Main Summary: Anointing For Exploits by David Oyedepo reveals that the anointing is a divine enabling for supernatural exploits. It explores the Seven Spirits of God, the latter rain, and how the Holy Spirit empowers believers for power, wisdom, dominion, vengeance over enemies, and outstanding accomplishments in every area of life.
Lessons You’ll Learn From This Post
- What Is The Anointing?
- The Latter Rain
- The Personality Behind The Anointing
- Proofs Of His Presence
- The Mystery Of The Seven Spirits Of God
- The Root Of Exploits: The Spirit Of The Fear Of The Lord
- The Trigger For Exploits: The Spirit Of Revelation
- The Spirit Of Might, For Exploits
- A Surety For Exploits — The Spirit Of Counsel
- Outstanding Accomplishments By The Spirit Of Understanding
- The Spirit Of Wisdom
- Exploding Into The Realms Of Exploits: The Spirit Of Power
- Provoking The Forces To Produce
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The anointing is to destroy yokes. That’s the essence of the anointing, not to fall men down but to cause them to rise and take charge.
What Is The Anointing?
● The anointing is a divine enabling and a much deeper encounter with the Holy Spirit than the baptism of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues.
● Without the anointing, a believer can get very little done, and it becomes impossible to flow in what you do not know.
● Jesus was born of the Spirit (new birth) and baptized by John (Holy Ghost baptism), but He could not do miracles until He was led into the wilderness, anointed, and equipped for exploits.
● After Jesus returned in the power of the Holy Spirit, He began to do exploits, and His fame spread throughout the region.
● Joshua was merely Moses’ steward with no title, but when the anointing came upon him, the people submitted to his leadership.
● Elisha took up Elijah’s mantle and divided the Jordan, and the sons of the prophets who mocked him came prostrating before him.
● David was “fresh-oil crazy” and never lost any battle because the oil upon him never went stale throughout his lifetime.
● Saul, after being anointed, became a captain over the Lord’s people, and whatever he said stood as a command.
● The anointing restores whatever has been stolen from you and causes you to make satisfactory progress.
● Jesus was the most talented mortal who ever lived, but He still needed to be endued with power from on high before fulfilling His commission.
● The anointing is for “doing”—to enable you to fulfill God’s eternal purpose for your life.
● The anointing destroys yokes and establishes your dominion in the midst of opposition, not just for vibrating and speaking in tongues.
The number one job of the Holy Ghost is to execute vengeance upon all the enemies of God’s people. Nothing will escape Him!
The Latter Rain
● God has reserved better things for the end-time Church, including better revelations, better liftings, and better manifestations than any previous generation.
● The old wine may feel comfortable, but the old can never be better than the new that God has prepared for this generation.
● God’s promise for the latter-day house is the latter rain, which has already started falling, while the former rain was given only moderately.
● The former rain was primarily to reach the lost, but the latter rain is to beautify the Church and turn disappointments into appointments.
● The latter rain is the rain of God’s power, producing an explosion of abundance and making the Church super-comfortable.
● You are uncomfortable not because you lack things, but because you lack the Comforter Himself.
● The latter rain washes away everything causing shame in your life, including sickness, disease, failure, and depression.
● Jesus stopped reading Isaiah 61 at “the acceptable year of the Lord,” but the latter rain begins with “the day of vengeance of our God” upon enemies of God’s people.
● Under the latter rain, whatever is tampering with your destiny, afflicting you, or humiliating you will face God’s vengeance.
● The latter-day anointing is two-dimensional: it brings vengeance on enemies and also refines the saints with beauty, joy, and praise.
● The spirit of heaviness is a wicked spirit from the devil whose mission is to disconnect you from God.
● Under the latter rain, you will be called a tree of righteousness, and your fruits will speak for you.
● The latter rain brings double portion: double honor, double promotions, and double blessings.
● While God’s people enter their most glorious age, sinners will experience great suffering, with a clear division between the righteous and the wicked.
Also read The Anointing of the Holy Spirit by Peter Tan Pt1 [Summary]
When He comes to reside in you permanently, everything people are running around to get, by His Ministry, He makes cheaply available to you.
The Personality Behind The Anointing
● The whole creation is groaning, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, which only becomes possible by the operations of the Holy Spirit.
● In the Old Testament, God poured the Holy Spirit in drizzles upon prophets, priests, and kings, but He promised a time when His Spirit would be poured out upon all flesh.
