The Road To The Anointing Series

7 Steps on the road to the Anointing:

1. Accept the call eagerly.

20”He left the oxen and ran after Elijah…” – 1 Kings 19:20 AMP.

It is important for you to accept the call of God. God calls many but not everyone accepts the call. Pouting a thousand and one excuses, they give themselves to other pursuits. Many whom God called choose to live uneventful lives as “normal”, moral, good Christians. In the name of being conscientious parents and responsible citizens, they choose to ignore the call of God.

These people receive a pat on the back from society and friends. They are applauded by the world as the “type” of Christian they want to see.

However, Elisha eagerly ran after the call. God is looking for people who respond eagerly to the offer of ministry. The word Call means to sermon The biggest problem in the body of Christ is that most people serve God when it is convinient

2. Be a fighting man.

“…and him who escapes the sword of Jehu Elisha shall slay” – 1 Kings 19:17 AMP.

• Elisha was a man who could fight with a sword.

• The Christian life is a battle and the ministry is even more of a battle.

• Much of the fight goes on in the mind and in the form of temptations, ideas, imaginations, and alternatives to the will of God.

There will be continual pressure to fulfill your natural desires and instincts in the wrong way. Satan will present you with a cocktail of fantastic thoughts, suggestions, deceptions, and delusions. Until your very last day, an array of people, events and circumstances will present themselves as a complicated network of tests and temptations. Devils presenting themselves as angels and angels whom you suspect to be devils, will add to the confusion and the clamour of the battle on this earth.

If you are not prepared to fight, you cannot have the Anointing.

Paul fought throughout his life and ministry. When he was dying he said, “I have fought a good fight.” You will fight for every drop of the Anointing that you ever receive. You will fight for every position that you ever occupy.

3. Be a ploughing man.

“So Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, whose plowing was being done with twelve yoke of oxen, and he drove the twelfth…” – 1 Kings 19:19 AMP.

• Elisha was ploughing when he was called.

• Ploughing the ground speaks of hard work.

• Elisha was a hard-working and diligent person before he was called.

• The ministry is full of hard work that lasts for many years. Rarely does a lazy person amount to anything in the ministry.

4. Understand what it means when the mantle is thrown on you.

“…Elijah crossed over to him and cast his mantle upon him.” – 1 Kings 19:19 AMP.

It is important for you to understand what is happening in your life. The call of God is mysterious and may be vague. However, exactly what God is saying and what He intends to do is often hidden from you. It is important to understand the gentle indications that God sends to you.

Elisha could have asked Elijah, “Why did you throw your mantle on me? What are you trying to say? Do you think I need some extra clothes?”