"The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to
the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, (Luke 4:18)
This is the ministry focus of Yeshua in the anointing of the Holy
Spirit. The first thing to notice is
that there is a “He” who anoints, even Yeshua was anointed
by a “He”.
The one anointing is the Father.
So, Yeshua was anointed by the Father. Look at Isaiah 61:1-7 for a
fuller picture:
Isaiah 61:1-7 (NKJV)
ISAIAH 61
The Good News of
Salvation
[61:1] “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is
upon Me,
Because the LORD has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor; (The gospel)
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, (inner healing)
To proclaim liberty to the captives, (deliverance)
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
(deliverance)
[2] To
proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, (jubilee)
And the day of vengeance of our God; (final judgment)
To comfort all who mourn, (Comforter)
[3] To
console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes, (New images)
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; (depression)
That they may be called trees of righteousness, (fruitful)
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”
(Productive, fruitful lives)
[4] And
they shall rebuild the old ruins, ( ancient paths )
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
[5] Strangers
shall stand and feed your flocks,
(financial provision)
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
[6] But
you shall be named the priests of the LORD, (Spiritual position, cohens and
levites)
They shall call you the servants of our God.
You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.
[7] Instead of your shame you
shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
We see in this passage that the ultimate vision for the anointing
is double honor instead of shame. The
anointing is for a complete vision of restoration and freedom from the shame of
the dishonor of sin. What we need is a
complete vision of the ministry of the Lord in healing and deliverance from
shame.
So, we begin with the preaching of the good news to the poor in
spirit. There is a poverty that being
without God and His love that cannot be compensated for by anything this world
can offer.
Every-time we proclaim the gospel, the good news that God is for
us and loves us enough to pay the price for our sin, we operate in the
anointing of salvation. Any Believer can
and does operate in this anointing when we share our testimony and what God has
done for us. This is the beginning of
the Kingdom message, but it is NOT the whole message. Many have made this the kingdom message and
it certainly is the greatest of the Kingdom messages. By great, I mean that it is the container for
the rest. God’s love
expressed in salvation is the BIG picture.
There is more though to the anointing. There is healing of the broken hearted and
liberty for the captives. We have seen
miracles of healing for the broken hearted over the last 11 years here at
ONM. Through the healing center, the
Fire and Glory altar ministry and in the FFI seminars we have seen God move
supernaturally and restore broken-hearts.
People have been healed from the crippling effects of traumatic
experiences that have fractured their hearts and filled them with unGodly
briefs, lies from the father of lies.
What I want to look at next is the anointing to proclaim liberty
to the captives and the opening of prison to those who are bound. This is the ministry of deliverance. The demonic realm is a reality and part of
the ministry of the anointing is to help people get free and remain free. This includes uncovering the lies that have
formed nests for the birds or the predators. (Ezekiel 31:3-10).
[2] To proclaim the acceptable year
of the LORD, (jubilee)
The anointing is also about proclaiming the acceptable year of
the Lord. This is reference to the Year
of Jubilee. Jubilee is about an entirely
different order of finances. The
anointing moves us from the dog eat dog, darwinian survival of the fittest
mentality of Mammon to the Kingdom of God, where we are members one of another,
interconnected and ministering life with our finances to each other. The anointing flows to break off
slavery. Slavery is a result of the fall
and God’s children are not to be slaves to anyone because of
finances. We will be exploring this in
depth in February at the MAPS seminar.
Stay tuned!
And the day of vengeance of our God; (final judgment)
The anointing is also about the Day of Vengeance of our God. :
Isa_34:8, Isa_35:4, Isa_59:17-18, Isa_63:1-6, Isa_66:14; Psalm. 110:5-6;
Jer_46:10; Mal_4:1-3; Luk_21:22-24; 1Th_2:16; 2Th_1:7-9. This vengeance is a setting things right, an
ultimate accounting made by God Himself.
To comfort all who mourn, (Comforter)
Then the anointing moves into the realm of comfort. The Holy Spirit is our comforter. (Isa. 25:8,
Isa. 57:18, Isa. 66:10-12; Jer. 31:13; Mat 5:4; Luke 6:21, Luke 7:44-50; John 16:20-22;
2Co 1:4-5; 2Th 2:16-17). There is a
tenderness in the anointing that can only come when we experience the pain of
betrayal. Yeshua needed this anointing
with the betrayal of Judas. Judas is part
of the Body. He lives in the wounded who
hurt out of their wounds. Fear drives
many to acts of betrayal. They espouse
words like I am your covenant brother and then when the tests come, they
betray. We all have this in us and so we
need to comforter to ease the pain.
To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes, (New images)
Zion is the playing field.
Zion is where promises are kept, miracles happen! Zion is Israel restored and the grafted in
ones. Mourning is the place of intercession
of travailing for the manifest reality of Zion.
We live in the ashes. Ashes are
what is left of the trees of the Lord that have been burned with the fire of
His purification. In this place, the
anointing brings a new vision, beauty.
We are all Zion and we are all ashes, the result of generational
iniquity and our own sin. We are also
beauty, the garland of the Lord.
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
(depression)
The oil is always a symbol of the anointing. We press in and pray, fasting and travailing
until the oil of joy is released. This
is the aspect of the anointing especially needed in this hour as we see many
things happening in the world and in our nation that causes us much grief. We see abortion and human trafficking. We see attacks on the Word of God itself, a
mockery. Marriages are under fire and
adultery is rampant. Children are being
raised with broken homes and broken visions about the promise of covenant
love. Yeshua told us of this:
Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to
them, "Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, 'A little
while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me'?
"Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world
will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy.
"Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but
when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because
of the joy that a child has been born into the world. "Therefore you too
have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no
one will take your joy away from you. (John 16:19-22)
In this place we need to activate praise or depression and
heaviness will set in and make us mean spirited and feel like we are fighting a
losing battle.
That they may be called trees of righteousness, (fruitful)
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”
(Productive, fruitful lives)
We will be covering this in depth in the MAPS seminar. Trees are a source of fruit. Trees are also a picture of beliefs. The seed is the Word and it grows with
meditation into a blade, then a shoot and then a tree. As a tree it begins to produce fruit.
And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who
casts seed upon the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and
the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know. "The soil
produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain
in the head. "But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the
sickle, because the harvest has come." (Mar 4:26-29)
The anointing is necessary to change the heart and bring forth
fruit in keeping with righteousness.
[4] And they shall rebuild the old
ruins, ( ancient paths )
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
The anointing is also all about restoration of what has been
lost. These are the Ancient Paths, the
Olam, the ways of eternity, of the Kingdom.
[5] Strangers shall stand and feed
your flocks, (financial provision)
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
The anointing is for provision in business, a marketplace
ministry. The gospel is extended through
the anointing on business. My friend
Brig Hart is one who operates in this anointing.
[6] But you shall be named the
priests of the LORD, (Spiritual position, cohens and levites)
They shall call you the servants of our God.
You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast
Our call is to be the priests of the Lord. We are to come into the secret place. The nations bring provision unto the house of
the Lord. This is a call to see the
restoration of the Kingdom of the Lord being the Kingdom of kingdoms.
[7] Instead of your shame you
shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
This is the vision of complete restoration, a double honor for
shame, the glory of the Lord replacing the false identity. Eternal joy!
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