Pastor E.A. Adeboye wrote: While some servants of God can lay a demand on the anointing of God upon their lives, and God will immediately answer, some others cannot because they really do not have any credit in their heavenly account. Take for instance Gehazi who was the servant of Elisha. In 2 Kings 4:29-31, Elisha gave Gehazi his rod to go and place it over the dead son of the Shunammite woman. As soon as he received it, he did not even wait to pray but rushed off, only to return to tell his master nothing happened. Gehazi spoke like his master and tried to configure things, yet nothing happened. This tells us that it is possible to be on the same bed with one who is on fire and not catch that fire. It is not the anointing oil, it is not the staff of office; it is not in how well packaged the words are; it is not in your oratory abilities. You can have all these but if you do not have any credit with God, all these will fail you. It is easy to talk the talk but walking the walk is what is most important. In Acts 19:11-19, when the sons of Sceva saw the miracles that Paul did, they became interested. Unknown to him, they began to study the ‘methodologies’ and at the end, they tried to replicate what they saw, but because they lacked the relationship with the Person of Jesus Christ, they paid dearly for the abuse of His name. Never copy others by prophesying except when God has spoken to you, or you will pay dearly for it. Today, some pastors who do not have the word of wisdom or knowledge, and are not prepared to pay the price for these gifts, are gradually imitating those who have it. They want to belong to the class of spiritual leaders by applying guesses and common sense. The things of the Spirit do not work like that. If you copy the methods but lack the Spirit, you can never get the result of the Spirit. What are you copying? Is it from men or from God? A copy cannot be the same as the original. Why copy when you can have the original?
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 04:39:58 +0000
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