Understanding the Anointingabout believing God that will cause God to pass over a million
people just to get to you.")
Even after I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, I still wasn't
conscious of any anointing to minister healing. I still ministered
to people through faith and prayer, laying hands on them in
faith.
I'd been baptized with the Holy Spirit for about two years
before I was conscious of an anointing or transfer of power that
sometimes would go out of me into other people. We can be
conscious of a flow of anointing because the Holy Spirit—the
life of God—is in us, and can be ministered to others.
It's a matter of how much faith you have: little faith, little
results; more faith, more results. I think that's the reason I had
more results than many Pentecostal ministers even before I was
baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Any believer—layman or preacher—can lay hands on the
sick, because healing belongs to them; it was purchased for them
at Calvary. We are authorized to pray—we don't need any
special leading—we're already instructed to do so. The Bible
says, "These signs shall follow them that believe... they shall lay
hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 16:17,18).
Thus, people today can believe the Word and be healed of
anything without any special manifestation of God's miraculous
ministry gifts or spiritual gifts. On the other hand, some are
anointed with the healing anointing.
How Jesus Ministered Healing
Notice that Jesus ministered healing with an anointing of
healing power. We can learn something about that healing
anointing in Mark 5, the story of the woman with the issue of
blood.
MARK 5:25-34
25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve
years,
26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had