Understanding the Anointinglike water, because Jesus Himself said:
JOHN 7:37-39
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
[When you think about thirst and drinking, you think about
water.]
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow [out of his innermost being shall flow] rivers
[that's water, isn't it?] of living water.
39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that
Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Back then, Jesus couldn't have used the illustration of
electricity because it wasn't known. People wouldn't have known
what He was talking about. But they did know about water and
about water flowing.
A Transferable Power
So the Holy Spirit flows like electricity or water. It will flow
from one person to another. Therefore, this power—this healing
power—is not only a tangible substance and a heavenly
materiality; this power is transmittable or transferable.
It can be transmitted from one person to another, or
transferred from one through another.
Evidently Jesus did that when He called His twelve disciples
to Him and gave them power:
MATTHEW 10:1
1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, HE
GAVE THEM POWER against unclean spirits, to cast them out,
and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
The Word of God says in John 3:34 that Jesus had the Spirit
without measure, so when He sent forth the Twelve, He gave
them power. Where did He get this power? We saw in Acts
10:38 that "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and power."
Often, even in ministry, something is transferred from one