ANOINTING FOR EMPOWERMENT –UNVEILING THE FORCE OF PRAYER & FASTING
A journey without a definition
cannot get to its destination. The same
way one must determine his purpose of being in a spiritual gathering. It takes prayers to see our desires in the
kingdom of God come to realities. I like
us to know that prayers are in different levels but on this occasion I would
like to classify prayers in two distinct levels.
Desire: This is a level of
prayer when the believers ask that God should go with him in his daily
endeavour. He just simply say before he
lives the home; Father, as I live the house today, please go with me, guide me
and protect me from the evil one, etc.
But the kind of prayer I would like you to pray today is:
The Commander’s Prayer: This
is the wrestling kind of prayer. Like the one Jacob prayed (Gen 32:24-28). He was left alone and he wrestled till the
breaking of the day. He never mind
whether his bones were at of joints. He
persisted. The good news is that it was
that encounter that changed Jacobs’s life forever.
Without groaning, there is no
crowning.
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we
know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he
maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 8:26-27.
This kind of prayer that is
effectual. Like the one Elijah prayed
and in the space of three and half years there was no rain and he prayed earnestly
again and the heaven gave its rain.
17 Elias was a
man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might
not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six
months.
18 And he
prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
James 5:17-18
Our level of empowerment is what determines
our level of command. Just like in the
political settings, there are levels of government. In Nigeria for instance, there are three levels
of government viz the local government, the state government and the federal
government. The chairman of a local
government commands certain authority but not beyond his local government area. The State government also exercises full
authority within his state and dare not move to another state within the
federation to exercise his mandate. But
the president of a nation has his power cut across local and state
governments. These are different levels
of power execution.
This prayer calls for a one-line
item kind of prayer. You keep enforcing
it until your change is delivered.
Jabez prayed to become a honourable
man. There are levels of honourables.
There are honourable councilors, honourable commissioners, honourable house of
representatives and there are honourable ministers. Jabez became more honourable than his
brethren from the alter of prayer.
To pray this kind of prayer, you
need to exhibit the following characteristics
i.
You must be left alone
ii.
You must be panting for a change of level (Eze
47:9-10)
ANOINTED AS KING
No king ever reigned in Israel
until they are anointed. (Rev 5:9-10).
Every child of God is redeemed a king to reign on earth. Every prince is born a king but not every
prince reigns as king.
We must understand this, that no
king anoints himself as king to reign.
God is the anointer. How God
anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power…. (Act
10:38). Samuel was sent to anoint Saul
to become king of Israel. When God
rejected Saul and choose David as king, he also instructed Samuel to anoint
David.
1Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt
thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill
thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I
have provided me a king among his sons.
Prophets sees what you can’t
see. You can’t train to become a
prophet. There is no Phd in
prophesy. They are custodian of divine
secrets. Nobody mocks the prophetic and
not become a mockery. Kings reign in
palaces. By palace I mean being a king in your own calling. You become a king in your divine
profession. There are men that are most
honourable than those that are local kings in earthy palaces. You will reign in Jesus Name.
Like I mentioned earlier, no one
anoints himself as kings. It is only
through God’s word. The word sent
through his messengers.
It
is important to also note that we are
living in the days of the prophets Mal
4:4-6
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite
the earth with a curse.
There
shall be duplication of the grace that is in the life of the father to the
children. It is this heart to heart
connectivity that qualifies us for the duplication of grace. There are many prophets but there is a
prophet sent to you. Lk 4:25-27.
25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel
in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months,
when great famine was throughout all the land;
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto
Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto
a woman that was a widow.
27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus
the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
A son of the prophet is not the same as the
Prophet. When you locate them, engage in
a heart to heart connectivity with them.
God sends prophets your way to take you to your destination. Thanks be to God who has sent me to you! (Prov
27:19). 19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
