Does the Anointing Leak out of You?

If you have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, you have received power (Acts 1:8).  You have always had power from that point forward and you always will have power unless you become an apostate who deliberately rejects Jesus.   That power is always available and is not subject to depletion or “leaking.”

Jesus didn’t say that PONDS of living water would flow through us – He said that RIVERS of living water would gush out of our bellies (John 7:37-39).  A pond could run out of water and need to be refilled, but you don’t deplete a river just because you get a bucket of water out of it.  There will always be more water to replace the water that you drew out and gave to someone else.

In fact, the best way to keep the rivers of living water flowing through you is to dish out as much of that living water as you can!   That will keep a strong flow going through you.  Don’t ever worry that you will run out, because you won’t.

The “leak” theory has all kinds of awful consequences.  For example, you might want to hold back on letting the anointing flow in a service in a small church tonight, knowing that you have a service in a larger church next week.  If the anointing “leaks,” you could reason that you don’t want to use it all up before you really need it next week and it is before your next “recharge,” whatever you think that is.  (Jesus didn’t have to keep going back to the River Jordan to get recharges.  The preachers Jesus sent out didn’t have keep going back to Jesus for some additional anointing, either.)

Or you can conclude that the anointing is perishable and worry that you need to keep getting more to make up for what has been depleted or has become stale.  Then you’ll think you have to interrupt the flow somewhere to go get a recharge somewhere else before you’ll be useful again.

Or you can get into fear that any sin in your life will make the anointing leak so that there won’t be as much of it there when you really need it.  That’s just plain silly.  You can get in the flesh and find it harder to flow, but that has nothing to do with the availability of the living water.  As soon as you stop being flesh-dominated, you’ll find that the rivers of living water are right where they’ve always been, ready to gush out of you.  The rivers of living water are based on God’s grace alone – not on your performance.

1 John 2:27 says that the anointing abides in you.  If it abides in you, it doesn’t leak out.  Case closed.