January 27, 2022
Sorry to say but the gym is not seeing me today. I am in pain and I’m going to take the evening and park up by a beach.Â
The Anointing (Sermon):
The anointing is God’s undeniable presence in your life. We can lose things, communities even though (or probably especially) when anointed. The fruit can be maturity or increased faith and others may not see the fruit. The anointing is God’s guarantee of you coming through it.
God always recognizes, respects and validates anointing.
- The anointing will be despised but it cannot be stopped. It will get you into trouble: you’ll be mistreated because of your anointing. But stay anointed. Don’t turn off your anointing to fit in. There are no shortcuts on the way to greatness so keep doing the work and go back to the moments where the connection with God was strongest.
- The anointing doesn’t play fair. “All of a sudden” you in circles no one can explain. Don’t think small of the anointing.
SIDEBAR: But the question to ask, why are the people who are doing all the expected stuff not moving forward as expected? Because God looks at the heart. The why they are doing what they are doing.
- The anointing levels the playing field and even the score. It adds things to you that you didn’t “train” for etc. It’s not wise to go around crying about what you don’t have.
- The anointing will bring you before kings.
- The anointing breaks yokes. Things that were holding you or someone else back.
(There are some folks who are anointed and don’t know it but it has to do with the heart. Example: David was “anointed” before the anointing. He was able to destroy the lion etc before Samuel anointed him. Heart matters).
Surrendering to Yahweh is important and necessary.Â
[Random Thought: why would someone invent a bike? Two skinny wheels connected by a thin metal that requires you to balance?]
Facepalm. I have never checked out the meaning of Christ. The Anointed One. Why did I not know this?!
There’s no one who can convince me otherwise (lest I forget. Yahweh, I don’t want to forget). I prayed this morning about the renewing of my mind and here I am listening to an “impromptu” prayer about us having our mind renewed. May my mind be renewed in you.Â
It really hit home that “fruit” may not be seen by others or even what we expect. The knowledge that something like sustained faith is a fruit, never occurred to me, because I’ve always pictured fruit as outward. But you cannot see faith. You can see the results of it, but you cannot see faith itself. Which is ironic, because faith is believing in what you can’t see, and you can’t see it either.
Sigh. We can be “doing well” but doing a disservice to ourselves. There is an app that I have been using to track daily routines. It has definitely helped me to improve mentally but it also has streaks as part of its design: essentially how long you’ve maintained a habit for. Since I started I haven’t stopped, but today, it is pretty much physically impossible for me to complete the routines because of the exercise part. And honestly I was here trying to determine if I would feel better later in order to exercise just so I can maintain the streak. And then it hit me (a lot of things hitting me today yes): why am I stressing over this? It is supposed to be a tool to help me with my mental health, not a tool that I become a mental slave to. I really had to take a step back. Mentally, I’m good. Physically? I’m in pain. And it is okay to take the day.
