The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor … - Jesus (the Christ)
When it is said in the Bible, “The Spirit of God fell
upon …,” it normally is succeeded with immense – obviously unnatural –
empowerment which leads to success in a venture. When the Spirit of the Lord
fell upon Moses, he empowered seventy others to serve over Israel. When the He
fell upon Samson, he conquered thousands. When the Spirit of the Lord fell upon
the followers of Jesus, they preached and three thousand others joined them.
The Spirit of the Lord obviously will come upon every
person who is willing but, there is a fixed (by this I mean immovable)
condition. The condition is that there must be a prior, clearly understood and defined assignment. The Spirit of
the Lord will not come upon a person that is going nowhere. It makes for reason
that a person that has no need for power should not receive it. If you want to
be empowered you must have identified a reason why you should receive that
power.
How then do you identify a reason for empowerment? I would
strongly suggest you search your heart for the burdens that lie therein. Since the
Spirit of God is on a re-creational mission, then your burden will tend the
path of correcting what is not perfect. There are enough burdens in our society
to go round every folk who desires them. It may be the rot in the education
sector, or the nonexistence of good drinking water for the masses, or the plague
of drunkenness upon our young men. It does not matter what it is, what matters
is that the burden points to the area you will receive the empowerment of the
Spirit of the Lord.
May I note here that your burden, though may bring
some, will not revolve round selfish (I mean this word in the best possible
context) needs. Rather they will serve a need in society. Your burdens would be
such as Jesus (the Christ) proclaimed, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor …”
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