The answer can be found in the Word of God! We do not have to be distant from God because of His mystery; God follows patterns. What bothered God two thousand years ago still bothers Him today. Therefore, we can apply Scripture prophetically to our lives.
In Mark 12, Jesus tells the Parable of the Tenants. Just as the tenants dishonored the master and killed his son, as the Pharisees and other Jewish people rejected and ultimately crucified Jesus, people today want their own ways and do not allow God to rule over their lives. Even in churches today, Jesus’ existence as Savior, saving believers from hell, is emphasized while His lordship over our lives is de-emphasized. When anyone rejects God’s rule and reign, God takes what He gave and gives it to someone else. This “change of hands” or shift is how we can get a fresh anointing from God.
Revival is not just jumping up and down or singing longer and louder. When the power and presence of God hits, it brings us to our knees.
Steve Gray
When the power of God breaks out, God might pick the most unlikely of people to receive His anointing. We can position ourselves to be open to receiving His mantle and fresh anointing—if we seek God and love Him with all our hearts, minds, souls, and strength.
1 Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 2 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. 5 He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed. 6 “He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 “But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. 9 “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
Mark 12:30
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
1 Kings 19:19
So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.
Questions:
How do the parables that Jesus told relate to us today?
Is there a fresh anointing available today?
Have I positioned myself to be picked by God and receive the fresh anointing or mantle?
Am I truly seeking God with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength?
Episode Notes:
2:58 God follows patterns. If He didn’t like something during Bible times, He doesn’t like it today!
8:31You can’t make [Jesus] Savior and not Lord. He is Savior and Lord. Some people want to get saved so they can go to heaven and not hell, but they don’t want Him to be Lord over their lives.
14:59Why would He give me an opportunity? … People gave up their opportunity, and now it’s going to go to someone else who wouldn’t have had the opportunity.
16:09Revival is not just jumping up and down or singing longer and louder. When the power and presence of God hits, it brings us to our knees.
19:13The mantle of Elijah is in the air. Who is it going to land on? Those who are truth seekers of God. Those who truly want to love the Lord their God with all their heart, their soul, their mind, and put their strength in it!
