We are the Body of Jesus Christ. Christ isn't Jesus' Last Name, like my last name is Hayes. The Word "Christ," means "The Anointing or The Anointed One." Jesus never referred to Himself as Anointed, until John Baptized Him in the Jordan River and the Holy Spirit came upon Him. This Anointing is the Holy Spirit of God and is the Same Spirit of God Himself, Who lives inside every born-again believer in the Body of Christ. The Holy Spirit is God, as much as any part of the God-Head, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Which part of the God-Head is God and which is not? He is God in any form of the God-Head. We've looked upon certain people as being anointed, which is true, because the Holy Spirit operates through them. We see in 1Corinthians 12, that the Holy Spirit moves in different ways at different times, but what I want you to know is, that the Holy Spirit, Who is the Anointing, lives in you all the time. It's the Holy Spirit Who did the works in Jesus' earthly ministry. Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work."
The Father Who lived in Jesus, is the Same Father, Who by the Holy Spirit, lives in you. 1Corinthians 12:7 (Amplified) says, "But to each one is given the manifestation of the Holy Spirit (the evidence, the Spiritual Illumination of the Spirit), for good and for profit." The Holy Spirit lives in you and "He gives the Gifts as He wills, for good." We must not limit Him, so as to only have one or no Gift, because we don't think we're someone who's "in a special place to receive." He's the One Who gives these Gifts as He wills, in order to do good and to profit the people.
If someone needs help, healing or anything else, then He's the One Who gives these Gifts to us, so He can meet their needs through us. We cannot limit Him, because we believe we're not anointed for the five-fold ministry. There are more people in the Body of Christ, than just those with the five-fold calling. Each of us is anointed with the Same Holy Spirit, Who gives these Gifts severally, as He wills. If you don't know that it's God's will to heal, deliver and set the captives free, then just look more closely at Jesus' earthly ministry.
The Same Holy Spirit manifested Himself in Jesus, in whatever way was needed to set the people free. He's not limited to giving believers one Gift, but He is the Gift-Giver and is able to manifest His entire ability to you, when it's needed and for whatever He's needed for.
Remember that, "The Love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit Who now lives in you." It was Love that sent Him and it's Love that set people free in Jesus' ministry. It's the Same Love and Holy Spirit, Who now lives in every believer, to set people free. It's this Love that activates the Gifts through the believer, to deliver God's people. The Holy Spirit inspires John to write to the Church in 1John 2:20 (Amplified), "But you have been anointed by, you hold a Sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from the Holy One, and you all know the Truth, or you know all things."
We've failed to recognize that those of us who've received the new birth, are all God's children. Those who are born into God's family, have been made in His Likeness and Image. We're like the First Born. We're all like our Father again, like He intended from the beginning. The Same Holy Spirit Who was in Jesus, Paul, Peter, or John, is the Same and Only Holy Spirit of God. You didn't get just a little toe or finger, but you received the Holy Spirit in all He is. It's only our unbelief that limits Him from doing in us as He wills, "to do good and profit the people," as He's Present to do.
We don't view ourselves as being healing Evangelists, Apostles, or any other part of the five-fold ministry, so we don't expect these Gifts to work through us. God's Word doesn't say that "man is in control of what or who these Gifts operate through," but the Holy Spirit is the One Who gives these Gifts, to whom He wills and to meet the needs of the people.
Jesus commissioned every man to "Go forth and operate in the Gifts of the Spirit," not just those in the five-fold ministry. You won't find the names of most of these people in the Word, because it wasn't them who were exalted, but the Holy Spirit and the Anointing in them Who did the good and profit. Jesus said in Mark 16:17 (Amplified), "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages."
Jesus didn't say that these signs will accompany "those in the five-fold ministry," but "those who will believe." The Holy Spirit needs us to put our faith in Him "to do the work" and not in what we think we're called to be. He already knows what you're called to be and that's a child of God, a joint heir with Jesus, and the temple of the Holy Spirit of God. We only need to believe in His ability within us, to do what He and Only He can do. We need to stop considering ourselves, but only consider Him and His ability.
We've looked at ourselves, more than looking at Him. We've considered ourselves and our weakness, more than Him and His Own ability. Jesus had to look to the One Who was in Him, more than His Own flesh. We've used the excuse, "Yes, but He was Jesus." Jesus said in Mark 4, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, He has Anointed Me." The Same Spirit of the Lord is upon you and He has also anointed you, to do the ministry through you.
When the Holy Spirit uses you to heal someone, it doesn't mean you have a healing ministry. It means that as a believer, you've allowed the Holy Spirit to move through you and to give these Gifts severally as He wills. The Holy Spirit desires to heal, deliver, and move in someone's life, but we've have been obedient to be used. You're called to minister, even though it might not be in the five-fold ministry. There are so many more people in the ministry, than just those in the pulpit. God explains the reason for the five-fold ministry in Ephesians 4:12 (Amplified), saying, "His intention was the perfecting of the saints and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), that they should do the work of ministering toward building up Christ's Body (the Church)." Those in the five-fold ministry are to train and teach the Body of Christ, how to go into all the world, preaching, teaching and doing the things the Holy Spirit has anointed us to do.
He is the One Who does the work, in and through those who will believe. He won't make you go, do or lay hands on anyone. We must allow Him to use us, by believing He will do what He says He will do. If you lay hands on the sick, then He will heal them. He won't lay your hands on them, you have to do that, but He will heal them if you lay your hands on them. He will go, if you go, but He won't go without you. You are His Body, His hands, His feet and His Anointed, to do the work of the ministering.
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