| Are you operating in your anointing? Let's talk about | | | | She was in her calling. She was where she was |
| the word "anointing". What is your anointing? We might | | | | supposed to be. She was born for this. A Night with |
| say it's your calling, your destiny, your purpose in life. | | | | the King. Get the movie if you haven't seen it. It's a |
| What that means is that you were born for something. | | | | powerful story about Esther. |
| Every single person within the sound of my voice or | | | | Another example is the Moses sole (a type of fish). |
| reading these words, you were born for something | | | | The Moses sole excretes a poison from its body that |
| specific. | | | | can paralyze a shark. Picture this in your mind. A shark |
| When you are anointed, things don't stick to you. You | | | | can come across the little Moses sole, open up its |
| know how a spider makes a web? Do you also know | | | | jaws, ready to devour that little fish, when the little fish |
| that every insect in the universe gets stuck in that web | | | | gives off this stuff from his body and the shark's jaws |
| except the spider? Don't you wonder why that is? Out | | | | freeze. That's your anointing, my friends. That's your |
| of the bottom of his little body he excretes oil, specific | | | | calling. Just like the Moses sole, you might be facing |
| oil only for the spider that keeps him from getting stuck | | | | something that could bring you down, stop you, kill you, |
| in his own web. When you're living in your anointing, or | | | | steal your dreams, or destroy you. But none of those |
| your calling, it's just like that spider. | | | | bad things happen because your anointing freezes the |
| When you've got the anointing going on, if something or | | | | jaws of the enemy. |
| someone is bringing you down, your anointing keeps it | | | | If you talk to Zig Ziglar, you are absolutely frozen by |
| from penetrating or stopping you. If you're in the middle | | | | his love, his compassion and his kindness. He is like |
| of a situation that might destroy somebody else, you | | | | nobody I have ever met before in my life, living in the |
| just walk right through it, kind of like the spider. | | | | middle of his anointing. It freezes everything around him |
| When you're operating in what you think you were | | | | when he opens his mouth. Isn't that where you want to |
| called to operate in, if you still feel like things get to you | | | | live? That's a good place to be. |
| too much, you might not be in that calling yet. When | | | | Our anointing - our calling as a team, as an organization |
| you're living in your calling, it's like you just walk right | | | | - is a call to change the world. People say all the time, |
| through stuff. That doesn't mean life doesn't get to you | | | | "Let's change the world," but we mean it. I need you to |
| anymore, it just means you're able to do what you | | | | really get these words. You are NOT here by |
| need to do to keep operating in your anointing. Let me | | | | accident. This team, this organization, anyone within the |
| give you some examples of living in your anointing or | | | | sound of my voice or reading these words was called |
| calling. | | | | to go out and make a positive impact. |
| The story of Esther is one of my favorite stories. | | | | We're here because people are hurting. Have you |
| Esther headed into the courts, where - even though | | | | ever had a time in your life when you were just hurting |
| she was queen - she wasn't allowed because she | | | | and you don't know what to do or how to feel better? |
| was a woman. Any woman who entered while the | | | | People are looking for some hope. We give that, and |
| courts were in session was killed; queen or no queen. | | | | now we're going to give it in bucket loads, truck loads, |
| You're dead. In she went because she had to save a | | | | railcar loads. We were born for such a time as this. |
| nation. | | | | Nothing happens by accident, and we're heading into a |
| She had to say, "Hey look King, Haman is a bad guy, | | | | year that has got me vibrating. I don't even know what |
| and when you leave town, he's going to destroy | | | | it all looks like, I just know it's huge, and I'm excited. I told |
| everybody." She knew it and she had to go in and say | | | | somebody yesterday; I'm terrified out of my mind and |
| it. She also knew that if she walked into the courts | | | | I'm also exhilarated, which is how I Know I'm headed in |
| while they were going on she would be killed, and she | | | | the right direction |
| went anyway. She walked into the courts and | | | | Are you operating in your anointing? |
| delivered her message. She wasn't killed, like the spider. | | | | |