*How do I operate in the healing anointing? 2*
There are times when the anointing that rests on a servant of God is for salvation of souls; under such an anointing I will see almost all my audience answer altar call and I will begin to wonder if they understood what I meant. There are times it is for the infilling of the Holy Spirit and I have witnessed that also; people just explode in Tongues under fresh outpour of the Holy Spirit as I move from city to city. In some cases it is the anointing for revival and you can observe brokenness and people rush forward to make peace with God as if their entire life depended on it. Yet there is what I call the healing anointing; people just get healed with ease. I don’t determine how it should go but all I do is to yield myself to the Holy Spirit.
If you still don’t understand what we mean by healing anointing, please carefully read the following scripture passage
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. … He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all Luke 6:12-19NIV
Give careful attention to the following passage too.
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick Luke 5:16-17NIV
The power that was oozing out from the Lord Jesus Christ was the healing anointing and you should note the emphasis on how people took advantage of it and received their healing. Take note again that in the second scripture that one of the special guests in that meeting was, “the healing power of God”. This kind of anointing is not permanently resident on the servant of God but some men of God have learned the discipline that can keep it on for a long time and that is what I want to expose at this point, so those who want it for real will know how to connect to it.
Some have erroneously held that this kind of anointing was upon the Lord Jesus Christ because He was God incarnate. You will see why this opinion is not correct after we have gone further in this meditation. The Lord Jesus Christ did not operate as Son of God while on earth but like every other human being and that was why He often referred to Himself as son of man. It will be unfair to ask us to repeat the things He did if He did those things in His capacity as God.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father John 14:11-12NIV
This kind of healing and deliverance anointing is possible for anybody who will step up to meet the requirements. I was privileged to stay briefly with a man who operated under this kind of anointing; I first met Rev. Stanley Awuzie as he ministered in public programs but I came to see how he generated the anointing when I stayed with and lived in the same house with him. This point is very important because some people who know little about me claim that I am their mentor. There must be a connection between you and the one you call your mentor.
The scripture texts above leave no place for confusion as to how the Lord Jesus Christ generated the healing anointing; all night private prayers was His lifestyle. He often withdrew to pray and He invested quality time to it. That is why I mentioned earlier that the Lord did not operate with His divinity status while on earth, otherwise He would not have had need to pray for so long to manifest the healing anointing. Unfortunately some people carry bottles of olive oil around after reading some bible passages and then claim they are under the healing anointing.
Rev. Awuzie spent many hours in night prayers. He sang praises, prayed confessional prayers and gave quality time to gain authority over the satanic forces he may have to meet by day through warfare prayers. It was a serious business for him and it is interesting to note that he still woke up early in the morning to do other things. I heard some people testify that while under the anointing his palms were as hot as electric iron. Demon possessed persons were not able to look into his face and occult people in his neighborhood saw him as their nightmare
I escorted him to a number of crusades and I saw how the “oil” he prepared over the night was put to public use. This is the problem; those who were not with him as I was will now go to mystic shops to ask for the anointing oil that will make people fall on the ground.
In my own account, I borrowed that habit from him. In fact, once he became concerned that I was over doing it but I love to operate in the genuine anointing. From my first take off in the ministry, I resolved that it is either I have the raw power anointing or I return to my business. Yes, I was and I am still very good in business. If I am going to quit my business and preach, then it will be under genuine power. I have hated ministerial titles from the beginning and that does not mean I hate those who take up such titles. Life is about your choice. I want raw power and I set my heart to it and God has been gracious.
One time a man of God had a handshake with me and looked at my face in surprise and said, “What kind of cream do you use? Your palms are so oily.”
Everybody that has stayed with me know that I rarely apply cream to my body. When you are under the flow of the healing anointing it can be felt materially on you. Another kind hearted neighbor came to ask me the name of my body lotion because she liked the color of my skin. I don’t use those things but the healing anointing can lubricate you in and out. I want to warn that you should not focus your mind on the results I want to mention here but on the lifestyles that generated the power.
It was in Assemblies of God Church, Avu, Owerri West that I was ministering and I did not even know that I was under the healing anointing. I was just leading in songs and jumping all over the place in excitement; yes, genuine anointing gets you really excited while bubbling with joy. I did not know that the woman that was sitting in my front was not walking. She was just sitting down watching me dancing and clapping her hands. I stretched out my hands to her to join me in “dance”. She just sprang up and there was uproar in the church. In another Assemblies of God Church in Obibiezena, also in Imo State, the healing anointing was so strong that any person that came close to me fell under the anointing. At one point there was no place for me to step out to and those who were still standing were afraid to come close and help me clear those blocking my paths because they knew they will join those on the floor. In Adamawa State in 2010 I walked into a church on Sunday morning and the choir and instrumentalists could not just be steady; they kept falling here and there. I was wondering what the problem with them was, not knowing that my presence was obstructing the service because of the strong presence of the Holy Spirit on me.
Under such atmosphere demon possessed people are not comfortable and demons begin to manifest here and there. In some cases I just stand in the center and watch the Holy Spirit and angels of God undertake the project of healing and delivering people.
