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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
You HAD to get me going didn't ya KTS ! 
You know what men saw, including his disciples? They saw the POWER, the ANOINTING of the Holy Spirit on Jesus. They were not affected by HIS PRESENCE. The disciples went everywhere with Jesus but being in His Presence did not change them...until the day of Pentecost when the anointing, the Power of God fell on them. THEN as the Holy Spirit filled them with the PRESENCE of GOD did they change and were empowered with the Word of God.
See, everyone saw Jesus healing the sick, and even raising the dead. He turned water into wine. He fed the thousands with 2 loaves and 5 or was it 7 fish?? He taught the Word of God to the multitudes and most knew Jesus was a Prophet, the Sent One and the Messiah. They saw HIS POWER.
To sum it all up.  The Presence of God and the Anointing go hand in hand. |
Amen, dear sister countmeworthy, Amen and Amen!! I am actually rejoicing in the Lord that my previous posts got you going! What riches you shared with all of us! Hallelujah!
I appreciate what you shared: "
God's Presence and
God's anointing is not the same.
God's Presence is God's Glory and
it changes our heart. It changes our life . . .
God's anointing is
the Power of God.
It is the manifestation of God's Presence. Acts 1:8 explains this.
After (the Presence of) the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you receive Power (the Anointing)."
Both you and TAS share from the same point of view: the two wonderful experiences of the Spirit of God which are unveiled in the Scriptures. The Scriptures clearly unveil the wonderful experience of having the life of God within us, changing our hearts and our lives. The Scriptures also clearly unveil the wonderful experience of the Power, the Anointing, coming upon us for prevailing service to God. I do prefer the presenting of these truths from the point of view of our experiences as unveiled in the Scriptues compared to the LSM way of presenting "two aspects of the Spirit - essential and economical". I am not saying that the LSM way is wrong, just that I prefer sticking to the Scriptural expressions.
There is one futher matter which I find most interesting: Whenever I share with another believer some insights into God's Word which I have received from reading TAS's books, we always end up talking about verses in the Bible and about our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ. We never end up talking about how great TAS was. Even though the conversation starts with an insight gained from TAS, TAS quickly fades into the background and our focus becomes the written Word of God and our dear Lord Jesus Christ, the living Word of God! The fact that TAS always points us to Christ,
and not to himself, is really, in the final analysis, the highest compliment which can be paid to TAS's ministry.