Part 1 - Unmistakable Signs A Person Is Genuinely Walking In The Presence, Anointing, And Favor Of God Series

INTRODUCTION

The Bible emphatically reveals that there is one eternal God who is not some universal mind or consciousness that fills space and matter. He has always existed in eternity past and into eternity future in three persons in what is known as the Trinity – God, the Father, God, the Son, Jesus Christ, and God, the Holy Spirit, who each have their own personal spirit-body, mind, and spirit. They are unique and separate individuals with their personalities and are not the essential parts of one Being. There are hundreds of Bible verses that verify that.

God can be clearly seen as "being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20 KJV - also Deuteronomy 33:27; Isaiah 44:6; 57:15; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; Psalm 147:5; Jeremiah 23:24; Acts 17:24-28).

God is both omnipotent and omnipresent and is not confined to three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. He can be in more than one place simultaneously. He has been seen physically by human eyes many times (Genesis 18:1-33; 19:24; 32:24-30; Exodus 24:11; 33:11-33; Joshua 5:13-15; Judges 6:11-23; 13:3-25; 1 Chronicles 21:16-17; Job 42:5; Isaiah 6; Ezekiel 1:26-28; 10:1,20; 40:3; Daniel 7:9-14; 10:5-10; Acts 7:56-59; Revelation 4:2-5; 5:1,5-7,11-14; 6:16; 7:9-17; 19:4; 21:3-5; 22:4).

Jesus, God, the Son, had no beginning and no end. He was given all authority in Heaven and Earth. He willingly came to Earth as 100% fully human and 100% fully God from a reality eternally separate from Earth, which gave Him the essential power to save anyone who receives Him as Lord and Savior from the penalty of sin through His shed blood on the Cross (Matthew 1:18; 4:2; Luke 2:40;4:34; John 1:1;4:6; 8:23-24,40; 11:35; 19:28; Hebrews 2:16-18; Colossians 1:15-19; 1 John 5:7-8).

When a person becomes “Born-Again” (See John 3) by repenting of their sin and receiving Jesus as their Lord and Savior, their spirit, mind, and body become the “Temple” (Gk: ‘naos’ - refers to the Holy of Holies) of the Holy Spirit, who immediately baptizes them with power to serve, and promised never to leave or forsake them, no matter what.

The Anointing of God

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.’ (Matthew 22:37-38 KJV)

“But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.” (1 John 2:27 ESV)

When Jesus ‘breathed’ (Gk: ‘emphusaó’ – to breathe on or in just as with Adam) on 10 of Disciples prior to the day of Pentecost, they received the Holy Spirit and became Born-Again (John 20:22). Everyone who becomes Born-Again cannot ‘receive’ any more of Him than they already have. On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended upon every Believer in Jesus who was present and anointed them with power to fulfill the Great Commission.

The Anointing is the Holy Spirit, and just as with the Disciples on the day of Pentecost, God releases His favor and power through vessels of honor for empowerment for service. Walking in the Anointing means a person is empowered daily, which is not a subjective supernatural experience or an intuitive ‘revelation’ separate from the objective Word of God, the Bible. Those who carry the presence of God as vessels of glory recognize that everything they do in life is an act of worship.

Love energizes the Anointing, which is God's spiritual endowment. God wants people to begin to love Him with everything they have. Love never fails. It is the first fruit that empowers all the rest (See Galatians 5:22). Christians must possess and understand what that fruit is so they can be transformed into the image of Jesus and have that image empower all the gifts that God gives them.

The word ‘Anointing’ in Greek means charisma or a smearing - rubbing down or endowment. It is an endowment of the inherent characteristics, qualities, and virtues of the Holy Spirit, who gives us the power to carry out the call and to move the provision of the Bible into a reality. It provides us with the power to go from produced to prevailing faith. The Anointing is God in us, the hope of glory, and the power and fire in us to get results in our lives. The purpose of the Anointing is to produce victory in our lives so God may be glorified.

The New Testament uses the term ‘Anointing’ only of Jesus and all His people (those who become Born-Again (See Matthew 6:17; Mark 14:8; James 5:14). There is no reference to any church leader being more anointed than anyone else (See Luke 4:18; Acts 4:27; 10:38; 2 Corinthians 1:21; Hebrews 1:9; 1 John 2:20, 27.