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THE ANOINTING....

     For me Life is about the anointing. The anointing is GOD'S manifest power and presence in a physical vessel. It is how God chooses to use to make a vital statement to creation, through creation, about the one God chooses, ordains and thus "anoints" to accomplish a particular task.


     It is very important to me that the center of all that I do is about the struggle to be all that GOD would have me, and you, to be. It is clear to me that I fail more that I succeed, or so it seems to me. Be that as it may, it is my plan and purpose, intent and desire to do the will of GOD, and to be what I was created to be. To be that for which I was created to be, is in gettting to know the one who created me.


     It is the anointing that let you know that you have been chosen of GOD; It is also this anointing that let other people know that a particular person or thing is indeed chosen of God for the purpose at hand. The anointing can be for a life time, or it can be for a particular place and time.

Isaiah 10:27 KJV
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing."

1 John 2:27
"But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."

     I hope that those who will read this and other writings I have written will come to the conclusion that each and every person has a purpose that they must accomplish, and whatever the purpose is for their lives, there is an anointing for their life and there purpose. As the person grow and develope, as God take they through the path that God has chosen for them or/and through the path they have taken, it is the aniontig that bring our will and the will of GOD into divine harmony.

     We cannot assume that something or someone is chosen of God to accomplish some task just because they are in a certain position. God tells us to try the spirit that come to us to see whether it truely be of God, or whether they are a perversion of that which is of God. So in the pages ahead I shall attempt to explore the 'Anointing'.

     There are two basic anointings that I shall deal with, One is the anointing that breaks the yokes and burdens that come into our lives, those things that are weighs that come into our lives so easily, and some times even when we are unaware of them; and secondly, the anointing that is upon a person or a thing to accomplish a task, a job or a mission, things like to preach, to teach, to be an instrument od healing, and to deliver God's word as it comes from God, without adding anything to it.

     The anointing is somewhat like a mother eagle watching over her children, preparing them for that which they must do to survive and be that which they were created to be. I am Joseph, and I have been called of GOD to accomplish a goal. I have been on this journey for many year, and I have experienced many things, many that were very good, and many that has challenged my very mental and spiritual being.

     I have always known that I am nothing without the Spirit of GOD that leads me on. There were times that it drove me onward, and there are times that when it drives me onward, and sometimes it dragged me onward and upward with GOD. In all of that I have went through, one thing that I have never doubted, That is that I love God, and I have also always known that God loves me. Even when I have felt alone and abandoned, deep inside I have always known that God is with me and that God loves me.

A GOD OF LOVE, MERCY, JUSTICE AND TRUTH....

     I believe that it is important to see realize that we are in a situation and time where the need for a greater unfolding of the knowledge of GOD is critically needed. Not that there have ever been a time when a need for revelation knowledge of GOD has not been critical
     If God is as I have come to know God thus far, God deals with us in love, mercy and justice. God loves even Osama Bin Laden, Sadaam Hussan, Arafat, even Adolph Hitler. The ultimate fate of these people, and indeed all people and things are in the hands of GOD. We who call ourselves Christians, think that we know where certain people will go ultimately, however the only thing that we can know for certain is that GOD has the final say as to where every soul will go. It is the truth of God and God's word when it say that God loves the sinner, yet hates the sin. God can love a person who has become one with their sin, offer them the chance to change and defend their right to choose at the same time. Only God can make the proper distinction between the sin and the sinner. God even deals the the fact that in our feable attempt at justice and mercy, to often, we, as it were, "throw out the baby with the bath water"; this happens because we cannot quite balance the powerful trio of... justice, mercy and love....

     In the book of Hebrews it says that God is able to divide "the soul from the spirit, the joint from the marrow and is a decerner of the thoughts and intent of the heart"....God stands in the midst of righteousness and justice,and delivers love and mercy. So when we walk in the reality of who we are in God, we can begin to do that which only God can can do, it being done by God through us.

                        THE ANOINTING...............

     " But the Anointing which ye hath received of Him abideth in you,... ye shall abide in Him." 1John 2:27.
"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and "ordained" you,( the term ordained is in a sense the same as the term anointed, as it is used in this passage... ) that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." John 15:16 You can say the the anointing is a direct consequence of having being ordained. It is a direct and logical progression, whether immediate or after a process of time.

     " ...And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulders, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the 'Anointing' Isaiah 10:27."

    

     There was a Minister I heared while listening to the radio in Detroit, Mi; He made a statement that has both blessed me and stayed with me even to this very day. He said, " the children of GOD need to know and understand the multifaceted nature of their Father and GOD...."

     That is such a powerful and true statement. I hope that I not only believe it I pray that I grow into the reality and the actuality, or the actualizing of the truth in my own personal life; this is my hope, my desire, and my effort as I live on. One of the great mysteries of all time is the mystery of GOD manifested in the Flesh. In all of the fore-shadowings of what GOD was to do in the flesh, all are pale in comparion the what GOD did and became as Jesus of Nazareth; it could only be said as the book of Col. put it: "...For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell, and ...the fullness of the GODHEAD dwelt bodily in Him..." As to why GOD choose the body of a male to work out some very special things I do not know. However it makes logical sense that anyone or anything, that does something, consciously or unconsciously must begin at some point. This may or may not make a statement about the things or people that was not chosen to be the initial starting point. God does not have to answer to anyone or anything about that which GOD does; and yet, God has chosen to share with Humans many of the why's of the things that GOD has done, At one point GOD say, " ...Shall the LORD do anything in the earth without revealing it unto GOD'S servants the prophets...", This is the essence of sovereignty.

 

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because God hath ANOINTED me...


 
     Jesus said that: " The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because God hath ANOINTED me..." The anointing that was upon Jesus He has given to those who by faith come to God through Him.
     We may not like it, we may not believe it, yet it is nevertheless true that God chose to manifest who God is in what we are, and to give us what it take to accomplish that we we have taken the power of GOD given to us and misused it. We have been give the knowledge of GOD and denied, distorted, and disbelieved it. Rather than accepting a God who created us in GOD'S image we have attempted to create a GOD in the image of man.
It is the anointing that break the yokes..., This is the word of the Lord through the prophet Jeremiah. There are many yokes that we as humans labor under. I may not know the things that you labor under, unless you or God reveal them to whoever you or God choose to revel them to. I believe that when God choose to reveal something to someone about you or me it is for the purpose of delivering you from that which may have come to destroy, to kill or to cheat you out of that which God desires you to have, enjoy and to glorify God with and bless other people and things with. It is to prevent you from being destroyed from the weigh of the burden, be it blessing or curse, that you may be able to bear it. It is as 1 Corinthians says, " There is no temptation taken you but such as is common to man, (humans): but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that which ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 'THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT'."

     The eagle a symbol of freedom, power, grace and love, not only where the United States is concern, but also of God's concern for us. God has often used the eagle to symbolize God's great love and care, even an example of God's tough love.

     Deuteronomy 32:11,12" As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, speareth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: SO THE LORD did lead him, and there was no strange god with him."

THERE IS GOD, AND THERE ARE THOSE THINGS AND PEOPLE THAT WE TRY TO MAKE gods....

By the mere definition of the term GOD thre can be only ONE. It is critically important that we learn of GOD. And because GOD is eternal, learning about GOD and who and what GOD is, is a never ending process.

Whether in creation or evolution, time is about the unfolding knowledge, awareness and revelation of who and what it is.

It must be realized that GOD did not make lesser gods. However, by GOD'S eternal everlasting decree, eternal plan and purpose, GOD made Humans, in GOD'S own image and likeness. This is a simple statement, yet, it has caused great division in the Church and among the people of GOD. I do not understand fully how GOD did it or why GOD did, But GOD said the GOD did it; I choose to believe that, and so I strive to be the manifestation of that in my place and time and body.

I must admit that it is not an easy task, for me. GOD does not have an easy job working with and on me, but, my hope in in the words of GOD from Jeremiah, when he said, ...there is nothing to hard for GOD..." And jobs when the question was posed,..." ... Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: ..."Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? ...", " Job 42:1,2 " 1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee."

     There is only one GOD; and the one GOD is constantly and continually revealing,unfolding and manifesting Who GOD is unto that which GOD has created.
1 Corinthians 8:6
"But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." There are other passages that indicate that there is only one GOD:
Deuteronomy 6:4
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:"
Isaiah 44:6
"Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God."
Isaiah 44:8
"Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any."
For anyone or anything to make such a claim, it is valid to demand that they prove it. It is the lesser asking the greater to do that which only the greater can do.
Whether we want to admitted it or not humans has a special and unique place in all that exist, be it strictly creation or the process of evolution. For me the only valid reality that Evolution can have it the ongoing process that Creation set in motion. It is the unfolding of the infinity and eternality of the ONE GOD. The things that God created is finite only inso much as the things created is what it is because God has a purpose for it. The life and length of time of a things existence is according to the need that the creator has for it. I do not believe that every thing was created to exist forever.

     The things that are to be forever are those things that God planned and purposed to be forever. and even with those things that will go through many changes that are consistent with and according to the decay that sin, or rebellion has subjected it to. The process or redemption is about restoring all things back to that with God created them to be. And because of sin and the refusal  of a thing to yield to that for which God created it for, God has a place for those things and people. God is the balance of Good and of Evil.


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The anointing ...breaks the yokes....Jesus said, " ...The words I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life..."

The anointing, and the freedom of God in us and we in God,... brings responsibility, and makes us accountable to God and to one another.... It does not matter whether you are black, white male  or female or any other race, or nationality, God is intimately involved in the lives of humans and indeed all creation. The critical th9ing about God and the truth that God is, is that God do not change no matter what the human condition may be.

Jesus said, " The letter killeth, the Spirit giveth life, the words that I speak unto they are spirit and they are life."