Imitation will break Limitation

24Mar10

People tend to make following the anointing very personal.  Everyone is trying to “give their supply”… the only problem is that most of us don’t start out with any clue of what that actually means.

Here’s a simple way to learn how to flow in the anointing and eventually discover how to give your supply.

1.  Follow your leader.  It’s that simple… follow them as they follow Christ.  Assume that you are a moron and that they know more than you (after all God did put them in charge of you).  If they question something, assume there is a reason they are questioning it…

I learned to follow the anointing in my life by imitating the leaders ahead of me.  If Apostle David or my mom or dad had an unction to do something (especially something that seemed “wrong” to me) rather than fighting it I finally learned to question it.  Not in the sense of “they shouldn’t be doing that… why are they doing that…”   but in the sense of really wondering “why are they doing that?”  what is it that they are picking up on that I’m not, or what are they seeing that I’m not.  It was in those places that I learned to flow in the anointing.

Often our first response to these interjections by these people is to think “that’s not right” … or “that doesn’t fit the way I would do it… so it must be wrong”… or “if you’re gonna do it … you just do it… I’ll get out of the way”.  There is this offense that comes because we are mad that we were “corrected”.  When in actuality it had to do with my own pride, my own desire to “please”, my own insecurities of trying to always be perfect.   Anyway, until I get past being offended and learn to pursue after why my leader was questioning or changing or doing something different.  So that I changed my thinking to be like theirs, not so their thinking would change to be like mine.  I had to learn to value the leaders over me.  By doing that I became an imitator of them.  As I began to imitate them, I would discover what it was that they were actually seeing.  As I began to discover that it changed how I gave my supply.  See the anointing is not going to conform to your skills, instead your skills must conform to the anointing.  It’s not about this great knowledge of how to speak, or how to create music, or how pray… instead it’s about finding what He’s seeing and making my knowledge of how to speak, or how to play music, or how to pray conform to the anointing. This is the trap… we conform God’s anointing to our image instead of conforming our image to His anointing.

So it starts this simple.  How do I know the anointing?  I follow my leader.  In following the anointed leader over me and valuing them more than my knowledge, my wisdom, and my way of doing things… I will discover the heart of the anointing and I will be transformed from my natural ability into a realm of supernatural that aligns my natural ability with His supernatural ability and the anointing will flow.  It’s only in the crushing of our will, our wisdom, and our desires and exchanging them for His that we will see the anointing.

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