10/03/2025
THE POWER IS FOR ALL.
Let me say a word about calling. The anointing of the Holy Spirit is for every Christian, and,
everyone who has been born again has received the initial anointing of the Spirit,
which I've called the leper's.
The anointing beyond that will match your calling as a Christian. Some are called to direct service of the Lord—preachers, evangelists, healing evangelists,pastors, teachers. Others may be writers, musicians, administrators, helpers,group leaders, hospitality providers, whatever. Others may be spouses,
parents, general schoolteachers, business people, carpenters, laborers, and so
on.
Assuming that by calling and intent they are all serving the Lord—in the church or "secularly"—each can and should receive the anointing to fit the calling.
In much of this book I have been using language that speaks more pointedly to the anointing of the Holy Spirit for direct ministerial calling, if you will. That accounts for much of the discussion of attacking the devil and sickness and ministering directly from the pulpit or platform to God's people as God's
servant.
This should not diminish by the tiniest fraction your eagerness for the anointing in whatever you're doing.
Eventually—the sooner, the better—you should get to the place where you are praying without ceasing. It becomes your life, for you do it long enough and your nature changes. Your lifestyle changes.
Certainly you must live a natural life; we all do.
Jesus, although rising early and going off by Himself a lot, wasn't on His knees twenty-four hours a day. None of us can do that. There's regular work to be done, children to attend, and such.
Some of the most precious times I've ever had came in ordinary living situations.
I think of my own children and the wonderful times we have had talking and praying together. I'm not off in my room or out in the woods alone. I'm right there with the children and my wife and experiencing the same beautiful presence of the Lord. It's a totally different kind of anointing, just the tender
presence of God and the blessing of our family life. It's not the anointing and power for a healing service. But it's very important, and very real.
I've had the same thing talking to my staff at the Orlando Christian Center—encouraging, sympathizing, exhorting, chastising. The presence is very real as I simply say, "Jesus."
But the point is, Jesus was in continual fellowship with His Father, and we should be in continual fellowship with Him, too, by way of the wonderful Holy Spirit.
Quiet times, as I've said, give birth to this praying without ceasing, and we must not neglect them.
People always ask me about my own private prayer times. I understand their desire for instruction, and modeling is often the best kind of instruction. But, really, prayer is so private, so precious, so intimate that I ask people not to
get hung up on the way I do if, but rather to let God show them how they are to do it.
There are times when I begin to pray, all alone with the Lord in my room or outdoors or wherever, as long as it is private and quiet, and I will get caught up in such a way that I will go for half a day or more. Then there are times when I may be alone with Him for only an hour.
I've had times of traveling overseas when, because of schedules or interferences, I won't have more than five minutes. But, remember, the Lord trained me in continual fellowship many years ago, and I never, never neglect that.
And on some of those days of interruptions and trials, I've gone on the platform in a healing service so anointed that one would have thought I'd been praying and reading the Bible all day.
- Pastor Benny Hinn ( The Anointing )
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