The Anointing Oil Part 2 – How the Holy Spirit Teaches, Leads & Transforms Your Life

Now, brother, that’s the death. I do not tell you what it will be. I only say to you, as we begin to experience the Lord, he is a two-edged sword. He cuts this way, and he cuts that way. He cuts this way, and he cuts back at us. He is both negative, and He is positive. I am not putting you under the heat. Don’t you go off and say Edwards has got us under the heat. I have not got you under the heat. I am telling you that there is something within you that is a law that teaches all things. And as you obey that teaching, as you obey the anointing, the working of the Lord within you, you are built. The joints begin to tie together.

Brother, let it be at peace. If you cannot buy a tube of toothpaste, don’t buy a tube of toothpaste, but don’t you ever come in a meeting and tell anybody not to buy a tube of toothpaste. The best thing is don’t even tell them about this situation. It just may be the Lord is just showing you something. This is the negative. And brother, five minutes ago you looked real happy. What happened? You are just all ready for the teaching. Brother, are you willing to be taught in all things? Teach you all things? Brother, I know it because I have been there, and I am still there. I am still there, still being regulated constantly, the inner regulation of the inner anointing, the anointing that is within us. Well, then there is the anointing, the real anointing of the resurrection, when we go along with the Lord.

Let’s say that you put the package back. Oh, I got to return it. And you return it. And you walk out of there and you say, wait a minute, the Lord is teaching me a whole new sense of values. Praise God. I never saw this before. I’m meek. I mean, I’m learning meekness. I’m learning to be sensitive to him. I’m getting under His headship. The oil is pouring down, and you’ll go out, oh, Lord, Praise your name. Thank you, Lord, that wasn’t worth it; it wasn’t even interesting. And then, brother, a day or two later, something else comes along. Something that has always stumbled you, something you know, you’ve always known, you just know it’s not there, it’s not for the children of the Lord. And you come up to this matter again, and suddenly, because you obeyed the anointing here in a little thing, suddenly, there is the sense of the life that’s in this anointing. Not only the resurrection, but the ascension. And you thank God that He has given you a victory and taken this thing away from you. And you say, Oh, Hallelujah! Praise God! This is the anointing that works in you.

Now, brother, the teaching; that’s the negative teaching. This is the work of the Lord, this is the death, and this is also the resurrection. It’s the cross and it’s the resurrection. Now, brothers and sisters, as you are built up together, and as you are edified, there will then come another stage, and that’s the real sensing of the direction of the Lord. You’ll come one day, and you’ll feel you don’t understand something. And you’ll come to the brothers, but even as you are going on your way to talk to the brothers, suddenly you know. You know clearly what to do. You recognize the working of the anointing in you, and you just know. Brothers and sisters, there is a knowing for Christians. There is a knowing. I have so appreciated the ministry of brother Watchman Nee, and it has taught and humbled me so often. I have heard brothers and sisters tell of coming to Brother Nee, and they would say, Brother Nee, I need some guidance, and they would explain to Brother Nee what it was. And you know what his answer often would be? Oh, this man not only had faith, but he also had real courage to believe the Lord. He had real faith and courage to believe the Lord. He would say, Sister, you know; brother, you know.  I want you to know that you know; you do know. You do know, now, don’t you? You do know. You say, Gene, I just don’t know. Alright then, brother, go ahead and do it. Don’t you be in bondage. Don’t you be in bondage for a moment. Just go do it, and the Lord will build. Either way, the Lord will build. Go do it. It is all right to go do it. You have been doing it all this time anyway; just go do it some more, but just sense the anointing, and out of it will come the teaching.

Brother, even when you lose, He wins! Brother, even when you cannot obey him, He will win anyway. He will still teach you. He’ll teach you if you go along with him, and he’ll teach you if you don’t go along with Him. And if you don’t know for sure because you’re a young brother in Christ, you go do what you want to do, and then later, you’ll be able to say, Praise the Lord, now I see that was the anointing. Or you’ll say, Praise the Lord, I’m beginning to see what is and what isn’t. So just go on, but brother and sister, there is an anointing.

Now, we go on. There’s another stage. Oh, hallelujah, thank God there’s another stage. Brothers and sisters come into the meeting. Brothers, the meetings themselves. Can you not be taught right now by the Holy Spirit? Yes, you know what’s proper in the meeting, don’t you? You already know. Alright? You want to be built up together? You want to be taught all things? You want no man to teach you? You want to be utterly under the headship of the Lord? Go along with what you already know. Just go along with what you already know. You already know it, go along with it. You come into a meeting. You sense the meeting needs to get off strong, but you’re kind of backward. I am too. Even today, when I walk into the meeting, I am reluctant to really exercise my spirit. You know why I am? You know why? Somebody will feel that I’m leading the meetings, so I’m reluctant. You have to realize, brothers and sisters, the greatest thing I want to do in Goleta is never see it again. You have to realize that everything I do here, it is to leave. Oh, maybe come back and visit, sure. I certainly will, because there is that comradeship, the brotherhood, but the greatest thing I want to do in this town is get out of it. I want to leave that place and never have to come back. But if I start the meeting, it is not to be your leader, but it is to be strong in what I know the Lord wants, and you know it too.

