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Romans 8:11 “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”
DAILY READING – • Matthew 11:1-19; Leviticus 11-12; Proverbs 24
William Seymour’s parents were emancipated slaves, who owned a small farm. They were poor and Seymour often earned money by working as a laborer. In the early 1900s, he contracted smallpox and lost his left eye, replacing it with a glass prosthetic eye.
Lacking formal education and blind in one eye, Seymour taught himself to read, mainly through studying the Bible.
Seymour lived during the height of racial segregation in America and often felt the sting of racial prejudice.
After hearing the famous evangelist, Charles Parham teach that the baptism of the Holy Spirit came with the initial evidence of tongues, Seymour was persuaded to attend Charles Parham’s Bible school to learn more.
But as Seymour attended Charles F. Parham’s Bible school in Houston, Texas, even there he could not escape racism. He was allowed to attend lectures, but while white students sat in the classroom, Seymour had to sit in the hallway.
In 1906, William J. Seymour travelled about 1,500 miles alone to and arrived in Los Angeles where he had been invited to preach at a Holiness mission in the city. But after Seymour preached about baptism of the Holy and speaking in tongues, it so vexed the founder of the church, that when Seymour returned for service in the evening, he found the doors padlocked against him and he was refused entrance.
A Church member, who felt sorry for the stranded preacher, gave Seymour temporary accommodation in his home. There, Seymour spent a lot of time in prayer and in fasting. The result of the much prayer was an eruption of the power of the Holy Spirit that transformed Seymour’s life and ministry.
It led to the Azusa Street revival, which is commonly regarded as the beginning of the modern-day Pentecostal Movement. Today, there are close to a billion Pentecostal and charismatic believers across the globe, and it is the fastest-growing form of Christianity.
William Seymour was grossly disadvantaged as a poor black man who had only one eye. Yet, when he connected to the power of the Holy Spirit, his story drastically changed and the anointing announced him to his generation.
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is the divine enablement that activates the destinies of men for exploits.
The word anoint' comes from the Hebrew wordMASHACH.’
It means `to smear or rub.’
This signifies that the presence of God is so smeared or rubbed on you like oil, that His presence is left on you, causing divine excellence and power.
When you are anointed, you become empowered by God for extraordinary accomplishments. The anointing causes us to operate in the supernatural.
It takes the anointing for any believer to be effective in his life and calling. No king in Israel could ascend the throne without first being anointed to occupy the office.
The anointing is the power we require to go beyond our limited human capabilities and achieve incredible feats for God.
When God asked Zerubbabel to build the temple, He said to him ‘This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.’ [Zechariah 4:6-7].
The Holy Spirit gives you power within that enables you; to see, to think, to say and to do things ordinary men can’t.
Through the anointing of the Spirit, the apostles went beyond being ordinary men, to become supernatural beings that turned their world ‘upside down’ and made great impacts in their generation.
Likewise as we connect to the Holy Spirit, He will enable us to come to the full manifestation of our divine destiny and make great global impacts.
God has so much divine treasures deposited in us that is meant to bless our world, but it will take the Spirit to see them activated .
In this new month of November let us believe God for a divine quickening that will launch us into new realms of exploits.
We can’t afford to continue living ordinary mediocre lives, while the greatness destined for us remains dormant and unactivated.
In this 11th month let us get ready for 11th hour miracles as God does a new and quick work in our lives. As the Spirit is poured upon us from on high every wilderness will be turned into a fruitful field.
Certainly the Lord will do something new in our lives. He will even make a way in the wilderness, and cause rivers to flow in the desert for us. ( Isaiah 43:19).
Let us therefore spiritually position ourselves for a fresh encounter with the mighty Spirit of God in this season.
Through renewed appetite for God’s Word, fervent prayers and passionate worship, we will experience an eruption of power that will bring us into the realm of sweatless triumph and empower us for victory and breakthroughs!
PRAYER: Lord, please help me to spiritually position myself in this new month for a fresh encounter with Your Spirit. By Your grace I will surely experience the activation of the great destiny You have ordained for me in Jesus Name
QUOTE;
There is something that God has placed within you that the world is eagerly awaiting to see.– WORDBITE 222.