The Transformative Power of Divine Anointing

Jesus had a touchy ministry.

He touched people everywhere.

The anointing flows through touch.

It can come other ways, but one of the ways, a frequently used way, is touch, is through

the laying out of hand.

Come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she will live.

Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast.

Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth

that He has for us.

If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com,

that citylightnyc.com.

Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already

working in our hearts and minds.

As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you

are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

Welcome to CityLight Church.

My name is Bo.

No knows Jesus.

My name is Bo Jansik.

And those of you joining us online, welcome.

We got an amazing picnic yesterday.

We're just so awesome.

Pastor Moor, community pastor, the whole team was involved, but he spearheaded that.

What a phenomenal job.

Class, all the way.

I mean, it really felt like being in a sanctified amusement park.

An ice cream truck in New York City without prices.

Remind me of that scripture, who so ever will come drink of this water.

Who so ever will come partake of the softie.

Cree to all.

So we're in the middle of this series that kind of just happened.

I didn't know I was going to do a series until I just sensed the Lord wanting to take

us on a journey and get some of you opened up to His hand moving in your life.

And so the first message was just called the anointed and His anointing.

And then when I didn't know what the Lord would be doing in the second service, I just

said, call it part two.

And so this is now part three.

It was a phenomenal man of God.

And he said, I have really one message with 50 different titles.

And I thought, you know, it's kind of true, but the Lord wants to bless you.

He wants to heal you.

He wants to love on you.

And what is crucial in getting to that place of receiving?

Because that's really what it is, you have to get to the place of receiving.

God has no trouble giving.

He is a giver.

Giving is His very nature.

He doesn't have to kind of get in the mood to give.

He's a giver.

He's a blesser.

And so we need to be able to slip into a place where we can receive.

And that's really where the trouble starts because a lot of us are not good receivers.

We get encumbered with the things of the world, doubt, and belief, and cynicism come in.

Or we just get stuck in a rut.

You know what getting stuck in a rut is that you're just used to the same thing and then

you don't expect anything different.

You're just, you're a dead fish floating downstream, you're caught in the humdrum of life.

And then it crushes your hope and your expectancy.

And so then it's just your prayer becomes, oh Lord, help me make you through another

day.

God forbid that ever be your song and your prayer.

Prayed once in a while, like once a year is enough for me.

But I don't want weeks where my prayer is, oh Lord, help me make you through the day.

No, I want you to ride high in Jesus, that's what He wants for you.

And so the Lord is just coming to us and what is crucial for us to become good receivers

is an understanding of how God gives and how God gives is in and through His anointing.

And isn't it amazing that although Jesus's title is Jesus the Christ, Jesus the anointed

that the church as a whole really doesn't have an understanding of any kind concerning

the anointing?

There's pockets, but as a whole when you go up to your average Christian and say, tell

me about the anointing, you're just good.

Well, you know, it's the anointing, it's, you know, no, I don't know, tell me.

Well, Bertoli, no, Bertoli's an olive oil brand.

But we should know, we should be intimately acquainted with the anointing because that's

how Jesus ministered.

That's how He got people to break through, that's how He healed their bodies, that's

how He visited people.

What is the anointing?

Most people don't know the definition or even how to describe it.

The anointing simply is the manifest presence of God.

It's God's presence active doing something in the moment because there isn't omnipresence

of God.

He's everywhere, but He's not everywhere in the same way.

He was everywhere in the desert when Moses was walking, but His anointing was in the

burning bush.

He was, the presence was everywhere in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, but the anointing

was in the upper room.

His anointing is here, but what's required is a hungry and thirsty heart with faith

who will pull on it and receive it, and that's what brings transformation and life change.

Amen.

And God has something up his sleeve for city like church.

I'm telling you.

I feel it, myself, are pulsating, He's going to give us a surprise.

And what is necessary is there, there be a large number of people, everyone, everyone's

a good number, but call it critical mass, a large number of people.

I like everyone, but there's always new people, there's always going to be works in progress

sitting in the corners or whatever.

You're welcome.

That's awesome.

The majority, you know, to have an understanding of the anointing.

Note that Jesus, this is how important the anointing is, that that's Jesus's title,

and so many people think it's His last name.

Christ is not Jesus's last name, that's His title, Jesus, the anointed one, and His anointing.

Did you ever think about that?

I don't know if that blows your mind, the way it blows mine.

