{"id":4825,"date":"2017-06-02T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2017-05-30T07:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:36:49","slug":"another-coffee-break-the-psalm-23-adventure-part-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-the-psalm-23-adventure-part-42\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: THE PSALM 23 ADVENTURE, Part 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"307\" title=\"defaultblog1\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-400x269.jpg 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-1\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#171717;--awb-margin-top:5px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><div class=\"reading-box\" style=\"background-color:#f6f6f6;border-width:0px;border-color:#f6f6f6;border-top-width:3px;border-top-color:var(--primary_color);border-style:solid;\"><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-flex\"><h2>ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: THE PSALM 23 ADVENTURE, Part 42<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=WordSection1>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:\n12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#747474'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b>\n<span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>June 2, 2017<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;mso-themecolor:accent6;\nmso-themeshade:128'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>Felicitations and Blessings,\neveryone!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We are all aware of the clich\u00e9\nthat comes with Friday: TGIF.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Nope!<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Not for me, and not for our family!<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Our labors run seven days a week.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Now, don\u2019t get me wrong. <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>Sunday is a day of rest, and that\u2019s because\nthe total change of routine and activity is a break \u2013 and a rest \u2013 from the\nbusiness activities that go on Monday through Saturday.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>But it is still a very busy day of ministry,\nof sharing, of teaching, etc., and the refreshing that comes in the presence of\nthe Lord brings a rest that no amount of sleep can replace.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>Last week we wrapped up \u2013 OK, we\njust decided to close out \u2013 our discussion on the Table set before us in the\npresence of our enemies.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We could have\ntaken that discussion a lot farther, but I felt like it was time to move on to\nwhat we could easily consider one of the most significant highlights of our\nPsalm 23 adventure \u2013 and that\u2019s the anointing that comes following our\nexperience with the Table.<a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>This\nis among the most significant of moments in the life of those who walk\nfaithfully with the Lord, who walk in obedience, and who refuse to compromise\nor alter in any way the commands of the Lord.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>It is absolutely life-changing!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>We will spend more time on this topic than we have with some of the\nprevious adventures that take place as we follow the Lord in the Paths of\nRighteousness.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>We\u2019ve\nalready covered this very briefly as we began this series on the Psalm 23\nAdventure, but here\u2019s what David writes:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Psalm 23:5b<\/span><\/u><\/b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>: <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>Thou anointest my\nhead with oil<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Now,\ntake a look at the significance of what this meant to David \u2014 and what it means\nto us.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Psalm 89:20-37<\/span><\/u><\/b><span style='font-size:\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'>I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed\nhim:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>With whom my hand\nshall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>The enemy shall not\nexact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>And I will beat down\nhis foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>But my faithfulness\nand my mercy <i>shall be<\/i> with him: and in my name shall his horn be\nexalted.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>I will set his hand\nalso in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>He shall cry unto me,\nThou <i>art<\/i> my father, my God, and the rock of my <span class=SpellE>salvation.Also<\/span>\nI will make him <i>my<\/i> firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>My mercy will I keep\nfor him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>His seed also will I\nmake <i>to endure<\/i> <span class=SpellE>for ever<\/span>, and his throne as the\ndays of heaven.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>If his children\nforsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>If they break my\nstatutes, and keep not my commandments;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>Then will I visit\ntheir transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>Nevertheless my\nlovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to\nfail.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>My covenant will I\nnot break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>Once have I sworn by\nmy holiness that I will not lie unto David.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>His seed shall endure\n<span class=SpellE>for ever<\/span>, and his throne as the sun before me.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>It shall be\nestablished for ever as the moon, and <i>as<\/i> a faithful witness in heaven.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>You just can\u2019t get a better picture of this\nevent than what God promised and covenanted to and with David.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Remember, David was anointed to become King\nof Israel when he was still only 17 years of age.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>There was going to be some walking out of\nthis covenant in his life, and he was going to experience first-hand just how\nstupendous the anointing of the Lord was going to be in his life in the weeks,\nmonths and years to come.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>David was going\nto come to understand \u201canointing\u201d like no one else before him.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Let\u2019s first understand just what\n\u201canointing\u201d is all about.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Both the Hebrew and Greek languages denote\nphysical contact when anointing take place.