Understanding the AnointingInstead there was some woman on the other end of the line
(sometimes it's a man). This one said, "Brother Hagin, I hated to
do that, but it's the only way I could get through to you." (That's
flat out lying.)
"You know," she continued, "I was praying and I thought I'd
see if I could get hold of you. I thought maybe you'd have a word
for me."
I wanted to say, "I have!" but I didn't have enough nerve to
give it to her.
People think you can just turn it off and on as you want, but
it is as the Spirit wills. Yes, the anointing is there potentially,
but it's not in manifestation constantly! As you prepare, study,
and yield to the Spirit of God, the anointing will be there to
function in that office, but you don't stand in your office all the
time.
Stop and think about that. If your office is the office of a
teacher, and you functioned in that office all the time, you'd be
teaching 24 hours a day, and you'd never stop until you died!
You really couldn't bear to stand in the office of a prophet
24 hours a day, even though the call might be there and the
potential anointing might be there. The human body cannot
contain that degree of spiritual power over a long period of time,
as we will see in Chapter 14.
Jesus called Himself a prophet in the fourth chapter of
Luke's Gospel, and He used an illustration that His Jewish
audience knew well from the Old Covenant: the story of the
Prophet Elijah, who was sent to the widow's house in Sarepta
during a famine.
There the working of miracles was manifested through
Elijah: The oil cruse kept giving out oil, and the meal barrel kept
giving out meal (1 Kings 17:16). But Elijah couldn't go into
anybody else's house in Israel and do that unless the Lord told
him to.
Next Jesus related that there were many lepers in Israel in
the time of Elisha (Luke 4:27), but none of them was healed,