● Jesus stood and cried out that any man who thirsts should come to Him and drink, and out of his belly would flow rivers of living water.
● The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, equal to God the Father and God the Son but different in function.
● The Holy Spirit is eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, sovereign, and a Creator—all pointing to Him as God.
● The Holy Ghost is not an “it” but a “He”—He speaks, teaches, can be grieved, and can be resisted.
● The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Holiness who hates sin and enables you to live clean with a total distaste for sin.
● The Holy Spirit is the Quickener who revives your mortal body and removes every killer disease from you.
● The Holy Spirit is the Comforter who makes life comfortable for us, destroying anything that makes life uncomfortable.
● The Holy Ghost is the good gift that makes room for you and brings you before great men.
● The Holy Spirit is the Messenger of the Covenant who communicates the mysteries of the covenant and reveals secrets ahead of time.
● The Holy Spirit reproves the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment through human vessels.
When you pray in the Holy Ghost (that is, in tongues), you are praying according to the will of God. This is therefore an ‘Answer Guaranteed Prayer System.
Proofs Of His Presence
● The presence of the Holy Spirit in you is announced primarily by speaking in other tongues, just as on the day of Pentecost.
● Until you speak with other tongues, the Holy Spirit is not dwelling in you, making you an empty temple.
● Apollos was an eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures, and fervent in spirit, but he only knew the baptism of John and lacked the Holy Ghost baptism.
● You do not need to tarry to receive the Holy Ghost now because He arrived on the day of Pentecost and has never returned to heaven.
● When Paul laid hands on the believers, they received the Holy Ghost immediately and spoke with tongues and prophesied without any tarrying.
● Tongues can cease when sin dries up the fountain, so you must guard against losing the Holy Ghost’s presence.
● Praying in tongues helps you pray according to the will of God, making it an “Answer Guaranteed Prayer System.”
● When you do not know what to pray for, the Spirit makes intercession for you with groanings which cannot be uttered.
● Giving thanks in the Spirit is giving thanks well, and it gives birth to miracles like the feeding of 5,000 and Lazarus coming out of the grave.
● Speaking in tongues sanctifies your tongue, purifying it from gossip and every impurity like a coal of fire deposited on your tongue.
● Speaking in tongues edifies you, charging up your spirit man so you can take charge of any situation.
● To receive the Holy Ghost, you must be born again, thirst for Him, believe the baptism is for all believers, identify Jesus as the source, trust Him to keep His Word, ask Him, and exercise yourself in your new prayer language.
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The anointing for this end time is seven times stronger. It’s loaded with power, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and the fear of the Lord.
The Mystery Of The Seven Spirits Of God
● God always sends His Word through men to affect nations and generations, and He has put certain mysteries into my hands for a new dispensation.
● The Lord said to me that the same fire and anointing on my spoken word would rest on my written word.
● Jesus is the one who has the Seven Spirits of God, as revealed in Revelation 3:1 and Isaiah 11:2.
● The Seven Spirits of God were at work in Jesus, which is why He did great works in only three and a half years.
● The Seven Spirits of God are: the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Might, Knowledge, and the Fear of the Lord.
● Jesus only mentioned the Spirit of the Lord in Luke 4:18 because the other six spirits are reserved for the last days church.
● The nine gifts of the Spirit are distributed by the Spirit of the Lord, but the Seven Spirits are not gifts—they are spirits reserved for the end-time church.
● Operating under the Seven Spirits of God will enthrone you just as they gave Jesus His throne.
● The latter rain anointing is seven times stronger than the former rain, loaded with power, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and the fear of the Lord.
● Charles Price prophesied in 1916 that a virgin church would bring forth the firstborn after the Spirit, endowed with the Seven Spirits of God.
● The former rain stopped at the manifestation of power, but the latter rain is the manifestation of wisdom.
● By virtue of the Seven Spirits of God, we will far outrun the Church of the first century.
The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord is what gives birth to the spirit of Knowledge. The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
The Root Of Exploits: The Spirit Of The Fear Of The Lord
● The root of the latter rain anointing is the Fear of the Lord, which sits at the bottom rung of the ladder of the Seven Spirits of God.
● Joseph said concerning himself, “I fear God,” and that discreet wisdom saved Egypt during the famine.
● Job was described as the greatest of all men of the East because Satan himself acknowledged that Job feared God.
● The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord gives birth to the Spirit of Knowledge, which then brings you into Might, then Counsel, then Understanding, then Wisdom, and finally the manifestation of power.
● The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord is what Apostle Paul refers to as the Spirit of Holiness.
● Jesus was declared to be the Son of God with power because the spirit of holiness was at work in Him, and He knew no sin and knew no defeat.
● When Jesus carried the sins of the world, the Father forsook Him—how much more when you carry your own sins.
● Sin repels God’s presence, but when sin disappears, God’s presence is made manifest, and exploits become inevitable.
● When you become free from sin, you become a friend of God and have access to all things that the Father has shown Jesus.
● God is raising an army of stainless saints who will be the envy of the world by virtue of their glory, honour, and dignity.
● The price to pay is holiness unto the Lord—your glory will not manifest until the wrinkles of sin go off.
● Conviction of sin brings confession, confession restores the relationship with God, and that restored relationship is called righteousness, which releases you to manifest power.
● Jesus loved righteousness and hated wickedness, therefore God anointed Him above His fellows—you must do the same.
There’s no mountain anywhere. Every man’s ignorance is his mountain.
The Trigger For Exploits: The Spirit Of Revelation
● Exploits in the kingdom are a function of perspective—you are not born to live an ordinary life, and mediocrity is a slight on your Creator.
● Jesus said John the Baptist was the greatest born of women, yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he, meaning you are designed to be greater than Job, Joseph, and Daniel.
● The Spirit of Knowledge is the same as the Spirit of Revelation described by Paul in Ephesians 1:17.
● Every kingdom mystery you grasp makes you gain mastery, and when you have insight into a mystery, you become a man of authority in that area.
● It is not enough to read—you must ask, “Understandest thou what thou readest?” Otherwise, you are just in religion.
● The only authentic proof of knowledge is liberty, for “ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
● God has spoken once; twice have I heard—that second hearing is revelation, making God’s Word personal to you.
● You are not suffering because there is a great devil somewhere; you are suffering because of your great ignorance.
● God told me, “There’s no mountain anywhere. Every man’s ignorance is his mountain.”
● In 1985, I taught five barren women for one hour each week for four weeks, and by the end, three were already pregnant.
● Revelation is the bedrock of every revolution and the greatest asset to a life of exploits.
● If Christ were physically in your business, no government policy or annual budget would affect it.
● It takes the Spirit of God to know the things of God—without Him, the knowledge of God is impossible.
● Many things have been freely given to you by God, yet you are still freely suffering because the Spirit of God has not delivered them to you.
Every broken heart breaks destiny. Stop the devil from breaking your destiny and disconnecting you from the source of your help.
The Spirit Of Might, For Exploits
● God is delivering unusual strength to the end-time Church, which Joel describes as a great and strong people—a people set in battle array.
● God uses “horsepower” to describe the unique strength of the end-time army because horses are creatures of tremendous strength.
● No vision produces without strength—you don’t walk with any vision, you run to obtain an incorruptible crown.
● When the Spirit of Might came upon Samson, he used the jawbone of an ass to win a battle and uprooted the gate of a city.
● Paul stayed in the deep one night, was stoned and left for dead, but he jerked back to life because he had strange strength.
● Jesus told His disciples, “I have meat to eat that ye know not of”—that meat made Him tirelessly progressive.
● God grants you the Spirit of Might to strengthen you in your inner man, making you rock-solid and tirelessly progressive.
● The Oil of Joy releases the Spirit of Might, and it is this joy that gives you unique strength to build old wastes and raise former desolations.
● I have never had a sleepless night in this ministry and have never needed to be encouraged because I am in touch with the Oil of Gladness.
● The Holy Ghost imparts joy unspeakable and full of glory—joy you cannot explain in natural terms.
● When the fig tree does not blossom, and the fields yield no meat, yet you rejoice in the Lord, God releases unique strength to catapult you into your high places.
● Most sicknesses come out of a broken heart—a broken heart results in a broken body.
● Every broken heart breaks destiny, so leave depressive thoughts alone and say to the Oil of Joy, “I want an encounter with you this day!”
Anyone who does not have vision will not experience distinction. You belong somewhere; you must find it now! Your life will never have colour until you uncover the plan of God for your life.
