The Anointing To Preach"Well, why?" he replied.
"Well, you tell me if there was, and then I'll tell you why."
He said, "Well, the only thing was that people have been
talking about it all over the community. It seemed like your face
shone. It didn't look like you—it just looked like the face of an
angel."
Then I told him about it. I told him I hadn't known one word
I said for the last 17 minutes of the service, the anointing was
upon me so. That's all a work of the Holy Spirit: the anointing
and the glory cloud.
The Anointing Increases
After being baptized in the Holy Spirit, I entered into a
greater dimension of the power of God, and that anointing to
preach increased.
There is a scriptural basis for this: Elisha desired a double
portion of Elijah's anointing. Elijah was anointed by the Holy
Spirit to stand in the office of prophet, and Elisha had a double
portion of that anointing—a greater anointing, in other words, to
stand in the same office.
After I was baptized with the Holy Spirit and spoke in
tongues, I didn't announce it to my church. I followed that
anointing in me that teaches you all things.
Something on the inside of me said, "Don't say anything
about it in church." So I never mentioned it; I just went right on
with our services in that little country church.
It wasn't 30 days until people started saying, "What
happened to you?"
"What do you mean, what happened to me?"
"Well, you're different," they said.
"What do you mean, I'm different? Is it good or bad?"
"It's good," they said.
"Well," I said, "what is it? What do you mean?"