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>The most common Hebrew word is, <\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Gourmand\",\"serif\";color:navy'>mashach<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>, and it means: <\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Antique\",\"serif\";color:#944A00'>to rub, to\nsmear, to spread like a liquid<\/span><\/u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The corresponding Greek word is, <\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Gourmand\",\"serif\";color:navy'>chrio<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>, (from where we\nget the words, <\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Gourmand\",\"serif\";\ncolor:navy'>chrisma<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>, and <\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Gourmand\",\"serif\";color:navy'>charisma<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>) and Thayer\ndefines this word like this: <\/span><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Antique\",\"serif\";color:#944A00'>through the idea of physical\ncontact, to smear or to rub with oil, to consecrate and set apart<\/span><\/u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The concept of physical contact is what is\nstriking, both in Hebrew and Greek.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>To\ncome into physical contact is literally a picture of the Lord having physical\ncontact with you and imparting the dynamic power and authority which is\nintrinsic to His nature, character and makeup by His very touch!<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>There is something dramatic that occurs when\nthe Lord touches us and imparts Himself.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>His authority is released to function in and through us.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>A notable and demonstrable power has been\ninfused into our spirits and very beings that empowers us to be an extension of\nthe rulership of the Lord over situations, over diseases, over the power of the\nEnemy and over death itself.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Let\u2019s go another direction for a few\nminutes to look at what happened with Jesus.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Consider that Jesus <b><i>knew<\/i><\/b> Who\nHe was, even at an early age.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>At age\ntwelve, He is confounding the wisdom and understanding of the Scribes and\nPharisees in the Temple with His knowledge and understanding of the Scriptures.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Yet, until He was 30 years of age, we have no\nrecord whatever \u2014 even in contemporary, historical documents \u2014 that Jesus was\nanything but a normal young man with the learned and practiced skills of\ncarpentry.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Did Jesus know throughout all those early\nyears just what His destiny was?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Of\ncourse He did, but there was a practical walking out in His life of Father\u2019s\nplan and purposes.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>He was \u2014 as Paul\nwrites in Hebrews 5:8 \u2014 learning through experience.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>Though He were a Son,\nyet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Jesus was already the Son of God when He\ncame into this world.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>But being released\nto function with the anointing and empowering of Holy Spirit in His life did\nnot come until He was roughly 30 years of age.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>It\u2019s an interesting parallel to see that\nalthough David was anointed to become King over Israel at age 17, he had some\nyears of learning and overcoming ahead of him.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>David had to learn how to rule and reign in a practical sense before the\nrulership of the nation would be given to him.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>The practical lessons he would have in those intervening years would pay\noff in abundance when he actually ascended to the throne of Israel.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>David was not handed the sceptre of rulership\nuntil he was 30 years of age \u2014 and even his first years of rulership were only\nover Judah \u2014 and not the entire nation of Israel.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>It has been interesting for me to see the\ndifferences in some of those whom the Lord has instructed me to anoint with\noil.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Some folks laugh at me because the\nclich\u00e9, \u201ca little dab\u2019ll do ya,\u201d has never worked.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>When I\u2019ve been instructed to pour oil over\npeople and anoint them for various kinds of ministry and endeavors, things tend\nto get pretty generous.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>I just don\u2019t see\nSamuel taking a little dab of oil and touching David on the forehead.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Take a look at a couple of verses in I Samuel\n16.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.35pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I Samuel 16:1<\/span><\/u><\/b><span style='font-size:\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>: <\/span><span style='font-size:\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>And the LORD\nsaid unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him\nfrom reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee\nto Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>You\nsee it, right?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>\u201cFill\nthine horn with oil.\u201d <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>Does that sound like \u201c a little dab?\u201d<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Then there\u2019s this one.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\ncolor:black'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I Samuel 16:12b-13<\/span><\/u><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>: <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>And\nthe LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this <i>is<\/i> he.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and\nanointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon\nDavid from that day forward.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Anyway,\nwhere I was headed with my comments was that it has often taken anywhere from a\nyear to a fair number of years before we\u2019ve seen the purpose of the anointing\nactually manifest itself and be revealed or show itself in the ministry that\nfollows.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Guess\nI got a bit off track for a moment.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We\nwere going to take a look at what happened with Jesus.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Matthew 3:13-17<\/span><\/u><\/b><span style='font-size:\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'>Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be\nbaptized of him.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>But John forbad Him,\nsaying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer <i>it\nto be so<\/i> now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he\nsuffered him.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'>And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the\nwater: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, <u>and He saw the Spirit of\nGod descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him<\/u>:<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is\nmy beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>First\nwe see the physical contact as the anointing occurs when the Holy Spirit\ndescends upon Jesus in the form of a dove and rests upon Him.