But if that's His name, that means we should know something about the anointing.

Yet on average, most Christians don't.

That's a hole in our understand, very foundational thing that we should be aware of.

There's a hole there.

And that Jesus didn't do anything apart from the anointing after He was anointed.

Before He was anointed at His baptism, He didn't do any miracles.

I remember going to Ethiopia to visit our orphanage there, the Grace Center, and they took

me around to some old churches, and there was a 600-year-old, they had very old Orthodox

churches there, and they were old drawings, not even paintings, but like carved in the

sides of the wall of like a 12-year-old Jesus, and there were these shards of clay, and

they showed Him coming up and touching the shards of clay, and they would fly up as doves.

Pretty carving, not scriptural.

He didn't do that.

Why didn't He do that?

Because He wasn't anointed yet.

He was anointed when He was 30 at His baptism.

It's a mystery here.

Jesus is a hundred percent God.

He was a hundred percent man, but He laid His power down when He came to earth.

He was still divine.

He was still God, it's a mystery, but He laid it down until He got anointed, and the Bible

says He got poured out His Spirit and without measure upon Him.

You know what can throw some people off, that He was, you know, when He got lost, He

was 12 years old, well, He didn't get lost, He just, He was a precocious child.

And it says that He was talking to the doctors of the law and confounding them with His questions,

and some people think, well, that was God in the flesh.

I'm mission, all knowing, and that He was really just puzzling the Pharisees then and

the doctors of the law with His understanding of the Torah.

But the Scripture doesn't say that.

He did that as a man.

Now granted, He was born without sin.

So He had a soul and a mind that was not stained by sin.

So what does that look like?

We don't know, because all of ours is stained by sin.

And that means that as a 12 year old, He would have had a pure and deep and really profound

understanding of the Scriptures, but it doesn't mean He did it supernaturally.

Are you following me here?

But after His baptism, the Bible says He came up out of the water.

The Holy Spirit came upon Him.

He was anointed, and that began the miracle ministry of Jesus.

What was the necessary ingredient, the anointing?

And when He was anointed, then He healed them every one.

Then His first miracle, the wedding feast, in Cane of Galilee.

By the way, a miracle of provision, the very first miracle of Jesus is the miracle of

provision.

That's a wink from heaven, where God is just saying, I have all of your needs in mind.

And it's nothing for me to provide for you, even when it was extra wine at a wedding.

It doesn't really seem like a need, it seems like a want.

You're following me?

They would have been okay without extra wine.

They would have made it.

We're still been married.

The guests would have still been happy.

But He said, oh, you need wine, huh?

Get a bunch of jugs, each one with a capacity of 20 to 30 gallons, six of them.

Send it, we're from 150 to 180 gallons of water that He turned into.

That's a lot of vino.

What's the Lord saying?

Lord is saying, I'm opulence, and I care about your needs, and I will meet them.

And I will meet them by my anointing.

Look at Acts 1038, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power

who went about doing good.

If you're expecting bad from God, or if you're describing something bad that happened to

you too, God, please go back to the drawing board.

I say that with love in my heart.

Go back to the drawing board and rework some things, because Jesus went about doing good.

Deep thoughts today, God good, devil bad, amen.

And Jesus, He moved in the anointing and He went about doing good and healing, all who

are oppressed.

Not possessed here, He did that too.

Not really demonic possession, that's rare.

That's not...

Well, it's a lot more common than we may think, but you know, it's not every third person.

It's not walking around, cutting themselves with stones.

Most people who think they're possessed, they're really oppressed.

What's possessed is the thing is in you, and you're spirit.

By the way, Christian has the Holy Spirit in their spirit.

They cannot then have a demon in their spirit.

But you can't have people who are oppressed.

That's from the outside in.

You never get one...

You know what we have?

A gravity blanket.

You ever...

Anybody ever get the gravity blanket?

My wife loved it.

For me, it was too oppressive.

I want the goose down, the fluffy Siberian goose.

Oppression is like a gravity.

It's a weighted blanket.

The blanket weighs like 60 pounds.

It's supposed to knock you out.

You go to sleep.

It's like, of course, you're going to fall asleep, it's like a dude sitting on top of

you.

That's what oppression isn't.

People walk around and they're oppressed.

You can be oppressed physically, oppressed mentally, it's just a weight that's on you.

Jesus went about doing good.

And by the anointing, healing all who were oppressed of the devil.

Hallelujah.

The anointing is tangible.

It can be felt.

Isn't it an utter shame that in America, this mystical faith called Christianity has

been so just front-lobe-inized, made into this bookish thing where people can know all

about God but never truly meet God?

You can describe God, you can know God but never truly encounter Him and experience His

anointing.

You are called Christians.

What does that mean?

That means little Christ, little anointed ones.

How can you have a little anointed one who doesn't know the anointing of the bigly anointed

one?

And yes, he was bigly anointed.

Without measure and he pours out that anointing on us and we're little Christ and so we should

be intimately acquainted with and familiar with the moving of the Holy Spirit and the

anointing.

The old preachers, they would say, a lot of churches today, the Holy Spirit could walk

in with a 10-gallon hat and two six guns at his side and they wouldn't recognize him.

Little is lost in translation saying it in 2023 in New York City but the gist of it.

How do we be Christians and not know the Holy Spirit?

The Lord is wanting to reveal that and in a deeper way to us.

I want to just ask some people who haven't been prepared so don't look at me bug-eyed.

Just come up.

I want you to share on how you have encountered the anointing and the love of God and what

it's done for you.

Amen.

Luke, could you share?

Share a story.

Luke come here.

Tell us a story.

I'll help you.

I'll help you.

Tell us a story about how the Lord came to you with his anointing and his love.

So in February 2021, I started reading the book of Acts and I've been grew up in a church

but not a Holy Spirit type of church and so when I started reading it, I don't know why

this happened when it did or how but I started feeling a little bit of warm in my chest.

The book of Luke talks about the road to a mass and the disciples said, we're not our

hearts burning within us but growing up when I heard Bible stories or read the Bible,

I just kind of, because the atmosphere that I was around, they always assumed that

those things were kind of more figurative and not a literal experience but I started

having this literal experience where my heart was burning within me but I wasn't sure

if it was something I ate or if it was what I was reading.

So I was testing it out so I was reading a little bit and it would start and then I would

stop and then it would go away and one day it didn't really happen but I just stayed

there for like an hour and a half and then it started happening again.

So I was like, I think this is God and I read through the whole New Testament having

this experience and then by the time I got back to the gospel, so even though I had read

it my whole life, it was like I had never read it before and I could just hear him saying

it to me, you know.

So when I read, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, it was him

and he was there and he was saying it to me like never before and then you know I had

all these things in my life that I just thought were like parts of my personality that I struggled

with you know and I didn't realize that it wasn't actually me.

I just thought that was me.

I have problems with this, this and this and I'm doing my best but you know I guess you

know this is what it's going to be like, this is what life is like for me and I tried

to change those things about myself but it just it never I wasn't able to you know

and I wasn't thinking about it but then this whole thing happened and then I one day I just

realized you don't have had these thoughts I haven't all these things that I thought were part

of my personality were just immediately supernaturally gone you know and I was the new person

and it happened without me trying or without me doing anything and that was just beginning

and I you know I couldn't even recognize myself for I don't I literally don't identify

with the person that I was two years two and a half years ago like in any way like it wasn't me you

know and yeah that's not it yeah in Jesus name continue the work tenfold

filled filled filled up to the burn with the richness of him hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

hallelujah okay come on up here Marisa with your helper so by the way when God comes to you with

his anointing it's really hard to look cool so don't try are you all there it's if you feel

like you're gonna look dignified Lord I want you I'm so hungry I'm so thirsty I'm so desperate

but can you touch me in a way where if someone takes a photo on me it's Instagramable please no it's

gonna be messy you will that's part of the deal you your dignity goes out the window that's why

that Syrian commander who was told to dip in the Jordan seven times his pride came up he didn't

want to so they have crystal clear rivers in Syria but the Jordan is filthy why should I to humble

yourself amen and God will come upon you and he won't allow you to dictate how he comes to you he

just wants he's not gonna dance for you you're gonna dance for him that's how it works amen and you

have to enter in through the door of humility and if you're so proud and the door of trust in that

you have to let go you can't say Lord I will let you touch me but I will never ever cry I will never

ever laugh I'm never gonna shake Lord I'm gonna be touched quietly and secretively you do not

he doesn't come to you with a menu this isn't burgging your way right away how you like no you

come hungry and you take what he gives you like what the sack of coach tells our kids you get what

you get and you don't get upset amen hallelujah so just share it's like being touched by the

