PSALM 23

PART NINETEEN

HIS ANOINTING

“Thou anointest my head with oil”
PSALM 23:5

In the Old Testament there were three expressions that were anointed in God’s people; Priests, Kings and Prophets. These were to be holy expressions necessary for the ministration of God’s Laws, His Mercy and His Council. This anointing was to sanctify, empower and to declare the calling of God upon a man for God’s specific purposes.

“…thou shalt anoint UNTO ME him whom I name unto thee”
1 SAMUEL 16:3

The anointing is to bring forth a life that is lived UNTO HIM. It is to work in and saturate a man’s life until his whole being is lived UNTO the Lord. It is a most significant sign of a life that has been CHOSEN by God to be lived unto God for His own end. We read of this same thing in the New Testament…

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses UNTO ME both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth”
ACTS 1:8

This anointing has come to all those who have been washed in the precious blood of the Lamb; all who have sought for and desired a LIFE of separation by seeking and desiring the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is not to live a life unto ourselves or to seek to build up a church or ministry but to be witnesses UNTO HIM! It is to live our daily lives with the cry within our hearts for Him to “work in us to will and to DO of His good pleasure” that we might truly know of the Joy of the Lord (HIS JOY) welling up in our lives. It is to grow in our walk with Him by living in the sensitivity of our hearts to that anointing that would teach us all things that pertain to His Life being lived in us.

“Thou anointest my head with oil” is more than just a poetic phrase. It is a substantial reality REQUIRED for any life to live and be equipped to walk in the WAY of the SON. This anointing is an essential step in the journey of a life that no longer desires anything but Him, that no longer desires to live out of the miserable resources of self and can no longer find satisfaction in anything else. For this anointing must birth a realization that in every place and in every moment He is watching us and knows our thought life; our motivations and our actions are weighed in the balances of His righteousness. This anointing brings us to the awful realization that we are in truth “witnesses UNTO HIM”!

This anointing causes us to be open to the search light of truth within the very core of our own heart. It causes us to know that it matters very little what men think or say for we have discovered the reason for living is to glorify Him, please Him and to know Him more and more in this brief journey of life.

This anointing also causes us to speak truth, to live truth and to become more true to the life that we see in Him. It is BECAUSE of this anointing that men can be empowered to become Priests, Kings and Prophets unto our God. It is because of His gracious call, His Power and His Mercy that ordinary men and women BECOME authentic and powerful expressions of the MOST HIGH GOD!

We need look no further than the young child David to see the effect of this anointing as he grew INTO the call and purposes of God; King, a Priest and a Prophet of the MOST HIGH! Can we not expect GREATER THINGS to arise from a New Covenant that has made provision for our sin by the precious blood of the spotless perfect Lamb; who has now BECOME our baptiser, our way, our truth and our LIFE? Shall we not go on to know Him in a fullness that will please and glorify the Father? Did He not abolish the Old Testament because it could not make anything perfect and whole?

“For the law made nothing perfect,
but the bringing in of a better hope did;
by the which we draw nigh unto God”
HEBREWS 7:19

He has brought forth a New and Living Ministration of the Life of the Son that we might live in the wonder and the glorious provision of His anointing! He IS come and the scriptures testify that we have received of this anointing that we might be taught of Him and empowered of Him to become witnesses of His Life in this world.

“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you”

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“The Holy Spirit is the gift of the Risen Christ. His anointing filling,
empowering work is a baptism of love that gives power
to make Jesus real to you and known to others”
Winkie Pratney

Brian Troxel