He Has Your Anointing

Spiritual envy has become a cancer in the American church. When we replace the command to “love God and love people” with “love God, be righteous,” we get ourselves into a whole mess of trouble.

Do not lose your mind trying to compare yourself and your Christian Walk to others! You will never be satisfied, and your envy will rip you, them, and the church apart! Righteousness is a cruel and destructive measuring stick the devil tricks us into using.

When you start comparing your victories, gifts, blessings, talents, relationships, and ministries against someone else, stop! Ask yourself this question: “I know their glory, but do I know their story?” Nobody gets great victory, faith, or blessings without going through their share of hell. If you want what they have, you have to pass through the same fires they did!

I once heard a preacher tell of a young man who followed him around. The young man watched and listened to everything he said. The preacher asked him why. “I want your anointing,” the young man said. So, the pastor put his hand on the boy’s shoulder and began to pray.

“Lord, I pray this young man would be beaten up and ostracized as a child and would have to go to bed with a butcher knife for fear of his father. I pray that he will live in terrible poverty. I pray his family would think he was crazy and all his good friends would leave him because of the ministry. Lord, let him be constantly criticized and scrutinized by his congregation, and even his own wife, for what he does and how he does it. May he have church splits and backstabbing among his leadership team…”

The young man stopped him and asked, “Why would you pray such terrible things on me?” The pastor answered, “Because you cannot have the anointing I have without going through the things I’ve been through.”

Don’t wish for someone else’s anointing. It will bring you shame and confusion because get this – it’s not yours! You have your own anointing if you just seek it out.