From My Heart 2 Your Heart; MY god has me and my family COVERED BY HIS ANOINTING BREAKING OF THE YOKE The Anointing Breaks the YOKE We hear so much today of “The anointing breaks the yoke.” This has become one of many Pentecostal mantras. This extra anointing is presented to be greater than the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it is able to break ALL the bondages, everything that hinders ones success as a Christian. Certain ministers have made it their trademark. It is something that people need to have to be set free from financial debt, sin, sickness, oppression, anything contrary to God. So if someone does have a sin they are struggling with, or has not received the blessings of prosperity or healing, the implication is that they are not anointed yet. This teaching is no different than the divisive issue that tongues has been from some Pentecostals. If you don’t speak in tongues you’re not baptized in the Holy Spirit, and in some cases you are not even born again. For what its worth I have taken time to write this, hopefully bringing into perspective what is and is not being said about this. We need to see how the Bible uses the words “yoke” and “anointing” before we accept this teaching that is being presented to us today. Does God ALWAYS break the yoke? Stephen says in Acts 7:5-7 “And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him. “But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years. And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge, said God, and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.” Here the Lord allowed and even ordained for Israel to be in slavery after Joseph became the ruler in Egypt. God’s conditions to Israel after they were free from Egypt were if they disobeyed him they would be punished and brought into bondage. “Therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.” The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, “a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.” Because Israel would not serve God, He judged them and they became slaves to men. God brought them into having the yoke of slavery on them again. They would then be obligated to serve their enemies in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, wearing an iron yoke”(Deut. 28:48-51) Lev.26:13 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.” In most instances the yoke was used as a figurative description of severe oppression. In Leviticus 26 it is used in a metaphorical sense that signifies Israel’s freedom from Egyptian slavery and following God. The “yoke” and “bands” refer to the slavery in Egypt that Yahweh freed Israel from. He took them out from bondage and set them free so they could serve him. Isa. 58:4-8 “Indeed you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high. Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. IT IS FINISHED, SAY THE LORD, Amen and Amen
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:20:40 +0000
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