harvest. 00:16:44.980 --> 00:16:49.180 And blessed are you if you know the weathermaker, because now you can take hope and expectancy, 00:16:49.180 --> 00:16:54.180 put them together and stand knowing that you'll get a great crop. 00:16:54.180 --> 00:16:56.820 We are not hoping for things. 00:16:56.820 --> 00:17:00.380 There's an expectant fate like a mother who is pregnant. 00:17:00.380 --> 00:17:02.940 She's not hoping now that she'll have a child. 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:05.340 She is pregnant, she will have the child. 00:17:05.340 --> 00:17:12.340 Now there's an expectancy. 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:21.180 That's to do with this idea of faith which is critical in this time of revival. 00:17:21.180 --> 00:17:26.260 Now we move on to the idea of anointing. 00:17:26.260 --> 00:17:28.060 Faith, anointing, glory. 00:17:28.060 --> 00:17:31.820 We'll talk about glory tomorrow, we'll talk about anointing now. 00:17:31.820 --> 00:17:34.740 Anointing is the empowering of the spirit. 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:41.740 Anointing is the empowering of the spirit. 00:17:43.380 --> 00:17:50.380 Anointing is the empowering of the spirit upon you to accomplish God's purpose. 00:17:52.180 --> 00:17:59.180 To accomplish God's purpose. 00:17:59.540 --> 00:18:06.540 It's being clothed, it is being clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit to do good. 00:18:16.260 --> 00:18:23.260 It is being clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit to do good. 00:18:23.260 --> 00:18:24.660 Acts 10 verse 38. 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:30.260 And God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power so that he could 00:18:30.260 --> 00:18:33.660 go about doing good. 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:38.660 This is what the anointing is. 00:18:38.660 --> 00:18:45.660 The anointing is what helps us seek the lost like the stories we heard from Prashant and 00:18:46.660 --> 00:18:47.660 from Derek. 00:18:47.660 --> 00:18:50.660 It helps us heal the sick. 00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:53.660 It helps us heal the sick. 00:18:53.660 --> 00:18:58.660 It helps us set captives free. 00:18:58.660 --> 00:19:00.660 Really? 00:19:00.660 --> 00:19:01.660 Yeah. 00:19:01.660 --> 00:19:02.660 Isaiah 61. 00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:07.460 The spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me. 00:19:07.460 --> 00:19:08.460 For what? 00:19:08.460 --> 00:19:12.660 To preach the good news to the poor, to heal the sick, to open blind eyes, to open prison 00:19:12.660 --> 00:19:18.580 doors, to set the captives free, to proclaim the year of favor. 00:19:18.580 --> 00:19:22.980 It is the power of the spirit upon me to accomplish God's purpose. 00:19:22.980 --> 00:19:28.020 It is being clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit to do good. 00:19:28.020 --> 00:19:34.860 It is being empowered by the Holy Spirit to seek the lost, to heal the sick, to free captives. 00:19:34.860 --> 00:19:41.860 In fact the early church was empowered by the spirit to bear witness boldly to the ends 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:47.380 of the earth. 00:19:47.380 --> 00:19:52.180 That's chapter 1, verse 5 and 8. 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:57.900 But stay in Jerusalem and the Holy Spirit will come upon you with power and you will 00:19:57.900 --> 00:20:04.900 be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria to the ends of the earth. 00:20:05.940 --> 00:20:08.660 So it's impossible to function without this. 00:20:08.660 --> 00:20:10.420 Impossible to function without this. 00:20:10.460 --> 00:20:12.180 That's one of the things we're going to pray for today. 00:20:12.180 --> 00:20:17.740 That, oh God, would you anoint us? 00:20:17.740 --> 00:20:24.060 Because if a revival requires reaching out to those that are lost, those that are sick, 00:20:24.060 --> 00:20:31.060 broken, shamed, those that are in prison, taken captive, in bondage, and if the song 00:20:31.700 --> 00:20:38.580 that we sang, when we sang I am a child of God for those that are outsiders has to come 00:20:38.580 --> 00:20:43.780 to pass, then we need the anointing of God. 00:20:43.780 --> 00:20:50.780 It is the anointing that breaks the yoke upon people as they are 10 or 11, I'm not sure. 00:20:52.700 --> 00:20:55.700 Or maybe not. 00:20:55.700 --> 00:21:02.700 Jesus needed it. 00:21:08.860 --> 00:21:12.860 And so if Jesus needed it to do what he did on earth, because in Luke 418 Jesus opens 00:21:12.860 --> 00:21:17.500 a scroll and he reads from Isaiah 61 and he says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me and 00:21:17.500 --> 00:21:18.780 has anointed me. 00:21:18.780 --> 00:21:23.060 If Jesus needed an anointing, may I suggest to you that I need it and you need it and 00:21:23.220 --> 00:21:28.940 that we need it to accomplish particularly what God has for us right now. 00:21:28.940 --> 00:21:33.980 I said earlier that anointing is the empowering of the Spirit upon you to accomplish God's 00:21:33.980 --> 00:21:34.740 purpose. 00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:40.100 God's purpose is afoot on the earth and it is that he's bringing a global revival for 00:21:40.100 --> 00:21:45.100 people between the ages of 10 to 12 to 39. 00:21:45.100 --> 00:21:50.540 Predominantly, not that others won't be touched, like the man that Derek met was 50. 00:21:50.540 --> 00:21:56.100 The point being this, for that to happen, it is impossible without a special anointing. 00:21:56.100 --> 00:21:57.260 What do you mean special? 00:21:57.260 --> 00:22:01.060 All I mean by special is for a time such as this. 00:22:01.060 --> 00:22:02.540 That's all I mean by special. 