anointing what is it like so this past July I attended a few conferences and Christian conferences

both for music ministry and just another one in Tampa that was on the fire of God and I had

walked into the first conference with expectation but almost a fear of not being able to receive

everything that God had for me but really through that experience in those two weeks God

showing me so much about surrender how important it is to surrender and it was when one of the

preachers said would you be okay and this was a revelation that the Holy Spirit had given her

but he dealt with the same thing in those two weeks for me the Holy Spirit had asked her if you

were to lose it all if you were to lose your dream of worship leading of marriage of having a

family of pasturing a church of everything all these desires that I put in your heart that are

so precious to you would you be okay knowing that I am your provider knowing that I

that that I have you in the palm of my hands that you could lose everything in the world be okay

because you have me and it was when I said yes God and when I when I truly surrendered because

I've been saved I've been saved since I was a little girl since elementary school but it was

this was a new point for me it was when I truly surrendered everything to the Lord when I said

Lord you can have my life you can have it all or take it all and use it all for your glory that

was that was the opening door for me to receive because he wants everything he wants us to give

all the glory back to him every single thing the good the bad all our hurt all our joy everything is

his this life is his our lives are his he wants us to just give it all to him and it was when I

said yes Lord that he just the fire of God hit me and his anointing his manifest presence

becomes so so so tangible even right now and it's for you too

Jesus continue cooking her

oh

that's a good word surrender we're learning so much this morning you pass you yourself to receive

there's the door of humility you gotta walk through that door and then the door of surrendering

you have to and here's the thing with surrendering I don't know if you've seen videos of what happens

when you surrender a little I'm just saying cops don't like when you surrender a little

what

the Lord doesn't like when you surrender a little either

focus some people surrender a little and they think they're doing God a favor

God I'm gonna give you 55% the majority who lasts of the big time surrenders

but the Lord's like 99 and a half won't do

I want a hundred percent you will be frustrated if you surrender a little

total surrender hallelujah that opens the door for him to do extraordinary things in your life

hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

can you share something the little yeah come on up

come on up just but share about the anointing

share about the anointing and the Lord coming to you with his anointing what's that like

yeah there was one specific time where I was in a small um I was in Colorado with a few with like

about 10 to 15 other Christians and I was you were put in a place so just we were led to just stand

there and just receive the presence of God and I never taken the time to do that before and so I

just stood there and I was very like you know skeptic and kind of like like what what is this what's

gonna happen like I just feel so awkward standing here and so I just close my eyes and I stood there

for like a good 10 minutes and I I saw I saw just Jesus and like the embodiment of his love just

standing in front of me and I just felt this like this way just drop on me and I like I just started

weeping and I never cried like that before like for the next two weeks I just felt like I just

experienced you know just the weight of his love and his anointing on me and it was just

it was just such like a it's tangible feeling and I'd never felt anything like that before and I

just I never experienced such a love from the father in that way and it was

Lord get it on the people

Jesus

bless this is a great time for a cover girl to come

oh there was one hiding in the shadows

was

be blessed

be blessed

hallelujah

hallelujah

Jesus

Jesus

mmm

beautiful Jesus you say what is the Lord doing good things whatever he wants

but I specifically hear him my heart he he is going ahead of you forging a path for you

carving

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carving a path for you

hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

just lift your hands just say Lord Jesus come to me

fill me with your holy spirit

hallelujah continue to say the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah

you madam can you come out here real quick

the Lord's been falling on you the whole service Lord that which you began in her I thank you you will

complete it increase blessing

be blessed in Jesus name and we cancel the plans of the enemy over your life put the blood on you

put the blood of Jesus on you just put your hands on your tummy right now that's it unplugged

I said unplugged in Jesus name free you're doing just fine just keep drinking more drinking less

think he always the way to go you're doing just fine

be blessed let's think that song Jesus hallelujah hallelujah

Jesus is a heart doctor

and for a lot of us the problem is it's it's inward

in fact when Jesus described his ministry reading from Isaiah 61 which was prophesying of him

it's the spirit of the Lord God is upon me to set at liberty those who are held captive to heal the

broken hearted do you know who the enemy is I mean there is an enemy there is a Satan but really

we're not in competition with everybody except the person in the mirror that stares his back every

morning that's who if you think you got enemies that work maybe probably not you're the one

your your own biggest competition and the reason why we get in the way so much is we can easily

