CHRISTIANS WHO BREAK THE ANOINTING OF GOD?

CHRISTIANS WHO BREAK THE ANOINTING OF GOD?
Thomas Ong

Often, we hear Christians using the authority given to break the power of enemy. However, don’t you know that as a Christian, we can break the anointing of God? When a certain anointing come upon worship service, the pre-plan or budgeted time for the worship might be disturbed, the Lord might use certain songs to release His anointing to his people. As a worship leader should be sensitive to certain songs, which carry a strong anointing, the worship leader should ask people to be still and stand in the awesome presence of God or to sing it over and over again to let the Spirit take over and wait on the Spirit. The Lord may release his healing, prophetic or intercessory anointing upon his people at any time. If we are not sensitive to the Holy Spirit, God will not move in the service and the preacher will continue to speak his well-prepared message without fulfilling God’s purpose in that particular moment. The anointing will be CUT OFF immediately as we are running on our own program or agenda. By the way, worship is for God and God alone.

We are called to be a worshipper of God and minister to Him in Spirit and in Truth.

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Joh 4:22-23 Kjv

We must be spiritual in order to connect to God, because God is Spirit.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him MUST worship him in spirit and in truth. Joh 4:24 KJV


Of course the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit, for them spiritual things are foolish and lead them nowhere.

These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. (1Co 2:10-16 ESV)


Those who are not in the Spirit will be busy with their own activities, programs or agendas who think that they are serving God, yet they feel very troubled with those who just sit at the feet of Jesus to worship and adore God, and be still, just to listen what God said. But what God have to say for those people?

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has CHOSEN the GOOD PORTION, which will not be taken away from her." Luk 10:38-42 ESV

Jesus was teaching Martha that Mary has chosen the right things. Just sit at the feet of Jesus, worship and adore him, listen what is the He said.



Thomas Ong 16/03/07
Proofread and edited by Mikey Edwards 16/03/07

Kavod Adonai

Kavod Adonai (weight of God) often translated "glory of God" or "presence of God"

The Weight of GloryThe Hebrew phrase kavod Adonai, usually translated, "presence of God" or "glory of God", refers to the tangible and wieghty feeling people experience when God is especially present. The word kavod in general means "weight", so the kavod Adonai is the "weight of God's glory".

For the ancient Israelites the kavod Adonai was in the tabernacle courtyard and was often not only tangible but was even visible to all the people. From the scriptural accounts we know the kavod Adonai can look like fire or cloud but is never physical fire.

Kadosh

Kadosh (set apart) often translated "holy" or "sanctified"

