Change Your Oil

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CHANGE YOUR OIL

The Bible often likens the anointing of the Holy Spirit to oil. Both can be felt and experienced.

And some observations about the qualities and characteristics of oil can actually help you understand the workings of the Spirit.

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For example, oil evaporates if it is not replenished regularly; it will eventually disappear. You may want to try it sometime. Pour some oil into a container and let it sit for a long time and you will find that some of it has evaporated. If enough time passes, you will find that the vessel that held the oil will be empty, with little evidence that it once held oil.

The Spirit doesn't evaporate, but you may think He has if you neglect Him that way. You must constantly allow the oil of the Spirit to flow over your life,refreshing your spiritual life. You do this through prayer, through fellowship with God, and through reading the Word of God.

The anointing will remain on your life as you continue to walk and talk with (not always to) the Lord. When you spend time in His presence, the rich oil of the Holy Spirit will flow over your life, refreshing and renewing your spirit.

Another interesting characteristic about oil is that it leaks if there is a hole in the vessel. The hole may be tiny, or even undetectable to the naked eye, but if there is any blemish or impurity in the composition of the vessel, the oil will find it and leak out.

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Ephesians 4 cautions about any potential "holes" in your vessel when it says to give no "place" to the devil. The word place derives from the Greek word for "avenue" or "window." So you are to give no avenue to the devil. Don't allow the holes of bitterness,unforgiveness, self-pity, and the like to creep into your life. For the precious oil of the Spirit will drain out.

These "holes" that attack your vessel of the Spirit are so subtle that in infancy they are difficult to detect. Bitterness can creep in almost unnoticed. And how many times have you encountered someone who is losing a lot of oil because of the holes of self-pity? All you hear from such people is "Poor, poor me." As you seek and walk in the anointing, it is imperative that you guard against these holes and concentrate on keeping your oil fresh.

Another truth about oil is that only fresh oil has the proper density thickness to serve an engine or machine well. That thickness is called viscosity, and it's important, for it measures the ability of oil to withstand heat and pressure and to reduce friction or stress. The lower the viscosity, the less will the oil protect under certain levels of pressure.

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As you know, it is important that you change the oil in your car regularly—so important that most auto manufacturers recommend changing the oil every three to five thousand miles to get the maximum benefit.

Otherwise, in addition to getting dirty, the oil gets thin and discolored and can harm rather than protect the engine. So also will your anointing wear thin under the heat of spiritual warfare. That is why you must give daily attention to prayer and Bible study. It's the only way to build and maintain your spiritual thickness and strength.

- Pastor Benny Hinn ( The Anointing)

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Reverence

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Here is an important message about giving God the reverence that He deserves.

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Reverence

As Jesus was discussing the subject of clapping and raising of the hands in praise to Him, He made this statement: "When you really learn to praise and worship Me in the right way, you'll find a stronger anointing and a greater move of the Holy Spirit in your midst. 

We need to learn that when the Presence of the Lord is in a place, we should not dissipate that Presence, that power. Be quiet and reverent and then you'll see the manifestation of the Holy Ghost that your heart has longed for.

You haven't see anything like what we will see when the Body of Christ gets to that place of worship. We were in that kind of atmosphere worshipping God in one of our crusades, and there were five people sitting in wheelchairs. Three of them just got up and walked off. No one laid a hand on them. But for that to happen, we have to begin to get into the flow of the Holy Spirit.

When you get in an atmosphere of true worship, and God begins to move by His Spirit, you can just reach out and take what belongs to you in Christ. The Bible teaches laying on of hands, but you really don't have to have hands laid on you when the Presence of God is so strongly in manifestation. 

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In Charismatic Movement. There's been a lightness in Charismatic services: a "hip-hip-hooray" type of atmosphere. Ohhhh! But in times past, I've seen the Presence of God come in and fill the temple! When I say "the temple, " I mean a body of believers. 

