The Eliezer Anointing!
In 2017 at a conference, as a friend was preaching on the urgency to win the lost, I had this vision that opened up in front of my eyes. I could see a normal High Street with people going about their business when suddenly great craters opened in the ground and people were falling headlong into them.
As I investigated the crater there were flames reaching up and consuming the people. Those falling into the craters were all ages; men, women and young people. One minute these people were going about their business, talking on their phones, rushing to and fro; some were ambling along oblivious of these open holes. There were screams as people fell into them.
The scene then changed to parks, schools, businesses and even churches.
This time as people unexpectedly began to fall into the craters, hands were reaching out to grab hold of individuals and pull them from the flames.
Those that were reaching out to save others were going about their own business too with no prior knowledge as to what was about to take place.
Yet these ‘rescuers’ didn’t trip or fall themselves; they calmly went about their rescue mission.
The people reaching out were from all walks of life and some were just children. Words were being spoken and those that acknowledged those words were rescued, but many paid no attention and fell screaming into the flames.
There was no prior warning as these craters opened; no sounds, no signposts, no warning barriers. In the blink of an eye, they opened, and people fell into them never to be seen again. A normal day like any other day!
I had lost track of the message being preached. I could see every distorted face, the thrashing of arms and hear the screams of terror. I could feel the heat of the flames and see the unending depths of the craters like someone falling from a very tall building and disappearing silently into an abyss!
Tears were running down my face as I began to shake under the power of the Holy Spirit. I don’t know how long it lasted but this vision became my sole focus during this conference. ‘What are you saying to me, Holy Spirit, what does all this mean?” As I thought about what I had seen these scriptures came to mind.
“Keep watch! I come unannounced, like a thief. You’re blessed if, awake and dressed, you’re ready for me. Too bad if you’re found running through the streets, naked and ashamed.” Revelation 16:15 MSG
‘I don’t think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master’s coming can’t be posted on our calendars. He won’t call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody’s walking around complacently, congratulating each other—“We’ve sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!”—suddenly everything will fall apart. It’s going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman’.
1 Thessalonians 5:2 MSG
‘But friends, you’re not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this? You’re sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let’s not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let’s keep our eyes open and be smart. People sleep at night and get drunk at night. But not us! Since we’re creatures of Day, let’s act like it. Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation’. 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8MSG
Since seeing that vision, I have endeavoured to take every opportunity that the Holy Spirit has given me to share the gospel with others. Some have closed their hearts to my words, but many have been open, and some have received Jesus into their hearts.
I love this quote. “We owe the world an encounter with God!” Bill Johnson.
I believe that the Holy Spirit is highlighting this vision afresh to me as a warning to the body of Christ, that time is short, and Jesus is coming back sooner than we imagine.
Sadly, we hear of so many leaders in the church who are having to step down due to some sin. I might add that it’s not our job to judge, but to pray!
Unfortunately, though, many believers have their eyes on leadership rather than the Lord! As a result when leaders fall those believers’ faith becomes rocked and it often results in a falling away.
As I was listening to a recent message on ‘A bride for Issac’ my thoughts turned towards the servant of Abraham who was charged with finding a bride for his son Issac.
“Abraham spoke to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thigh and swear by God—God of Heaven, God of Earth—that you will not get a wife for my son from among the young women of the Canaanites here, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac.” Genesis 24:2 MSG
Who was this man, what was his name? He first appears in Genesis 15:2 “Abram said, “Lord God, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?”
Here was a senior servant, Eliezer, who at one point knew if Abraham remained childless then he would inherit his whole estate. He would have had many reasons to resent Abraham and Issac and it would have been very easy for him to sabotage the mission he was given regarding finding a wife for Issac. However, Eliezer was a loyal and faithful servant who loved his master.
Abraham gave Eliezer specific instructions which you can read in Genesis 24:
Go to my homeland, to my relatives.
Don’t take my son there.
God will send an angel to accompany you.
If she refuses, then you are free from your oath.
If we look at Eliezer spiritually, we can see him as a type of Holy Spirit seeking a bride for the father’s son Jesus.
