two anointings, two trees, two churches

8/9/2019 Two Anointings, Two Trees, Two Churches

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Two Anointings

There is only one anointing but for the purpose of this book, there are two 'types' ofanointing: the Grace anointing and the Personal/Fruit anointing.

Anointing in scripture is the Spirit of God. It is also referred to as the ability or specialpower that God gives His people for service or imparting revelation.

But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye need notthat any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things,and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.1 John 2:27

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: whowent about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for Godwas with him. Acts 10:38

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; andsome, pastors and teachers. Ephesians 4:11

The Grace anointing comes with corporate worship or within a person who has a gift tobring forth the glory of God or revelation of Christ. Jesus gave this grace to the seventywhen He said,

"Go and preach and when you preach lay hands on the sick and cast out devils".

These people had not yet been born again as children of God and yet Jesus gifted themwith special ability to preach the good news.He also gives a gift of ministry or anointing to those who are called to build up the body ofChrist or to proclaim the Gospel to the lost. These gifts are many in number, but most

people have heard or been taught about the five-fold ministry gifts that God gave to theChurch for the perfecting or maturing of the believer. These gifts of faith or ministry aregiven without cost or reward for a person's faithfulness or holiness. So then, the graceanointing prepares the way for personal anointing. It is intended to produce the lasting fruitfor the believer to go deeper and find the second type of anointing, the Personal anointing.Grace anointing is the taste and see; Personal anointing is the fruit of our relationship withGod, and when we do, we gain the, "Well done," of God.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and willmanifest myself to him. John 14:21If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and itshall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; soshall ye be my disciples.

John 15:7, 8

With intimacy and alignment to the Father's will, comes Glory. As we are yielded to theFather and obedient to His guiding, He fills our life with His Word and Spirit. Those who arefilled, need to continually be-being filled by separation, death to self, and radical obedienceto His whispers. When we go deeper and deeper into this death to self, we find more andmore of the revelation of His Son and the next measure of Grace to enable us to hold fast toHis dealings with us. In this season, we hear and see things in the spirit, many of great


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wonder and encouragement, but then comes the test and the death required to self to see itrealized.

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life alsoof Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alwaysdelivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made

manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 2 Cor4:10-12

Many who have this pruning or purging work being done in their lives, stop at the pain andretreat to more comfortable places. The retreat does not remove the call or the anointing orthe Glory from our giftedness, but does remove the next step in Glory in our personal life. Ifretreat continues, it can cause such a withdraw in our souls that God is not actively workingin the fiery press with us.

Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have nopleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but ofthem that believe to the saving of the soul. Hebrews 10:38

The Gift is to Produce Relationship

There are times when we gather together with others to worship or whenever a giftedteacher teaches, we feel the presence of God, but during private times He seems far off.The corporate anointing is God's grace to call His people to sanctification or surrender to Hiswill. Without personal surrender, there is no personal anointing and the scripture is fulfilled,"Ever learning, never coming into the knowledge of the truth".The scripture tells us God has no fellowship with darkness and if we will hold compromise ordarkness in our hearts, He will not dwell there. This is one of the cries of today's ministers;they are curious why the presence of God is so strong when they teach, but absent fromtheir homes. The gifted minister many times does not realize this truth and assumes theanointing on his ministry is an endorsement of his life, when just the reverse is true; thelack of personal anointing should be a great concern and a warning that our life is not

measuring the call.But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.James 1:22

There is widespread deception in the world right now as most church-goers lead lives ofcompromise and sin, living standards of worldliness that even unbelievers 50 years agowould not allow. Many of us do religious things and half-surrender our lives, just enough tofeel better, but go back to comfort and pleasure as soon as we can. This is about to change.There is a call going forth for the church to rise, to begin to pray and to put off sin.

No Little Foxes

"...The little foxes, that spoil the vines".Jesus taught it was the little things in our life that most of us miss and keep our hearts frombeing pure before God. Since it is only the "pure in heart" who will see Him, it is time weput off our laziness, cast down our fleshly imaginations, live repentant lives, and continuallysurrender our hearts and hands to live in radical surrender. Though it may take years oftraining, growth and grace to grow up or to master our tongues and flesh, a surrenderedheart takes only moments and is the first call of every believer for every day that he lives.


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Pure Heart / Clean Hands

The Grace message has been watered down so far that it has become an excuse to sin insome circles, rather than the power of God to live free from sin. Many churches andChristians use grace doctrines to make room for their weaknesses rather than for its truepurpose--to empower us to be holy and free from all bondage, lies, and darkness. The bride

is beginning, all over the world, to take holiness and relationship seriously. There is anincrease in prayer and abiding and we as believers are going to be given great power if wewill move into what God is doing.

