Tuesday April 02nd, 2024
« how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him »
1 As Jesus was walking along, He saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2 “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”
3 “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
4 We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work.
5 But while I am here in the world, I am the Light of the world.”
6 Then He spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.
7 He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!
There is power in the anointing, it makes the carriers do what is ordinarily, humanly impossible.
From the memory verse of today, you would see that Jesus was only able to achieve all He did because of the anointing.
No wonder one of His divine title is Christ- the Anointed.
Jesus performed miracles through the anointing.
For example, in John 9, He produced a brand-new eye for a young man who had been blind from birth.
The good thing is that He wants us-believers, to do greater works than He (John 14:12).
That is why He promised to send the Holy Spirit- the medium of anointing, to us as we see in Acts 1:8AMB
« But you will receive power and ability when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be My witnesses [to tell people about Me] both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth ” »
As believers, we can do all things through the anointing, provided we are willing to surrender to the Lordship of the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit.
As you would see from the Bible reading for today, the anointing can destroy all forms of barriers to miracles, including the barrier of sin.
When, in John 9:2, the disciples asked Jesus whether it was the man He healed or his parents who had sinned, He said neither of them did!
This is surprising because according to Romans 3:23, all have sinned, and this is an eternal truth.
What happened with the blind man, however, was that anointing had destroyed the barrier of sin that would have denied him his miracle.
This is what the anointing can do.
If we would do greater works, we must seek anointing through the work of Jesus’ atonement and press on to holy living.
When we fail in our consecration to the Lord and also lack anointing, we begin to find excuses as to why miracles are not happening.
While it is true that sometimes the people, we are praying for may not have faith and may not be living right, we cannot deny that Jesus healed many people who lacked faith.
He did this by the power of the anointing.
Beloved, whether it is you who want a miracle or you want it for someone else, the key factor is anointing.
Receive the anointing as you believe in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer point – Father, please endow me with the anointing and use me as an extension of Your hand to heal the sick and raise the dead in the name of Jesus.
Author – Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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