Right now, in the meeting today, when we first got started, I really had the sense that there were brothers and sisters who would have liked to announce the hymn or said something of the Lord, and didn’t. And when we come to silence, I really believe that there are sisters and brothers in here who would like to pray. You have a prayer. According to 1 Corinthians 12, you have a prayer. God gives a prayer. You would like to pray, but you have that outer self-consciousness, right? Is this, am I, am I correct? For one thing, you don’t know how to pray. Lord, I thank you for being so wonderful. Lord, I thank you for being so wonderful. That’s the way Edwards does it. You don’t know how to do it, and you don’t know whether to pray with your eyes open or closed or bowed. And then the thing that really bothers you is, after you pray, you’re afraid somebody’s going to laugh at you, but I want to say that the other brothers and sisters in the meeting also have to be under the anointing. If someone is trying to exercise their spirit, it is not a proper thing to laugh. Here’s a brother really trying it. It may be the last time he’ll ever try if he doesn’t get some help. So, when that sister or brother prays, what is your real sense? I don’t know, but I will say this to you. I know what my sense is. That brother is fighting a battle to get from him without. He is fighting to be in this meeting, to exercise his human spirit. He is fighting to enter in. He wants to really have something precious of the Lord, and my silence at his struggle is a loss to him.

And it’s my holding back from the building. So, when he prayed, I just want to say amen. I may not have clearly even heard what he said. I’m sure I don’t know what he really means deep in his spirit, but I can say amen, I can help that brother. And if I can’t say amen, I can go, ah. I can do something to show that I am standing with that sister and being built with that sister. If she has the sense to pray, then I have to stand with that sense and back it up.

Sisters and brothers, it’s good to sing. Praise God, it’s good. Hallelujah. I praise the Lord that you can announce different hymns. That’s wonderful. I praise the Lord that you can give a testimony, but brothers and sisters, the battle is in the prayer. The battle is in the prayer. Well, then, how do we pray? Brothers, again, I will tell you right now, you have the sense of how to pray. You listen to yourselves pray. And you will really be touched by the Lord. Oh, Lord, thank you that we just see here today that we are offering up praises to thee. Lord, I thank you, and we just want to go…and about that time, you have a sense that you are just talking now because you didn’t know how to quite quit. You know why, brother, it’s our background, this awful background of ours. We’ve never heard prayer that quit when the Spirit quit. Is this not true? We have to be wordy. The Holy Spirit can teach us all things that we will say. I will say to you again, most prayers, this doesn’t have to be; this is not a legal thing, brother, a prayer can be long. If you don’t believe that, someday you just watch, you will see a long prayer, utterly under the anointing, completely under the teaching and direction of the anointed one, the anointing of the anointed one, but most prayer will be very short. You see something, it’s there, there’s the stir, the inner echo, you know it’s there. Brother, don’t sit there quiet, give it, immediately, out quick, fast, living, and just say it. And then let it go. You don’t even have to say in Jesus’ name. Brother, you are praying in Jesus’ name. When He gives something within you, let it fly, and then when it’s over, let it be over. I’m not really interested in your pretty prayers; nobody else is. All we’re interested in is the life that is in you, so brothers, there could be an echoing, and not only an echoing, but a response to everything that is sensed within. When you pray, pray by the echo as much as possible, but don’t wait for the echo; go and begin praying, and then pray with the echo. And in the meeting, when you have something to give, give it, whether it be a song, give it. Whether it be a testimony, give it, but especially if you sense something of the Lord inside of you, put it into a prayer and offer it to the Lord. And this need not be anything, but “Lord, I thank you that you are a life-giving spirit.” Somebody else has to say, “That’s right, He is not just a man, He is Spirit, Hallelujah.” And then somebody else remembers, “Oh Lord, the second Adam wasn’t like the first Adam, one was a soul, the other one’s spirit. Hallelujah.” Well, that’s not very much, but it’s just something you sense, give it.

A little building. Look where we’ve come. We have to live with a sword that cuts to the left. We have to live also with the sword that cuts to the right. As you pray together, my real burden is that the brothers and sisters will talk less and pray more. I do not say how you must pray, but I say to you, you must pray. When you come together in the morning, don’t talk a whole lot; just start praying. And when you have a burden, and you come to a brother to fellowship so that you might really get clear on the Lord’s leadership and guidance in you, so that you might really sense the anointing clearly. After you have fellowshipped a little bit, brothers, don’t be taken up with the details of the matter.

I’m sitting here and listening to this brother. … and I have this experience. I remember five years ago, I was told this, and there’s this illustration, and then I gave all this all out to the brother. Oh, brother, just sit there and read him as a living epistle. Read him, listen, go along with it. Enter into his burden. This will grow. This will grow. You say, Gene, we’re just not ready for this. Brother, you’re never going to get ready if you don’t start. You have to start, then maybe just a little sense within you to say something. Brother, I don’t think it’ll be much, I really don’t, and most of what you will say will be something of Christ. Well, women are supposed to submit themselves to their husbands as unto the Lord, and here it means as unto the Lord this and this and this, that we submit, and the husband is to love the wife, and he doesn’t have to love you, and you don’t have to love him. And you go and you explain all this, and when you get through, it’s a heap of knowledge. No, just listen and then brothers, pray. Just come before the Lord. You say, “What do I pray?” What do you pray? I don’t know. I don’t know any more precious words than, “O, Lord.”. This brother’s got a problem. He needs four or five or ten or fifteen or twenty words to express one little part of it.

…Then, if you want to say more than that, say, “Lord, this dear brother needs someone to sign his note, his father wrote him and said that he wouldn’t.” Go ahead and pray that, if that’s your burden. but pray a lot and talk a little, and the Lord will begin to bring you into Christ. Then, brothers, out of this, I do believe that the day will come, maybe right soon, I don’t know when. This brother will just be before the Lord with the brothers and sisters; he will be praying with them, singing with them, and fellowshipping with them. And I believe this brother will be driving down the street, fellowshipping with the Lord. And suddenly he will have a real, a real, I use this word carefully, a real revelation. For him, it’ll be a revelation. I’m not talking about the end of the world or anything else, but you will see something you have never seen before.