00:22:02.540 --> 00:22:09.540 Not something that others don't get. 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:15.820 The same Spirit that anointed Jesus for the work he did is the same Spirit who can empower 00:22:15.820 --> 00:22:22.820 me to be effective in this revival for the sake of the kingdom. 00:22:22.860 --> 00:22:29.860 Anointing has nature, status, anointing has nature, anointing has status, anointing has 00:22:33.140 --> 00:22:38.680 function. 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:44.740 Anointing has nature, meaning there are different things that God sends the power of the Spirit 00:22:44.780 --> 00:22:47.500 upon you to accomplish different ends. 00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:54.500 The power that was on Samson was different from the power that was on David. 00:22:54.500 --> 00:23:01.100 The power that was on Saul was different from the power that was on Isaiah. 00:23:01.100 --> 00:23:04.860 There's a nature to the anointing. 00:23:04.860 --> 00:23:06.520 There's status or level. 00:23:06.520 --> 00:23:12.980 How much you can do or release to touch people depends on the measure of anointing you receive. 00:23:12.980 --> 00:23:19.980 How much you can do, how much you release is dependent on the measure that you receive. 00:23:36.420 --> 00:23:39.820 We must make a distinction between the anointed one and the anointing. 00:23:39.820 --> 00:23:42.820 All of us have the anointed one living in us. 00:23:42.820 --> 00:23:47.500 So 1 John 2.27 says the anointing is in you as in the anointed one, the Christ lives in 00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:51.900 you. 00:23:51.900 --> 00:23:56.220 We need to make a distinction between that and what we're talking about. 00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:58.640 David was anointed three times. 00:23:58.640 --> 00:23:59.980 David was anointed three times. 00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:05.940 First by Samuel, in 1 Samuel 16.13 he was anointed where Jesse didn't even line him 00:24:05.940 --> 00:24:09.140 up. 00:24:09.140 --> 00:24:13.220 So David was anointed first by Samuel in 1 Samuel 16.13. 00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:19.060 And then later on the people of Judah anoint him as king where they say flesh of our flesh, 00:24:19.060 --> 00:24:22.420 bone of our bone and they call him forth and they anoint him. 00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:25.300 And that's in 2 Samuel 2.4. 00:24:25.300 --> 00:24:30.420 And then Israel finally acknowledges him before he goes and reigns in Zion. 00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:34.960 Israel acknowledges him in 2 Samuel 5.3 and they anoint him a third time. 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:41.440 And with each anointing his influence increased. 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.200 Which is to say there are different levels of status of anointing. 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:46.000 It is not status in the kingdom. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:51.040 It is how much you do and how much you release depends on the measure that you receive. 00:24:51.040 --> 00:24:54.400 And that allows you to function a certain way. 00:24:54.400 --> 00:25:03.200 And this can keep increasing. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:13.440 Which then means that anointing takes process to receive and release. 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:24.560 Anointing takes a process to receive and release. 00:25:24.560 --> 00:25:36.320 And it's absolutely attainable, isn't difficult. 00:25:36.320 --> 00:25:40.560 But here are some of the simple equations we have to remember. 00:25:40.560 --> 00:25:46.640 One, yieldedness. 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:52.920 Yieldedness creates inflow of the anointing. 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:55.040 Yieldedness creates inflow. 00:25:55.040 --> 00:26:04.360 As in one who is yielded now has the ability to create an inflow from the spirit of God 00:26:04.360 --> 00:26:05.600 into your life. 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:07.160 In any area he chooses to. 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:09.600 So I'm not yielding to be a worship leader. 00:26:09.600 --> 00:26:12.200 I'm not yielding to be a pastor. 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:16.920 I'm not yielding to be a thing because that thing is trending. 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:25.160 I'm yielded because yieldedness is the finest posture before a holy, mighty, sovereign, 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:30.120 excellent creator God. 00:26:30.120 --> 00:26:38.080 Yieldedness creates inflow. 00:26:38.080 --> 00:26:44.320 These are the processes if you can engage in your life will have you increase, will 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:46.720 have you walk with David. 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:51.720 First, second, third anointings and so on. 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.720 Faithfulness, and another word for faithfulness is obedience. 00:26:55.720 --> 00:27:06.720 Faithfulness creates, faithfulness creates capacity. 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:09.720 Faithfulness creates capacity. 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:11.600 Faithfulness creates capacity. 00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:14.880 It always has in the story in Matthew 25. 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:19.240 It's the faithfulness of servants that increases their domain. 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:21.720 Faithfulness expands your capacity. 