WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:06.440 Hello, everybody. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. 2 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:10.400 I'm really glad you're here today. We're continuing our series 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:14.439 from Psalm twenty three called Living in the Goodness of God. 4 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.559 It's all about how God's goodness meets you right where 5 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:22.160 you are and brings hope even in difficult seasons. Right now, 6 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.480 here's the final part of a message called living an 7 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:26.679 Anointed Life. 8 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.160 Fifth thing that we learn in the scriptures is this 9 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.920 that God anoints my life. 10 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:34.560 To bless others. 11 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.280 God blesses you, not just so you can feel good. 12 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.159 God blesses you so you could be a blessing to 13 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:47.640 other people. Now, we've done an entire series on this 14 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:51.200 at Saddleback, where we talked about we're blessed to be 15 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:57.799 a blessing. God doesn't give you money, talent, good looks, abilities, opportunities, networks. 16 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.200 None of those things are giving to you simply for 17 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.799 your benefit. God says, I want you to be a 18 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:06.239 blessing to other people. Now you get blessed in the 19 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.680 same time. There's no doubt about it. You're going to 20 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.799 enjoy the blessing of being a channel. But when you're 21 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:14.359 a channel of God's power and blessing to other people. 22 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.040 It blesses everybody. You're not the only one who gets blessed. 23 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:21.959 God doesn't give you his annoying just so you can 24 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.719 feel good. God gives you his anoying to help others, 25 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.799 and when you do, it helps you now. In Isaiah, 26 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:32.480 Isaiah was a prophet in the Old Testament. In chapter 27 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:36.439 sixty one, Isaiah says, I know I'm anointed by God. 28 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:39.239 And he comes up with a list of six different 29 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.599 kinds of people in pain, and he goes, I know 30 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.120 this is what God's calling me to do. That I'm 31 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:47.159 going to use my anoying just not to make a 32 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.799 name for myself. God is giving me this anointing to 33 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:54.799 help six kinds of people in pain. Let me read 34 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.079 it to you. Isaiah says, the spirit of the Lord 35 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:02.120 is on me, and he has anointed me. There's that phrase, 36 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.200 you might circle it. He has anointed me to bring 37 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.800 good news to the suffering and the afflicted. 38 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:10.280 That's number one. 39 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.360 Number two, he's anointed me to comfort the broken hearted. 40 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:19.400 Number three, he's anointed me to announce freedom to. 41 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:20.400 People who are captives. 42 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.039 You know, they're in a prison, maybe a self imposed 43 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:28.639 prison of resentment or an addiction, or a compulsion, or 44 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.080 a fear or an anxiety. A lot of people are 45 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.719 in self imposed prison. He says, He's anointed me to 46 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:38.360 bring good news, the suffering, comfort to broken hearted, a 47 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.800 lot of broken hearts. To announce freedom to people who 48 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:46.400 are enslaved to an addiction or habit. He's annointed me 49 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:48.280 to open the eyes of the blind. What's he talking 50 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.240 about there? Help people see stuff that they've never seen before. 51 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:55.000 Help them see God. Maybe they've never seen God in 52 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:56.599 their life, they don't even know. 53 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:57.800 See God at work. 54 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.319 He sent me to tell those who mourn that the 55 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:05.360 time of God's favor to them has come. And he 56 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.599 says the number six. He says, he has anointed me 57 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.319 to tell all who mourn, and everybody has. 58 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:12.800 Losses in life, you're gonna have him. 59 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.759 If you haven't already, you'll have major losses in your life, 60 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.319 which means you're gonna mourn. He says, God sent me 61 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.520 to use the annoying I've got to tell these people 62 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.280 who are who've had a loss that God will give 63 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:30.840 beauty for ashes, joy instead of mourning, and praise instead 64 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.759 of heaviness. Those who are depressed. What an amazing God 65 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.400 we have that. God is interested in your emotional needs. 