WE CAN PARTICIPATE IN CHRIST'S ANOINTING

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: “And they realized that they had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13). DAILY FIRE! - Christ For All Nations We carry the fragrance of Jesus upon us. Scripture calls Jesus the Anointed One: “Simon Peter answered and said, ‘You are the Christ [the Anointed One], the Son of the living God’” (Matthew 16:16). Jesus is as exclusively anointed as He was exclusively the Son of God. “Christ” is from the Greek christos, which translates as the Hebrew “Messiah.”  Everything denoted by the anointing of the tabernacle and priests and kings is fulfilled in Jesus. Christ is our priest-king: “Your garments are scented.” He carried the purity and odor of heaven, that evocative and subtle beauty of spirit that makes Him the Anointed One, distinguished from all others.  He drew people, not merely by power or “charisma” in the popular sense, but by love, moving in the atmosphere of His own holiness, which people had never breathed before. If we can put it this way: Jesus was God’s “Alabaster Box,” broken for us on the cross; and now filling the world with His fragrance! We have opportunity to participate in Christ’s anointing, even as Mary did: “Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil” (John 12:3).  Our most intimate acts of worship, where we humble ourselves at His feet and give our best to Him, causes His anointing to spill over into our lives. Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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