WHICH ANOINTING DO YOU OPERATE UNDER
Speaker: Pastor Benson Bennyhinn
Sunday 10th January 2010
There are two kinds of anointing. The bottle anointing and the
horn anointing. 1 Samuel 8:4. Then all the responsible men of
Israel
got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,
1Sa 8:5 And said to him, See now, you are old, and
your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that
we may be like the other nations.
1Sa 8:6 But Samuel was not pleased when they said to
him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.
1Sa 8:7 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the
voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away
from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king
over them.
1Sa 8:8 As they have done from the first, from the
day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and
worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.
1Sa 8:9 Give ear now to their voice: but make a
serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will
be their ruler.
1Sa 8:10 And Samuel said all these words of the Lord
to the people who were desiring a king.
1Sa 8:11 And he said, This is the sort of king who
will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his
horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his
war-carriages;
Psalm 37:4 God granted the
Israelites the desires of their hearts.
If the anointing you have is not
of God, then you would not walk in the ways of God. God spoke to Samuel and
said
The bottle anointing takes you
very fast to the royalty and thereafter, because it was not from God, it is
very easy to fall. Normally this kind of anointing comes very fast and the fall
is very fast. This kind of anointing also lets you do the will of men. You
listen to men and do their will for they are the ones who anointed you.
1 Samuel 9:3-6 1Sa 9:3 Now the asses of Saul's father Kish
had gone wandering away. And Kish
said to his son Saul, Take one of the servants with you, and get up and go in
search of the asses.
1Sa 9:4 So they
went through the hill-country of Ephraim and through the land of Shalishah, but they saw no sign of
them: then they went through the land of Shaalim, but they were
not there: and they went through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not
come across them.
1Sa 9:5 And when they had come to the land
of Zuph,
Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us go back, or my father
may give up caring about the asses and be troubled about us.
1Sa 9:6 But the servant said to him, See now, in this
town there is a man of God, who is highly honoured, and everything he says
comes true: let us go there now; it may be that he will give us directions
about our journey.
Saul paid no price for the kind of anointing He
received. He was in the busyness of looking for his fathers lost donkeys. But in the process he met the man of God
Samuel who told him that he was the king of the land according to the desire of the people.
Vs 11-12 1Sa 9:11 And when they were on the way up to the town,
they saw some young girls going out to get water and said to them, Is the seer
here?
1Sa 9:12 And they
said, He is; in fact he is before you: go quickly now, for he has come into the
town today, for the people are making an offering in the high place today:
Saul in the process of being made king over Israel, he had
not gone to seek the will of God. Vs 16 1Sa 9:16
Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and
on him you are to put the holy oil, making him ruler over my people Israel, and
he will make my people safe from the hands of the Philistines: for I have seen
the sorrow of my people, whose cry has come up to me.
This was a response to the Israelites’ cry that
they wanted to be like other nations. It therefore was the will of the Israelites
and not the will of God.
If the anointing does not emanate
from God, you will misbehave. And will lead you to straying. After Saul being
King over Israel,
he never regarded God and he lead and did according to his will or the demands
of people. This was because the anointing was not from God.
When he was given the report of
him being rejected by God, he turned to Samuel and tore his garment and Samuel spoke
to him saying that the same way you have tore my garment so will your kingdom
be torn.
Lets look at the second anointing
– the horn anointing.
Ref.1Samuel 13:8-11
1 Samuel 10:1
There are two people anointed by
the same man while one is anointed with the bottle and the other is anointed
with the oil from the horn.
It surprised other people that
Saul was prophesying. This implied that there was a procedure to become a prophet.
What will not have the pain for what you have not paid a
price for. 1 Samuel 16:12 1Sa 16:12 So he sent and made him come
in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord
said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.
1Sa 16:13 Then Samuel took the bottle of
oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the
spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.
The one that was chosen by people; Saul was
anointed with the bottle.. but the one that God Himself chose; David was
anointed from the horn. The bottle anointing will take you from your home to
the royalty while the horn anointing will take you from home to the wilderness.
The horn itself, is not a cheap thing to find. The horn must have at one particular time been on the animal. The
animal must have died, the horn thrown away, rotten and even smelled at one
particular time. When this is picked it was something that once was useless.
For you to be in possession of a horn,
there must be blood shedding or there must
be death.
The anointing that David received; horn
anointing, took him to the wildersness that David may himself die so that when
he will be in kingship, he nwould not see himself but will glorify God. When
one day, the tabernacle was brought, David danced until his wife mocked him but
he responded saying that ‘I am dancing for God who has brought me this far.
You may be going through a hard situation and it
seems like god had gone on a safari in your life. But may speak to you today,
it may be the horn anointing that is operating in your life. You might be seeing
a lot of wilderness, no school fee, rent, what is always happening to you seems
like you are forgotten of God. May I speak too you today, you are in the wilderness
and when the wilderness is over, you will be lifted and be taken to royalty. Once
lifted, no situation will withstand you. Go for the horn anointing.
The characteristics of horn
anointing
1.
Takes you from home to wilderness
2.
Will make not fear change obstacles or challenges
3.
Makes you to be entirely dependant on God. People
may desert you but you will only be dependant on God. Psalm 121:1-8. it makes
you trust in God.
4.
Makes you strong and courageous. Even though you
may be going through challenges, you will be courageous.
5.
When the bottle anointing was running away from
the battle, the horn anointing was asking “what shall be done to the man who
shall fell this uncircumcised philistine.
6.
Will take you from wilderness to royalty. 1
Samuel 18:1-2
7.
makes you humble always and ready for
repentance
The bottle anointing is full of me/I but the horn
anointing will glorify God.
Be ready to pay the price for the
The characteristics of bottle anointing
1.
Takes you from home to the palace.
2.
Will make not fear change obstacles or challenges
3.
Makes you to accomplish the will and desire of
your people or subjects.
4.
No price is really paid so no care or courtesy is
considered.
5.
When the bottle and arrogant.
6.
Will take you from palace to obscurity. 1 Samuel
18:1-2
7.
Makes you arrogant and proud. The bottle
anointing is full of me/I.
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