Understanding the AnointingThe Lord didn't tell me to tell him. In fact, the witness of my
spirit was, "Leave him alone. Don't say a word to him." But
because Brother Lindsay was closer to the man, the Holy Spirit
told him four times to go tell him, "You're going to die." Brother
Lindsay, too, saw that he wouldn't listen, so he just kept quiet
about it.
He had dealt with the minister earlier on this subject,
pleading with him, "Why don't you function where God wants
you and manifest the gift that God's given you. Stay there. Don't
try to get over here in this other ministry."
The man would try to teach. He wasn't a teacher. That wasn't
his calling. He had no unction, no anointing, to teach, and he
would create confusion instead of blessing.
He answered Brother Lindsay, "Yeah, but I want to teach."
Don't be a teacher just because you want to be one! Have the
call and the anointing of God to do it, or else leave it alone. And
if the anointing's there to preach, don't try to teach. Don't try to
stand in an office unless the anointing and the call are there.
"Yeah, but... " the man said, "I want to." And the man
died. He ought to still be alive. He could have been a great
blessing.
I've seen marvelous ministries like his ruined and the Church
robbed of the blessings she ought to have had because people
didn't minister under their anointing. You can spread yourself so
thin in different ministries that you get very little anointing on
any of them.
That's one reason I stay over where the Lord called me,
whether I'm preaching or teaching. It doesn't make any
difference what I'm teaching on or where I start out—I wind up
preaching on faith and healing. Just as soon as I get on those
subjects, I'm gone. I could start preaching on the anti-Christ and
wind up preaching on faith and healing.
God may lead you to speak on different subjects at certain
times, especially if you're a pastor. He never called me to pastor,
although I did function there for a while, and thank God for it. It