66 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.159 God is interested in your hurts, in your habits, in 67 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.879 your hang ups. God is interested in all the stuff 68 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.840 that pulls you down. He says, when you get annointed, 69 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:51.560 God wants you to help other people in pain. And 70 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:55.000 when you do that, God helps you in your pain. 71 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:58.080 He helps you in your pain. By the way, this 72 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:02.919 passage Isaiah sixty one is the text that Jesus read 73 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:07.680 for his very first public sermon publicly recorded sermons. In 74 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:11.280 Luke chapter four, Jesus goes back to his hometown of Nazareth. 75 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:13.960 He picks up the scroll of the Old Testament. He 76 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.639 opens to this passage Isaiah sixty one, and Jesus. 77 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.480 Reads it and says, the spirit of the Lord. 78 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.600 Is upon me because He's appointed me to preach good 79 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:23.839 news to the suffering and the afflicted and the poor, 80 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:26.920 and he sent me to comfort the broken hearted. And 81 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:29.879 he reads this, he rolls the scroll up. He goes 82 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.240 over and he sits down. Shortest sermon on record, certainly 83 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:35.120 not one of mine. 84 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:37.360 And he sits down. 85 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:42.120 And he says, today this passage is fulfilled right in 86 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.519 front of you. I am the answer, I'm the savior. 87 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.720 I'm the guy who's come to comfort the afflicted and 88 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:52.959 the broken hearted, and the people who are enslaved to habits, 89 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.079 and the people who don't know how to get out 90 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.560 of debt, and the people who are blind and can't 91 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.120 see the way out of where they are, and all 92 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.519 these different things. Jesus says, I'm it, I'm it, But 93 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:09.800 he says, I'm anointed to do this. Let me show 94 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:12.160 you on the screen Acts chapter ten. Here's another verse. 95 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:16.560 God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit's power. 96 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:17.879 By the way, there's a trinity. 97 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:22.199 In one sentence, father, Son, Holy Spirit, one sentence. God 98 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:26.600 anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit's power, and he, Jesus, 99 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:30.560 went around doing good. That's the purpose of anointing, to 100 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:33.240 make the world a better place. When you get anointed, 101 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.279 you start helping other people. You get blessed by it. 102 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:38.959 But you're helping other people. And he went around doing 103 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:43.360 good and healing people who were beaten down by the devil. 104 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.240 And when you get anointed, guess what God's going to 105 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:53.360 do that with you? Why? Yeah, you you you're a priest, 106 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.439 you're anointed it. God wants to work in your life 107 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.519 this same way. To go around doing good, healing people 108 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.120 who've been beaten up by by the devil. Number six. 109 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.519 The sixth thing we learned about anointing as I summarize 110 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:14.079 all the Bible, is that for every new challenge, I 111 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:19.800 need afresh anointing. For every new challenge, I need a 112 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:25.480 fresh anointing. Anointing by the Holy Spirit in your life cannot. 113 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:25.920 Be stored up. 114 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.120 You can't go, oh yeah, I remember way back in 115 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:33.160 like nineteen ninety two, I went to service and oh, man, 116 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:34.839 I really felt close to God. I got a quiver 117 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:40.000 in my liver and I even cried, and I like, ooh. 118 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.319 It was like an emotional experience, and you go, you're 119 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:43.600 still living on that thing. 120 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:47.480 That doesn't work that way. You can't store it up. 121 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:52.120 God's anointing, his blessing on your life is kind of 122 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:54.319 like manna, that bread that God fed him in the 123 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.720 wilderness for forty years. It only lasted a day and 124 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:01.279 then it's spoiled. Because God wants you to depend on 125 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.839 Him every day for his anointing, every day for his 126 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.399 power in your life. The prayer is not to pray 127 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:10.639 give us this day our monthly bread. 128 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:14.560 No, it's daily. 