Understanding the Anointing"Many ministers live and die and never even get into the first
phase of the ministry I have for them. Not always, but many
times that's the reason they die young or in middle life and don't
live their full length of time out."
If you're not in God's best, you can't claim God's best. If
you're not in God's perfect will, you can't claim His perfect
provision. We need to know that and find our place.
Often God will let you serve nearly anywhere during a
period of training. But the time will come that you need to get on
your knees and find your place.
Here's where we miss it: Instead of doing this, we think,
Well, I'm in the ministry—I'm working for God—and we find our
own place. But you can die working for God!
You must ask yourself, "What did He call me to do? What
does He want me to do?"
Oh, I never want to do something just because I want to do
it. I want to obey God.
Well, the anointing came on me to teach, so I began to teach.
I didn't have any anointing then to stand in the office of the
prophet, although I prophesied.