Chapter 11
11 How To Increase the Anointing..................................................................
There is an anointing on you, whether you recognize it or
not, i f you're called to any office or ministry.
And no matter which office you stand in, or what you are
called to do, you can have something to do with determining the
degree of your anointing. You can prepare yourself for this
anointing. If it doesn't come on you, it's because you didn't
prepare yourself.
Furthermore, the anointing can be increased. You can
increase the anointing by studying the Word and by being
prayerful.
You can decrease the anointing by neglecting to study and
pray.
A workman who doesn't study (2 Tim. 2:15) is going to be
ashamed, because people are going to find out about it, and he'll
either lose the anointing, or the anointing will not be in
manifestation. If you do your part, however, this will not
happen.
If you'll study and pray, when you get up and start out in
faith, the anointing will come. When I used to preach under that
preaching anointing, most of the time I'd have to start out in faith
—I didn't particularly feel anything—but that anointing never
failed to come on me to preach. (And sometimes it will linger on
and you will enjoy it, praise God.)
You have to realize that one standing in the office of the
prophet, the pastor, the evangelist, or whatever can be more or
less anointed.
I think it's quite obvious as you listen to different ministers
that sometimes they are more anointed than at other times.