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:29.900 This is why it's critical and such an important measure to see and determine a person's faithfulness. 00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:33.320 God does it and I do it with you. 00:27:33.320 --> 00:27:39.200 Show yourself faithful and God will recommend you. 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:42.160 Faithfulness in small things, small things. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:46.120 Faithfulness in big things is easy because big things have a certain weight to them, 00:27:46.120 --> 00:27:53.440 a certain importance to them, but it's in the small things man. 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.760 Faithfulness is measured in small things. 00:27:56.760 --> 00:28:03.720 Faithfulness is measured in hiddenness when no one is watching. 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:10.720 Faithfulness is measured in diligence that nobody sees. 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:17.320 And then if that is the kind of person you are, it doesn't matter that you mess up. 00:28:17.320 --> 00:28:19.040 It's strange how parents are that way too. 00:28:19.040 --> 00:28:26.040 A child that they found faithful, doesn't matter that the child drops Swarovski crystal. 00:28:26.040 --> 00:28:33.040 Because it's in the process, in the process of faithfulness if you make mistakes, it's 00:28:34.040 --> 00:28:37.600 completely okay. 00:28:37.600 --> 00:28:39.400 Faithfulness creates capacity. 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:43.520 We're talking about the anointing now. 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:46.280 Yieldedness creates an inflow of anointing. 00:28:46.280 --> 00:28:48.120 Faithfulness creates capacity for anointing. 00:28:48.320 --> 00:28:55.320 It expands your ability to handle the empowerment of the Holy Spirit for a God purpose. 00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:10.240 Character creates usability. 00:29:13.360 --> 00:29:16.000 Character creates usability. 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:23.000 Giftedness is not a sign of your maturity, character is. 00:29:24.280 --> 00:29:28.840 And as God sees that here is someone whose character is beginning to match that of his 00:29:28.840 --> 00:29:31.360 son, it creates high usability. 00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:37.140 You become someone who is plugged into different situations at the drop of a hat because God 00:29:37.140 --> 00:29:42.480 knows that your character can withstand fame, your character can withstand offense, your 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:49.480 character can withstand pressure, your character can withstand a hostile or sometimes wicked 00:29:50.760 --> 00:29:52.920 situation. 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:59.920 And so character creates usability when it comes to anointing. 00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:05.600 Today's world because of pixels and because of exactly what is happening right now, live 00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:09.840 streaming, you never see character because what character can you see in two hours when 00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:11.400 I'm behind a pulpit and a camera? 00:30:11.560 --> 00:30:12.680 You don't see character then. 00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:24.120 Which is why the ones that we think have character end up having such hollowed out, termite 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:29.960 eaten lives that it's only a matter of time before it's exposed. 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:36.960 It's usually exposed by the devil so that it can bring disrepute to the kingdom and 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:43.960 God will not, God will cover our sins, he will not cover my hypocrisy and my pretension. 00:30:51.760 --> 00:30:58.760 Because he's not a deceptive God, that's a problem. 00:30:58.760 --> 00:31:05.760 Order creates framework. Order creates a framework for anointing. Order creates framework for 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:15.360 anointing. 00:31:15.360 --> 00:31:22.360 If, I may be highly anointed but if I don't operate in order, if I don't recognize, honor, 00:31:23.120 --> 00:31:29.960 submit to order, then I do not have a framework for the anointing to flow and so now what 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:36.640 happens is the anointing becomes haphazards, scatters and it is only a matter of time before 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:43.640 it harms someone or does something that distorts the character of God. 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:51.480 Samson was a typical example of an anointed man who did not operate under any order, be 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:58.680 it legal order, be it moral order, be it parental order, there was no such thing. 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:07.400 When we talk about order, there are three things we need to remember. Honor, submission, 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:14.400 I forgot the third one. One must honor order, one must submit to order and then there's 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:22.400 a third one. 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:29.920 Spiritual giftedness creates room for the anointing. Creates room for the anointing. 