THE PRICE
I returned to another Kathryn Kuhlman meeting in which she spoke of the price she had paid for the anointing on her ministry and the secret to the power of the Holy Spirit. She talked about death to self, carrying the cross, paying the price. She often said things such as:
"Any of you ministers can have what I have if you'll only pay the price."
In that service I began to understand that there is a higher experience, something more than just the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is an anointing, an empowering for service, and that comes through paying the price.
What is the price? It has taken me many years to reach this understanding, and I want to share it with you.
In Psalm 63 David says, O god, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My
soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your Power and Your glory.
He had seen a glimpse of God's power and glory. He was longing for it. But how was he to get it?
Here the Holy Spirit began to open my eyes and make me understand what Miss Kuhlman meant when she spoke about the price and about dying.
David declares that his flesh "longs" for God, while his soul "thirsts." Isaiah, meanwhile, in 26:9, says that with his spirit he will "seek" God. So we have the flesh longing for God, the soul thirsting, and the spirit seeking. It is noteworthy that in Moses' accounts of the Tabernacle we find: the Outer Court, which is symbolic of the flesh; the Holy Place, which is symbolic of the soul; and the Holy of Holies, which is symbolic of the spirit. Longing takes one to the Outer Court; thirsting takes one to the Holy Place; and seeking leads one to the Holy of Holies.
So as we long for God we go into prayer, which is the place where God begins to deal with and crucify the flesh. It is a place of struggle where, as we get on our knees each day, all we can think about at first is our guilt, our failures, our great needs. We repeat ourselves over and over, and God seems a million miles away.
We wonder if we're accomplishing anything. We want to fall asleep, to take a break—anything.
What we don't immediately realize is that the longer we are on our knees, the less of the flesh remains. A death begins as we are on our knees.
Soon, as God finishes crucifying the flesh, a breakthrough comes—you feel it — and suddenly your prayer becomes real. A river gushes out of your inmost being,and your words become meaningful. The presence of God comes in, and something real happens to you. You may even begin to weep.
That breakthrough may take a half hour, an hour, maybe longer. It will take
as long as needed, depending on where you are with the Lord, what your
relationship is with Him. He must deal with the idols and the sins in your heart.
Any Isaacs in your heart must die (which is what God was determining with Abraham). If you haven't prayed for a long time, you can't expect a breakthrough after the first minute or two.
Remember, this is a daily matter. The breakthrough doesn't come once for all time. "I die daily," Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:31. There will be a struggle each time we go into this kind of prayer. The presence and the anointing don't come today because you died twenty years ago. They come today because you died this morning. God does not use leftovers.
The way you will know when the breakthrough comes is that guilt will
disappear. The absence of guilt means you have broken through. You have
sought Him and found Him.
At some point, then, will come the "thirsting" for Him. Your soul will thirst for God. David said in Psalm 42:1-2,
As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
And that is exactly what happens to us. Our soul thirsts to come before the living God; it thirsts for His presence.
David's imagery is perfect. A deer seeks water for two reasons; one, because he is thirsty and, two, because he is being chased by another animal. He knows that his scent will be lost if he gets into the water. He will be safe. So it is with us believers. We thirst for the presence of God because it satisfies our souls and because no enemy can touch us. The devil cannot find us. That's why David also wrote, "You are my hiding place" (Ps. 32:7).
So when you find that water for which your soul has been longing, praise will erupt in you. You will know that you are in the Holy Place, where praise is genuine. There will be none of the matter-of-fact and routine "praise the Lord; thank you, Lord." It will become real. Every part of your being will be thanking Him—even for those things that an hour ago you could not thank Him for.
Everything will become beautiful.
- Pastor Benny Hinn ( THE ANOINTING)
I returned to another Kathryn Kuhlman meeting in which she spoke of the price she had paid for the anointing on her ministry and the secret to the power of the Holy Spirit. She talked about death to self, carrying the cross, paying the price. She often said things such as:
"Any of you ministers can have what I have if you'll only pay the price."
In that service I began to understand that there is a higher experience, something more than just the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is an anointing, an empowering for service, and that comes through paying the price.
What is the price? It has taken me many years to reach this understanding, and I want to share it with you.
In Psalm 63 David says, O god, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My
soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your Power and Your glory.
He had seen a glimpse of God's power and glory. He was longing for it. But how was he to get it?
Here the Holy Spirit began to open my eyes and make me understand what Miss Kuhlman meant when she spoke about the price and about dying.
David declares that his flesh "longs" for God, while his soul "thirsts." Isaiah, meanwhile, in 26:9, says that with his spirit he will "seek" God. So we have the flesh longing for God, the soul thirsting, and the spirit seeking. It is noteworthy that in Moses' accounts of the Tabernacle we find: the Outer Court, which is symbolic of the flesh; the Holy Place, which is symbolic of the soul; and the Holy of Holies, which is symbolic of the spirit. Longing takes one to the Outer Court; thirsting takes one to the Holy Place; and seeking leads one to the Holy of Holies.
So as we long for God we go into prayer, which is the place where God begins to deal with and crucify the flesh. It is a place of struggle where, as we get on our knees each day, all we can think about at first is our guilt, our failures, our great needs. We repeat ourselves over and over, and God seems a million miles away.
We wonder if we're accomplishing anything. We want to fall asleep, to take a break—anything.
What we don't immediately realize is that the longer we are on our knees, the less of the flesh remains. A death begins as we are on our knees.
