 |
      |
 Anointing and Preaching December 03, 2007 |
 |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
 |
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
The Anointing-Empowerment for Service 
The Anointing 
The Anointed of God Can… 
Anointed to Stand
by Joshua Morgan 1 Samuel 16:13 An elderly woman walked into the local country church. The friendly usher greeted her at the door and helped her up the flight of steps. "Where would you like to sit?" he asked politely. "The front row please." she answered. "You really don’t want to do that", the usher said. "The pastor is really boring." "Do you happen to know who I am?" the woman inquired. "No." he said. "I’m the pastor’s mother," she replied indignantly. Full Sermon » 
The Role of the Holy Spirit in Preaching
by Paul Fritz John 16:13-16 The Spirit of God can correct us when we go astray from the Scripture’s teaching, provided that we are open for instruction. Isaiah 30:21 says, “Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, “This is the way, walk in it.’’ Jesus assured us in Acts 1:8 that the Spirit would come upon us and empower us to be His witnesses in our Jerusalems, Judeas, Samarias, and to the uttermost parts of the earth! Full Sermon » |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
|
Anointing in Prayer
"What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer." Source: E.M. Bounds
Not-So-Anointed Preaching!
There once was a farmer who felt that God was calling him to change his vocation. Sitting under a tree one day, he witnessed what he believed to be a miracle: the clouds seemed to form the letters P and C. Deciding that this was God’s way of telling him to “Preach Christ,” he sold his farm and his tractor, and began to preach. And he was absolutely horrible! After the sermon was over, the “preacher” farmer was confronted by a neighbor. His neighbor spoke to him as gently as possible: “Are you sure God wasn’t just trying to tell you to Plant Corn?” Contributed By: Rusty Davidson
Preaching for Prayer
"Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer." Source: C.h. Spurqeon
A Gift for Preaching
In Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster told of Billy Graham preaching at Cambridge in 1955. For three nights he tried to make his preaching academic and enlightened, but with no effect. Graham finally realized that presenting the intellectual side of faith was not his gift and began preaching the simple message of Jesus rescuing us from our problem with sin. Foster wrote, "The results were astonishing: hundreds of sophisticated students responded to this clear presentation of the Gospel. It was a lesson in clarity and simplicity that he never forgot." Contributed By: Steven Chapman
Preaching the God-Given Message
In the sixteenth century there was a protestant reformer in England by the name of Hugh Latimer. He was known as a great preacher of his day, and he had many opportunities to preach. One of his opportunities was to preach before the King Henry VIII of England. He thought about his great responsibility to bring a message before the king. He also thought that the message that God laid on his heart was not the message that the king was going to want to hear. As he contemplated this, he said that he heard a voice: “Latimer, remember you are preaching before King Henry VIII who, if he wills, can take away your life.” Then as he began to contemplate this, he heard another voice: “Latimer, remember you are preaching before the King of Kings, do not displease him.” Latimer had a struggle with motives. Would he preach what man wanted to hear or would he preach what Christ would have him preach. Latimer chose to preach what Christ would have him to preach? Ultimately it cost Latimer his life. Contributed By: Brad Beaman |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
