ANOINTING AND CHARACTER

TEXT: Job 27:5

The anointing is not scarce today, but character is in real deficit. This is why there are many anointed persons with less impact because anointing may bring lifting; it takes character to sustain the height.

You can be an “anointed hero”, thank God for you! But if you have no integrity, you are an anointed failure! This is why it is possible to be anointed and yet end up a disappointment when anointing is without integrity and character.

Anointing without character/integrity is like a car carrying full tank fuel but with no engine oil…it will knock down in no time. For the same reason, it is not possible to go far for God with an anointed head but with a corrupted life.

Anointing is not a license to Heaven. The Bible didn’t say “without anointing no man shall see God”; rather it says: “without holiness no man shall see God” (Hebrews 12:14).

Achan was a a great man of war that was a part of victory, but he failed integrity test; his destiny folded up. Many people who starting making some impact waves but suddenly went into extinction, if you check well, many of them slipped in the slimepits of lack of integrity which swallows kings no matter the power and anointing.

“And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain” (Genesis 14:10).

It was this type of slimepits that swallowed Samson, Judas, Ananias and Sapphira among others. Character failure and not heart failure is the faster killer of greatness in destiny and eternity.

If you value the oil upon your life and the grace at work in you, there are certain things you will not do, there are certain places you will not go, there are certain friends/companies you will break off from, there are certain clothes you will not wear, there are certain phone numbers you would delete off, there are certain things you would not say, there are certain music/pictures that would not be on your phone or computer.

Job had the oil (Job 29:6b), and he had integrity (Job 27:5)…no wonder he never stopped being God’s servant (Job 1:8; 2:3; 42:7, 8). Friend, pursue and manifest the anointing, but ensure the character is that of holiness. By this, you will make impact in destiny and make Heaven in eternity. I pray; you shall not be an anointed failure!