Please note: this blog was written after a cappuccino and a self imposed time limit so my dear co-leader, Austin, doesn’t have to wait on me all day. He’s been playing the same game on his phone for the past hour… and now I’m asking for more time.
In other words, bear with me. And I hope you’ll follow the scatterbrained writing process I enjoyed today.
The past month was a bit much.
I moved rocks and the plank from my own eye in certain things.
I taught about speaking life and not being buzzkills and believing the best in others.
Then I had to do it.
I had be humble when I wasn’t acting and walking in those things.
I spoke on inheritance and how letting God’s anointing oil flow down from your head to your heart can take a while. But it’s necessary as we walk in our identity as sons and daughters. Don’t try to stop the flow by wiping that oil off you. It’s there. Walk in it.
I talked about bigger coats and how Papa prepares us with what we need.
I talked about realizing through our own understanding of our inheritance, that those around us carry and walk in the same anointing from a loving and grace giving Father.
I spoke about brokenness leading us to the fullness God has for us.
I shared my summary of the first half of 1 Samuel and apparently shared it with sass. (I need talking in front a group to be fun for me, so sass it is.)
It is something we can all learn from — as the veil was torn (fast forward to the New Covenant) and God’s presence was made available to us all at all times — the anointing became available to us all. We, as we chose to give our lives to God, were adopted in and with that comes the inheritance of a child of the living God. We all can have it.
We have been anointed.
We have inheritance in His Kingdom.
So what does it look like for you to live in this?
To trust in it?
To trust in what The Lord has done for us not only for you, personally but for the people around you?
Because as you let the anointing shape your life, you’ll realize that you have no better option than to let that anointing shape others’ lives too, both as they realize it themselves and as you allow yourself to realize it for them.
The anointing breaks the yoke.
When David is anointed (1 Samuel 16), things don’t exactly fall into place for the best life ever.
One book, A Tale of Three Kings*, says this about David’s anointing, “on that day, David was enrolled, not into the lineage of royalty but into the school of brokenness”.
I want to always walk in my anointing.
I want to always recognize it in others.
Even when they don’t realize it for themselves.
They may not ever – because that anointing hasn’t been accepted yet.
They may never fully let the oil run down over their own eyes and skin.
Never letting it soak into their heart.
But I want to always share in this gift.
I want to always know that God is walking me and others in the process of becoming sacred. Even if it involves brokenness. And at times slowly letting oil drip off my head and onto my shoulders. No matter how much I want to brush it away.
For the past two months, as I have walked alongside my friends and fellow Racers, I have been doing more and more of this.
I’ve had to let the oil drip annoyingly slowly.
Sometimes blocking my vision for what I perceive, when I know the absolute Truth is better.
I just need to be patient and wait.
I’ve had to stop myself from protecting too much. God prepares us. Brokenness is a much better thing than we realize.
I’ve wanted to scream so many times… frustrated because what I see in the men and women around me is more than what they recognize in themselves.
It’s the same lack of vision for themselves that God is wanting all of us to recognize for ourselves. He created us with inheritance. He’s created us for more.
And as I walk in more of mine… I see more in others.
I’m learning what it looks like to encourage and empower. To lead. To allow Papa to guide my words, actions and heart better to walk alongside people in their anointing.
It’s a powerful place. One that I don’t take lightly.
I am forever grateful that my Father wanted me to have this time with these people and that this is part of helping me to understand more of who He has made me to be.
I need your help stay out on the field with these people. I need your help to be able to come join them on the field for future debriefs, times when the squad regroups, rests and celebrates all of the things The Lord is doing in and through them.
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[[*I read it twice this past month — it’s super short and well worth it and so, so good::: A Tale of Three Kings by Gene Edwards]]
