Before he was taken up, working in the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus instructed the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he showed them that he was alive with many convincing proofs. He appeared to them over a period of forty days, speaking to them about God’s kingdom. While they were eating together, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised. He said, “This is what you heard from me: John baptized with water, but in only a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
"you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me"-Acts 1:2-8
When we think of the Anointing of the Holy Spirit, we look it upon some kind of power to do miracles or to be divinely different. We always wait for it and long for it when we read through the great experiences in the Bible. Is this really the Anointing?
As we are waiting now for the great day of Pentecost to arrive, let us think over our ideas on the Holy Spirit Anointing, so that atleast now we can get this blessing.
Jesus asked his friends not to leave Jerusalem until the power of Holy Spirit come upon them. With this Spirit we receive power so that you shall be witnesses to Me. This is why this power comes to us.In the gospel of Mathew it says,
"Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." -Mathew 26:41
Our flesh is weak, it gets easily trapped by the world and evil. Like the seeds of words that falls between the weeds, our belief and dedication to God gets pierced and crushed by the worldly attractions and lust. But the Spirit is willing. That is why God says to us to Live in Spirit.
"In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God." - Romans 8:26-27
It is the Holy Spirit that teaches us how to live according to the will of God. This is the Anointing of the Spirit. To live each moment according to the wish of God. Do things as the Holy Spirit prompts us to do. Even if this is for a little thing that we do. To conquer the world with His power.
One day before going to church it was prompted in my heart not to spread chocolate spread on the bread that i eat, it was hard for me. But overcame it. I had a plain toast and went to church. This little sacrifice done according to the voice of the holy spirit gave a great experience in the Holy Mass. Thus, be faithful to God in the littlest thing we do.
The Anointing of the Holy Spirit is this power given to us to live according and to obey exactly what God speaks to us through the Holy Spirit. We all have got this Holy Spirit in us through Jesus. All we have to do is to realize and give ear to this voice.
A silent time with meditation of Bible verse will bring us nearer to this voice. This will lead us to the love of God and His fullness in perfection. This is what Jesus did 'living according to the will of Father'.
"Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work."
-John 4:34
-John 4:34
If you love me, you will keep my commandments. I will ask the Father, and he will send another Companion, who will be with you forever. This Companion is the Spirit of Truth..The Companion, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I told you. -John 14:15,16,25
"Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.…"
-John 3:5-6
Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
-John 3:7-8
"Now the way we live is based on the Spirit, not based on selfishness. People whose lives are based on selfishness think about selfish things, but people whose lives are based on the Spirit think about things that are related to the Spirit"- Romans 8:4-5
Let us live in the Anointing of Holy Spirit,the power that helps us to live in Gods wish,receiving the gifts of the spirit (1Corinthians 12) intended to each one of us inorder to build up for Christ.(Romans 12)
Don’t hesitate to be enthusiastic—be on fire in the Spirit as you serve the Lord! Be happy in your hope, stand your ground when you’re in trouble, and devote yourselves to prayer.-Romans 12:11-12
"that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen."
-Ephesians 3:16-21
Prayer
Lord help us to receive the Anointing of the Holy Spirit obeying each word from You and live for You and experience the gifts of Holy spirit and the blessings of Your unending love and mercy that leads us to Eternal life. Let us live setting our hopes to the gifts in the Above. Amen
Reading
Romans 8
John 14
Psalms 25
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