Sister Tarpley’s Column: Your Anointing

“As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit – just as it has taught you, remain in him.” 1 John 2:27.

Do you know your anointing? An anointing is a gift from God that functions easily when it is operating in you to benefit others and the Kingdom of God. If you have to “work it up” then you have probably gone outside your anointing.

An anointing is something that you don’t seek for, it comes naturally. It is your inheritance. Where do you move naturally in your life? What do you do that you don’t have to work at it? Perhaps that is your anointing. God wants you to walk in the anointing he has given to you.

Your gift is something that makes you useful to others and to God’s kingdom.

When Jesus met Peter, he saw an spontaneous man who drew quick conclusions and was very opinionated. I believe that Jesus, in His human part of the body, had His doubts about him for future leadership. However, Jesus, in His Spiritual body saw something in Peter that was going to be useful once the rough edges were removed.

Peter was a fool for the Kingdom of God. The reference to someone being a fool was not necessarily a negative term. A simple fool was a person who made mistakes, but quickly righted them and was restored to fellowship with God and with others.

King David was a simple fool, one who made mistakes, but kept a repentant heart toward God. This is why God did not turn away from him for his many sins.

The hardened fool makes mistakes but never learns from them, is not repentant and will not listen to others.

When you look at the state of the world, the complacency of your neighbors, the lifestyles of sin that so many are involved in, and the attitudes and actions of people today, your anointing is something that could help people, to point them in the right direction, to lead them to experience God’s love, protection, and freedom.

Learn to know your anointing (gift) be useful to God’s kingdom and your fellowman; trust God to carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus Christ’ return.

And don’t forget to ask God to keep your eyes open to see what are His works and His will; that you will follow Him and Him only so that you will obey His prompting and resist the detours and roadblocks that Satan will attempt to put in your way.

Ask for wisdom and strength for the journey in your anointing to be useful to the kingdom of God and man.