A Surety For Exploits — The Spirit Of Counsel
● There is a vision of God for your life, a glorious and wonderful plan, but you need to discover it to profit by it.
● Anyone who does not have vision will not experience distinction—your life will never have colour until you uncover the plan of God for your life.
● Jesus had the Spirit of Counsel operating at full frequency in His life, which led Him into the path of excellence and perfect direction.
● The Spirit of Counsel is the force behind visions in life, offering guidance and direction so that God’s purpose for your life is not lost.
● When the Lord is your Shepherd, He makes you lie down in green pastures, leads you beside still waters, restores your soul, and prepares a table before you in the presence of your enemies.
● You suffer frustrations because you lack vision—many don’t know where they belong, that’s why they don’t belong anywhere.
● Every time you are on course, you are free from all the curses of hell because God commits Himself to whatever He commissions.
● When God sends you, He imparts might to make you a man of valour—the sending forth of God imparts the grace for exploits.
● Any business you did and failed, know that it’s because He didn’t direct you into it.
● Jesus was told that Lazarus was dead, yet He stayed two days extra and arose only when the Spirit of Counsel gave Him a signal—if He had moved earlier, Lazarus would probably not have woken up.
● David always received counsel from God before any battle, and every piece of advice he received produced results.
● To make vision work, it must be coupled with instruction—Jesus was tuned in to hear the Father, morning by morning.
● When you are blind and deaf, your dignity and honour are locked up somewhere because you are hard of hearing.
● Before you take a step, ask: “Spirit of God, this is what I am thinking, what are You saying?”
Nothing is outstanding without understanding. Until you understand you cannot ‘out-stand.’
Outstanding Accomplishments By The Spirit Of Understanding
● You are a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid, meaning you are created to be outstanding and designed for exploits.
● Daniel possessed a spirit that distinguished him in the land of captivity, and God gave him knowledge, skill, and understanding in all visions and dreams.
● The Spirit of Understanding is the most outstanding of the Seven Spirits of God because, after listing all the spirits, God said, “And shall make him of a quick understanding.”
● Understanding can be likened to light, while the problems of life are darkness—when light comes, darkness gives way.
● Until you understand, you cannot “out-stand”—nothing is outstanding without understanding.
● Daniel was rated ten times higher than all the magicians because his understanding made him outstanding in a strange land.
● The Spirit of Understanding knows what is in darkness and light dwells with him, providing unusual insight like that found in Joseph and Jesus.
● The Spirit of Understanding is the excellent Spirit that causes men to cheaply excel in any field.
● Those who have the answer don’t have a problem—as the problem arises, it is solved already because the Spirit of Excellence is at work in you.
● There are two levels of understanding: spiritual understanding (knowing God’s plan for you) and skill (the ability to do something very well).
● Bezaleel was filled with the Spirit of God in wisdom, understanding, and all manner of workmanship, making him supernaturally skillful.
● The Excellent Spirit brought a prisoner out and put him in the palace overnight—Joseph was declared the most discreet and wise man in Egypt.
● It is not by experience but by the Spirit of Excellence—most heavyweight accomplishers made it in their thirties and forties, not fifties.
If you’re not a learner, you will never become a leader. Readers are leaders.
The Spirit Of Wisdom
● Ben Carson was the class dummy in high school, but his mother kept saying he could do anything better, and he became the renowned neurosurgeon who successfully separated Siamese twins joined skull to skull.
● The end-time church will gain prominence by the manifold wisdom of God, which only the Holy Ghost endows.
● There is a wisdom that the Holy Ghost teaches that makes you creatively productive and imparts creative abilities for exploits.
● The Lord by wisdom founded the earth, and all the exploits of God the Father are tied to the wisdom operational in Him.
● Nobody is against you or your colour—it is the quality of your results that determines whether you are up or down.
● There is a better way to do whatever job you are engaged in, and the Spirit of God makes that wisdom available to natural man.
● Jesus never went to any school, yet philosophers and doctors of law called Him “Master” because He had the Spirit of Wisdom operating in Him.
● R. G. Le Tourneau was a mechanic with only a primary school education, yet he developed a digger that could carry 200 tonnes of earth and supply electricity to a small town.
● There may not be a logical explanation for such achievements, but there is a spiritual one—wisdom which the Holy Ghost teaches.
● We are going to have waves of inventions and ingenuity from now until Jesus comes, as people lay hold of hidden wisdom for outstanding exploits.