During those times when the Presence of God came into our services, no one moved; an awesome Presence filled the room. I wish I could describe that awesome Presence to you. Some things are just too reverent to talk about and it's hard to find words to describe them. But I've seen the awesome Presence of God come in and fill the temple. I long to see the Body of Christ experience that Presence on a continual basis!

At this writing, it has been almost a year since Jesus' 1987 visitation with me. In our own ministry, we have been experiencing the deeper move of the Spirit of God among us which Jesus promised. Just a short while after the summer Campmeeting, our crusade team was in Detroit. One of our singers was singing a song of the Spirit, fresh from Heaven, given by the inspiration of the Spirit in that moment. Upon hearing one of the lines of the song, the crowd began to clap. The singer stopped and exhorted the congregation, "Please don't clap anymore." 

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They received the instruction and listened to what the Spirit was saying as he went on with the spiritual song. A depth, an indescribable Presence like a cloud filled the auditorium. We had no preaching that night. The Holy Spirit came upon me in a greater measure to minister by the Spirit in healings and in other ways. Afterwards, I asked those seated in the minister's' section if they had noticed how the anointing increased.

But when people begin to demonstrate in the flesh, the anointing lifts -it flies away like a bird taking flight because it grieves the Spirit. I wish I could get that over to people. I've been in meetings of several thousand where the Holy Spirit was moving, and suddenly, I knew by the Holy Spirit when the anointing came upon me to stand over in the office of the prophet and minister to the people. I was just ready to call out certain people, to point to them right where they stood, and say, "The Spirit of God just showed me this is what is wrong with you." I've ministered that way many times through the years, and every time, the people have been healed.

 When I've ministered under that kind of an anointing, I've never had one person fail to get healed. I could tell you about thousands of people who were healed that way through the many years of my ministry. However, sometimes when the anointing has come to minister in that office, people in the congregation have gotten up and started moving about. The lack of reverence for God moving in the service grieved the Spirit and He left; the anointing lifted from me. I mean,

just like a bird sitting on your shoulder, it flew away- the anointing left. 

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And those people didn't even know it; they went out talking and whispering. Maybe they were in a hurry to leave and get something to eat, but they didn't know that they had just hindered some dear sick people from being healed-sometimes people with terminal cases.

During this visitation before Campmeeting '87, the Lord dealt with me very strongly about the fact that He's trying to get the Body of Christ to the place where He can move by His Spirit in our midst. I'm gradually seeing that come to pass. The Body of Christ is finally coming to the place where God can move in our services like He wants to. This is the time! 

The Body of Christ has finally come to that time now, and is getting ready for the move that God wants in the earth, glory to God! Several years ago, the Lord said to me, "There is a  move of the Spirit of God that will be lost to this present generation unless they are taught and led into it."

I don't know that we have been successful at this yet. But we're finally coming to the place where we can begin to teach this. The Lord went on to say to me, "Some of the old- time Pentecostals knew something about that deeper move of the Spirit. The new generation of Charismatics know little or nothing about it. Charismatics know little or nothing about the move of My Spirit. Charismatics know a little about praising Me, but they know nothing at all about true worship.".

- Kenneth E Hagin ( Purpose, Plan,Pursuits )

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Open Yourself Up

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WITH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FLOWING THROUGH YOUR LIFE, PEOPLE

WILL WANT WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER

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People came to hear me preach as a young man in 1947 in a gospel tent on North Main in Tulsa, Oklahoma, not because I was preaching about a dead God or a dead Bible or a dead, dry religious experience. It was the power of God's Spirit that made them flock to hear me, as a struggling young preacher coming out of these hills of eastern Oklahoma.

And when the Holy Ghost's power comes upon this little hunk of clay, there's a compassion that races through my being like a wind across a prairie and a fire that whips through my soul like a roaring inferno. A tenderness touches my heart like a mother pulling her crying baby to her breast and I want to reach out to the sick, the afflicted, the hurting, the demon possessed. I want to get at the thing that's hurting them, that's tearing them up and destroying them. I want every man, woman, boy and girl to be healed, AND THERE'S NO REST IN MY SPIRIT UNTIL THE HEALING COMES!