129 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.000 He gives you just enough for that day, and tomorrow 130 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.399 you're gonna need a fresh annoying, And the day after 131 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:22.839 that you're gonna need a fresh annoying, and the day 132 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:25.360 after that you're gonna need some fresh oil. 133 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:28.199 In your lamp. 134 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.279 You're gonna need fresh And by the way, you can 135 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:36.800 lose the anointing. We've all seen people who are greatly 136 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.560 used by God and they are on fire and they're 137 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:44.720 gifted and they're talented, and then two years later they're 138 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:48.199 on the shelf doing nothing. How did in the world 139 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:51.079 did they lose God's blessing on their life? How did 140 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.800 they lose the anointing on their life? You canna lose 141 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:59.360 it lots of ways by taking it for granted, by 142 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:03.519 not depending on God, by not spending time alone with 143 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:08.720 God every day. You can lose the anoying through pride, 144 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:13.319 through greed. You can lose the annoying by refusing to 145 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.439 forgive somebody you need to forgive. You can lose it 146 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:21.439 from gossip. You can lose it from out of control anger. 147 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:24.120 You can lose it from all kinds of different things 148 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.000 that you let become a god in your life that 149 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.040 you begin to idolize, and all of a sudden, that 150 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.319 person or that thing, or that job or that money 151 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.919 is more important than God, and you could lose God's 152 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:37.360 blessing on your life. History is littered with people who 153 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.159 had God's anointing and God's blessing and we're seeing success 154 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.519 and results in their life, and then all of a sudden, bam, 155 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:50.399 they're nothing because they took it too lightly and too loosely. 156 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:55.039 For every new challenge, I need a fresh anointing. And 157 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.919 that annoying that you had last year or ten years ago, 158 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.919 or a youth camp, it's not any good for today. 159 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.919 It doesn't do any It doesn't do you any good today. 160 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:10.360 You need a fresh refilling. God wants to fill you 161 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.480 with his power, with his love, with his spirit, with 162 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.879 his grace. You know the problem is we all leak. 163 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.960 He get filled, but you leak, and you can lose 164 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.559 the passion and lose the power, and lose the grace, 165 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.919 and lose your vision and lose your passion like a 166 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:30.120 balloon that's been blown up for a birthday party and 167 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:34.039 three days later it's losing it all and going flat 168 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:35.679 over in the corner. 169 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:37.039 And we leak. 170 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:40.440 So you need a fresh filling of God's spirit on 171 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:47.159 a regular basis. You cannot handle today's problems with yesterday's anointing, 172 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.159 and you certainly can't handle the problems you're gonna have tomorrow. 173 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.360 And next week and next year with yesterday's annoying. 174 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.559 You got to stay in touch with God so that 175 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:59.480 he's filling you constantly with his grace, with his love, 176 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.720 with his p He said, well, how do I do that? 177 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.720 How do I stay filled? How do I get afresh 178 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:07.200 in morning? 179 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:07.480 Well? 180 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.960 Hoseiah chapter ten is one example. Verse twelve. Hoseah ten 181 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:17.720 twelve says this, so new seeds of righteousness. That's a 182 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.799 metaphor by the way for prayer, and you'll reap the 183 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:26.159 fruit of my love and break up your old hardened ground. 184 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.639 He's talking about if you're a farmer. You got some 185 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:31.919 ground out there hadn't been plowed in years. It's gotten hard, 186 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.639 it's gotten dry, it's gotten crusty, and maybe your heart 187 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.840 has gotten cold and dry and crusty, and you don't 188 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:40.799 feel the joy of the Lord anymore, and you don't 189 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:44.000 feel close to God anymore, and your heart is hard 190 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:47.360 toward other people, and your heart is hard even maybe 191 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.840 toward God. He says, you need to do a little plowing. 192 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.279 You need to do a little spade work, break up 193 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.799 the hardened, the fallow ground, the hardened ground in your life. 194 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.159 It's time to turn to me and seek the Lord. 195 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:04.200 And then he says, I'll come and I'll shower new blessings. 196 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:08.679 That's anoying, I'll shower new blessings on you. How does 197 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.360 God turn hard ground into soft ground so something can 198 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:16.080 sprout fro him? He sends a storm. You got any 199 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.440 storm going on in your life? God may breaking up 200 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:23.279 the dirt clods in your heart, the hardened soil that's 201 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.120 gotten dry and bearing and can't bear a fruit of anything. 