You Are Already Anointed: Christ in You and Signs Following

Sermon outline

Christ lives in every believer and God has already anointed you, so stop begging God from a distance and let Him speak, heal and bless through your words and hands.

1. All of you have been called: stop being decorative jewellery

   God did not save you to put you on a shelf as an ornament; He called you for a job, and one day He will ask whether you did it. You were born again of incorruptible seed and made a partaker of the divine nature, yet many still live as carnal Christians. Selfishness keeps people from serving, but whatever your profession, you can do your work and preach the gospel, and open your home to other believers.

   Illustration: A lady puts on a piece of jewellery to look nice for an occasion, then takes it off and puts it away for a year or two. And: 'If you're a panel beater, yes, panel beat and preach the gospel. If you're a seamstress, sew and preach the gospel.'

   “God did not save you to put you on a shelf as a decorative emblem to beautify the shelf.”

   • 1 Peter 1:23
   • 2 Peter 1:4
   • Proverbs 29:25
   • 2 Peter 1:21

2. You are in Christ, and Christ is in you

   It is God who establishes us in Christ. You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body, your 'earth suit', so the real you is the recreated spirit man on the inside. Getting that revelation will catapult you to the next level, because you stop seeing yourself as merely human and see yourself as a God-man or God-woman.

   Illustration: He asks people where they live: one says Newlands East, one Newlands West, and one says 'I live in Christ'.

   “The real you is not you that I see. The real you is your spirit man on the inside.”

   • 2 Corinthians 1:21
   • 1 Thessalonians 5:23

3. God is not out in space: you are His temple

   Religion tries to reach God at some distant point, fasting for 21 days and hoping He hears. Daniel's answer was delayed by the prince of Persia, but that was the Old Testament; Jesus has since triumphed over principalities, taken the keys and promised never to leave us. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, so your hands, feet, eyes and mouth are God's, and wherever you show up, there is church.

   Illustration: The believer who keeps fasting 21 days a year, thinking 'I'm like Daniel', and lives in a cycle of hopelessness while forgetting that Christ is in him.

   “Everywhere you present yourself, there is church. You just have to show up.”

   • 1 Corinthians 6:19
   • Daniel 10:12-13
   • Colossians 2:15
   • Revelation 1:18
   • Hebrews 13:5
   • Matthew 28:20
   • Matthew 5:14

4. When you speak, God speaks through you

   When someone needs help, do not just say 'let us pray and trust God'; you have a mandate to speak. There is a boardroom inside you where Christ, the Holy Ghost and your spirit commune, and when words come out they create. Christians are not beggars but kings and priests, so stop praying beggarly prayers and use the authority you have been given.

   Illustration: A man who drove him and Pastor Zubeda to meetings the year before asked for prayer to get married. He did not ask God to search for a wife; he told the man that this time next year he would be married. He had just received a voicemail inviting him to the wedding.

   “Christians are not beggars. God's not created you to be a beggar.”

   • Revelation 1:6
   • Genesis 1:26

5. You are anointed, not going to be anointed

   God has anointed us, sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. Being anointed means being smeared with God's presence, and it rubs off on your car, home, office and clothes. Your hands are anointed, so money that passes through them multiplies and sowing is never a loss; your feet are beautiful because they carry the gospel; and as a child of God you cannot lose.

   Illustration: At an airport restaurant the whole place was 'anointed' with cigarette smoke, so they turned round and left. In the same way a believer's presence fills a house, and a visitor's headache can leave just from being there.

   “I'm not going to be anointed. I am anointed.”

   • 2 Corinthians 1:21-22
   • Acts 4:34-35
   • Romans 10:15

6. God deals with us in the past tense

   After the first healing he explains that the church has been immobilised by trying to get an anointing it already has, always putting blessing in the future tense. God has already blessed us, anointed us and given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. Become 'God-inside-minded', conscious that you carry the divine presence.

   Illustration: A visitor with throat pain is healed as soon as he commands it, without a long prayer.

   “For too long, the church has been immobilized because we thought we were trying to get anointing when we already anointed.”

   • 2 Peter 1:3
   • 2 Corinthians 1:20

7. The spirit world is more real than the material world

   The Word of God has authority over sickness, doctors' reports and every material thing, but it needs a voice of faith to speak it. Speak to sickness to go and to promotion, money and favour to come, and do not be afraid to pray for people at work or in the street. Do not carry hatred or bitterness, because they cripple your faith; love makes your faith work.

   Illustration: Some people are afraid even to speak to their car, yet Jesus spoke to a tree and to fish.

   “Any hatred, any bitterness stifles your faith. It cripples your faith.”

   • Mark 11:14
   • 2 Timothy 1:7
   • Galatians 5:6