Soon, as God finishes crucifying the flesh, a breakthrough comes—you feel it — and suddenly your prayer becomes real. A river gushes out of your inmost being,and your words become meaningful. The presence of God comes in, and something real happens to you. You may even begin to weep.
That breakthrough may take a half hour, an hour, maybe longer. It will take
as long as needed, depending on where you are with the Lord, what your
relationship is with Him. He must deal with the idols and the sins in your heart.
Any Isaacs in your heart must die (which is what God was determining with Abraham). If you haven't prayed for a long time, you can't expect a breakthrough after the first minute or two.
Remember, this is a daily matter. The breakthrough doesn't come once for all time. "I die daily," Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:31. There will be a struggle each time we go into this kind of prayer. The presence and the anointing don't come today because you died twenty years ago. They come today because you died this morning. God does not use leftovers.
The way you will know when the breakthrough comes is that guilt will
disappear. The absence of guilt means you have broken through. You have
sought Him and found Him.
At some point, then, will come the "thirsting" for Him. Your soul will thirst for God. David said in Psalm 42:1-2,
As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
And that is exactly what happens to us. Our soul thirsts to come before the living God; it thirsts for His presence.
David's imagery is perfect. A deer seeks water for two reasons; one, because he is thirsty and, two, because he is being chased by another animal. He knows that his scent will be lost if he gets into the water. He will be safe. So it is with us believers. We thirst for the presence of God because it satisfies our souls and because no enemy can touch us. The devil cannot find us. That's why David also wrote, "You are my hiding place" (Ps. 32:7).
So when you find that water for which your soul has been longing, praise will erupt in you. You will know that you are in the Holy Place, where praise is genuine. There will be none of the matter-of-fact and routine "praise the Lord; thank you, Lord." It will become real. Every part of your being will be thanking Him—even for those things that an hour ago you could not thank Him for.
Everything will become beautiful.
- Pastor Benny Hinn ( THE ANOINTING)
THE PRICE
I returned to another Kathryn Kuhlman meeting in which she spoke of the price she had paid for the anointing on her ministry and the secret to the power of the Holy Spirit. She talked about death to self, carrying the cross, paying the price. She often said things such as:
"Any of you ministers can have what I have if you'll only pay the price."
In that service I began to understand that there is a higher experience, something more than just the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is an anointing, an empowering for service, and that comes through paying the price.
What is the price? It has taken me many years to reach this understanding, and I want to share it with you.
In Psalm 63 David says, O god, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My
soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your Power and Your glory.
He had seen a glimpse of God's power and glory. He was longing for it. But how was he to get it?
Here the Holy Spirit began to open my eyes and make me understand what Miss Kuhlman meant when she spoke about the price and about dying.
David declares that his flesh "longs" for God, while his soul "thirsts." Isaiah, meanwhile, in 26:9, says that with his spirit he will "seek" God. So we have the flesh longing for God, the soul thirsting, and the spirit seeking. It is noteworthy that in Moses' accounts of the Tabernacle we find: the Outer Court, which is symbolic of the flesh; the Holy Place, which is symbolic of the soul; and the Holy of Holies, which is symbolic of the spirit. Longing takes one to the Outer Court; thirsting takes one to the Holy Place; and seeking leads one to the Holy of Holies.
So as we long for God we go into prayer, which is the place where God begins to deal with and crucify the flesh. It is a place of struggle where, as we get on our knees each day, all we can think about at first is our guilt, our failures, our great needs. We repeat ourselves over and over, and God seems a million miles away.
We wonder if we're accomplishing anything. We want to fall asleep, to take a break—anything.
What we don't immediately realize is that the longer we are on our knees, the less of the flesh remains. A death begins as we are on our knees.
Soon, as God finishes crucifying the flesh, a breakthrough comes—you feel it — and suddenly your prayer becomes real. A river gushes out of your inmost being,and your words become meaningful. The presence of God comes in, and something real happens to you. You may even begin to weep.
That breakthrough may take a half hour, an hour, maybe longer. It will take
as long as needed, depending on where you are with the Lord, what your
relationship is with Him. He must deal with the idols and the sins in your heart.
Any Isaacs in your heart must die (which is what God was determining with Abraham). If you haven't prayed for a long time, you can't expect a breakthrough after the first minute or two.
Remember, this is a daily matter. The breakthrough doesn't come once for all time. "I die daily," Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:31. There will be a struggle each time we go into this kind of prayer. The presence and the anointing don't come today because you died twenty years ago. They come today because you died this morning. God does not use leftovers.
The way you will know when the breakthrough comes is that guilt will
disappear. The absence of guilt means you have broken through. You have
sought Him and found Him.
At some point, then, will come the "thirsting" for Him. Your soul will thirst for God. David said in Psalm 42:1-2,
As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
And that is exactly what happens to us. Our soul thirsts to come before the living God; it thirsts for His presence.
David's imagery is perfect. A deer seeks water for two reasons; one, because he is thirsty and, two, because he is being chased by another animal. He knows that his scent will be lost if he gets into the water. He will be safe. So it is with us believers. We thirst for the presence of God because it satisfies our souls and because no enemy can touch us. The devil cannot find us. That's why David also wrote, "You are my hiding place" (Ps. 32:7).
So when you find that water for which your soul has been longing, praise will erupt in you. You will know that you are in the Holy Place, where praise is genuine. There will be none of the matter-of-fact and routine "praise the Lord; thank you, Lord." It will become real. Every part of your being will be thanking Him—even for those things that an hour ago you could not thank Him for.
Everything will become beautiful.
- Pastor Benny Hinn ( THE ANOINTING)
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