Scripture: Revelation 22 v 19: "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things that are written in this book."
The name CHRIST means The Anointed One. The One God the Father anointed to carry out a unique mission. All those who follow Jesus Christ and are filled with the Holy Spirit are anointed. This means that His followers are anointed to fulfil the plans God has sent us to do.
So what are the things that cause the flow of the anointing to dry up? Its important to guard ourselves against any blocks so that the work of God proceeds without hindrance.
Disobedience is a huge block. When you break God's commandments the anointing is blocked until you repent of that sin and receive forgiveness. If you continue in disobedience it opens a dark door through which many evils enter in.
Jesus said a little bit of leaven leavens the whole lump. Leaven is sin. Just a little sin can contaminate your whole life and affect your family and church. If we are serious about following Jesus we must do our best to be like Him. Holy and sinless.
When the anointing is blocked pastors and prophets have to manufacture their own brand of anointing to "keep up appearances". This leads to all sorts of strange things being mixed into the truth. Over time these other doctrines become a whole new religion or cult.
Every religion is man-made! Only the Law of Moses and Christianity came directly from our Father in Heaven. He met Moses on the mountain In the burning bush and over 40 days carved with His own Hand the Ten Commandments into two stone tablets.
In Jeremiah 31 v 31: "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah." Therefore to be in God's perfect will you have to follow His Son Jesus Christ. He sent His Son because the priests of the Pharisees and Sadducees had added their own spin to the laws which meant that His perfect will was now severely compromised. When Jesus cried out on the Cross "It is finished" - He was referring to the Old Testament Law of Moses.
Just before His arrest He had celebrated Passover with His disciples in The Upper Room. During this Seder Feast Jesus introduced the New Covenant and the proper way to celebrate it as Holy Communion. He broke the matzos and said this is My Body broken for you, eat this in memory of Me. Then He took The Cup. There is only one cup that was special in that table. The Cup of Elijah. In the Jewish Feast the wine is poured but never drunk. If it would be drunk from it would indicate that the Messiah has come.
Imagine the shock then when Jesus took that Cup of Elijah to declare that He was the Messiah! The wine became the Blood of the New Covenant. And every time we drink this cup it proclaims His death of the Old Law and giving life to the New Creation of salvation and grace. The full anointing of the Holy Spirit to keep the life of Jesus going in each born again Christian.
Any church not preaching the full born again gospel but celebrating Communion unworthily is in condemnation. It blocks the Anointing and causes those churches to lack the true life of Jesus God intended them to have. Your church and you might be very sincere in your devotion to Our Lord Jesus but if you have not obeyed His Word you are still lost. He said You MUST be born again, then baptized in water, then baptized in the Holy Spirit. This is the full gift of salvation.
Many bring in the story of the thief on the Cross next to Jesus to whom He said, This day you will be with Me in Paradise. The King always makes an entrance with an announcement of His arrival. This man was His chosen trumpet. All those in Paradise, a pleasant compartment of Hell, would be born again by Jesus Himself including the last death of the thief who preceded Him to Paradise. So His lack of knowledge of adherence to the Bible teachings was of no account.
Any deviation from the simplicity of Christ and our complete surrender to Him will cause a block to the anointing and this will cause more division in the church. We are in the last days and it is vital that the church become united around the central truth of the Lordship of Jesus.
We can't have the truth according to some televangelist feathering his own nest or becoming a popular speaker. The entertainment centres that pass for church nowadays are an abomination to the Lord. Jesus overthrows them as He did to the tables of the moneylenders on the steps of the Temple.
The Temple was supposed to be a house of Prayer. Through prayer our connection to our Father is kept sweet and fresh and anointed. It keeps a strong flow like a swift river and much is accomplished for His Kingdom. The destruction of the Temple in AD70 was permitted by God because The Priests had twisted the truth about Jesus saying He was not resurrected but that His disciples had stolen His Body and lied about seeing Him.
The destruction of the Temple should have sent a very clear message to Israel because their own great prophet Daniel was given a strong message about The Messiah coming before it's destruction. The importance of Archangel Gabriel's words were because on the walls of the Temple the lineages of every tribe were carved. This meant Jesus could only prove who He was before it was destroyed. Thankfully it's recorded for us in Matthew 1.
The more willing and obedient we are to the Lord the more He can accomplish through us. The pure anointing flowing through a surrendered heart can touch the whole world. A manufactured substitute of anointing can bring the house down and sow error, confusion and terror in many places.
In 2 Corinthians 6 v 17: "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."
You need to thoroughly examine your own life and place of worship and place all before our Holy King and ask Him to remove the unclean things from our lives which are stopping the flow of His anointing. Ask Him to unite the church in truth and love and give it proper direction. We need discipleship rather than just hype. We need the release of the full anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, its time for us all to come clean and allow You to remove us from wrong spiritual experiences into Your absolute truth and holiness. Our survival depends on it. We need the full anointing to make it home and to help others who are struggling. Hear our cry today O Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen.