Ingredients For The Anointing

INGREDIENTS FOR THE ANOINTING ANOINTING: MEANS TO SMEAR OR RUB WITH OIL. GOD’S CHOSEN SERVANTS (PROPHETS, KINGS, PRIESTS) WERE ANOINTED WITH OIL. THE ANOINTING OIL WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT CONSECRATED AND EMPOWERED THEM AS SERVANTS OF GOD. THE ANOINTING ENABLES US TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE. THE ANOINTING IS LIKE ELECTRICITY. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS LIKE THE WIRE THAT DELIVERS THE CURRENT AND GOD IS THE POWER SOURCE. WHEN WE PLUG INTO THE SPIRIT WE ARE ENERGIZED BY THE POWER OF GOD. WE CAN ALSO USE THE ILLUSTRATION THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE PIPELINE AND THE ANOINTING IS THE WATER THAT FLOWS THROUGH THE PIPELINE. ACTS 1:8 (THE ANOINTING EMPOWERS US TO FEARLESSLY TELL OTHERS ABOUT JESUS) MARK 16:19-20 (THE ANOINTING ENABLES US TO PERFORM MIGHTY SIGNS, WONDERS AND MIRACLES) ISAIAH 10:27 (THE ANOINTING HAS THE POWER TO DESTROY EVERY YOKE AND REMOVE EVERY BURDEN IN OUR LIVES)

The ingredients for the anointing oil in the Old Testament times hold a great significance for us today. There are three elements of the characteristic of God in the anointing Old Testament Anointers (Samuel/Elisha) Ones being anointed (David and Aaron) Anointing Oil

New Testament Father is the Anointer Jesus the Anointed one Holy Spirit is the Anointing

The New testament: God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him (Acts 10:38). Second, the Son is the Anointed. Third, the Holy Spirit is the Anointing (I John 2:20, 27). These examples of the triunity of the Godhead in its nature and function help us see the administration of the anointing. Many believers limit the anointing to only the gift, not realizing that the same anointing teaches them concerning the nature of God. The depth of the anointing is directly related to an individual submission to the Spirit. The growth process in the anointing requires us to behold the character of the Lord as in a mirror, and to be changed into the same image. This process often involves a “breaking before a making”. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive unto God concerning our habits and human character. As believers we desire to have the anointing of God flow freely in our lives. The old testament ingredients for the oil of anointing signifies what God requires from believers, so the anointing can flow freely.

The ingredients are: Myrrh, Sweet cinnamon, Sweet Calamus, Cassia and olive oil. PURE MYRRH – is a resin (gum) that oozed from a tiny shrub. Although it is very bitter to taste, it produced a fragrance so pleasing that it had great value in biblical times. Myrrh means bitter. Myrrh speaks of the office of the prophet and therefore is most bitter. Jesus was a man of sorrow, both in His life and in His death. Hebrews 5:8 He learned obedience by the things he suffered. Suffering allows the anointing to be developed in us and flow out of us, therefore we must deal with some bitter fact. A disciple is a follower, a student of Christ. SWEET CINNAMON – come from the bark of a tree and has a certain fragrant sweetness. It means to erect or to stand upright. This symbolizes your stand in a corrupt and perverted society. This represents God’s people who are living among a corrupt and perverted society with a challenge to divinely influence it without it corrupting you. Although everything around us many stink we must maintain purity and sweetness. We must walk with integrity and truth before God. SWEET CALAMUS – Tall reed that grew in a hostile environment or miry clay. It means a branch or a reed. Calamus speaks to us of a living and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ as the vine is to the branches. The sweet calamus is a rod or strength, a channel, a branch through which the oil can flow. Like the calamus, we are living in a hostile environment that makes it difficult to produce life. Unless we abide in the Vine and maintain a relationship with Jesus Christ, we will not survive. The time we spend with the Lord is priceless. CASSIA – is found in the bark of a shrub like cinnamon. It grows in high altitudes and possesses a little purple flower. The root word means to bow down as in bowing before the Lord in reverent worship. Worship is one of the most important elements of the Christian life. These times of deep adoration will edify our spirit and keep our mind on Jesus. Worship softens the heart, enabling us to hear God’s voice and walk in step with Him. Cassia also implies our humbling ourselves in total surrender to God, giving Him all glory, honor and thanksgiving. The true anointing flows out of a heart yielded to the will of the Father. The flower on the shrub was purple representing royalty. OLIVE OIL – is the ingredient that bound all the spices together. This blending together of sweet and bitter speaks of the unity involved in the holy anointing upon His ministers.

NOTE: THOSE WHO MAKE IT THEIR AIM TO BRING THE BODY OF CHRIST TOGETHER AS ONE WILL FIND THE ANOINTING ABIDING AND GROWING IN THEIR LIVES AND MINISTRIES. THOSE WHO, BECAUSE OF INSECURTIY, NEED TO BUILD THEIR OWN KINGDOMS AND CRITICIZE OTHERS WILL FIND THE ANOINTING OF THE LORD BEGINNING TO LIFT FROM THEM. As the anointing oil upon God’s ministers is to perfect (mature) the saints and draw them together in the unity of the faith. When we think of oil we are reminded of Gethsemane which means “oil press” and it was through the costly suffering of Christ that the holy oil of the Spirit was provided for the church. SO WE SEE THAT THERE WERE FIVE INGREDIENTS BLENDED TOGETHER TO CONSTITUTE THE HOLY ANOINTING OIL. THE NUMBER FIVE IS SIGNIFICANT, FOR IT REPRESENTS THE GRACE OF GOD IN THE ATONEMENT. IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF GOD’S ABUNDANT GRACE THAT THE ANOINTING OIL IS PROVIDED. Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Mark 16:19-20 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. Isaiah 10:27 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 the neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing I John 2:20,27 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 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. Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Hebrew 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.