There are 4 steps to a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit within you.
Here are the first two:
-Your temple must be purified.
1 Corinthians 3:16, 17 “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
Matthew 21:12 “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves…”
The first step to anointing will always be to clean out the temple. When we allow sin into our life, we are foreigners to God. Cleansing brings us into a right relationships itch God, but
sin makes us foreigners to God.
Sin is not comfortable in a spiritual atmosphere and makes the Bible where the words could be read but not understood.
Sin also causes apprehension in the mind when God’s love and power is demonstrated through the Holy Spirit.
We need to cleanse our temple-our mind, will and emotions. God’s anointing faithfully works through a clean heart. The gifts of the Spirit operate efficiently through a forgiven saint who washes the halls of their life often.
It would be great if we could clean our house one time and never have to cleanse it again, but that is not the case. Remember this, we are constantly being molded, constructed, changed and modified into a temple of the living God. All remodeling work requires clean up. Our purification begins with John 3:16. That is the starting point of a life-long remodeling project.
When we as believers refuse to follow the gentle leading of the Holy Spirit we refuse to exercise right choices over sins temptations.
When we choose not to enlist the power of the Holy Spirit, then we are forced into a mundane average Christian experience that grows more mundane with each passing day.
The path to God’s fresh anointing starts with an attitude of continued cleansing of the temple.
-Our lives rise and fall through prayer or the lack thereof.
Matthew 21: 13 “And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.”
There is no way we can ever over emphasize the importance of prayer. We do not have the ability to understand all that life brings our way. We need to pray about everything.
1 Samuel 12:23 “Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way…”
Jeremiah 33:2, 3 “Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name; Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
Isaiah 55:6 “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near…”
Matthew 7:7, 8 “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
Refusing to pray means a lot of "no's":
-no spiritual help.
-no fulfillment of God’s promises.
-no strength in troubled times.
-no willpower or trust.
-no servant attitude.
-no financial blessings.
-no knowing God’s will.
-no healing of the sick.
-no needs met.
-no desire to do the things of God.
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