What Makes The Difference?

You know Sunday I visited my parents church and they were singing today’s songs and it was nice.  However, they sung an oldie but goodie song from back in the days and it had me wanted to get my dance on.  The pastor than stated how back then you were in church all day.  Sunday morning services, then eat, then come back for afternoon or night service.  I grew up in that time as well.  Yet it didn’t feel long.  Many of times the night services was hotter than the morning service.  There were times I couldn’t wait to get to church, as I was excited to see how God was going to move before it was all over.

Confession, now my attitude many of times is I get there when I get there.  That excitement I once had just isn’t there.  Is it because I lost my zest for God?  Is it because my flesh doesn’t want to go to church anymore?  What is it…

Psalm 25:14

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and he will show them his covenant. 

One of those secrets that truly makes the difference is the anointing.  What made me so excited back then was the anointing.  The anointing that would come forth out of the saints prayers before they sing, preached, or even took an offering.  It was the anointing that overflowed the atmosphere where people received salvation, healings, and deliverance.

To keep it real, we have lost some of that anointing in our church services.  The saints were strict back then.  Whew, when I think about some of that strictness. Lawddddd.  However, they may have had a point with some of it.  It does taking fasting, not just corporate fasting, but personal time fasting as well. It does take every now and then turning off that TV and studying God’s word.  It does take prayer as well as spiritual warfare.  It does matter how we dress.  It does matter how we condone ourselves.  It does matter to discipline this flesh. 

So my prayer is we get back to the anointing.  You can hit every note as you sing.  You can know every scripture for a subject.  You can even cut a good step, but without the anointing, it profits nothing.  It’s the anointing that makes the difference saints.  Just sayin!