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Date: Jan 21, 2002

This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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                            Anointing


Child, you ask me to anoint you but you are looking for the anointing 
to preceed the commissioning and the calling.  Child don't you realize
that I anoint you in what you are already doing.  I do not anoint you
before you have need of it but when it is time to use that anointing
in the ministry I have given to you.

You look to this area and that area and you say, "Oh Lord, I wish I had 
that anointing!" Child, look to the areas where I have gifted you, where 
I have called you to serve Me and to further My kingdom.  Do you not 
realize that is the area where the anointing will come.  I supply what is 
needed to do the job I have called you to do.  I do not anoint you for 
another's work nor do I equip you for that which I have not called you 
to do.   Instaed, start doing the work I have commissioned you to, and
the anointing will be present for you.

Be faithful to serve Me in the areas where I have called you, and you will 
see My anointing increase upon you.  Have you not read where Stephen was 
commissioned as deacon, and then he was greatly anointed with evangelism 
and signs and wonders?   Have you not ready where Peter was already 
preaching the gospel before the healings began?  Have you not read where 
Paul was already on the mission field before he was given the power and 
anointing to go with the message I put on his lips?

Child, I will back up My commission with My power.  If you are doing with Me
what I am doing, you will see My anointing upon you.  For I have called you
to be highly effective in Me.  I will teach you.  I will train you.  I will
raise you up and I will fully equip you for that which I call you to.

The Holy Spirit, Who resides within you, He is the anointing.  It is not
an impersonal force that I impart, it is My presence moving through you.
The anointing is the person of the Holy Spirit.  So if you want My 
anointing, then My Spirit must have control of you.  The more you give 
yourself to Me, the more I will give Myself to you and the more the 
manifestation of My anointing in your life will increase.