OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-WHY YOU NEED DIVINE ANOINTING I

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL

WHY YOU NEED DIVINE ANOINTING I

21^ST , MARCH 2022

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Judges 21, Ruth 1

READ: Exodus 40:12-15
12 “Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of meeting and wash them with water. 

13 You shall put the holy garments on Aaron, and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister to Me as priest. 

14 And you shall bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.

15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

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MEMORISE: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing..” -Isaiah 10:27

THE MESSAGE:

Many people do not know how important the anointing is and so they despise it. I have seen situations in which some brethren refused to be ordained because they ignorantly thought that refusing the anointing that comes with ordination is a sign of humility. They could not be further from the truth. Exodus 30:25 says, “And thou shalt make it a holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil”.

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From the Scripture above, we can safely deduce that there are different kinds of anointing. Today, we will discuss divine anointing which is holy and can only be gotten from God. This is the kind of anointing everyone should thirst and yearn for. One of the reasons for divine anointing is service, according to Exodus 28:41. God commanded Moses to anoint Aaron and his children “that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office” (Exodus 28:41). Divine anointing seals promotion, as found in 1 Samuel 10:1. This is the case of Saul after he was divinely chosen to be the first king of Israel.

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Promotion, particularly in spiritual assignments, takes greater responsibility which requires divine backing. In the RCCG, we ordain people in stages as they assume greater spiritual responsibility. As we see in our memory verse today, divine anointing breaks yokes!

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Divine anointing makes the impossible possible. Classic examples of divine anointing are when Samson tore a lion into two with his bare hands (Judges 14:5-6) and in 1 Samuel 17:33-36 that relates the exploits of David under the divine anointing. He killed a lion and a bear after he had been anointed by Samuel. There is nothing a man under God’s anointing cannot do.

I, therefore, urge you to seek the anointing of the Holy Spirit today.

ACTION POINT

Purge yourself of anything that could hinder the flow of divine anointing into your life today.

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

©2022 OPEN HEAVENS IS a daily devotional by PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE (General Overseer, THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD )