The Anointing of the Holy Spirit

We began by emptying ourselves of the things that were polluting our lives and our walk with God. Then, we filled those emptying places with the Person and Presence of the Holy Spirit. Now, we are learning to walk in a lifestyle that is always abounding, overflowing, in the Holy Spirit. This started with discovering, or rediscovering, that the Holy Spirit really wants to fellowship with us on a constant basis. Today, we are going to go deeper.

Very often in the Old Testament, water represents the presence and work of the Holy Spirit. As we apply the symbolism of this prophecy to our own lives, we can see that there are varying degrees of the anointing of the Holy Spirit we can choose to operate in. For some of us, we operate in an anointing that is only ankle-deep. Some of us are waist-deep, others neck-deep. However, there are mighty currents in the river of God that put us in a position where we no longer have to stand on our own; instead, we can move in the flow of God.

In 1 John 2:27, we see a reference to the anointing of the Spirit.

We see reference to the anointing again in Isaiah 10:27, amidst the prophecy of the remnants of Israel. From this passage, we can see that the anointing of the Spirit has great power and, as the verse states, can “destroy the yoke” and burden.

We must confess before God our desire to get out of the ankle-depth and waist-depth we have been operating in. We need to ask God for such an increase that we would only be able to swim in it – for a full anointing of the Holy Spirit.