Wow...whoever brought up this thread, THANK YOU soo much! I
love the
HOLY SPIRIT sooo very much, as I do
the Son, JESUS, my LORD, MY King, my Redeemer, as I do My
Abba Father, my Creator.
It's only in the last year or 2, I have truly become acquainted with the
HOLY SPIRIT and have gotten to KNOW the Third PERSON of the Godhead. I took it for granted I KNEW HIM when I never really did. I'll explain later in a different post.
I looked over this thread & I mentioned an experience I had in San Diego regarding the Anointing that fell on me in a very 'special' way. I never shared it so I'll share it now.
It was during the
Hebrews training. I did not go to Anaheim for it but in San Diego, wewent through the book of Hebrews while the training was taking place.
I recall
pleading with the LORD with an earnest heart to
give me UNDERSTANDING of the book of Hebrews. I was still a babe in Christ and Hebrews was over the top for me, as was much of the Bible.
The elders there came up with an idea for the saints to share portions of the messages we were receiving. They asked us to read
a life study message for a week and to be prepared to be called on to share what the LORD had shown them. Whoever was called was going to stand in the middle of the room and give a short 'message' on that life study.
This may come as a surprise to whoever is reading this post, but I do not remember
the life study message we were reading from.
I do know
Hebrews 10 was in it.
The scriptures that spoke to me were
vss 15-17, ch 10:
Quote:
Whereof the Holy Spirit also is a Witness to us: for after that He had said before,
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
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So like a good little LCr, I studied the life study message assigned to us.
When we gathered together for that 'training' meeting,
the elder Willie Samoff, shared some and then UNDER the Anointing
himself, selected a person to stand up and share as the HOLY SPIRIT led him to. And so the sharing began by
US one by one. After a person finished speaking, he would look around the room & picked someone else. As he was moving his 'anointed' eyes, he fixed his gaze on my row. Suddenly, this 'heavy' CALMING Peace came over me. I stopped wondering who he was going to pick next. I was not wondering if he would pick me. I was not wondering ANYTHING. My mind was perfectly still.
Of course, you guessed it, his gaze locked in on me and I was picked. I calmly,
full of the Peace inside of me, stand up and begin to share on
Hebrews 10:15-17.
It was NOT me speaking I tell ya!!! I saw people and yet I didn't. I don't know how long I went when
I 'felt' the 'anointing' LIFT. I still had the Peace of God on me & in me but
the 'heaviness' was LIFTING. I knew I was ending 'my' message. This expeience lasted probably 2-3 minutes at best. [HONEST!!! ] I did NOT know the meaning of the WORD -anointing-. But that was what I experienced. Actually, what I experienced was the
POWER of the Anointing of the Holy Spirit ON me. In looking back, I am more than certain,
Willie too was under the anointing. He was not just picking people whom he wanted, he was picking people the Holy Spirit was leading him to choose.
See,
the Anointed ONE is in us , thus
we are all anointed. But when the POWERFUL PRESENCE of GOD is on us, that is what we refer to as
the Anointing.
I am MORE than positive, every single person on this forum has experienced this POWERFUL PRESENCE OF GOD the Holy Spirit on them at one time or another.
There are several levels and that is what I was trying to bring out in this thread. Some people have a 'special' anointing to evangelize in the streets for example. I have a friend who LOVES going out every weekend with her husband to the malls and stop people specifically to share the gospel with them. I can't do that. BUT I do talk to people all the time about the LORD in one way or another. A couple of weeks ago, I went to visit a friend of mine & her family. They're saved but live struggling carnal lives. When I walked in the house, they told me they jokingly quipped,
I probably drove around the block a few times praying for them ! LOL!! See...they know I pray all the time and they know when I go over there, I'm gonna talk about the LORD. But I do NOT talk to them in an overbearing way. I yield to the SPIRIT...or at least TRY to. Because
when it's HIM speaking, everybody else shuts UP and listens! Really. They DO!
Not everyone is equipped with the SAME anointing.
Some are equipped to evangelize with a passion. Others are called to
passionately build up the Body of Christ. Others to be
mighty prayer intercessors, prayer warriors,
others to teach. But whatever it is, it is simply to GLORIFY GOD, not for us to pat ourselves on the back. The end result is
we're doing it together as the BODY of CHRIST with CHRIST JESUS as our HEAD.