become people who oppose themselves the scriptures talk about people who oppose themselves

constantly tripping themselves up people who oppose themselves it's like taking a juggle water to

a fountain filling it up I mean freaking it with holes and by the time they get back to where

they came from there's no water in the jug and they're like oh but you did that oh yeah I did

that's a lot of us why are we still messed up because there's a lot of junk on the inside that

we picked up on the highway of life that the Lord wants to come in and heal and his sweet spirit his

love will go where no therapist can go no psychiatrists can go no drug can go he will go in the

and he will rework your heart he will rework your inside heal you up I heard the testimony

of a woman who was raped years before and came under the anointing she stayed there for hours

manifesting for hours laughing she said I felt like it was a crew of firemen

dousing me with water and washing all the muck and the dirt and the shame and the guilt away

and when I got back up I was a new person I think Jesus is anointing can do that she said then

it was like a distant memory it was like I read about it in a book about somebody else

the anointing will set you free you just subscribe to that motivational guru slash life coach

slash entrepreneur ten sessions gonna help you out you're still a person who opposes himself

or herself the Lord's gotta come in and unlock you and he does that by his anointing hallelujah

let's read mark five shall we are you all all right some people sometimes they slip they slip

into this weird defensive mode when a service doesn't go as as they think it should or as usual

relax you're in a good place happy place

you know the day after the great the big picnic is always a little different

right we had all of our core city lighters all of them put in a 12 hour day and then they were like

Jesus you know I love you but I shared I shared the word yesterday and I fellowship yesterday

and I had quite an Ian community yesterday you don't mind if I don't it's like no I don't mind so

what that happens is then shifts the atmosphere in the place

because then you have too many lucky lose and not the core people who can slide into the river

and the Lord doesn't mind lucky lose but they take time to take hours really not hours

that's why you then have a series of meetings days of the Lord chipping away at all of their

preconceived ideas and notions and their bad theology and their understanding of the very person

of God over days and then they can slip into the river of God one service that just just kind of

provokes them so I'm delighted to do that today

Mark chapter five I want to still talk about the anointed one the Christ at least we'll have some

understanding now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side a great multitude

gathered to him and he was by the sea you know why Jesus often spoke by the sea and you'll hear

all throughout the scriptures he spoke by the lake of Ganesirate or the sea of Galilee

sea of Galilee is actually a large large lake both terms are used in the Bible you know why

because he didn't have one of these and so he would stand with his back to the sea and the wind

current coming off the sea would carry his words onto the multitudes and behold one of the rulers

of the synagogue came gyros by name and when he saw him he fell at his feet

and begged him earnestly saying my little daughter lies at the point of death come and lay your hands

on her why did he ask Jesus to lay his hands lay his hands I was like two years saved and then I

was a freshman in college two years saved and somebody on my floor had asked what I was doing I said

I'm going to church what kind of churches that I tried to told them and then they said do they do

the laying out of hands there and their face was like like in a grimace and I was and I was my first

I realized oh somehow because of 3 a.m. televangelists and the media and Hollywood movies the

laying out of hands had such a bad rap but it's actually holy it's beautiful it's biblical

there was gyros a ruler of the Jews he knew the Torah he knew that the laying out of hands was

powerful that there is a transference through the laying out of hands he read in the book of Joshua

how it said the Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom why for Moses had laid hands on him and

there was a transfer even the entire sacrificial system that pointed to the Messiah to Jesus was set

around the laying out of hands where the sin of the nation would be transferred the laying out

of hands is biblical the laying out of hands is powerful the laying out of hands got can use to

transform your life there is an impartation there is a transference even at Jesus's resurrection

before he went up to present his blood to the father Mary was excited and Jesus step back and

said touch me not for I've not yet ascended why we don't really know but there would have been

some kind of transference which was not lawful for her to have at the time

Jesus had a touchy ministry he touched people everywhere the anointing flows through touch

it can come other ways but one of the ways a frequently used way is touch is through the laying out

of hands come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she will live he understood

it scripturally and he probably had heard and seen Jesus's ministry that Jesus laid hands on people

everywhere he went look up Jesus Jesus ministry the miracles of healing and see how many times

as he actually touched the person it's over 90% of the times sometimes he just speaks the word but

over 90% of the time he puts his hands on them why because the Christos the anointing that

upon him would be transferred over to the hungry and thirsty heart so Jesus went with him and