● The wisdom of God will explode in witty inventions—Ben Carson is described as a “deputy God” in his field because he opens the brain, rearranges it, and the person still thinks.
● The Spirit of Wisdom cannot release wisdom to non-searchers—you must be prepared to embark on a desperate search for it.
● Daniel understood by books—if you are not a learner, you will never become a leader.
● I spent 26 months making demands for the Spirit of Wisdom before this ministry started, and we have never had a crisis since its inception.
● If Job was the greatest in all the East, then the greatest men in business and government should emerge from the Church.
You have an Omnipotent God, an all-powerful Father; you cannot afford to be a weakling!
Exploding Into The Realms Of Exploits: The Spirit Of Power
● One of the key manifestations of the Holy Ghost in the last days is power—the essence of the Holy Ghost is the enduement of power.
● When you are endowed with power from on high, you become Jesus’ representative, doing whatever He did and even greater works.
● The end-time army is a conglomeration of strong people set in battle array—men who will run like horses, leap like fire, and climb walls like men of war.
● The proof of the Holy Ghost’s presence in tongues is also the proof that the powers of heaven are resident within you.
● You must become conscious that you are loaded with power from on high—the same power that was at work in Peter and Paul resides in you.
● The power within you is from above and is above every other type of power on earth, including witches and wizards.
● Every time you are challenged, speak in tongues to awaken your spiritual consciousness and bring Satan under judgment.
● When the Holy Spirit is in operation, Satan is judged—everywhere you see the devil making noise, step in and shut him up in the name of Jesus.
● The whole creation is groaning, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God to bring about their deliverance.
● By the Spirit of Power, there will be a total disarming of wickedness and the establishment of peaceful dominion of the Church.
● Jesus returned in the Spirit of Power and then announced that the Spirit of the Lord had anointed Him to preach—to anoint means to empower.
● Jesus will not return until all His enemies are made His footstool, so God will pour out His power in these last days in unprecedented dimensions.
● One of our men beat a dead man back to life, striking the corpse with his mantle and saying, “In the name of Jesus!” until the dead man jerked back.
● Refuse to be among the mockers, else your bands will be made strong while others enjoy glorious liberty.
No lazy Christian has a future; it’s your discoveries that make you.
Provoking The Forces To Produce
● Every object assumes a state of rest until a relevant force is applied to it—you are loaded with the Seven Spirits of God, but you need a stirring, or they remain dormant in you.
● The Holy Ghost is God’s gift for man after repentance, but He must be stirred up into action just like sugar in tea needs stirring.
● The gift is powerless until it is stirred up—when you successfully provoke the gift in you, it makes room for you and establishes a domain for you on the earth.
● The rod that stirs up the Seven Spirits of God is Jesus, who is also the Word of God.
● It is with the Word that you stir the spirits of Wisdom, Counsel, Might, and others into producing for you.
● In Luke 5:17, as Jesus was teaching, the power of God was present to heal—the Word was stirring the power into operation.
● The angel came down at certain points to stir the pool of Bethesda—similarly, God’s Word goes into the rivers of living water and causes a stir for the release of power.
● The Spirit of Revelation cannot operate without the Word of God being loaded in you, for His ministry is to teach you all things.
● I have not once prayed for peace in my home or for money since I came into ministry, yet both are present because the Spirit of Revelation taught me from the Word.
● No one can ever have a greater experience than his depth in the Word—it is the Word that provokes the power of God unto salvation.
● Every Word of God discovered and applied compels the Seven Spirits of God at work in you to act.
● The matchbox represents the multi-faceted ministry of the Holy Spirit, but without the rod (the Word), the effect cannot be felt—when the rod strikes the box, fire comes forth.
● Death and life are in the power of the tongue—your mouth is the trigger of a loaded gun.
● If God spoke everything created into existence, you must consecrate your tongue to speak defeat, sorrow, failure, and poverty no more.
● One way to maintain the anointing is by continuous prayer—Jesus left the multitudes to climb the mountain and recharge His batteries.
You now know that the anointing inside you needs stirring. Stop settling for less. Go back to the Word, pray in the Spirit, and provoke those dormant forces. Refuse mediocrity. Demand the latter rain. Your season of undeniable exploits has already begun. Step into it today.
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Have you been struggling with the same sin, sickness, or limitation for years, and are you finally ready to say an eternal “No!” to mediocrity?
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