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Then we hear Father\u2019s decree and declaration\nin the words, <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'>This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\ncolor:black'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>There\nis a dramatic event unfolding here that may not be immediately obvious at first\nglance, and in order to get the perspective of what is taking place, let\u2019s go\nback to something that we see recorded in both Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We have Isaiah\u2019s and Ezekiel\u2019s prophecies\nagainst Lucifer, his pride, his arrogance, his rebellion and his effort to\nusurp the Throne of God for himself and pronounce himself as God.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Without\ngetting into all of the details (and I will come back to this picture a bit\nlater to show you an even greater dimension of what God is doing in our lives\nwhen we reach this place where He anoints us for His destiny in our lives) the\nonce empowered Lucifer, \u201cSon of the Morning,\u201d is removed from his place at the\nThrone and thrown out of Heaven, along with a third of the angels, who had\njoined him in his rebellion.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>From that\nmoment forth, he became known as \u201cthe Serpent,\u201d or \u201cthe Accuser\u201d \u2014 Satan, if\nyou will.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\nanger in him over his being removed from his place before the Throne of God now\npropels him to target this new species of being God has created as his\nreplacement \u2014 man.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>With the deception he\nhas managed to pull on Adam and Eve, God makes a promise that will haunt him\nfor his entire existence on earth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Genesis 3:15<\/span><\/u><\/b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>And\nI will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her\nseed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>From\nthis moment on, Satan will know that there is coming One who will put him under\nHis feet and crush him and his power.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\ncolor:black'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>When\nJesus is born, He comes into this world as \u201cthe seed of a woman\u201d \u2014 born of a\nwoman and thus qualifying to be a member of the human race, and yet having been\nimplanted in Mary\u2019s womb by Holy Spirit, thus being free of the curse and the\nlaw of sin and death imposed on the human race as a result of Adam\u2019s fall.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Satan absolutely must do everything in his\npower to defeat the One who will permanently eliminate him from access to the\nThrone.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>If\nhe can successfully manage to get Jesus to respond to any of his requests, he\nwill have stopped the threat to his existence.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>We won\u2019t record the entire event here from Matthew 4, but the essence of\nit is that Jesus <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#A50021'>\u201cwas in all points tempted like as <i>we are, yet<\/i> without\nsin.\u201d<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>(Hebrews 4:15)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Here\u2019s\nwhat makes this event critical for all of us, and it is why we\u2019ve had the Table\nof the Lord set before us in the presence of our enemies \u2014 those same enemies\nwho are still in attendance when the anointing takes place.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Matthew\ntells us the following:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Matthew 4:1-2<\/span><\/u><\/b><span style='font-size:\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>: <\/span><span style='font-size:\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#A50021'>Then was Jesus\nled up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>And when he had fasted forty days and forty\nnights, he was afterward an hungered.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Do\nyou see it?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>It was the Holy Spirit that\nled Him into the wilderness for the express purpose of being tempted \u2014 and yes,\nthis is not just testing, this is tempting.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>Jesus had to beat Satan at his own game for our sakes because of what\nwas (and is) to come.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Because of the\nfasting, his flesh was it its weakest and he would have been the most\nvulnerable to the temptations.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>Understand that Father knew exactly what would take place, but it was\ncritical to the pattern that Jesus would set on our behalf because of the\ndimension of anointing that would follow.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>This\nis a topic with a whole lot of ground to cover, and we\u2019re not even going to\nscratch the surface today, so let\u2019s stop here and continue this picture next\ntime.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>See you next week.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>I remind those of you\nin need of ministry that our Healing Prayer Call normally takes place on the\nfirst Monday of each month at 7:00 PM Eastern (4:00 PM Pacific). <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>Our call-in number is <\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(712) 775-7035.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>The Access Code is: <\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>323859#.<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#002060'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>For Canadians who have\ndifficulty getting in to this number, you can call <\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(559) 546-1400<\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>If someone answers and asks what your original\ncall-in number was, you can give them the 712 number and access code.<\/span><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>At the same time, in\ncase you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment of Ekklesia, our\nSunday worship gatherings are available by conference call \u2013 usually at about\n10:45AM Pacific.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>That conference number\nis <\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>, and the access code is <\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>308640#.<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#002060'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these gatherings\navailable by Skype.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you wish to\nparticipate by video on Skype, my Skype ID is regner.capener.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you miss the live voice call, you can dial\n<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(712) 770-4169<\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>, enter the same access code and listen in later.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of course, is not recorded \u2013\nnot yet, anyway.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>B<b>lessings\non 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Should you desire to\nparticipate and covenant with us as partners in this ministry, please contact\nus at either of the above email or physical addresses, or visit:&nbsp;<\/span><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.riverworshipcenter.org\/\"\ntitle=\"http:\/\/www.riverworshipcenter.org\/\"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'>http:\/\/www.RiverWorshipCenter.org<\/span><\/a><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'>.<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicitations and Blessings, everyone!  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