Last week we talked about discerning faith. Heb. 11:1-3 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old received divine approval. By faith we understand that the world was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.
In the last messages we have been discussing the difference of receiving by exercising personal faith in the anointing within your spirit man and receiving by exercising faith in the anointing upon another person’s ministry. There are similarities but we need to know the differences so that we know when we should be exercising personal faith in the anointing within and flow with the principles involved. And when we should be exercising faith in the anointing upon and flow with the principles involved.
Bear in mind that the spiritual realm is not a realm that we can not understand. The spiritual realm as far as God is concerned is systematic. His administration is well organized and there are laws that govern the spiritual realm. Of course when we don’t understand something it is a mystery. Just like electricity was a mystery to men. Only when the man grew in the understanding of how electricity operates can man tap on the laws of electricity to their benefit. Similarly the spiritual realm is a mystery only as long as you don’t understand it. But once there is an understanding of the laws that govern the spiritual realm its no longer a mystery. It is no mystery when people get healed. It is no mystery when miracles take place. We understand the laws that govern those areas. In talking about receiving by personal faith and receiving by the anointing of God, for the past few weeks we have been touching on the difference between acting by faith in the anointing within your spirit man and acting by faith in the anointing upon a minister of God. Then there is difference between discerning faith under the anointing within and discerning faith by the anointing upon. There is also a difference between receiving what we believe by the anointing within and receiving what we believe by the anointing upon. There is a difference.
In the life of Jesus Christ you would notice that every healing is to an extent instantaneous. Every time when He spoke the Word, there was a healing. And even when there was a gradual healing it does not take longer than an hour or a day. Under normal circumstances we would consider that quite instantaneous. And the question rest in Christians’ minds is why is it that in Jesus’ life it is that way. And today sometimes when people are exercising faith it takes them a year or two or even ten years before they see results. Why is it there is such a difference?
We need to understand in receiving by faith there is a difference in the time it takes to receive from the anointing within your spirit man and the time it takes to receive from the anointing upon a minister’s life. When Jesus was on this planet earth during His three years ministry He ministered primarily by the anointing upon. In fact I would go as far as to say that was the main way and the only way He ministered in His three years of ministry. See the anointing within was not manifested until after the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost when there was such a thing as being born of the Spirit. So in all the incidences in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Jesus ministered by the anointing upon. You would read about passages of faith. But as we see that even in the anointing upon faith is required. So the faith that is exercised under the anointing upon and the principles that govern the receiving by the anointing within fall under the laws of faith. All those miracles in Jesus’ ministry took place because of the anointing upon. Therefore there is a difference
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