Jesus said that you should
receive power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be
witnesses of Him unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:8
We have received this anointing and have been empowered to preach the
gospel to the poor; to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to
the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
them that are bruised, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
We have been faithful to exercise
our first anointing but we have a second anointing that we must fulfill.
We have been called to rule and reign with Christ.
Revelation 3:21
To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as
I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne.
To be an over comer is the character and the nature of sonship.
We have progressed on the road to transformation by the exercise
of our faith that the first anointing provided,
but we have received a second anointing that we must honor and bring forth
into manifestation.
This pattern of a second significant
anointing appears throughout the Word. Jacob is an example; in his first
experience God promised to be with him; to return him to his land and
Jacob went forth in faith. Twenty-one years later at his second anointing
his name was changed to Israel and he was granted power with man and God.
Samuel anointed David as a young man:
1Samuel 16:13 …"and the
Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward."
David
went forth in faith and did exploits but Saul still reigned, the flesh
still ruled. But when David was anointed king, he brought up the Ark.
We are anointed to come by a way that we have not known before to establish
the kingdom of God. We are declaring that we are motivated by the vision
that God has provided in His Word.
God intends to dwell with a living
people who will manifest His glory for God has purposed to show forth
the fullness of His workings gathered in one place on earth that stands
apart from the corruption of the world. It was manifest first in the Tabernacle
of Moses, and then in the man Jesus Christ now we await the appearing of
the sons of God; a people the body of Christ that are the tabernacles
of God Almighty on earth.
God causes faith to arise in
us because He gives us hope. Above all God intends for us to function
in Him, in His kingdom by divine authority and dominion. This is what
we pursue, for God is imparting His divine nature to a people who have
escaped the corruption of this world. He is forming in us the image
of His Son. This is the high calling of God for which we reach. Paul
ran his race to attain it:
Philippians 3:12,14 "Not as though I
had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after,
if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ
Jesus; I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of
God in Christ Jesus."
That perfection, that high
calling of God, is to be manifested on this earth by a living people who
receive the nature of God and come into "a more excellent way." God
has destined a people to rule this creation with Him; to have dominion
and move by His authority. This is the meaning of 'we shall sit with
Him on His throne'.
This then, is a more excellent
way. It is having the substance and nature of God manifest from within
us. It is about being the expression of Jesus Christ in this earth. It
is being the "body of Christ" operating under Jesus, the head
of the body.
We know that the fullness of God is there to be attained by a living people
and so we hope for that which is yet unseen. We ourselves do groan for
more of it to be uncovered and revealed to us.
In the beginning God said:
Genesis 1:26 Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion.
God intended for us to have authority over the things
that He had created. It is now being fulfilled in Jesus Christ. We see
the day approaching when we, as sons see all things under our feet.
This is the promise given to us as sons of God; that we shall eat of
the hidden manna. And we shall deliver the creation from the bondage of
death and corruption through Jesus Christ our Lord.
*For more information on this topic simply E-mail Michael Brod at: michaelbrod@hotmail.com
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AN ANOINTING TO RULE: BY MICHAEL BROD