Prayer Time

My house shall be called a house of prayer. We, the house of God, need to begin to pray -not more prayer but continual prayer. There is a scripture that says we should "pray withoutceasing". This is abiding prayer, where our life and words and deeds are all prayers... wherewe no longer do anything without our leaning, listening and subjecting our lives to His will.Abiding prayer, intercession, fellowship with God is a topic worthy of its own book.

Two Trees

One of the foundations of the Christian faith is repentance from dead works. This is not thesame as repentance from sin. Repentance from dead works brings us all the way back toour fall in the garden. When we, in Adam, took from the wrong tree - we died. Our deathcame as deception in our life, sin in our nature, and no longer being allowed to eat of thetree of life. The cross, the blood, and the resurrection gave us redemption from this curseand yet many still minister and live from the wrong tree.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil presents us with the impossible task of making God

happy with works... as if we could ever cross the line of doing enough good to counter theevil we have done or continue to do. This is a never-ending cycle of hopeless pursuit, butwe still hear most sermons and much of today's counselors teaching from the wrong tree.We hear the rules of the church or the requirements for holiness taught from a backwardsplace. The obedience required from a Jesus-life is based on Love, Relationship andRevelation not dead rules and obedience to the letter. We have a NEW AND LIVING WAY toplease God and it's by loving Him, doing works based on love, through the power of ourrelationship with Him, by the power of His grace in our life. We are now changed into thelikeness of His Son by "beholding" Him, not becoming good people through obeying theBook.

With hearts turned toward God in absolute surrender, obedience to His leading andseparation from sin based on faith and love, we are transformed into those whose nature is

like God instead of obedient followers of a religious order. Now, instead of practicingpatience, we become patience or instead of resisting lust, we become God-minded and stoplusting as we see His heart and are changed into His children.

The new covenant declares we have a new and LIVING way. This means the life we nowlive, we live in reality and life. We ALL behold Him, we ALL encounter Him in reality not justin blind faith. This new life is a supernatural life based on Jesus opening the Holy Place forall of us to go in and meet with God. New life obedience comes from a heart of Love andFaith, not fear and rules. We must always offer the RULES of faith tied directly to


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relationship and the power of Christ in our lives to empower and keep us. The guides ofwhat is sin and what is right in the New Testament have become to many individuals, thesame as Old Testament laws. What we should do rather than hold people to the Book is holdthem to the cross and apply the Scriptures as a guide to see if the cross is real in their lives.

In many cases, we find the tree of knowledge of good and evil is propagated and promoted

through systems of control in our organizations and in many cases we call this "church". Itis time we redefine church to help people find their way to God instead of finding their wayto a system or organization or more rules.

Two Churches

Though there are many definitions and distinctions of the local church, for the purpose ofthis book, there are two churches. The first is the visible church, the organizations withnames, titles, buildings and service times, sound equipment, songs and prayers,memberships and rules, and statements of faith. I need to first begin by saying, I am verymuch involved in our local church and believe God is a God of order, structure, and

government. I in no wise, or ever, recommend tearing down the buildings or dismantlingchurches so as to find its glory. I will be referring to this as the local church. With that outof the way...

There is a second church; this church is made up of people, all of them alive unto God. Thisis the church God talked about that would not be built by hands, but is the habitation ordwelling of God on the earth. This church is visible and invisible. This church is both in thelocal church and outside the local church. Only God can know fully who is and who is notpart of this Church. Some who we would think are mighty members of God's church neverentered the gates of salvation. Some who we see struggle on the fringes are some of God'sfaithful warriors. Membership in this Church is through faith and "real" surrender to Jesus.

In many ways, the two churches are working together, helping each other; and in many

ways, they oppose each other, warring against the will of God. When the organization isseen as a tool and its order is led of God, it promotes freedom of worship, personal growthand activates individuals to radical faith and the work of God. If it is not ordered of God, itintimidates the very people it is supposed to inspire making ministry an office, exaltingpeople, rules and ideals above service, and empowerment. It offers rules for control andmanipulation with fear as part of everything it does. I do not know a person or church whois not guilty of some of this and we all need to see it as a cultural and historical curse thatwe all need to repent from until we are all free.

Some of the things we do as tradition are rooted in control and propagated by fear. Many oftoday's doctrines are not true doctrines and need re-evaluation. There is a new hungerrising in the leaders of God's people to see things change, but that change needs to begin inus. How radical are we willing to be to have our doctrines, our beliefs, and our control

messed with to see God move in the masses?

This is part of a book called power of an endless life.


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