202 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.080 And in that passage he says four things. He says, 203 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.320 you want you want my annoying because you gotta pray 204 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.879 so so the seeds of right to spend some time 205 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.200 talking to God. And he says, you need to break 206 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.679 up the hardened ground. That's that's humility and confession to God. 207 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.440 I haven't been close to you. I haven't been connected 208 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.600 to you like I used to be. He says, turn 209 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.919 back to God. That's clear. He says, seek God. That's clear. 210 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.120 And he says, as a result, I'll come and shower 211 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:56.000 new blessing, new anointing on your life. 212 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:57.720 How do you. 213 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:01.399 Get God's anointing back in your life or maybe for 214 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.879 the very first time? The number one way you get 215 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:11.600 it Listen, you ask, you ask. The Bible says you 216 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.919 have not. Because you ask not, you do not have 217 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:16.879 James four two. 218 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.240 You do not have because you don't ask God. 219 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:22.559 If you don't have God's power in your life, if 220 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.320 you don't have God's blessing and anointing in your life, 221 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.519 you're not waiting on God. 222 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.879 He's waiting on you. You just haven't asked. 223 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:38.840 When was your last time you asked God to make 224 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:41.000 your career successful and then you said, I'll do it 225 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:44.679 anyway you tell me to do it. When was the 226 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:47.120 last time you asked God to make your marriage, or 227 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:50.279 your relationships or your friendship successful? And then you said, God, 228 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:51.679 I'll do it anyway you tell me to do it, 229 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:56.279 even if it doesn't make sense. When was the last 230 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:59.559 time you said, God, my finances are so messed up 231 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:04.080 and I need you to bless my finances, and I'm 232 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:05.519 willing to do the way. 233 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:06.200 You tell me to do it. 234 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:11.240 That is to break up the clauds and to say God, 235 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:15.120 you have not because you're asked. I'm asking you right now. 236 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:19.639 You see, God wants to bless your life in ways 237 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:23.960 you have not even imagined. If God were to show 238 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.720 you what he could have done with your life to 239 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:30.759 this point that hadn't been able to you'd be sad. 240 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:33.919 But if God were to show you what he could 241 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.080 do with the rest of your life, however many years 242 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:41.320 you got left, would blow your mind. If you just say, God, 243 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.200 I'm asking for your anointing, I want you to I 244 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:49.559 want to do it your way. We're not waiting on 245 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:54.559 God for a revival of our hearts. He's waiting on us. 246 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:57.559 Saw eighty four, Verse eleven says this look up here 247 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:02.679 on the screen. The Lord generously gives. By the way, 248 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.360 God is the most generous person in the universe, and 249 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.039 he teaches us to get because he's generous. The Lord 250 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:12.919 generously gives us his favor. Favor is another word for anointing. 251 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.559 It means his blessing, his favor, his grace is anointing. 252 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.039 The Lord generously gives us his favor. When you have 253 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:24.759 the favor of God, you're a favorite. God says, She's 254 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.879 my favorite. Have you ever felt that? Have you ever 255 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:30.720 felt the favor of God in your life. I have, 256 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.279 and there's nothing compared to it. When you know God 257 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:39.240 has shown favor on you, and you go, I'm a 258 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.240 favorite of God. I'm a friend of God. I don't 259 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:46.240 deserve it, but it's just God's grace, he says. The 260 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.799 Lord generously gives us his favor and honor. God wants 261 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.320 to affirm you. God wants to applaud you in front 262 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:52.919 of other people. 263 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:53.720 Favor and honor. 264 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:59.360 No good thing will he withhold from those who live right. 