Miracles, signs, and wonders are always initiated by God. God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnipresent (everywhere at once). All of these are attributes true because God doesn’t live in time and space as we do. Since God is supernatural it stands to reason that God is the author of the supernatural, that is miracles, signs, and wonders. Show More
We’ve already discussed miracles, signs, and, wonders in the private arena, the private arena of your personal relationship with Jesus. Now it is time to recognize that God wants to demonstrate miracles, signs, and wonder in the public arena through you! The public arena could be in your family, neighborhood, school, workplace, or around the world.
The Anointing
God chooses to use His power and authority through ordinary people like you and me so that the focus would be on Him. As a Christian, you are “anointed”. Let’s take a moment to explain that term because it has been so over-used. The term, anointed, means that you have at your disposal the authority and power of the Holy Spirit residing in you.
The anointing is not your personality or style. While it’s true that some people have very “charismatic” personalities and engaging ways of speaking and acting. They are able to attract attention to themselves. The anointing on the other hand causes people to be attracted to Jesus. There is nothing wrong with being charismatic, flashy, or engaging, as a matter of fact, it can be very helpful. But if it causes you to focus on the talent of the individual and not on the Holy Spirit it is a form of deception.
The anointing is very real, and we see this in the life of Jesus. Jesus promised in John 14:8-31 that the Holy Spirit would live in us. Why is it then that we see so few miracles, signs, and wonders today? Is it because God has become powerless or suspended the supernatural in this modern age? The answer is an emphatic no! There is no reluctance or weakness on God’s part. Therefore, the reluctance or weakness must be on our part!
Jesus’ Anointing
Look at the life of Jesus, He did no ministry until He was anointed. In the third chapter of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in order to fulfill all righteousness. As a side note, this was because in the Jewish tradition one could not become a priest until 30 years old, Jesus was about 30 at that time. Then the scriptures say,” When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him”. The symbol of the Holy Spirit has always been the dove. Even Jesus needed the anointing of the Holy Spirit!
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As followers of Jesus, this should be our mission statement too, but we were never intended to do this in our own natural ability… Jesus says in John 14:12-14, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it”.
You are anointed
Now, this is really important to understand because you have the Holy Spirit you have authority and power to fulfill whatever it is that God calls you to do. God would not ask you to do something that he would not empower you to do. To be sure, the anointing is not at your disposal for your benefit, but it will benefit you as you carry out God’s plan for your life. Yes, that’s another thing, God has a plan for your life! That truth is made clear throughout the Bible.
Deceptions about the anointing of the Holy Spirit
Why is it that there is so little faith today by Believers in miracles, signs and, wonders? Have we become so conditioned to believe only that which we can see, the physical or natural world? How can we believe in a God whom we cannot see and yet disbelieve that He is all-powerful! Here are some thoughts on that:
- Is the problem that we believed God for a supernatural event in the past and it didn’t happen the way we expected so, we wrote off the supernatural. I’ve heard people say, “God doesn’t heal today because so and so died and we prayed”! How can this type of thinking glorify God?
- Is the problem that we are taught that God does not move in the miraculous today? We think, well those who taught us must know, “they are the professionals”? Well, perhaps they are wrong. How sad it would be to miss out on all that God has because we have been misinformed. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:1, “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant”. Ignorant means to not know!
- Is it because we have been taught that these things were true of Jesus and the Apostles but have passed away? Or in other words, the “supernatural petered out when the Apostle Peter petered out”. Please don’t fall for that idea or teaching because, Hebrews 13:8 says that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever”.
- Is it because we don’t take the time to search out the scriptures for ourselves? We say it is too hard. Well, everything is hard when you are first learning about something, but with time and effort, you learn. The key to the abundant life that we are all searching for is found in the supernatural Jesus or the Holy Spirit.
Jesus says in John 16:12-14, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you”.
If you seek Him and His righteousness the answers to all of the issues of life will