There was an anointing on Eliezer that enabled him to cause a total stranger to fall in love with the bridegroom. There was no internet to Zoom or Skype, no photographs to exchange, or mobile phones to text or hear the sound of each other’s voices.
His prayer attracted the Holy Spirit to respond.
“The servant took ten of his master’s camels and, loaded with gifts from his master, travelled to Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor. Outside the city, he made the camels kneel at a well. It was evening, the time when the women came to draw water. He prayed, “O God, God of my master Abraham, make things go smoothly this day; treat my master Abraham well! As I stand here by the spring while the young women of the town come out to get water, let the girl to whom I say, ‘Lower your jug and give me a drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and let me also water your camels’—let her be the woman you have picked out for your servant Isaac. Then I’ll know that you’re working graciously behind the scenes for my master.” Genesis 24:12 MSG
The Eliezer anointing will cause the bride to so desire the bridegroom, an anointing to cause the bride to so desire Jesus, until the Spirit and the bride say come!
Are people being led to us, our church, our anointing or are they being led to Jesus? Our churches may be amazing, loving, have great programmes and teaching. We may be kind, compassionate, charismatic and all these things aren’t bad but only being led to Jesus will save us and turn us into His bride. No groom wants an unfaithful bride, a bride that’s only interested in what she can get without giving anything in return. Yet so often we elevate the building above the builder!
If the temples are getting all the attention, then where is God?
“ Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me. He who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], I will grant to him [the privilege] to sit beside Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches.’” Revelation 3:20 AMP
He’s outside knocking! Are we listening?
God’s people need to wake up and stop running away from their calling.
Jonah was running from his purpose and brought judgement upon the ship.
The unbeliever had to wake up the Prophet to do his job!
Who do you want to like you more? People or God?
Our main job description is to draw closer to Him in intimacy. The Eliezer anointing is for those who want to help others fall in love with Jesus so that when they leave a meeting, they are talking about Him rather than the worship or the message. I’m not saying that the worship or the message isn’t important, but often the worship isn’t about the groom and the message is often about the gifts rather than the giver of the gifts. Are we seeking his hand rather than His face?
We should be experiencing more glory than Moses did. The glory is the life within us that comes from spending life in His presence.
“With that kind of hope to excite us, nothing holds us back. Unlike Moses, we have nothing to hide. Everything is out in the open with us. He wore a veil so the children of Israel wouldn’t notice that the glory was fading away—and they didn’t notice. They didn’t notice it then and they don’t notice it now, don’t notice that there’s nothing left behind that veil. Even today when the proclamations of that old, bankrupt government are read out, they can’t see through it. Only Christ can get rid of the veil so they can see for themselves that there’s nothing there.
Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiselled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him”. 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 MSG
“Since we have such a [glorious] hope and confident expectation, we speak with great courage, and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze at the end of the glory which was fading away. But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ. But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit”.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18 AMP
I just love the richness of God’s word from different translations!
We can be as close to God as we want and receive the Eliezer anointing, it’s on us!
“Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened”.
Matthew 7:7-8
Signs draw crowds but are we preaching and drawing people to Jesus?
“And Jesus said to them, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood[unless you believe in Me as Savior and believe in the saving power of My blood which will be shed for you], you do not have life in yourselves”. John 6:53
When it comes down to just Jesus………How do you respond?
In the stories of feeding the 4000 and 5000, the leftovers were 7 and 12 baskets. Often more is made of the fragments than the main thing.
In my vision the people who were saving lives were the ones with the Eliezer anointing.
“Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgement. Show mercy to still others but do so with great caution, hating the sins that contaminate their lives.” Jude 23 NLT
We can make the choice to be an Eliezer, helping the bride fall so in love with her bridegroom that she says, “Come!” This is the time to take risks and be prepared to offend some with the words of life in the hope of snatching them from the flames where if they fall into there is no escape!
“Come,” says the Holy Spirit and the Bride in divine duet. Let everyone who hears this duet join them in saying, “Come.” Let everyone gripped with spiritual thirst say, “Come.” And let everyone who craves the gift of living water come and drink it freely. “It is my gift to you! Come.” Revelation 22:17 TPT
“Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.” Bill Johnson
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