The Anointing of the ProphetAs I act this out and walk by people, it's just like a magnet
draws me to them. When it does, I stop and minister to them.
Thank God for the anointing!
I read where Smith Wigglesworth said, "I'd rather have the
Holy Ghost on me 10 minutes than to own the world with a
fence around it." He was speaking about the anointing to
minister.
As the Spirit Wills
I want you to notice something about the anointing of the
prophet. Sometimes people think that if you're in a certain
office, such as the office of the prophet, you stand in it all the
time.
These people miss it because they fail to read what the Bible
says, and they try to perform when the anointing's not there.
They get in the flesh, prophesy, and do an injustice to the work
of God. Or they seem to think that because you stand in the
office of the prophet, you go around handing out revelations all
the time.
I know one man, bless his heart, who has the anointing of
God upon him, because supernatural things happen through his
ministry—there's no doubt about it—but because he thinks he's
called to the office of the prophet, he thinks he has to function in
it all the time!
I remember the first time I met him. Within 30 minutes he
must have given me 12 "words" from the Lord, and not one of
them was correct. They didn't amount to the proverbial hill of
beans.
I stand sometimes in the office of prophet, and some people
think I stand in it all the time. They'll even lie to try to get
through to me.
We were speaking out of town once and were awakened at 4
o'clock in the morning. We were told we had an emergency long
distance call. We thought one of our relatives had died or
something.