a great multitude followed him and thronged him so now people realize also that Jesus is

powerful he's the miracle worker and they're thronging him which means they're touching him note

that nothing happens imagine that imagine if you had a time machine wouldn't be awesome to see him

a lot of us were like Lord if I could just if you would reveal yourself but they were there in

the presence of Jesus touching him but nothing was happening why because they were cheap touches

there was no faith behind them there was no expectation behind them they were just you know

you know the way a fighter comes down the aisle and then everybody just wants to touch him

everyone wants to touch your fame touch your glory maybe it was a curious touch

maybe Jesus you know he was a carpenter so he was swole so he was like oh carpenter so nice

we don't know but nothing was happening yet everybody was touching him

verse 25 you know I always thought when it says Jesus was a carpenter because I got saved when I was

16 to me what that meant was like he had a tool belt and a hammer and more you know like he put

nails and wood but a carpenter back then you know you rolled big logs big stones big so then I

realized all those paintings of an 80 pound Jesus were not accurate the skin and bones hippie Jesus

not scriptural did you know that did you just learn that today right Jesus wasn't skinny

Jesus had a six pack he was because of all the work I believe it was the enemy who made him look

in in the art and made him look so effeminate and so skinny and they paint him like he never stopped fasting

but he fasted for 40 days he ate afterwards but they they make it out like he never stopped

and they gave him the pretty blonde hair and the surfer look and made him all hippie-like and

now a certain woman had a flow of blood for 12 years and had suffered many things from many physicians

she had spent all that she had and was no better but rather grew worse

she was out there illegally by the way under Levitical Law a woman couldn't have any kind of

flow of blood and the out in public but she had this physical issue for 12 years and she was desperate

she was hungry listen I don't know how I can get this through to you but God will respond to

desperation God I'm telling you some of you you think you're dead you're not desperate enough

you got to get a little nuts no really I shaved off all my hair one time because I was hungry

and thirsty for God didn't even know the word that well I was like say four years at the time

and I read an ax how Paul shaved off all his hair because he took a note and I was like all right

and I just I was totally like a bowling ball ball my junior year of college shaved it off

was it scriptural no did God honor it yes do something you've never done before you got to really

get desperate why listen you can get desperate now or you can get desperate when it's really desperate

see when people are in the midst of a crisis the whole world is crashing around on them they're

desperate well now you're starting from scratch now you're in the depths of the pit and now you're

going to begin building a desperate relationship with the Lord no do it wherever you're at and be

hungry stir yourself up it's not called it's not being fake it's not hype it's not emotional

sentimentalism Paul wrote Timothy said stir up the gift of God that is within you by the way through

the laying on of my hands stir it up you got to stir up a desperation and then when you think

you're hungry and thirsty and desperate get more desperate do something wild yes

look that's gonna love you no matter what he loves you he's for you but sometimes you have to

get his attention catch what I'm saying it's not that his attention is an on you but you gotta

you gotta get his attention his attention is on you but I want his attention attention

for example an angel appeared to Cornelius and said he was selected he out of all the people I'm

planning earth he was gonna be the one that essentially the gospel would come to the Gentiles

and Cornelius was like huh me and angel says your prayers and your giving have come up as a memorial

before God he got God's attention with his giving and with his praying there's a way to get God's

attention you're not buying it you're not trading in exchange for it's by faith and when it's

true faith there will be a manifestation of that faith you cannot sit in a corner twiddling your

thumbs and say I'm in faith there's always an action to faith that's what James says when he says

you have you say you have faith you say you have works blah blah blah I'll show you my faith by my

work by my actions anybody can come in talking about faith there's gotta be an evidence

you say I don't know how to become wild and go too far we'll cross that bridge when we get there

we got a great pastoral staff we'll keep it if you start to go we'll get you you just have to listen

when we do for most of you don't be worried about what happens if you get a little too radical you

need a dose of that that first century radical commitment amen that's how you'll see God in your

life today yes hallelujah so she heard about Jesus she's she's doing something she's never done

before you know why because she was so sick and tired of being sick and tired my exhortation

before was don't wait to get to that place don't why why wait for things to be falling apart all

are you so that can't be me when she heard about Jesus she came behind him in the crowd and touched

his garment for she said if only I may touch his clothes by the way that was the continuous

tense of the verb she kept saying over and over again power in her words if I only may touch

there it is again touch she understood there would be a transfer if only I may touch his clothes

