HOW WILL YOU RESPOND WHEN GOD TAKES AWAY
YOUR ANOINTING AND GIVES IT TO SOMEONE ELSE!
God does not anoint any and every body. When God anoints a person, He has a work for them to do. To anoint means to set apart for a purpose or a work and with that anointing, in due time, He gives them the power to carry out His work. Understand that pouring oil on someone's head does not complete the anointing. The anointing can only be complete when God accepts the person. Therefore, before any anointing can be successful, God has to give His approval and once He approves He endows the person with His power so that he can carry out the mission for God.
Now King Saul was such a man that God had anointed for a work. He set him apart to be King over Israel. He endowed him with power to lead His people, gave him great leadership ability, and directed him on how to lead and love His people. As long as he was operating under God's anointing he was a very successful king, but when he stopped consulting God and allowed his success to go to his head, God began to remove his anointing from Saul. Because of his disobedience Saul lost his anointing, he lost his relationship with God and to top it all off he also lost his kingdom.
My dear children, when we refuse to obey God our lives are doomed to fail. If God had found some good thing in you and has set you apart for some good work, don't think for one minute that just because God has given you a kingdom and has anointed you for that purpose, that you are in complete control with no one to account to. We must always remember that the one that anointed us and gave us power to carry out His work is mightier than we are. If He is able to anoint us and set us apart, then He is able to take our anointing away.
This is what happened to King Saul in 1st Samuel: Chapter 15. Because of his disobedience, Saul lost everything and God took his anointing and his kingdom and gave it to his neighbor (David) and Saul wanted to repent but Samuel had to tell him repentance would not help because God had rejected him. Therefore, if God has blessed us with His anointing let us be sure to take care and give God the Praise and Glory for it and let us always remember that it is not about us any way. It was all about that little spark of good that God saw in us.
P.S. My wife and I thank you so much, for what you have done for us by allowing us to lead you these past Twenty-Nine Years. We love you more than words can say.
GOD BLESS YOU
BE GOOD TO EACH OTHER
PASTOR J. H. MILLER, SR.
