God’s eternal plan from the beginning was to make us great, but Adam bungled it.
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Text: Matt 6:5-13, I Chron 29:10-12, Heb 1:14, 2 Sam 1:17-21
INTRODUCTION: We thank God for His mercies over us in the last 10 days of the Solemn Assembly. All the cobwebs and inherited wars are over and done with in Jesus Name.
God’s eternal plan from the beginning was to make us great, but Adam bungled it. In Abraham God renewed this covenant of greatness. In I Chronicles 29:10-12King David gave us an insight into what God’s kingdom contains and all what is available to us this year of God’s Kingdom Come – Kingdom Take Over. Jesus came to the world to reclaim what was lost to the devil and to restore them to as many as will believe and receive Christ Jesus as their Lord and personal saviour.
At salvation, you will not only receive deliverance from sin, sicknesses and death but also the capacity to receive His kingdom and all the benefits therein which include greatness, power, victory, glory, splendour, opulence, majesty, grandeur, the innumerable company of the angels (Heb 1:14) and all the resources in heaven and on earth will also be available to answer to us in Christ. All the contents of the Kingdom of God are the inheritance of the children of God including the earth, its fulness; the world and all they that dwell in her (Psalm 24:1). Jesus came so that we can have access to all these immeasurable benefits including riches and honour!
It is in the hand of God to make great, exalt and lift up; He controls all affairs of men and all things exist at his command and pleasure. It is this great God that has promised us the Kingdom and we know that He is more than capable of fulfilling His promise!! The anointing of God is to give us supernatural strength and empower us for Kingdom Takeover. We also must be reminded and need to keep in perspectives that the kingdoms of this world can be grouped into those 7 mountains of culture namely – Faith and Church, Family, Politics and Government, Business and Economy, Education, Media and the Celebration (Arts, Sports and Entertainment) mountain.
ANOINTING FOR KINGDOM TAKE OVER
Anointing in the scriptures is a ritual of pouring or smearing oil on a person’s head or forehead.
- Anointing is often done to install a person in a new office or role of authority – It represents an infusion of divine grace.
- In the old testament priests and kings are usually anointed to symbolize their sanctity and endowment with the spirit of God. In 1st Sam 16 King David was chosen and preferred among his brothers and was anointed by Prophet Samuel. 1 Sam 10 King Saul was also anointed as the first king over Israel. Emphasis was not on the oil but on the endowment of God’s spirit coming upon the life of the anointed.
- In the new testament anointing is used as a charismatic means of healing e.g. Mark. 6:13Jesus and his disciples cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.
- It was also combined with prayer in James 5:14 to heal the sick and deliver the oppressed of the devil.
- Anointing is also used for the preparation of weapons for war
Isa 21:5 Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, ANOINT THE SHIELD!
- The shield was a weapon of warfare, used to defend oneself from the fiery darts and arrows of the enemy. This is equal to the shield of faith of the believer today. The shield was usually anointed as a symbol of preparation for war.
- There is a need for anointing before facing the wars in 2019 in order to prevent you falling as a prey to the enemy or ending up as a casualty of war. Jer 51:20 – You are God’s weapon of war and his battle axe.
God chose Saul when he was looking for his father’s lost ass. He stumbled on the kingdom while going through his normal daily activity without expectations. He bungled and misused the opportunity as a result of disobedience to the commands of the Lord and God changed his mind. Even after God rejected Saul and sent Samuel to anoint another king – David, Saul still remained on the throne as king for some decades in order for the new king (David) to build stature and grow to maturity and sonship because the kingdom is not for babes or children. This is a clear indication that God wants all believers to grow in the spirit, build spiritual muscles and bones while maturing to sonship in 2019 because children are not taken to the battle, they are kept at home for safety.
2 Sam 1:17-21 – Saul left his primary assignment of killing and displacing the Philistines and started chasing and haunting for the life of the Lord’s anointed – David the new king. David a large hearted man allowed God to take out Saul in His own time because he could not harm or touch the Lord’s anointed. Saul was shot with a strange arrow on Mount Gilboa and begged his servant to kill him. The servant refused and Saul fell on his own sword thereby killing himself. The anointed shield of King Saul was defiled, neutralized and became ineffective on mount Gilboa. David raised up his voice in lamentation and cursed the mountain.
The Song of the Bow
17 Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son, 18 and he told them to teach the children of Judah the Song of the Bow; indeed, it is written in the Book of Jasher:
19 “The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! 20 Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon—Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 21 “O mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain upon you, Nor fields of offerings. For the shield of the mighty is cast away there! The shield of saul, not anointed with oil.
Gath and Ashkelon were the major cities in Philistine (The enemy of Israel). It would have been a disgrace to proclaim the death of a mighty King in the land of the enemy, it should not be heard that such a thing of mockery happened in the land of the enemy.
- Jesus Christ Himself was anointed – He was empowered by the Holy Spirit for his assignment
It was prophesied of Christ in Isa 61:1-3
1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
This was prophesied by the prophet Isaiah long before Jesus was conceived. Jesus came to fulfill it in Matt 3:16-17 and Lk 4:18-21, Acts 10:34-38. When He stepped into Jordan, the heaven was opened upon Him and the spirit of the Lord descended upon him like a dove. An endowment of God’s spirit was released upon him to function effectively and to fulfill the purpose of God for his life.
- TODAY YOU WILL BE ANOINTED FOR KINGDOM TAKE OVER OF YOUR MOUNTAINS FOR CHRIST
What are the things the anointing will do for you??
1 John 2:20, 24-27
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
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24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.
26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.
27But THE ANOINTING WHICH YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM HIM ABIDES IN YOU, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
- In 2019 you will know what to do at any point in time by the reason of the anointing and the Lord will put the right words in your mouth.
- You will no longer be deceived because you will know truth. When you have the anointing no sweet talker will ever be able to lure you into any ungodly act.
- The anointing will insulate you from error & deceivers.
- It will be an abiding anointing and the anointing will guide you into all truth.
Particularly:
- Those who have struggled in the past to conceive –
- Due to medical conditions.
- Due to spiritual conditions.
- Due to physiological anomalies between the couples – physical or biological.
- Due to inexplicable conditions.
The yoke is broken and God has granted you the victory.
- Doors will begin to open to meet your helpers of destiny and also for you to fulfil your role in other peoples’ lives on your journey to taking over your mountain.
- Men in high places – you will begin to advise them and will result in policy changes for the better.
- Men in critical sectors – in governance, in public service and marketplace leaders.
- Men in lowly places for you to lift up and bring to their own inheritances. You will meet people to bring up on your journey for you to mentor and inspire – Psalm 30 the experience of David Ziklag.
- What hitherto were big deals to you will begin to mean nothing and God will begin to enlarge your capacity to receive his greatness. God will begin to trust you with his glory.
- Cars, houses, clothes and all such ephemeral things that are passing away will no longer have any hold on you
- You will begin to be defined by your level of obedience to God and impact on your sphere of influence and society at large.