Anointing presence makes ministry easy. People get healed while I was still preaching and tumors disappear without me specifically praying for them. Acute headaches, heart diseases and even surface body injuries disappeared. You cannot just say which way or how the miracle will take place. I have met people testify that they came into contact with the Holy Spirit while I was preaching somewhere. They did not know how surprised I was because I was not able to remember if I ever met them. One pastor said that he was just passing by when he heard me discussing a topic and that was it; he caught the “Fire”. In my travels I have met many people who claimed that God filled them with the Holy Spirit and empowered them for ministry when they came around to my meetings.
At times it comes as I visit a hospital to pray for the sick. Under the healing anointing, you just have faith like hard rock. You can see yourself say things that you will never say in your normal senses. I walked into Lifespring Hospital Owerri to pray for a man who was brother-in-law to a prominent man of God in that city. He was rude and uninterested. I learned it was because many men and women of God had been there to pray but he saw no difference. He said, “Prayer again? Please, let me take my breakfast.”
I told them that I will wait. When he finished, he just said, “I am ready”, while still lying on the same spot. That was when I learned that he could not stand and have not been on his feet for more than two years. In fact, the hospital had discharged him to go and wait for death at his home.
I started, “Chief, Chekwas, you just have to do what I tell you because you already had too many prayers”. He looked intently at me, showing agreement to what I said, yet wondering what I will ask him to do.
“Now I command you to get up from that bed and begin to walk in the name of Jesus Christ!” the lady that brought me looked at my face like, “Pastor, are you out of your mind? I told you that the man could not even sit up to eat, now you are asking him to stand up to walk without even touching him”
Yes, that is the way it works. When the healing anointing is upon a man, he will not likely understand why he says and does the things he will do. That is what it was like when the Lord Jesus Christ told the man besides the Pool of Bethesda to pick up his mat and walk. That was how it looked when He told the man with shriveled hand to stretch it out. That was how it was when He told the Syria-Phoenician woman to go home because her daughter was healed. That was how it was when He told the blind men to start using their eyes because their faith had healed them. There is this inner confidence that all things are possible with God and that confidence comes with the anointing
Chief Chekwas looked at his sister and then back at me and to everyone’s surprise stood up and started to walk. He even walked towards the staircase. I don’t know why he tried that but then he caused a small problem. A nurse that was coming up to give him his discharge slip saw him and ran back. She told her colleagues that Chief Chekwas had died and that she saw his ghost walking down the staircase. There was pandemonium in the whole hospital.
I love the anointing and I love to see the power of God flow and touch wounded people creating joy among the people. Let me point out to you what I have learned over the years.
The healing anointing is different from salvation. A lot of saved people are not operating in this anointing. Once in a while they can experience healing or miracles as they exercise their faith in the name of Jesus Christ but they don’t carry the healing anointing
The healing anointing is different from living a sinless life. What I mean is that you don’t just connect to it just because you are living a holy life. I have met many pure but powerless believers.
The healing anointing is not specifically based on specific divine calling. Now some people will think I have gone overboard. No matter how or who called you, if you don’t keep the principles that generates the divine healing anointing, you will not have it.
Healing anointing is not same as infilling of the Holy Spirit. I hate to mention this but let me shock you by saying that I spoke in Tongues before Rev. Stanley Awuzie. I am not very sure that he speaks in Tongues today but I got Spirit-filled while praying in his church compound. Yet, he carried the healing and deliverance anointing years before I met him.
Healing anointing can be contacted when you are in the atmosphere where it is operating. I have already mentioned people that connected to this power by just coming around to where I was preaching.
Whatever way you go about it, the only way to source it and retain it is through prayer discipline. A man of God can lay hands on you but it will not last on you if you neglect the discipline that brings it down. In fact, it was not resident on the Lord Jesus Christ while on earth, that was why He had to spend time in all night prayers often. When He came down from such places of prayer, the power will begin to flow. If you want this power then you must give yourself to prayer discipline.
If you are a new comer to this realm of ministry, I love to give you this keys. Time is a great asset for those who want to operate in this realm. If you are too busy with activities here and there, it may be hard for you to operate in this realm.
You have to first withdraw for at least seven days fast. This fast should be taken in a place where people can’t distract you. I said seven but mine was thirty days. I fasted 6-6 for thirty days. Then I backed it with mid night prayers that lasted for over twenty one days.
I read books from authors who operated under this kind of anointing. Benny Hinn was very helpful; Kenneth Hagin, Derek Prince, James Mckiver’s Supernatural Power assisted me. I mentioned these ones but there are many more of such books today.
Then, you must seek for platforms to exercise the anointing in your life. That is where my contact with Bro. Menks Ifechukwu was very helpful; he taught me that I can have my own pulpit anywhere without fighting with someone for platform. So I launched out for my own gospel crusades and outreaches. My testimonies agree with scriptures.
Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. Mark 16:20NIV
(To be continued)
Emma your brother emmnjnwosu@pnurnigeria.org
