THE ANOINTING AND THE FEET OF JESUS

[Min.Tracey Estes]

If someone would have told me 14 yrs. Ago, that I would be faced with oppositions’ day in and day out for the rest of my life as a Christian, I probably would have laughed in their face, or thought them to be way out there in left field somewhere. (Like maybe, they rode on the short bus all they are life, and were the little kid who wore crash helmet and coke bottle glasses who enjoyed licking the windows as they rode by.)

But now as I reflect on my Journey, I see many times where opposition hit me square in the eye on almost every turn even as a little baby in the Lord. Some of it went sailing over my head as the Master deflected it from hitting target in my understanding or heart. Because GOD understood, I was not spiritually mature enough to handle such a hard, direct hit.

Now, years later I see it for what it really was, and marvel at how the Lord did not allow it to touch me or if it did hit me, it did not harm me… Nine times out of ten, I just laughed it off with the Joy of the Lord, or assumed it was someone fuming or ranting about someone else, or something else and was able to just shrug it off.

Many times these “attacks” are not provoked, and will usually catch us off guard. Though they may not be provoked, they are certainly ordered by the enemy. In addition, it is usually a spiritually immature Christian or a Christian with something amiss in their life, that the enemy uses.

I do not care where I go, if I am a visitor in another church, or on a women’s retreat with my friends, or at Revival. Somebody will always attack me or say something that they deemed they heard from the Lord, and tell me something totally off the wall, with some kind of crazed look in their eyes….

One of my dear sisters in the Lord calls me a Demon-Magnet… Lol She says that I cause them to come out of the woodwork, and we laugh about it, but it is true it happens all the time… I do not consider this opposition as much as I consider it the anointing of the Lord they are noticing in my life…

I can remember when I was still demon possessed, and I would get around Christians, some I would hate instantly, and others I just wanted to fall down at their feet, or lay against them, because I felt so much peace from them, and the love of the Lord…

Peace would actually be still inside of my mind, and body, I could have stayed there with them forever, and slept at their feet… I did not know that it was the anointing of GOD on them and their life’s… The others I hated so fast were the wolves in sheep’s clothing… I wanted to rip them apart with my bare hands. However, GOD said to allow the tares to grow with the wheat. Therefore, I never touched them, and to some degree, GOD kept them out of my reach. In addition, out of my way.

However, being around real Christians is something we should never forget, it should be something that we always long for and try to acquire for ourselves as Christians. There is a sweet smelling savour that even the most evil, vile, demon possessed person in this world even craves and longs for… It can still the most violent of storms in the most calloused, stony harden heart.

It is the fragrance of the Lord, more precious than the oils in the alabaster box, more costly and pure. In addition, bought with a price that only Jesus could pay. Thank GOD for the anointing, and for those who carry it and HIS word. How precious are the feet that carry the word, the Gospel?

How many times has tormented souls desired to rest at your feet, because of the Anointing of God resting in and on your life? How many times has the oppressed or possessed followed you and desired to be in your life, in your presences, because of the peace that you seem to bring to theirs?

I know firsthand what Mary Magdalene felt at the feet of Jesus, as she reached out for him in the Movie the Passion of The Christ. I been there, I know that solitary feeling of Peace and the knowledge the Savoir has come to rescue me. I also know how the man in the tombs felt, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. I also know the burning desire to follow Jesus to the ends of the earth.

As Ruth said to Naomi, wherever thou guest, I will go, your people will be my people, and your GOD will be my GOD… I know all to well the deep meanings of these things… Hallelujah for the Lamb of GOD that was slain! I felt these very same things, and said these very same things in my own heart to GOD!

I want the same things for myself concerning the Lord, I want His people to be my people, and I want to go where He goes, I want to sit at His feet as His student, and most of all, and I want His love, guidance and provisions. I want to win His heart as He has won mine… I want to be His love and Him mine…

How marvellous, how wonderful and a mighty counsellor, great is His name, and worthy of ALL praise…

Where is His character in us, and all His attributes replacing ours? Do we have them; are we willing to possess them? Look at see how many people are trying to sit at your feet, because of the Jesus in you. For those who have some, do not be discouraged in small beginnings. Those who have or seem to have many do not allow yourself to become puffed-up and feel that you have arrived there all by yourself…

Nevertheless, praise GOD for all that He has allowed and all His incredible work His precious son did on the cross… Amen…

Pray my strength in the Lord!

Respectfully & Thankfully, Min. Tracey Estes