The Healing Anointingwithout measure. Just imagine: Jesus had the Spirit without
measure, and it could flow through Him and not particularly
bother or affect Him!
Let's go back to the illustration Dr. Lake gave that electricity
is God's power in the natural realm. Physically, you can take a
little electric shock and sometimes a little static electricity. You
feel it and shake it off. It doesn't affect your body. But if you
grab hold of a lamp that's got a short in it and that power hits
you, you jump and holler! You can't stand there all day holding
on to that lamp. In fact, even 110 volts will kill you under
certain circumstances. And if you move up to higher voltage, it
will fry your hide!
I can stand only so much anointing, and I can't stand it for
very long. There are times I feel as if I'm going to fall down—it
seems my legs are going out from under me. My hands tingle.
My arms tingle. Sometimes my whole body tingles. Sometimes
the anointing in the palms of my hands burns like fire.
When the Lord appeared to me in that first vision on
September 2, 1950 in that tent meeting in Rockwall, Texas, He
touched the palms of my hands with the finger of His right hand,
and my hands began to burn as if I were holding a coal of fire in
them. It wasn't just a warmth—they felt as if they were burning.
For three days and nights my hands burned until I'd catch
myself rubbing them, trying to get a little relief.
The thing that was special about this anointing was the
added dimension. It's the same anointing, except a different
measure. It's the same Holy Spirit—there's only one Holy Spirit.
(There are a lot of spirits in the world, but they are demon
spirits. We're not interested in them, and we're not afraid of
them, because we have authority over them.)
Jesus said, "If that leaves you, fast and pray until it comes
back." So i f the anointing wanes, I ' l l do a little fasting and a
little extra praying, and it will come back in force.
A Special Anointing