Guest Article
Pastor Peter Barbour
Aylmer Full Gospel Church

his is one of the most complete verses in the Word of God, in that it describes the who, what, why and where of Christian ministry. We learn first of all that it is God who anoints; God's anointing is God's ability. The only way we are going to be successful in doing God's will is to do it with His ability. We also see from this that all the works that Jesus did were performed using the anointing He received from God. When we realize that all the healings, miracles and deliverances that Jesus carried out in His ministry were a direct result of the anointing then we can see how important it is that we have this ability working in our own lives.

The verse then goes on to tell us what God anointed Jesus with, it says that God anointed Jesus with the Holy Ghost and with power. The Holy Spirit performs many functions in our lives but one of His outstanding qualities is that He is the powerhouse of God. fter overcoming the temptations in the wilderness, it tells us in the Gospel of Luke that Jesus 'came out in the power of the Holy Spirit'. Up to this point in the life of Jesus there were no healings, no miracles; but after this experience we see the dead raised, the sick healed and, on numerous occasions, all present delivered.

As a result of this anointing we are informed that 'Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil'. This anointing from God enables us to go about doing good and this good is defined as freeing people from oppression. We also see from this that, in the eyes of God, sickness and disease comes under the heading of oppression and comes from the devil. From this we can learn a very important theological lesson, namely, that God is the healer and the devil is the oppressor. This truth has to be established in the church and the lie that God makes people sick and healing is from the devil thrown out once and for all.

The verse ends by telling us that Jesus was enabled to do all these mighty works because 'God was with Him'.  When God gives you an anointing, He gives you Himself, that is why Jesus said that the works that He did, He not do them of Himself, but the Father within Him did them.  You are a carrier of the anointing and everywhere you go you have the ability to release God into any situation and see it changed for the better.

To sum up, God will anoint you with the Holy Ghost and with power and as you go about with the intention of doing good you will have the ability to heal all that are oppressed of the devil because God will be with you.