265 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:02.000 He said, there's nothing that's good for you that I'll 266 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:06.240 hold back. Anything you could possibly think of that would 267 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:10.279 be good for you. I'm gonna give it. It's all there, 268 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.559 it's all yours. I looked up that word all. It 269 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:13.159 means all. 270 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.720 No good thing will God hold back from you if 271 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.840 you will just trust Him and live in his anointing. 272 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.120 Now, am I write this down that when God anoints 273 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:35.200 your business, it brings success. When God anoints your business, 274 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.320 it brings success. I could give you one hundred examples 275 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.360 out of the Bible of this. Let me just give 276 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.559 you one. Genesis thirty nine, verse two talks about Joseph, 277 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:47.960 who was a businessman and it says because the Lord 278 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.000 was with Joseph. That phrase was with Joseph. He is 279 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.799 under the anointing and blessing of God. It says, he 280 00:15:55.919 --> 00:16:02.399 was greatly blessed so that everything he did succeeded. You 281 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:05.759 might underline that everything he did succeeded. Now, let me 282 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.559 ask you how many of you would like that to 283 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.559 be true in your career, that every single thing you 284 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.039 did succeeded. Can I see your hands? Okay, oh, some 285 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.600 of you don't want that. Let me try that again. 286 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.440 How many of you would like to be known that 287 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.399 everything you did in life succeeded. Yeah, that ought to 288 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.320 be unanimous. And where does that come from? It comes 289 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.879 from the anointing of God. Let me close in just 290 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.200 the last two minutes about the second area, and that's 291 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:34.799 your body. 292 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:36.440 You might write this down. 293 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:44.000 When God anoints your body, it brings health. It brings 294 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:48.679 health in your body over and over again. Anointing for 295 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:52.720 healing is one of the most common practices in the 296 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:57.159 entire Bible. Not only did Jesus do it everywhere he went, 297 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:58.360 he modeled. 298 00:16:57.960 --> 00:16:58.879 It for us. 299 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.240 He authorized his followers to do the same. To anoint 300 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.880 with oil as a symbol of God's anointing and to 301 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.519 pray the prayer of faith for people who are sick. 302 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:12.200 Jesus did it. 303 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:16.119 The Bible tells us Jesus went into every village in town, preaching, teaching, 304 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:20.400 and healing. One third of his ministry was healthcare, helping people. 305 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:23.039 He cares not just about your soul going to heaven. 306 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:26.119 He cares about your mind, education, and he cares about 307 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.240 your body, your health. And Jesus, as I said, not 308 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.279 only modeled anointing with oil as a symbol of God's blessing, 309 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:38.160 but he actually taught the disciples and commanded us to 310 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:40.400 do so. Also, look here on the screen. The Bible 311 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.720 says in Mark six thirteen that his followers, the Disciples, 312 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:47.440 anointed with oil those who were sick. 313 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.440 And people were healed. 314 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.079 Now I need to explain to you very quickly, there 315 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.880 are three kinds of healing, three kinds of zuscum me, 316 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:58.960 three kinds of illnesses. Now, there are a lot of 317 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:02.039 illness in the world that sip because we make bad choices. 318 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:05.079 If I eat wrong, I don't exercise, I don't take 319 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.160 care of my body, I'm going to reap what I 320 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.400 saw if I get sick. I have too much sugar 321 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.200 and I get diabetes or whatever. That's my fault. And 322 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.279 a lot of the illnesses we bring on ourselves from 323 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.920 not enough rest, too much stress, not eating right exercise. 324 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:20.000 Things like that. 325 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:23.400 But the Bible talks about three kinds of illnesses. The 326 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:28.599 first is for learning. God allows illness to teach us 327 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:32.519 things that we would never learn any other way. And 328 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:35.319 so some illness actually is allowed in our lives by 329 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:38.960 God when God wants to teach us something. And one 330 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.480 of the MANI verses on this is Psalm one, nineteen 331 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.160 verse seventy one. So I'm one nineteen verse seventy one 332 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:47.880 here on the screen says this, it was good for 333 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:52.599 me to be afflicted so I could learn your truth. Okay, 334 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.559 here's the true confession time. How many of you have 335 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.440 learned some things in life through pain? Can I see 336 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.000 your hands? Yeah, that's one hundred percent of us. In fact, 337 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:06.359 some things we only learn through pain. And David, who 338 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:08.200 wrote The Lord as My Shepherd, said it was good 339 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.039 for me to be afflicted that I might learn your statutes. 340 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.240 I've learned a lot of things through illnesses in my life. 341 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:19.559 So sometimes God allows the illness for learning. Okay, The 342 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:23.160 second way, a reason or for illness is actually for death. 343 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.599 You say, well, that's not a very positive one. Well, 344 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.240 here's what I'm saying. If every illness you had was healed, 345 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:34.200 you'd never go to heaven, and neither would anybody else. 346 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:38.720 So there is a sickness unto death, and the purpose 347 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:40.839 is to end your life here so you can go 348 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:45.400 on to the real life in the ever after. You 349 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.400 will only get the sickness under death. 350 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.200 One time in your life. Does that make sense? 351 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:53.160 Okay, You're not going to get it over and over 352 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:55.720 and over, the sickness on if you get well, it 353 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.000 wasn't the sickness under death, okay, But there is an 354 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.440 illness that everyone us get, Otherwise we'd. 355 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:01.960 All stay on earth. 356 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.440 Thank God, I don't have to stay on earth for eternity, 357 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:11.440 where there's suffering, sorrow, sickness, sadness, stress, rape, wars, violence, 358 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:17.119 racial prejudice, you know, all of the different isms in 359 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:19.200 the world that put people down. 360 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:21.240 Thank God, we do not stay here. 361 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:23.160 So there is a sickness under death when God says 362 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:25.559 it's time for you to come be with me. And 363 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:28.480 then there's a third kind sickness for learning, sickness for 364 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:33.799 death and sickness for bringing glory to God. Bringing glory 365 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:38.240 to God. Jesus talked about this third kind of illness 366 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:41.839 or sickness in John, chapter eleven, he says, and in 367 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.839 verse four John eleven four, Jesus says this. They brought 368 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:47.920 a sick man to Jesus, and he said, now the 369 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:51.839 purpose of his illness is not for death. That's the 370 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:55.400 second kind sickness under death. Instead, the purpose of this 371 00:20:55.480 --> 00:21:00.000 illness is so that God will receive glory from this situation. 372 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.240 You say, how in the world can God get glory 373 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.480 from my sickness, from my illness, Well, there's two different ways. 374 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.640 One is you get healed and. 375 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:14.240 There's a miracle and there's a testimony of God's healing power. 376 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:17.880 The other way God can get glory is you're not healed, 377 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.519 but you, with strong moral character and commitment and faith, 378 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.119 stay true to Christ in spite. 379 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:26.480 Of all your pain. 380 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:30.240 If you know anything about Christian history, the greatest saints 381 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.440 of all times were the ones who endured basically. 382 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:34.920 Chronic pain throughout their entire lives. 383 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:37.680 It shaped their character in such a way that they 384 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:40.559 were far deeper than the shallow people who never had 385 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:44.480 much pain in their life. So God can get glory 386 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:48.200 in your illness either way through a miraculous healing. And 387 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.440 who cares if he does it through medicine or a miracle. 388 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:51.039 I don't care. 389 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.279 They're both healings of God. And the other way is 390 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:58.119 if you're not healed, but you stay true to God 391 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:02.359 and you let that suffering and deepen, You build your character, 392 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:07.000 grow your soul, develop your dependence on God. Become a 393 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.359 woman of depth, become a man of character that brings 394 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:15.000 glory to God too. Now we know that when we 395 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:18.359 pray for people, not everybody gets healed. Not everybody I've 396 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.559 prayed for gets healed. Why I don't know. When I 397 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.039 get to heaven, we'll know. That's in God's book. We 398 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:27.839 know that God determines when people get healed, He determines 399 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:30.720 how people get healed, and he determines where people gets there. 400 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.640 His job is to figure out the wind, where and how, 401 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:35.599