Before undertaking something we need to seek the anointing of the Holy Spirit

Every child of God needs the energy and power that comes from the Holy Spirit, who when God calls us to the Christian life calls us to receive power from on high and to execute all the things that God wants us to carry out in His Power and not in our energy.

One of the greatest challenges we have as children of God is learning to move not in our own strength but in the force that comes from the Holy Spirit, transferring our actions to that source, changing the engine, so to speak, of our way of acting. in life, so that the main energy, the driving force of our actions, is the force of the Holy Spirit and not our own carnal and human energy.

We pointed out in our last message that the references to the moving of the Holy Spirit and to the need in the world for the power of the Holy Spirit is not something that arises only in the New Testament, or in the Book of Acts as some people think where All these powerful movements of the Holy Spirit are shown, but from the very beginning of creation we see that the Holy Spirit is the source of all creativity.

We note that in the first chapter of Genesis we already see the Holy Spirit resting on the waters, on that land that is naked and disordered, preparing to turn all that potential into something orderly, something beautiful, something that sustains life. And we have said that in the same way, our life is like that empty, disordered, naked universe when we enter the ways of the Lord, and the Holy Spirit is there waiting for us at the entrance to the ways of God to convert our gifts and our potentiality that many times we have not been able to use in a creative and orderly way. And the Holy Spirit wants to turn it into something beautiful and ordered that gives birth to the life of God.

And in this way we see that in the Book of Genesis, in chapter 1, that Spirit of God that moved on the face of the waters that is like potential, brute force, the raw material of creation then begins to create things. And we see that in verse 3 God said: "Let there be light, and there was light" and later God orders that the waters separate and that there be order in the waters; All these things are done through the Spirit of God who is the creative source, and in the same way we need that power that turns our chaos, our disorder, our emptiness into creative life that carries out the purposes of God. So we see that from the very beginning, before creation we can say, the Spirit of God is already playing that important role.

There is another passage that I want to discuss with you with more time, and we already see how that Spirit of God in the Old Testament is moving in the lives of men and women, and prophets, and kings that God would use to carry out His Works in the life of God's people.

One of the most dramatic examples of the moving of the Holy Spirit in the life of a man is found in the life of King Saul. It is interesting that Saul was a very imperfect man. We know that his life ended in disaster because he did not obey the Will of God, he did not allow himself to be guided by God who wanted to direct His reign. But when God calls him for mysterious reasons because God had to know that Saul was going to fail in the end, but let's remember that there was a controversy between God and the people of Israel who simply wanted a king because all the other surrounding nations had king, because they wanted to be fashionable. And God felt that this was a direct rejection of His Person because He wanted to be King over His people.

And God said to them: I am going to give you a king but know that those kings are going to be very imperfect men, they are going to abuse you, they are going to make serious mistakes and they are going to put the nation in trouble, but I am going to please them. And I think that part of what was happening here was that God also had that controversy, and He said: Well, do you want kings? I am going to give you a king as you want him: big, strong, attractive as Saul was but it will cost you dearly. There is something here of that mystery of what God was doing.

But it is interesting that when God commissions Saul the first thing he does is ask Samuel, the prophet, to anoint Saul and to impart the anointing of the Holy Spirit. All the great kings of Israel were anointed with oil as a sign of the Spirit of God that was going to rest on them to enable them, to carry out the things that God wanted them to do. Being king was something very serious, very demanding, full of danger and therefore these kings needed the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

We see in chapter 10 of First Samuel that when Samuel calls Saul, he says that: "Samuel took" verse 1 chapter 10 "a vial of oil, poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, and said to him: Has Jehovah anointed you prince over His people Israel? "

We see then that the first thing Samuel does is anoint Saul so that he can carry out his work as king of Israel. And the first thing we have to do when we want to undertake something in the Name of the Lord is to make sure that we have the anointing of the Holy Spirit, that our life is filled with that power that only comes from God. Without the power of God we cannot begin to do anything.

Saul needed that special anointing. Imagine what would have happened to Saul with all his character flaws if he had not had that anointing of the Holy Spirit. We see, however, that the anointing of the Holy Spirit is not everything, other attributes are needed, other things that complement, but definitely the basis of the Christian life is that filling of the Holy Spirit.

Samuel anoints Saul and starts him that way in the race he has to carry out. We too, when starting our projects in life, our ministries, we need to seek that anointing of the Holy Spirit. We will continue our study later.