00:32:35.520 --> 00:32:40.880 And you may say, ah, so I miss out on that and somebody else lucked out on that. No, 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:44.160 the Bible says that there is nobody who is a believer who does not have a spiritual 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:51.160 gift. Spiritual giftedness creates room. How do you arrive at that Jacob? The Bible says 00:32:52.560 --> 00:32:57.200 that gifts create room before kings and before people. Spiritual giftedness creates room 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:04.200 too. There's a reason why Emily is leading the singing today and not Derek. 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:17.880 Yeah? And so, that's just sheer talent, okay? That's not spiritual giftedness. But I'm 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:29.600 just giving that as an example. But spiritual giftedness is when you realize that you have 00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:35.320 a gift and now that you have the gift, the anointing helps, the anointing comes upon 00:33:35.320 --> 00:33:42.320 that gift so that it creates room so that people listen and see Jesus. 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:51.960 And then the last one. Foolishness creates outflow. Creates outflow. Foolishness creates 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:58.960 outflow. As in, without being foolish with the anointing, it is highly unlikely that 00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:14.800 people will be affected. One has to stop reading 1 Corinthians 13 and drive to a certain place. 00:34:15.120 --> 00:34:22.120 One has to decide to do something foolish, do something that goes against the grain of 00:34:24.080 --> 00:34:31.080 thinking, goes against your flesh, inconveniences you. Only then do you see the visible outcome 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:38.480 of anointing. Foolishness creates an outflow or gives you a visible outcome of the anointing. 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:51.800 The thing is guys, when it comes to this idea of the Spirit of God empowering us for a 00:34:53.600 --> 00:34:59.040 particular purpose, when it comes to the idea of anointing, the believer uses faith to place 00:34:59.040 --> 00:35:06.040 a demand on the anointing. As in, the believer must now use the faith that we talked about 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:13.760 to place a demand on what he knows is given to him by the Holy Spirit. So as he places 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:20.240 a demand, what is within him begins to come out. Either he places a demand on the anointing 00:35:20.240 --> 00:35:25.160 or he places a demand on the gift he has or sometimes you can even place a demand on an 00:35:25.160 --> 00:35:32.160 individual who has a gift. That's what in a sense the centurion was doing. I know you 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:36.520 can do this. That's what the woman with the issue of blood was doing. I know you can do 00:35:36.520 --> 00:35:42.560 this. I need to now place a demand. This is what the residents of Jericho were doing. 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:48.200 Elisha, we just saw you cross back over the Jordan with Elijah's mantle. We just want 00:35:48.200 --> 00:35:54.040 you to know that the city is barren and the water is toxic. The placing a demand on someone 00:35:54.040 --> 00:36:01.040 they see has either a gifting or an anointing. Every time I prophesy, I have to place a 00:36:03.140 --> 00:36:09.720 demand on the gift or the office or the function within me so that as I place a demand, all 00:36:09.720 --> 00:36:15.560 I know is as I approach, I'll begin to speak. I do not know what will come but I know that 00:36:15.560 --> 00:36:20.120 there is enough faith in me now to place a demand on the gifting or the anointing within 00:36:20.120 --> 00:36:26.800 me so that what needs to flow from God will flow to a person. Others can place a demand 00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:32.440 too. I was on Zoom yesterday with a group of guys and Chad was there and we were talking 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:36.640 and suddenly Chad said, Jacob, can you begin to prophesy on these people here? He knows 00:36:36.680 --> 00:36:42.840 he can place that demand on me and if he does, he knows that the gift will flow. Faith is 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:49.840 required by a believer to place a demand on the anointing or the gift within you or within 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:56.600 another individual. I often tell people when people ask me questions and I answer them, 00:36:56.600 --> 00:37:01.520 it looks like I knew the answers. I have no idea what the answer is but it is as I speak 00:37:01.520 --> 00:37:08.520 that the answer comes. The other thing is because it is an empowerment by the Holy Spirit 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:21.880 for a particular task, sometimes you need to go back to the Holy Spirit and ask to be 00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:28.880 filled again because it is surprising how the power of God upon you does leave. Jesus 00:37:29.080 --> 00:37:36.080 put it this way in Luke 8 verse 46 that someone touched him and he felt power leaving him 00:37:36.160 --> 00:37:41.200 and he was full of the Holy Spirit because he was fully yielded to the Holy Spirit. Since 00:37:41.200 --> 00:37:46.320 I am not fully yielded to the Holy Spirit, it might sometimes require that I go back 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:53.320 and yield myself again so that what is spent is replenished. So in Luke 8 verse 46 you 00:37:54.320 --> 00:38:01.320 see that Jesus is saying, someone touch me, I know power has gone out from me. So the 00:38:10.560 --> 00:38:15.280 anointing is given to preach the gospel to the poor, the anointing is given to heal and 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:19.720 restore people, the anointing is given to proclaim freedom to the captives, the anointing 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:24.320 is given to open blind eyes, the anointing is given to set people free, the anointing 00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:29.440 is given so that it can flow in time of God's favor and now is that time because God is 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:34.280 up to a global revival. So one of the things I want to do before we end is pray that, oh 00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:39.280 God, could you anoint us? Wherever you are, go, you will have to go down on your knees, 00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:45.320 stand, but I just suggest that you get off the sofa because we are talking about the 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:50.520 power of God being given to us for a purpose that he wants to fulfill, it is being clothed 00:38:50.520 --> 00:38:55.120 with the power of the Holy Spirit to do good. So before we end we will pray that. I'll put 00:38:55.120 --> 00:39:01.600 it up on a slide and we'll pray that, not yet but we will. I just want to set us up 00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:08.600 for tomorrow and then we'll end with prayer and an old Ron Canole song about anointing. 00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:16.360 Guys, faith and anointing have limits because they pertain to man but there are no limitations 00:39:16.680 --> 00:39:23.680 to glory. What time is it? We are good. I'll finish in a few minutes. Or maybe I might 00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:33.280 just do this tomorrow, we might just pray right now and end. Let me just see. 00:39:38.600 --> 00:39:45.600 Let me just say that anointing is critical for the role you function in. Anointing is 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:07.760 critical for the role you function in. Remember those six points? Begin to go to the point 00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:12.000 where you have to go over them in your heart and your mind, repeat them to yourself saying 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:17.360 this is what will cause the anointing in me to increase. Initially these are steps that 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:24.360 we follow. After a while it becomes a habit that we practice. And that's the way to go 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:31.880 about it, eh? Where it becomes something that you now so easily walk in and you can't understand 00:40:32.120 --> 00:40:37.680 why the anointing on your life is increasing. Why? Because one, you have decided that you 00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:43.560 will be more and more yielded every day and because of that it creates an inflow without 00:40:43.560 --> 00:40:49.800 you even knowing it. Two, you find that you are faithful in the little that has been given 00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:53.920 to you. It doesn't matter how long you have to. You know, I was telling someone yesterday, 00:40:53.920 --> 00:41:00.920 I was, yeah, no worries. Faithfulness creates capacity. Your capacity increases. God says, 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:07.920 boy, this fellow of mine, he just continues to be faithful. He doesn't know it but his 00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:15.880 capacity is increasing. Character. Character causes your usability to increase. Because 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:19.520 in a wealthy home of vessels, some of gold and some of clay, the good ones are used for 00:41:19.520 --> 00:41:24.000 guests, the bad ones are kept away. If you stay away from sin, which is good character, 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:28.120 you're like a vessel of gold used for the very best, used for Christ alone. 2 Timothy 00:41:28.120 --> 00:41:35.120 2, 20 to 22. Character creates usability. Order creates a framework. I've met far too 00:41:36.080 --> 00:41:41.160 many anointed people that do not know how to stay within order. They do not honor order, 00:41:41.160 --> 00:41:45.800 they do not recognize order. Or if they do, it is from the lips and from the mind and 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:52.800 not from the heart. Submission to order is always a heart condition. Remember the story 00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:58.240 of the two sons. One son said, no, I will not go. The other son said, I will go. The 00:41:58.240 --> 00:42:02.560 one who said, I will not go went. The one who said, I will go did not go. Jesus was 00:42:02.560 --> 00:42:09.560 talking about two sons. Order creates framework. The next one was spiritual giftedness creates 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:19.040 room. Now that I know I have certain gifts, now that I know that I have the ability to 00:42:19.040 --> 00:42:26.040 teach, now that I know that I have a prophetic ability, let's just take those two for now. 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:34.760 Now that I know I have those abilities, I become more and more confident because I know 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:40.920 that God will empower me to do this well. Not so that I become the best teacher or best 00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:45.320 prophetic person, but so that others benefit more. The greater the anointing, the greater 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:52.320 the God power released and the greater people benefit. And then the last one is foolishness 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:57.160 creates outflow. If you are anointed, you must be foolish.