Understanding the Anointinghim do it with simplicity; he that RULETH, with diligence; he
that SHEWETH MERCY, with cheerfulness.
You can stand in more than one office, but you need to find
out where you are and what your office is and yield to that. Then
God will use you, and you will excel in your calling.
God didn't call us all to do the same thing. Sometimes we
ministers try to be a jack-of-all-trades and we become the master
of none. We try to do too much, we spread ourselves too thin,
and the anointing's not there to do it.
That's the reason people get in trouble: They try to function
in an office to which God didn't call them. They do something
just because somebody else is doing it. And that is very
dangerous.
I remember something that Brother Howard Carter said. He
was a great teacher and a great man of God. I never knew him
personally, but I had an opportunity to hear him preach once in
Texas. After the service, I met him. He was about 70 at the time,
and he lived to be over 80.
While we were talking, a woman came up to him, asking,
"Brother Carter, would you pray for the healing of my child?"
He answered, "Go get my wife to lay hands on her. God
doesn't use me much along that line, but nearly everybody she
lays hands on gets healed, and nearly everybody I lay hands on
gets baptized with the Holy Spirit." (That's a good combination,
isn't it?)
I'd seen him take 19 people into a side room that night,
speak a few words to them, lay hands on them, and all 19 of
them began to speak in tongues the minute he touched them.
He said, "That's my ministry. That's where my anointing is.
My wife's anointing is to lay hands on the sick."
When the woman left to look for Sister Carter, Brother
Carter turned to us preachers and said, "Of course, I could have
prayed in faith for her child, but if somebody's anointed to
minister that way, it's a whole lot better."