Anyone with a ministry has to come to terms with the truth that God's purposes are advanced by the divine anointing of the Spirit, not techniques. God's method has been always to use anointed men. You can't achieve any God-given task without the anointing of His Spirit. You can have superb publicity and the finest of administrators, but only the anointing of God upon you will accomplish the task He has commissioned you to do.
The apostle Paul was both commissioned and anointed. As a result he was able to succeed in his assignment. God, he said, 'has made us able ministers of the new testament' (2 Corinthians 3:6). It was his anointing that brought him through the veil separating the natural from the supernatural in his ministry. Even Jesus, when commissioned to begin His public ministry, started by saying: 'The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, for He has anointed Me to...' (Luke 4:18). He was very clear as to His assignment and confident of the Spirit's anointing.
The anointing cannot be isolated from your task. It's not a case of O-o-oh, I've been anointed with the Spirit! I can feel the tingles all over me! Your anointing is not to make you feel good; rather, it is to focus God's power into the fulfilment of your God-given mandate and assignment. It was this apostolic anointing that gave Paul his apostolic authority. Writing to the Corinthians he said, 'The authority the LORD gave me is for building you up, not for tearing you down' (2 Corinthians 13:10).
People might try to copy techniques which they have seen others use to build a strong church. But unless they have the same anointing as those other people, they will accomplish little or nothing.
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