Foreword...........................................................................................................
When I started out in the ministry 49 years ago, I wish we'd
had the material that's available today. Our ministries and lives
would have been different.
That's the reason I want to share with other ministers—
especially young ministers—what it took some of us 40 or 50
years to learn.
In this book I want to discuss what I have learned about the
anointing during my half century of ministry. There is much
about it in my spirit to share with you.
In Section 1, we will discuss the individual anointing that all
believers have in the New Birth. We will point out that all
believers can experience a deeper anointing by being baptized
with the Holy Spirit. This experience, open to all believers, is
for service.
In Section 2 we will see that there also is an anointing of the
Holy Spirit upon ministry gifts—an anointing that goes with the
offices.
Thank God for the ministry gifts He has placed in the Body
of Christ so we may grow. Thank God for the anointing of God
upon men and women He's called to these offices.
There is an even stronger anointing, the corporate
anointing, that rests upon the Church. We will study this
anointing in Section 3.
Bear in mind as you read this material that these are
different anointings, but they are all from the same Holy Spirit—
the only member of the Godhead who is at work in the earth
today.
You will find that there's nothing like the glory of God in
manifestation. Once you get a taste of it, nothing else will
satisfy.