My Month Of Maintaining The Anointing

It is with delight and joy I welcome you to our month of Maintaining the Anointing. We all know that the number eight represents new beginnings, and I pray that God will begin great things in your life in Jesus name. I thank God for the grace of God upon your life. I want you to know that you are where you are not because you are extraordinarily knowledgeable or supernaturally prayerful but that the grace of God has brought you thus far. I pray that this grace shall lead you on in Jesus name.

The journey of life is not just about beginning or new beginnings the journey of life is about maintaining what we have started and finishing strong and well. Between the starting whistle and the final finishing line is longer than what we think. For all us it is the long haul between birth and death. Between leaving Egypt and reaching the Promised Land - what some theologians called the wilderness experience. That is why the Holy Spirit wants to help us this month to examine how to maintain the anointing.

What is the Anointing?

The anointing is used here in a broad sense. The anointing represents all good things God has started in you or deposited in you. The anointing represents the engine of your life; the nucleus of your protoplasm. The anointing is your nervous system, the heart that circulates blood in your body through the veins. The anointing without which you have no ministry no life. The anointing that is the lubricator of your engine without which the engine knocks. The anointing is what destroys the yoke. The anointing, is what teaches you and directs to achieve success in your life dreams and goals. "But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."1John 2:27. When Jesus was speaking about the anointing represented by the Holy Ghost he said: it is expedient (advantageous) for you that I should go, otherwise the anointing cannot come.

God wants you to maintain the anointing at all cost. Developing proper maintenance culture is critical to any society. It is the glaring difference between the developed nations and the non-developed, ill- developed, and developing nations. I was at West Minster Abbey many years ago and the tour guide told us it takes over four million pounds sterling to maintain the edifice that is over a thousand years old. Those of us living in Toronto know that summer time is road blockage time because of road maintenance. Even our road Kenhar Drive is having a facelift this summer, new curbs, refurbished drainage systems. On the flipside we know that is the major problem of Africa. No wonder people find the western world a safe haven.

But my interest is not about physical maintenance but spiritual. I want us to learn few lessons from those who refused to maintain the anointing that God graciously gave to them. The first person that comes in my mind is Saul. Saul without campaign was specially anointed King and God poured his anointing on him so much that they were asking is Saul also among the prophets? I Sam9-11 Yet the scripture says this about him:But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. 1 Sam 16:14-16

Can you imagine! The spirit of thy Lord departed from him he did not know. The servant has to tell him. How did the servant know - apparently he started misbehaving! Is that not what is happening today, there are so many preachers on the pulpit/TV/Radio who does not know the spirit has departed from them

"And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul."1 Sam 18:12

"And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do" 1 Sam 28:15.

Look at another man- Samson. That God anointed from his mother's womb Judges 13 Yet the scripture says: "And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him." Judges 16:20