"Sometimes we Christians say the craziest things, or course I include myself also. It was awhile back, however, it was said".
A "prophet" walked up to me and said, I am going to take that preacher's anointing because he is not doing anything with it.
I was really taken aback, not because he didn't have what he thought as a basis in the scripture for saying it, but he was not doing anything with what he had. How could he so readily see the issues in the others, and not see any issues in himself.
Every gift and anointing comes with a price. Some by fasting and prayer, some by trials and tests, some by hours spent perfecting an aptitude in certain areas, but they all have a price. Not to mention the price of the giver. Gifted, anointed, called, appointed, and talented, these are all gifts from and of God. Both are for the use in natural and spiritual arenas.
God suited our individual gifts to us, and for us. They move in us and around us. They attract like-gifts to us. By using our gifts, we feel needed and useful. We become empty without the use of them. I saw an elderly pianist blush and act like a teen when asked to play a song. Some have tried to abuse the gifts of others by trying to control them. It is like trying to control a butterfly, you wind up killing or enslaving it. There are thousands of stories that reveal this. A wise leader will cultivate a gift, and push the gifted forward to their fullest potential. However, many have been cut off before they had any time to develop. The two gifts in which I speak are music and ministry.
As musician I don't feel subservient to any other musician. As a minister I don't feel subservient to any other minister. My parents taught me to yield my gift unto to Lord. Just like the drummer boy in the song. I play and give my best for him pa rum pa bum bum.
There are copy cats for everything, but there is nothing like the original. Mom always said, don't copy anyone else, you just be you. I have strived over the years with all that I have, to give from the depths of of my soul.
When someone says they want to take someone else's gift I am thrown for a loop. To me it is no more than robbery of another person's coat. A tailor made coat is made to fit just one person. It moves with that person's natural lines.
The talents in the scripture are about managing resources. It is about making resources multiply. Not about controlling or robbing others. When God makes you a steward over resources he knows that you have the ability to multiply them.
I am not a judge, but many with have to answer to God on what they did, or did not do with his resources. Gifts are about praise and worship. The prophet who said he was going to take the anointing of another would fall and fail, in trying to use something that he has not proven.
He would first have to pay the price.
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