And, my brother, my sister, God can put a brand-new fire in YOUR bones, a force in your inner man that will lift you up, that will thrust you into an even greater dimension of fulfilling His mighty calling on your life! Oh, don't be shy or hesitant! Just open yourself up to His Spirit!

Oral Roberts ( unleashing the power of praying in the spirit)

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Plug In His Power

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Here is a great article about using God's power in your ministry.

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ITS GOD'S DESIRE FOR YOU TO PLUG IN TO HIS POWER!

Friend, it's the Lord's desire for you to plug in to His unlimited, unending power through praying in the Spirit with the understanding! Or perhaps you've already released your prayer language, but you haven't been fully using this great gift God has given you, and you don't see His power operating in your life.

 I'll tell you, what you have available to you through the power of God's Spirit is like having a rare treasure in a locked room. But it's one thing to possess that treasure in a locked room, and it's another thing to FLING OPEN THE DOOR AND BRING THAT TREASURE FORTH!

This Christian life is designed to be a thrilling experience of power, with the Holy Spirit flowing through us as believers to perform the mighty works of Jesus. But yet in so many cases we Christians are filled with timidity, and this is a terrible, tragic thing. Terror strikes our hearts when we have the opportunity to witness for our Savior and we are intimidated when we try to believe for the healing of our bodies!

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But with Holy Ghost power surging through our beings, a great fearlessness takes possession of us! We feel like we could lick a den of hungry lions! And, like those early Christians, we can proclaim the Word of God with boldness and not be intimidated in giving our testimony for the Lord. We will stop worrying about being eloquent. Besides, people are not looking for some kind of high-sounding orator. They're looking for someone who has something real in his or her heart!

THAT'S WHAT THIS WORLD IS DYING FOR, SOMEBODY WHO REALLY KNOWS JESUS!

I'll tell you, the power of God's Spirit will put within you a brand-new enthusiasm as a child of the Most High God! It will set your soul on fire until you can't stand still! It will flood your heart with the joy bells of Heaven and fill you with His glory until your cup overflows! Then you'll just have to tell somebody about Jesus! And the Lord will send you into your world ON FIRE to win lost souls to His Son Jesus

Christ!

Unleashing the power of praying in the Spirit. 

By Oral Roberts.

William James Roop

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Holy Ghost Meetings

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“Azusa Street Holy Ghost Meetings” by Frank Bartleman.

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Brother Seymour generally sat behind two empty shoe boxes, one on top of the other. He usually kept his head inside the top one during the meeting, in prayer. There was no pride there. The services ran almost continuously.

Seeking souls could be found under the power almost any hour, night and day. The place was never closed nor empty. The people came to meet God. He was always there. Hence a continuous meeting. The meeting did not depend on the human leader. God’s presence became more and more wonderful.

In that old building, with its low rafters and bare floors, God took strong men and women to pieces, and put them together again, for His glory. It was a tremendous overhauling process: Pride and self-assertion, self importance and self-esteem, could not survive there. The religious ego preached its own funeral sermon quickly.

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No subjects or sermons were announced ahead of time, and no special speakers for such an hour. No one knew what might be coming, what God would do. All was spontaneous, ordered of the Spirit. We wanted to hear from God, through whoever He might speak. We had no “respect of persons.” The rich and educated were the same as the poor and ignorant, and found a much harder death to die. We only recognized God: All were equal. No flesh might glory in His presence.

He could not use the self-opinionated. Those were Holy Ghost meetings, led of the Lord. It had to start in poor surroundings, to keep out the selfish, human element. All came down in humility together, at His feet.

They all looked alike, and had all things in common in that sense at least.

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Frank Bartleman in “How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles (1925)

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