Set Apart for GodThe Hebrew word kadosh means "set apart". It is usually translated, "holy" or "sanctified".
There are four ways to be set apart for God.
VocationThe first way something can be set apart for God is if God simply declares that the thing is special. The first time the word kadosh occurs in scripture is when God sets apart Shabbat as different from the other days of the week (Genesis 2:3). God later sets apart the days of Pesach as different from the other days of the year (Exodus 12:16).
Nothing in the Tabernacle or priesthood was set apart simply because God declared it so.
People can be set apart for God in this way. Sometimes this is dramatic, such as the calling to be a prophet, but most people do not experience God asking them to do so many specific things, or to be so isolated from society.
There is no ritual done to things that God declares to be set apart for him. Prophets are called but never anointed.
Even though we are not all prophets, it is true that God wants us to fit into his plans, and this usually means God sets us apart for his purposes by having plans for the "big decisions" of our lives such as where to live, what career to have, and if and when to marry. The English word for God choosing these major aspects of our lives is vocation.
Our vocation is not necessarily the work and life we find most pleasing or natural. Moshe never claimed to enjoy shepherding the Israelites. Jeremiah wasn't thrilled about being a prophet. Sha'ul was not talented at public speaking. Yochannan the Immerser had doubts about the message he was called to proclaim. Ya'akov wanted fewer wives than were in God's plans, and Solomon wanted more.
It is also true that we can mess up our original vocation, yet through God's mercy still be part of his plans. God hates divorce and oath breaking. If we are married or committed to an employer, we cannot use the concept of vocation as an excuse to change our situation. God's plans are in some ways flexible, and scripture makes clear that God will work within our vows even if those vows were not part of his earlier plans.
We should all know as much about our vocation as God is willing to reveal. Sometimes all we are told is, "Be patient."
IsolationThe second way something can be set apart is to be physically isolated from the world. Moshe was told that the place with the burning bush (which later scripture makes clear refers to all of Mount Sinai) is holy ground (Exodus 3:5). The curtain hung up as the final wall of the Tabernacle's innermost room made that innermost room so set apart from the world that entering it would kill even the priests.
There is no specific ritual to set something apart physically, but it is necessary to be specific about borders. One aspect of the tallit's symbolism is that within the borders of that prayer shawl is a place especially set apart for God. Some people, at certain points during the service, may even raise the tallit up to be like a tent around their head, emphasizing to themselves that in worship they are alone with God.
People can also use physical isolation as a way of being holy. Messianic Judaism has few, if any, permanent hermits. But events such as prayer retreats are common, where people escape from the routines of normal life and isolate themselves in a place of prayer for a few days.
DedicationLeviticus 27:28-29 tells us that people can dedicate items to God, and these dedicated items become "especially holy". People cannot be dedicated, for anything living that is dedicated must be killed. (Thus Samuel's mother, who dedicated him as a baby, was following an idea from her own mind and desperation, contrary to Torah.)
We are not encouraged to dedicate items to God. The Hebrew word translated "dedicated" is in other contexts translated "cursed" -- perhaps the best translation is "doomed".
Nevertheless, there are some things that are set apart to God as tools in his hands. The furnishings of the Tabernacle were anointed with oil and blood and were "especially holy" tools of worship.
Are people ever set apart in this third way? In some sense kings and priests were; their calling is more than a vocation: they became tools of God. Everything they did, each day, must be with God. For kings and priests God has chosen more than the "big decisions". And if they act contrary to God's specific plans it is at best a waste of time, and at worst a disaster for the entire community.
Kings and priests were also anointed, since they were tools of God.
Tools of God are "especially holy", which among other things means that their holiness is contagious. Holiness can spread by transmission.
Whatever touches the Tabernacle's altar become holy (Exodus 29:37). Indeed, this is what altars did -- they set things apart for God, so that an animal slaying changed from slaughter to sacrifice.
But being set apart does not spread to people by transmission. God made it clear, multiple times, in scripture, that a criminal who grabs hold of the altar gains no safety or benefit. Aharon was set apart by his ritual of anointing, not by the special clothes he wore.
People are never "especially holy". No one can make someone set apart for God by touch. But priests and kings can transmit other spiritual characteristics by touch, as in the Tenach's rituals about priests transferring guilt by laying their hands on the heads of animals, or the New Testament accounts of God's Spirit being transmitted to new believers by the laying on of hands. People were healed by touching Yeshua's tallit (Mark 5:30), or by touching handkerchiefs from Sha'ul (Acts 19:12).
There are no rituals about people gaining holiness by transmission, since it does not happen.
CommemorationRemembering things can set them apart. (Recall that, in scripture, remembering something is about prioritization and action.)
Remembering God's commandments makes us set apart (Numbers 15:40). Remembering Shabbat keeps it set apart (Exodus 20:8).
We too can set things and people apart for God by remembering them before Adonai -- by asking that God actively make his will for them happen when it seems like God's will is dormant, or by asking for God to live up to covenant promises he once proclaimed. We do this all the time: it's called prayer. Thinking of prayer as remembering things before Adonai helps us understand why only prayer that is aligned with God's plans produces results.
Seeing GodAccording to Hebrews 12:14 holiness is necessary to see God. It should not surprise us that our flavors of holiness help us see God in a different ways.
If we resist our vocation we will not see God "enlarge our boundaries" (1st Chronicles 4:10) as he desires.
If we avoid isolation we will not hear God speak in a "still, small voice" (1st Kings 19:12).
If we shy from our priestly dedication we will not see God "show forth the virtue of him who has called you" (1st Peter 2:9).
If we neglect commemoration of God's plans in prayer, or if we do not "remember from where we have fallen" (Revelation 2:5), then we will seldom see God act in our lives.