I shall be made well immediately the found of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body

that she was healed of the affliction she felt again she felt she felt in her body that she was healed

of her affliction what happened Jesus didn't press the anointing into her she snuck it she came

up behind him secretly once again because it was illegal for her to be there and when no one was

looking she just let me just get a little dose and a hungry heart a faith-filled heart she made a

withdrawal she made an anointing withdrawal you know you can make anointing withdrawals anytime

of the day and you can get good at it you can practice it in the beginning you might just be

singing and all you feel like I'm just singing in my room no one's listening not even god and my

voice is just about you have to learn how to be stubborn and shut those thoughts down as I believe

God is hearing and you go completely by raw faith and you can train your spirit to be in tune with

the Holy Spirit so that eventually over time you lift your hands and the moment you lift your

hands you're overwhelmed you end up on the floor because God comes upon you hallelujah living a drop

away from drunk at all times hallelujah immediately okay and Jesus okay so she immediately felt

within herself and Jesus immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out of him so she felt

the anointing go into her and he felt the anointing the virtue come out of him the anointing is

stuff I don't know how else to say it when I say anointing you immediately think of like haze and

fog and little glitzing star dust coming down whoo no it's not something that's symbolic or

fantastic in that way it is read is stuff it is the stuff of God it is weighty stuff Holy stuff

and that stuff will get on you and that stuff will get in you and that stuff will do you good

and that stuff will bring you in order and that stuff will heal you it will heal you it will when you

When you come in contact with the anointing of God, you get aligned and a lot of our problems

are because we're not aligned with the Lord, we're out of bounds, we're out of order.

We've gone in different ways and we're saying, Lord, bless me, but you're over here.

He can't bless you over there.

You've got to become aligned and the anointing will help line you up aligned with the order

of heaven.

Now for us, that sounds like great news for some people when I say that you're terrified.

Because you've been so misaligned for so long being aligned with God is scary for you.

You have an idea of what that looks like and it doesn't seem fun at all.

I don't know what to tell you.

How's your current thing working out for you?

I've tried it both ways, I've tried it three, four, five different ways.

God is the one who offers abundant life.

The Bible says, the way of the sinner is hard.

The way of the sinner is hard and full of sorrow.

We like to pretend it's fun but we all know consequences come and that way is hard and

full of sorrow.

God's way is better.

I'd rather fall on him and be broken than he fall on me and grind me to a powder.

Jesus immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out of him, turned around in

the crowd and said, who touched my clothes?

Remember how everybody was touching him?

His disciples point that out.

But there were cheap touches, curious touches, but he was referring to a special touch,

the touch of faith, the touch of hunger, the touch of desperation that activated the power.

Isn't it a shame, a crime that potentially hundreds of people touched Jesus that day

and walked away completely unchanged?

Touched God in the flesh, the Messiah, they touched Him and got nothing because there

was no faith or hunger or thirst or desperation attached to their touch.

But along came one woman and she did it by faith with that hunger and her whole life

was turned around.

Hallelujah.

God is offering you more.

He wants to take you from glory to glory.

But we are our own greatest enemy.

There has to be a work done on the inside of us that can happen in a service.

Yes, that can happen in your own home.

In fact, whatever begins in a service, it should continue on in your home, continue on

in your car.

Yes, even in the subway, let it continue on.

We'll do a deep work in you.

Hallelujah.

We're shifting.

Come on up.

You're up.

I want to do this.

Pastor James, will you help us with the tithes and offerings and any announcements?

Then I want to invite our ministry team up.

Our ministry team, notice we don't call them a prayer team.

They're a ministry team.

There is a difference.

People say come and pray for me.

I always want you to pray about.

Oh, enough, whatever comes to your heart.

I know what they're saying.

They don't know what they're saying.

I know what they're saying.

They're saying I need help.

And if I were to tell you everything, I'd give you a list of several dozen things.

What I really want is ministry.

I want the Holy Spirit.

I want its power.

I want the anointing.

Jesus did actually very little praying for people.

Count the number of times he prayed for people.

But he ministered to people by the anointing all the time.

Our ministry team is called a ministry team because it's not the words they say.

It's their laying hands on you and releasing God's anointing upon you.

You get the difference.

Our ministry team, they're not special, neither am I.

They just open.

God will flow through an open and yielded vessel.

Hallelujah.

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