The Enemy Of The Anointing
I.
Your success in life is
dependent on your ability to access this anointing
A. People who fail in life
fail where accessing the anointing is concerned
1.
If
the power of God would have been accessed you would have won
2.
People
who succeed are the ones who understand how to activated and release this
anointing in their lives
B. Through tradition
Christianity has been made out as this thing, where when he get in trouble we
pray to God and He does something; however Christianity is us being
“Christ-like,” and tapping the power of anointing and doing what God has called
us to do, rather than delegating the responsibility of our lives back on Him
1.
How
did Jesus operate:
a.
Matthew
4-He didn’t pray and ask God to make the devil leave
b.
Matthew
8-Centurion-He didn’t pray ask God to heal him
c.
Matthew14-He
didn’t pray and ask God for more bread
d.
Mark
4-He didn’t pray and ask God to calm the storm
e.
John
11-He didn’t pray and ask God to raise Lazarus from the dead
2.
Jesus
tapped the potential/power that was in him and released into situations that
needed changing
a.
Don’t
bring OT principles in here that don’t line up with the NT way of doing things
b.
Well
if we cry long enough before God maybe He’ll do something
3.
Yeah,
but that was Jesus; NO! He was a man anointed of God with the Holy Ghost and power
a.
John
14:12-It was the Father dwelling within him doing the works
4.
In
most situations of crisis Jesus didn’t pray and ask God to do something
a.
He
spend significant time in prayer and when the crisis came what he had been
fellowshipping with God in prayer came roaring out in the time of crisis and he
did what he’d been learning from God in prayer
C. We don’t live trying to
work up the power of God all the time
1.
1
Thessalonians 1:3-You work to develop in love and faith
2.
The
anointing of God/the power of God will respond to a consistent lifestyle of
developing in love and faith
II.
The greatest enemy of
anointing, is the spirit of fear
A. Matthew 14:24-Fear’s
function is not just to get you frightened, but it’s function is to shut off
the anointing, clearing the pathway for the oppressor to oppress the fearful
1.
26-The
disciples were operating at a place where fear was right up at the ready
a.
They
spoke in fear
1)
Matthew
12:35-Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
b.
They
cried out for fear
1)
The
acted in fear
c.
Ecclesiastes
7:9-Anger rests in the bosom of the fool
1)
You
can have something resting at the ready in your spirit
2)
As
a born again child of God, you don’t have the spirit of fear
a) God didn’t create your
spirit with fear in it
3)
Fear
has to fed into your spirit & practice to get the place they’re at with
fear up at the ready
4)
You
get to this place where you’re constantly outside of the love of God and when
you do you are feeding fear into your spirit and practicing it
a) With your mouth you feed
and practice love and faith or fear and strife
d.
When
they saw Jesus they thought it was a spirit coming after them; it was a time of
pressure
1)
In
that pressure, fear was right up at the ready, and went to work in their lives
to shut off the anointing
2)
They
didn’t have to think to respond in fear, they just did it
e.
Many
people feed fear and practice it so much that it’s always right up at the ready
for them to respond in it and talk it
1)
What
you feed and practice, whether faith and love or fear and strife, will be at
the ready in your life all the time
2)
I
feed love and faith, I practice love and faith, that way my response is always
one of love and faith, preparing the atmosphere necessary for the anointing to
work
2.
27-The
first thing that Jesus dealt with was the fear
3.
29-Peter
acting on the words of Jesus-That’s faith
a.
To
just take a step out there in the middle of sea, in the middle of the night,
where your boat is being tossed around took some faith
b.
He
walked on the water-That’s the anointing
4.
30-Peter
wasn’t struck/hit with fear until he turned his eyes and mind upon the wind
a.
That’s
not love (Love God will all your mind)
1)
Fear
comes by giving your attention to the words of Satan (Romans 10:17, 1 Samuel
17:11)
2)
He
didn’t love Jesus enough to keep his mind and attention on what he said
b.
He’s
afraid-That’s not faith-he had faith in the winds ability to knock him down
c.
He
began to sink-That’s failure
d.
The
anointing shut off and he was overpowered/oppressed by the devil
5.
31-Jesus
said his problem was his little/weak faith
a.
His
faith didn’t get little until he got outside of love and gave his mind to
something other than God’s Word
b.
The
moment he got out of love where his mind was concerned, his faith was
contaminated with fear/care, it became little and could not work to connect to
and activate the anointing
B. Job 3:25-Job had a hedge
around him and the power in that hedge was the anointing
1.
25-26-Job
got in fear, the anointing turned off, the oppression began
2.
Job
1:5-He made is sacrifices, but they had no power because they were done in fear
and not in love and faith
C. Mark 6
1.
3-They
were offended-That’s not love
2.
6-They
were in unbelief-That’s not faith
3.
5-He
could do no mighty works-That’s no anointing and failure
D. Isaiah 54:14-Fear is the
anointing deactivator and the oppression connector
1.
You’ll
be far from oppression because you
don’t fear
a.
Established
in righteousness-That’s love and faith
b.
Acts
10:38-There was only oppression when the anointing wasn’t present, but the when
the anointing showed up those who were oppressed were far from oppression
2.
James
3:14-Where there’s strife there’s no anointing and there will be every evil
work
a.
Where
there’s strife there’s no love, where there’s no love there’s no faith, where
there’s no love there’s fear, where fear is there’s no anointing and where
there’s no anointing there will be evil works
3.
Proverbs
29:25-Fear brings with it oppression
4.
Fear
is a destructive force because it shuts off the anointing
III.
Why God hate fear so
much?
A. God hates fear and
unbelief-Revelation 21:7-8
1.
7-God
likes winning
2.
We
see fear and unbelief together, the way we saw faith and love together
a.
8-Fearful-Timid,
dread
b.
8-Unbelieving-Faithless
3.
Fear
keeps some bad company
a.
God
feels about fear and unbelief the way he feels about all the rest of that
wicked stuff: HE HATES IT
B. We must not treat fear as
a light thing; it’s not light thing to God
1.
To
have fear as a apart of your vocabulary is abominable in His eyes-NEVER TALK
FEAR
2.
I
hate fear because God hates it
3.
It’s
dishonorable to treat lightly what God hates
C. Why is God so against
fear?
1.
1)
To be in fear you must be out of love (1 John 4:18)
2.
2)
Fear reveals faith in the enemy and not in God and without faith it’s
impossible to please him (Hebrews 11:6)
3.
3)
Most importantly, God loves you and he knows that fear shuts off the anointing
in your life and God can’t work in your life and you won’t win (Revelation
21:7-God likes winning)
D. Satan’s whole kingdom
runs on his ability to get you into fear (which would be out of love and out of
faith) where the anointing cannot work
1.
Satan
has no answer for the anointing
a.
1
John 4:3-4-Satan is the anti-Christ or against the anointing
b.
Acts
10:38-The oppression stopped when the anointing showed up
2.
Satan
is fear and in his kingdom the currency is fear
a.
His
kingdom advancing is dependent on the anointing not working and fear is what
turns the anointing off
b.
God
is love and in his kingdom the currency is faith working by love
E. You don’t tolerate fear,
deal with fear, or learn to cope with fear
1.
Perfected
love (God himself) throws fear out the doors and does not care where it lands
(1 John 4:18)