SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND THE "ANOINTING."

On another site a woman asked "what is anointed preaching?"

This is my feeble attempt to answer.

Regarding your question about how to get the anointing.

I'll give you my opinion, and admittedly, this is a controversial subject.

In 1 Corinthians chapter 14, where Paul discusses spiritual gifts; he describes prophecy this way -

"One who prophesies speaks to men for edification, exhortation, and consolation."

Prophecy, which can mean knowing about a future event, also means preaching.

So if someone is anointed, it means they have been given a spiritual gift for the building up of the church.

If someone has the gift of preaching, (prophecy)

it means they have been given a spiritual gift to do so,

and this is called anointing.

Perhaps you've found yourself in a position of helping another in crisis, or teaching a new convert,

or some other circumstance where you sensed the presence of God in an unusually powerful way, that too, would be called being anointed.

God will anoint, or you may call it "assist" a person when they are doing the work of the ministry, at any level. A Sunday school teacher may experience the anointing, or "assistance" of God in a way they would not normally experience it.

As your faith grows and you reach out to others, in the many and varied ways our faith teaches, you will experience the anointing (assistance) at some point.

Personally, I think it not only assists us, but it motivates us to do more; I think it is an inner reward for doing the will of God.

I suppose it is somewhat like the emotions of our conscience; when we do good, our conscience feels clear, it feels something, hard to put into words, but we know it when we feel it.

So in some ways that is like the anointing, better felt than told, but unmistakeable.

In my experience, the higher degree of holiness in living, and the more pure the intentions are, the greater anointing.