30 Jul What the Anointing Feels Like
I’m hungry for more of God, for a few reasons. Firstly I know I need Him. I’m not sufficient on my own, not for a single thing. Secondly, I’ve tasted of His goodness and it is soul-satisfying and thirst-quenching and I’m forever changed. But, I want more of His goodness. Thirdly, I realise that more of Him in me, will result in more of Him blessing others through me, and I want to see the Lord have his way.
In my own walk with Christ, I’ve found strength in some forms of ministry. He has given me grace in the area of unconditional acceptance of others. I find that I quickly accept others, even if they are wrong, or different, or antagonistic. I’m not given to arguing, or opposing, or challenging for the sake of it. I feel that grace is at work within me as a peace maker. Many times in my life I have had a meeting with a minister from another denomination or congregation. As I have approached that meeting I have had a feeling. I think it is the anointing of the Lord.
The feeling feels like confidence, which I understand is a form of faith that comes from God. I know that Christ loves and accepts me. I know that Christ loves and accepts the believer I am to meet with, even if they are different to me doctrinally, or in practice or in other ways. And I feel the acceptance that Jesus has for this other. But then it flows back around so that I know they will accept me to. And grace works in a way that our meeting is amicable, friendly and warm, even despite our differences. It is the feeling of God’s love at work.
So I have come to identify that feeling of God’s love as the anointing. Or at least in this situation in my own experience.
I note however that other believers and ministers work by grace to do all variety of things for the Lord. Some have an anointing for powerful preaching. Others seem anointed to pray and do miraculous things. Others have anointing to win souls for Christ, the work of the evangelist. It seems there are many ways God works through people by his power. And those believers also testify to feeling the anointing.
What do their anointings feel like?
I have a hunch that it is a similar feeling. A feeling of confidence that comes from knowing God is at work through you. A feeling of His compassion for those being ministered to. A sense of knowing that God is up to something. It is the love of God.
What is your experience? I’d like to know.
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